{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give an assurance that the Government will not adopt a punitive attitude to lone parents? After all, a significant number of the members of the Cabinet have created lone parents themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.697.6", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.697.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Government Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "overnment trading funds as the Government would like. The Chief Secretary outlined his view of the proposals. His interpretation of the Bill may be correct. However, another view may follow from the fact that the Government are obsessed with their dogma of privatisation. If the Tories win another election, perhaps many Government agencies will be liable for privatisation in subsequent Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Government Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary says, \"Shocking.\" Nobody is in favour of spending more money than necessary, but there is a trade-off between spending money and delivering a service to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Government Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " agencies operating trading funds. It is all very well considering matters case by case, but we have no clear idea of how much of the Civil Service the Government want to turn into agencies, although figures such as three quarters have been given in evidence to various committees in the past. Equally, we have not heard how many trading funds will be instituted. The passport office is one candidate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Government Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "enewed, the PSA has been faced with greatly increased rents and liabilities to regular five-yearly reviews\". Does that continue? This was a problem for the PSA's investment appraisal unit. Paragraph 9(f) of the National Audit Office report says: the PSA's investment appraisal unit reported that in 1986–87 appraisals had been wrongly omitted in 16 out of a test of 35 defence and civil cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Government Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ying departments with sufficient incentive to surrender to the agency surplus land and buildings. The Chief Secretary is wise not to intervene at this stage because this is an extremely difficult question for the Treasury. I am not persuaded that the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment—the hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Chope)—is more clever or more able than Treasury Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Smoking", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "preceding_text": "The debate is about smoking. If my hon. Friend listens he will learn a lot and I am sure that his views will be changed by the sense and logic of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-08", "file": "debates1990-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec52c8e2f56f45a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Smoking", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "preceding_text": "hts by public demand, including that of many smokers. I congratulate British Airways on that move and on putting up with the abuse of the well-heeled Tobacco Advisory Council. The council's only advice seems to be that people should smoke as much as they want because the medical evidence is not conclusive about the health dangers. They say, \"Go ahead and smoke because it does not do you any harm.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-08a.790.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I take this opportunity to tell the Minister of the seriousness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.805.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a very suitable selective memory. Many of us have often seen him rise to his feet from the Opposition Benches to oppose the stand for freedom, justice and liberty in eastern Europe that we have taken. At the very time when the strength and unity of NATO has ensured the possibility of progress and freedom in Europe, I totally reject his intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.810.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am accused on every occasion in the House of opposing freedom. That is a vile calumny and lie. It is disgraceful. The Secretary of State obviously did not listen to a word of what I said during our debates on the Official Secrets Act 1989. If anyone has argued continually in the House for freedom, it has been me and not the Minister. He should withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.815.11", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruptioni", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "In the light of developments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.815.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.815.11", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "In the light of developments— [Interruptioni] —in eastern Europe, will the Minister say, when the first Trident submarine arrives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.815.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time today to compare her travel time to work with that of the average Londoner? As she sweeps out of Downing street past those new regal gates in her bullet-proof limo, with the police holding back the traffic and the angry crowds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As Chairman of Standing Committee E, which is considering the National Health Service and Community Care Bill, I have to report to the House the circumstances in which the Committee adjourned this morning. After repeated requests from the Chair to resume his seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.821.9", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must propose the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.821.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.821.10", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "While it is obviously essential that the House at all times should uphold the authority of the Chair—I say that on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends and myself without equivocation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.821.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "t is a precedent which allows me to go a little wider than the motion. This morning, as the House knows, I was involved in a little difficulty in Committee. I want to make it clear to the Chairman of the Committee that it is not my intention to disrupt the proceedings of the Committee in future. Therefore, the motion need not have been tabled if the Leader of the House had come to me to ask me my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We do not want points of order on this decision. I sense from the mood of the House that there is a feeling that we should reflect on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "o this lady's access to mail on the basis that she might see correspondence from hon. Members about issues relating to privatisation when her husband owns half the company, Michael Forsyth Limited, which is involved in public relations, and promoting privatisation. I know, although the Minister denies this, that he has an informal agreement whereby if he is sacked and loses his job as Minister or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.824.6", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "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": "er we had reached the stage when the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) would not resume his seat when asked to do so, would not desist from making a speech when ruled out of order and barracked the rulings of the Chair. As a result of that misbehaviour, it seems that the hon. Gentleman is now being allowed to make a speech that was out of order this morning and is out of order now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.824.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.827.5", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is a matter that the hon. Member might raise if I call him to take part in the debate. I think that the whole House will accept that we must uphold the authority of Chairmen of Standing Committees. If we fail to do that, anarchy will prevail, and we cannot have that. Let us now come to a decision on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.827.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.829.12", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The first point that I wish to make, in response to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett), is that there is no question of criticism of the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.829.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.830.8", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) would agree that he is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.830.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) said that he knew that, if it were moved, this motion would be narrow. I had already pointed out to him, both in private and in public, the extent to which he could go in the debate. He went to that point. My understanding then was that he had made his contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "said that he knew that, if it were moved, this motion would be narrow. I had already pointed out to him, both in private and in public, the extent to which he could go in the debate. He went to that point. My understanding then was that he had made his contribution—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Then I called another hon. Member to speak. That is that position. I have already called the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I try to assist the House? It is quite clear that the debate inevitably turns on what happened this morning in Standing Committee E.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ate inevitably turns on what happened this morning in the Standing Committee. If the motion is persisted with, the House will be invited to take a view on what happened in Standing Committee E. Surely, therefore, it would be wrong for allegations about what happened this morning to be made in the Chamber before hon. Members have in front of them the verbatim record of the Committee's proceedings.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.6", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ader of the House but with my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours), who has renewed to me his assurance—the assurance that he first gave to the House some moments ago—that it is not his intention to disrupt the Standing Committee's proceedings any further. In the light of our discussions and that new assurance, I hope that the Leader of the House will now respond postively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.831.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "tance been reasserted on the Floor of the House this afternoon. That is, for me arid for most hon. Members, a matter of the utmost regret. It is fair to my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) that I should make it clear that he firmly rebutted those allegations during the Committee's proceedings. I hope that they can be left to rest on the basis that they should never have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Now that the matter has been put to bed, you will be aware that this afternoon we have witnessed the shameless use by one hon. Member of the television cameras to smear the reputation of another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.834.7", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Standing Committee E", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "—will not be bought by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.834.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.838.12", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.838.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.838.13", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sit down, please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.838.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the hon. Member to sit down. We have dealt with that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.10", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I beg to move. That the Bill be now read a Second time. The House will be pleased to be able to consider the more tranquil matter of this Bill, with the major proposals that it incorporates for the Scottish economy. The Bill has been described as perhaps the single most important measure affecting Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.10", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " be able to consider the more tranquil matter of this Bill, with the major proposals that it incorporates for the Scottish economy. The Bill has been described as perhaps the single most important measure affecting Scotland. [Interruption.] I ask Opposition Members to wait a moment. It has been described not only by me but by the Scottish Trades Union Congress as the single most important measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.10", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": ", perhaps, not surprising that in that lonely group of 17 was to be found Her Majesty's Opposition, the Labour party. We have found that, the Labour party, with no significant or noticeable support from any major organisation in Scotland, stands in lonely isolation opposed to the Bill. The hon. Member for Garscadden sits sulking in his tent, without any support from significant bodies in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.839.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": " appealed against being refused child allowance for training, and then won her case at an industrial tribunal, the Government threw the might of the state against that solitary woman and appealed against the tribunal's decision. That step was taken by the bunch we see on the Government Benches who say that they are interested in equality of opportunity and in women having equal rights to training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-09", "file": "debates1990-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "d946e17399b4a5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It is the cavalry\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": " is the enterprise trust in that area. Some 60 per cent. of funding for the whole of the enterprise trusts in Scotland is public sector finance. If public money was withdrawn from the enterprise trusts, they would all collapse, but if private sector involvement was withdrawn, they would still operate, even if at a reduced level. I have grave doubts whether those bodies dominated by private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-09a.899.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Aviation and Maritime Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "pped them having a presidential inquiry, and they have fined the company involved. When the Secretary of State rushed out all those things just before the anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy; when he forgot that there would be a fatal accident inquiry; when he announced that there would be a fatal accident inquiry, or perhaps I should say that the Crown Office for Scotland made that announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "AVIATION AND MARITIME SECURITY BILL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Aviation and Maritime Security Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of— (a) any expenses of the Secretary of State under that Act, and (b) any increase attributable to that Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) said, to all intents and purposes this is a Government Bill. It has Government support and is whipped by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "hant. The Bill will wipe out recent and substantial investment which dwarfs the investment proposed for the port. Every hon. Member perceives the inevitable contraction of the industry, no matter what camouflage they attempt. The Bill will destroy a large part of the remaining home base of our important engineering and technological industry. The whole mining engineering industry will be affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "nd Ghent where it has been mixed with other coal and then brought to our shores, in particular to the north-east and Humberside. It is disgraceful that hon. Members, of whatever party, should allow that to happen. They should resist the importation of another 8 million to 10 million tonnes of cheap coal. The hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) has had many free trips to South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Co-operative Development Agency", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Co-operative Development Agency (Winding-up and Dissolution) Order 1989, which was laid before this House on 30 November, be approved. The Co-operative Development Agency was established by the last Labour Government under the Co-operative Development Agency Act 1978—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-10", "file": "debates1990-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbc1527feb7d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Co-operative Development Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "preceding_text": "h Box holding up the Visa card. The whole idea of co-operative development and co-operative enterprise and its links with Socialism is anathema to the Government. That is the real reason why the CDA is being wound up. Co-operative developments are going on the length and breadth of the land. They need the CDA. The Minister cries crocodile tears at the end of the CDA, yet at the same time tells us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-10a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1085.5", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree that crack is a new and damaging form of cocaine. Last year Customs seized more cocaine than heroin, which shows that it is on the increase. We are co-operating, through the economic summit, to do everything possible to stop the laundering of the cash from drug trafficking. As my hon. Friend knows, we are supporting the efforts of President Barco of Colombia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1085.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are obvious reasons. On a loan scheme, money is paid out for many years before money is returned. As it is returned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That obligation should remain as part of the Government's duty. As my right hon. Friend knows, there are two ways of achieving the goal. The first is by keeping money tight, which can be done only by interest rates. Secondly, it could also be achieved by tight fiscal policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1086.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pardon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that there has been any measurable deterioration in the acoustics of the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman spoke about the so-called Prime Minister's letter, of which I have seen a copy. It was written before the Clegg report, which ruled out some of the things of which the hon. Gentleman talked. It was written by Matthew Parris, who is now a sketch writer for The Times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " on transporting (a) emergency cases and (b) non-emergency cases. The Minister's answer to the question was: This information is not available\".—[ Official Report, 19 December 1989; Vol. 164, c. 165. ] Where does that figure of one in 10 come from? It is available from some local ambulance services. I have the figures for London for the first nine months of last year—the period before the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ncidents. That gives a total of 12 per cent. of their time spent responding to incidents, not all of which were emergencies. I would not for one moment suggest that the police are not an emergency service. It would defy common sense to suggest that. However, by the same token, it defies common sense to tell ambulance crews that they are not an emergency service. On Monday night, the whole country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1116.6", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is not possible to produce stories day by day of the kind required by the newspapers and the other media in doing their job and make them popular. Those who present the ambulance service claim, who describe in moving terms its work, and who appeal to the public on behalf of what we all know to be an extremely popular group of people can always be appealing—not least in the run-up to Christmas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1116.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " and give way to those hon. Members who have been rising, is the alleged insult that I am meant to have made against ambulance men—last week or at any other time. I make it clear that my views about the ambulance service and the men and women who work for it are identical to those of the general public. I do not know anybody who does not hold the ambulance service and its work in very high regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "rd—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"] The arguments of those who support the ambulance men are sometimes based on the proposition that, if one has respect for the work that the ambulance service does—I expressed that respect repeatedly in my letter to my constituent—it follows that one should settle their pay claim at whatever level those who represent them persist in claiming in an industrial dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, what a shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "een provoked in some way, either by a member of the Government or by one of the Government's supporters. Before my letter to my constituent was used, in an amazingly edited form—four words of an extremely long letter—a campaign had been in progress for about a fortnight against my hon. Friend the Minister for Health, who was being accused of making provocative remarks to ambulance men in her area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will appreciate that the pay of Members of Parliament is based on an automatic formula, although he would probably say that 80 per cent. of us are only professional debaters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1120.3", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, she does.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have an automatic formula, but I do not and nor does the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1120.13", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The whole point of my letter to my constituent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1120.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " he is correct in believing that such equipment is not available anywhere. Let us be clear what we are talking about. Extended training to the full standard takes two months' full-time study and includes training in infusion, intubation, defibrillation and the administration of drugs. It is certainly right that we need more people who can do those things and that we need fully equipped ambulances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "im. Had we not given them such awards, we should have found it difficult to recruit and retain staff whom we wanted. The public expenditure assumptions that we made last year—the basis on which I settled with my right hon. Friend the present Chancellor of the Exchequer in deciding the amount that we are now spending—would have dealt with the amubulance men's case. The whole dispute is an accident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1126.9", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1126.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1127.5", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "id publicly at the weekend, that there is no question of the NHS making more money available. There is no question of any formula. People try to give helpful advice on industrial relations. They ask, \"Does that not mean that you are rather boxed in?\" Of course it does not. Many of those who have commented throughout on the dispute have not followed any of the details. They have followed the froth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No, I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "which Ministers and trade union leaders have been put on the spot and have made off-the-cuff remarks. That has precluded sensible negotiation. Over the past few weeks, some of us have been trying —perhaps not terribly successfully—to feel our way through the morass of mistrust and misunderstanding on both sides. Trust has to be restored; otherwise, we shall not achieve a speedy end to the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "irways, because that has failed so miserably in the past. Sometimes talks which were close to settlement have failed as a result. The window will only be open, I suspect, for a matter of days. There is a basis for negotiation, and there is common ground, if only both sides could see it. There have been concessions from the management side—or effectively from the Government—of an extra £6 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "s not genuinely ill. That was rather distressing for all involved. I also read the debate in the House on 21 February 1979 about the ambulance service industrial dispute. It was a goldmine of remarks from the Labour party. I was trying to discover what the Opposition propose and their attitude to these matters. Perhaps I can draw attention to column 427 where a Mr. Pavitt—I do not know who he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is trying to mislead the House into believing that the dispute is entirely the responsibility of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "improved the status and recognised the professional nature of the ambulance workers' job. There is a wide agenda, which should include flexible local arrangements to deal with problems of recruitment and retention, overtime and improved productivity. We reject the concept of comparability. The Labour party rejected it when it was in power, Clegg rejected it and this Government certainly reject it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Greenway) referred to the need to improve non-emergency ambulance services. I endorse his appreciation of the work that ambulance staff do. I share his concern about the development of the non-emergency side of the work of ambulance staff. My hon. Friend the Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) referred to the need for local flexibility in pay determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-11", "file": "debates1990-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "15fa8d41cfe71669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "o improve non-emergency ambulance services. I endorse his appreciation of the work that ambulance staff do. I share his concern about the development of the non-emergency side of the work of ambulance staff. My hon. Friend the Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) referred to the need for local flexibility in pay determination— [Interruption.] We fully endorse his remarks and the direction in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-11a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-12", "file": "debates1990-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca36613f70eae36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-12a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "The Future of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "d the lower profile of this sector. The hardship, the economic effect and the other problems would be just as severe. The industry has told me that it reckons that the 30,000 jobs about which Silberston talks would be lost in Scotland alone, not just in the United Kingdom. As you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I rarely speak from the Back Benches because I am a Front Bench spokesman on foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-12a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-12", "file": "debates1990-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca36613f70eae36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-12a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "The Future of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ade fairs. If individual companies have problems or questions about that, the DTI would be more than happy to supply the necessary information about the type of assistance that is available for companies that are starting up in a new country and wish to have some guidance and support in that task. The hon. Member for Ashfield wanted to start kicking me all round the House and all around the pitch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-12a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nature.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My point of order is to do with the Bill. My information is that part VII, which deals with the break-up of the National Conservancy Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is in the Register.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. If the matter was to be ventilated by the Select Committee, would it be possible to find out precisely which hon. Members are sponsored by trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.31.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "embers who opposed the original proposals not to recognise the substantial concessions that the Secretary of State has announced this afternoon. I am grateful that he has come such a considerable way from the position outlined by his predecessor when the scheme was announced. However, will he acknowledge that there is still total opposition to the dismemberment of the NCC within that organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I should like if we can to secure a measure of agreement, because it seems as though we are not as far apart as I had thought. We will certainly publish the guidance of which we think the inspectorate and Ministers should take account in determining what constitutes legitimate confidentiality. I hope that we can publish that guidance before we reach that part of the Bill in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.53.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.55.5", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is referring to a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.55.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ubt that may have to be resolved. Part VII of the Bill is unequal and complicated in its effect. It is internally inconsistent. It creates different structures for different parts of the country, and those structures are to be created according to different timetables. Why has this friendless measure been introduced? The game was given away in the September edition of Forestry and British Timber .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "o withdraw this ill-considered measure, and I urge him to do so now. There is much more to be said. With regard to litter, the Secretary of State and I agree that filthy streets in our cities are one of the major and most viable manifestations of what is going wrong in Britain today. There is no point in willing the ends without willing the means. With regard to genetically modified organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "paration of his speech. It is no good relying on sources reporting what the Minister said at a meeting which the Minister does not recognise, or relying on what the Nature Conservancy Council has said internally when all its public Statements are quite to the contrary. The hon. Gentleman diminishes his arguments by making such a speech. I must confess that I am a little disappointed with the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugo Summerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugo Summerson", "preceding_text": "eople like to get outside and party, but the trouble is that they like to do so all through the night. In two roads in my consistuency—Pearl road and Morgan avenue—the residents' lives last summer were made miserable for months on end by one family in each street. Those families had music playing all through the night, friends arriving at 3 am and 4 am, and cars arriving with their radios blaring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "preceding_text": "d will include dog mess in the definition of refuse. I hope that the house will not consider me frivolous, but I hope that my right hon. Friend will also include bird mess within the description of refuse. In my constituency, pigeons nest underneath the bridge where the railway line crosses wood street. They have done so for years. When someone walks underneath, he or she finds it quite revolting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-15", "file": "debates1990-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "a0f2e86331e5e63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.119.5", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It would be churlish not to acknowledge, having listened carefully to the Secretary of State's opening speech, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-15a.119.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Leyland Bus Plant (Lancashire)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "es given two years ago should be recognised and implemented by both the Government and the Volvo corporation. Suspending the redundancies is not enough; they must be withdrawn immediately, and a commitment must be given that the 400 jobs in Lancashire will be retained. Finally, let me thank the editor and staff of the Lancashire Evening Post for joining in the campaign on behalf of the work force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.159.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.163.6", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I beg your indulgence to explain to the House that the Hastings agreement is an agreement between the trades unions and the local Labour party relating only to a percentage of the money paid for an election? None of us receives any personal remuneration whatsoever. Therefore, it is a total lie for hon. Gentlemen to suggest otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"] I always have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Opencast mining.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "d the money, as my hon. Friend rightly said. I remember an Environment Minister coming to the House to tell us that Big Ben was 9 in out of true. It is, indeed, 9 in out of true and the reason for that is that we have not always had a car park. All those years ago—25 or 26—they scooped a whacking great hole out beneath the building and put in five floors so that hon. Members could park their cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "other hon. Friends have also dealt with the matter at length. The Secretary of State will know that I have referred to the problem of subsidence in Bolsover church. For several years, negotiations did not proceed at any level between British Coal and Bolsover church, partly because of some negligence on the part of British Coal and the fact that there was no vicar for a period. I had to take over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "her. One need only examine the legislation on the subject to see the effect that that has had. For many years, large numbers of Opposition Members were members of, or were sponsored by, the NUM—whether or not under the Hastings agreement—and they used to kow-tow to British Coal. Whatever British Coal said, they agreed to. For a long time we lived with that attitude of subservience to British Coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. What is more, it is worth placing on record, as my hon. Friend did in Committee, the fact that opencast mining companies use some of the profits that they make out of opencast mining and put them into the Tory party's funds to fight elections. I am referring to companies such as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "That is a disgraceful and most irregular statement for the hon. Gentleman to make. He should know more about corruption than anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-16", "file": "debates1990-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "b915efbdcb646895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "censed sector. I have no doubt that the out-of-date working practices that licensed mines are currently forced to use because of their size prevents them from improving their safety standards. I accept that the accident rate at licensed mines does not compare favourably with that at British Coal's mines, but that is because their mining practices have not kept pace with technological developments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-16a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "ter agree that those figures are appalling and that they are 27 per cent. worse than when the Government took office? When will the Government get tough, in the same way as the Governments of France, Italy and the USA, against the Japanese imports that pour into this country? Why do we give subsidies to Nissan and allow Toyota to come here to Derby to steal the skilled labour force at Rolls-Royce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.275.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "l Workers Union? Is it not the case that, as a result of inward investment by Japanese car manufacturers, there will be a massive increase in car exports from Britain in coming years? Does my hon. Friend agree that there is now a serious threat from eastern Europe and that we must ensure that the economic and industrial conditions here remain attractive to those who wish to invest in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.276.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.282.8", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.282.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": " subject of intense concern and debate in Hong Kong, and we are discussing it with the Chinese Government; those discussions are continuing, and I would prefer not to go into detail today. I can say, however, that our goal is to set a system in place—beginning with elections to the Legislative Council in 1991—which will satisfy Hong Kong's aspiration for democracy and which will endure after 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "s the right hon. Gentleman has said, the enthusiasm among articulate Hong Kong Chinese for greater democracy and for a start towards democracy. The second was their wish to get away from the constant hostile statements from Peking. It will not be easy, but we have to try to reconcile the two messages that I received so clearly. I have detected no racism on the Government Benches about this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "d the reasonable expectations there. As I have said about the boat people, voluntary return is the best thing and I am glad that voluntary returns are taking place. However, the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdon) knows perfectly well that the disadvantage and drawback of that is that very few of those who are screened out and who it is decided are not refugees are volunteering. That is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Parliamentary Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ent years, for reasons which I shall explain, to a total of 18 per cent. In determining the Exchequer contribution required, the standard contribution of 20 per cent. can and should be adjusted to take account of the surplus. By long-standing convention—not just in this scheme but in the overwhelming majority of similar schemes—such a surplus is normally used to reduce the employer's contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-17", "file": "debates1990-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e98ff77eeb5c791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Authority (Borrowing Powers) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "no room for competition. It is important for the Minister to ensure that the major airline blocks do not take all the additional slots to be made available as a result of the additional money for the CAA. Those slots must be used for the smaller independent airlines so that they can compete on all fours with the big battalions. I hope that the Minister will tell us the Government's policy on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-17a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is trying to deceive yet again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The poll tax system will reveal to the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.405.8", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that since time immemorial young couples have always had a job rearing and educating their children? Can it be right, just and fair for those couples to pay, through their taxes, for other people's children because fathers walk away from their financial responsibilities? May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.405.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.425.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.434.8", "colnum": "434", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "m. We arrived at the SSA system after an inordinate amount of consultation and discussion with local authorities and the local authority associations and it is perhaps understandable if my Department does not view with unbridled enthusiasm the prospect of another round of consultation. I want to make it clear to my right hon. and hon. Friends however, that the SSA methodology is not cast in stone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.434.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "If what the hon. Gentleman says is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "No, no, no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "nt then when we explain the legislative effect of our proposals. In the meantime, let us be perfectly clear. Our function this afternoon is to debate the important detail of the Government's proposals, which will be of immense importance to the constituents of every hon. Member in the House. I hope that we shall not have a volume of irrelevant interventions on Labour policy on this or that matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Even Durham has problems in recruiting science and language teachers in order to deliver the national curriculum. I was there last week talking about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "em has been moved around, tinkered with, manipulated and pulled and pushed to try to meet all the objections. Those movements have made it all the more grotesque and absurd. But I shall be pleased to be in the same Lobby as the hon. Gentleman, and at that time he may care to tell me how he sprained his wrist. Perhaps he was picking up some of those heavy wine crates that I know he disposes around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I think that that was a brave attempt by Durham to move to the aid of Dagenham. I shall return to that subject in a moment. If the hon. Member for Dagenham intends to be taken seriously then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "t subject in a moment. If the hon. Member for Dagenham intends to be taken seriously then— [Interruption.] I am winding up the debate and I am responding to points that hon. Members have made. If the hon. Member for Dagenham wants to be taken seriously by the House, he should explain what has happened to the policy that the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) announced at a press conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "lar parts of the country, such as my hon. Friend's constituency. I have, however, set a discretion for local authorities to use the multiplier in the way that they think fit for local considerations, and they now have the power to reduce the standard charge in a number of cases. I should be happy to deal with that point, and others that I cannot cover now, by writing to the hon. Members concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ave to do that only because of the time constraint. Responding to my hon. Friend the Member for Surbiton (Mr. Tracey), the hon. Members for Dagenham and for Newham, North-east (Mr. Leighton) sad that it was an outright calumny to suggest that Labour authorities were trying to push up the community charge level that they were now announcing in an attempt to turn people against the community charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "e level that they were now announcing in an attempt to turn people against the community charge. [Interruption.] A document has come into my hands—unfortunately, someone seems to have left it behind after a meeting in Southwark—which advises Labour councillors to consider: What is more important—short term protection of people by setting low community charges, which the document calls poll taxes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-18", "file": "debates1990-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f13579bd02dee73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "t it behind after a meeting in Southwark—which advises Labour councillors to consider: What is more important—short term protection of people by setting low community charges, which the document calls poll taxes\"— [Interruption.] This is a genuine document— or longer term protection by getting rid of the poll tax? It refers to the highest rate you can get away with\". I readily make this available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-18a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-19", "file": "debates1990-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "82811518ff8f657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.529.7", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Opposition Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "eport. In 1983, the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent was leader of the Labour party. Even hon. Members on the Opposition Front Bench cannot disagree with that proposition. The Labour party manifesto for 1983 said: We will therefore not permit the siting of Cruise missiles in this country and will remove any that are already in place. The next Labour Government will cancel the Trident programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.529.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-19", "file": "debates1990-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "82811518ff8f657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Opposition Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "e election will we be able to give the miners of Bolsover that choice and opportunity—which they do not have now—to become owners. It is thrilling and exciting news for us and appalling news for the hon. Member for Bolsover and his right hon. and hon. Friends that, given the chance, the miners of Bolsover and the entrepreneurs of Brent, East would prefer to be owners. And that is what will happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-19", "file": "debates1990-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "82811518ff8f657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.545.5", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Opposition Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "at when people are given the choice of being tenants or owners they prefer to be owners and when they are given the opportunity to become shareholders they say, \"Yes, we would like some shares.\" This is only a short debate and we have to conclude our proceedings no later than 2.30 pm. The Economic Secretary has to report to the Chancellor on the momentous nature of the debate, and when he does so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.545.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-19", "file": "debates1990-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "82811518ff8f657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Opposition Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " of the 1990s. It states that under Labour, not all sympathy strikes would be unlawful—which means that Labour will reverse our legislation and legalise secondary action. We wait for further clarification on that aspect of the Opposition's policy. The document adds that under Labour, walk-outs and strikes would go ahead before ballots have been taken. In other words, strike first and vote Labour.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-19", "file": "debates1990-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "82811518ff8f657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Opposition Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "his document has pictures of the Prime Minister throughout. Incidentally, it also describes Britain as a \"force for peaceful change\" in Southern Africa—a real piece of double-speak. There is a picture of a smiling Prime Minister on the front, a close-up together with a quotation from her, on page 5, another picture on page 14, another on page 17 and one on page 22, with another extended quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-19a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-22", "file": "debates1990-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3ffe4d01b5aca6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I will be able later to develop the ideas that I expressed in that newspaper article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-22", "file": "debates1990-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3ffe4d01b5aca6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that. Those people, too, would have suffered, perhaps even more harshly, from maintenance of the sort of inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-22", "file": "debates1990-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3ffe4d01b5aca6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am conscious of the fact that I have been speaking for the better part of an hour and that I am in danger of trenching unduly into the time available to other Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-22", "file": "debates1990-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3ffe4d01b5aca6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "e lifetime of the last Labour Government. We then saw a dip in the early years of the Tory Government and then a continuation to exactly the same slope. Therefore, we can project that the future is likely to be like the past. Obviously if there is a collapse and a crisis, that transforms everything, but we can expect 2·5 per cent. plus economic growth every year into the foreseeable future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-22", "file": "debates1990-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3ffe4d01b5aca6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "I support the Social Security Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-22", "file": "debates1990-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3ffe4d01b5aca6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERs:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "he pension industry need attention—for example, surpluses in company pension funds and pension holidays. As the pension industry grows—encouraged by the Government, enabling people to make the right self-help provisions for their old-age—people will say, \"Perhaps we, too, have some claim on the surpluses of the pension funds.\" If a company seeks a pension holiday, perhaps we should gain from that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-22a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.733.6", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "If the Government are genuinely committed to community care, is it not odd that they do not see this important Act as a framework for involving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.733.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.733.7", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "d. We have implemented six sections of the Act, as the hon. Gentleman knows, and I have given a commitment about the consultation procedure on the remaining three sections. I share his view that they are important. It would be irresponsible to consider only the administrative costs of implementation and not to make sure that the underlying service provision increases. That requires real resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.733.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, there are always some businesses that go out of business and close down, but we have many new ones starting up. May I point out that in 1978, the last year under Labour, there were 6,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must ask about matters relating to the Prime Minister's ministerial responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. I shall certainly not challenge what you said. I wish to be absolutely clear that in future, if Conservative Members raise matters with the Prime Minister or other Ministers about the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "The selection of hon. Members to speak in debates, at Question Time or at other times, is very privileged. It seems to me, to many of my hon. Friends and to many outside the House that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) gets more than his fair share—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have raised this point of order on other occasions and I would like to raise it again", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have raised this point of order on other occasions and I would like to raise it again [Interruption.] Will you be quiet for a minute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have raised this point of order on other occasions and I would like to raise it again [Interruption.] Will you be quiet for a minute? [Interruption.] I am trying to raise a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I am trying to raise a point of order, Mr. Speaker, and it would be a good idea, if from time to time—and this is the very point that I am raising—the House could behave itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ticularly on the Opposition side of the House, raise matters which hon. Members on the Government side do not like they immediately begin to shout. I have suggested to you before, Mr. Speaker, that it is the responsibility and the duty of Mr. Speaker and of all of us who believe in democracy to explain to hon. Members, particularly those on the Government Benches, that we are not in the Reichstag—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ide do not like they immediately begin to shout. I have suggested to you before, Mr. Speaker, that it is the responsibility and the duty of Mr. Speaker and of all of us who believe in democracy to explain to hon. Members, particularly those on the Government Benches, that we are not in the Reichstag—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and we are not in the old Soviet when Mr. Brezhnev was there. Is it not time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.7", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members, or certain of them, no longer listen to an argument. They think that the way to deal with an argument is to shout people down. It is about time that they were taught that we are a democracy and that we must continue to be a democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.743.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Protection of Badger Sets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the protection of badger setts; and for connected purposes. Let us talk about something important like badger setts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "n of Europe. That was the result of years of over-regulation, excessive union power, a culture of penal taxation and pervasive subsidy, a bloated and poorly run public sector and year upon year of runaway inflation. We know the legacy that that left at the end of the 1970s. It has taken us a decade to put all that behind us. Doing so has had a dramatic effect on motivation, as the British economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ependence is increasingly becoming the aspiration of, and the reality for, increasing numbers of our fellow citizens. Of course, there is still a great deal more to be done. That is always the case and that is why we shall need a Conservative Government for many years—to continue to do it. We have still not yet exorcised the inflationary psychology of our economy, which was the curse of the 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ch, 7·9 per cent.; in April, 8 per cent.; in May, 8·3 per cent.; in June, 8·3 per cent.; in July, 8·2 per cent.; in August, 7·3 per cent.; in September, 7·6 per cent.; in October, 7·3 per cent.; in November, 7·7 per cent.; and in December—the last available figures—7·7 per cent. Anyone can work out that those figures are steadily high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "citement which convulsed the Conservative party at about the time of the March 1988 Budget. Then they were telling us that Britain's economic miracle had become the outstanding reality of the decade, if not of the century. The right hon. Gentleman, opening the debate on 26 April 1988 on the Finance (No. 2) Bill, said that the Government's strategy had without doubt transformed the British economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I too have been puzzled by some of the Chancellor's claims. In the early part of the decade, our share of world trade, by volume or value, dropped. It may have stabilised in recent years, and I am not certain where it is headed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal precisely with that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": " There is no doubt that the fall in the value of the pound before Christmas enabled many of our manufacturers to accommodate higher wage increases than would otherwise have been the case. The Government should also make it clear that the higher the wage increases, the longer it will be necessary to keep interest rates high. They can set an example in the public sector, where they are the employer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I shall try to refrain from using the word \"you\". I have a habit of doing that. I think that I am back on the pedestal at the miners' meeting. Those home owners were not to blame, it was you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about redundancies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "oving there from the south. One business man told me a few months ago that he was coming north because of the low wages. The minimum wage is non-existent. We are the only European country that does not have a minimum wage, and we should consider that. If there is a minimum wage, firms can plan a long way ahead, and perhaps we would not get the liquidations that I have mentioned on other occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nissan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I will not, Madam Deputy Speaker. I know that you are fighting on our side. The north-east has not seen any great strides during the so-called economic miracle. Some building is going on in my part of the world, but unfortunately it consists of three large supermarkets, and not factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": "ernational capitalism around the world that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) said, if America sneezes we catch pneumonia and we will follow America as sure as night follows day. The boom in the States, which has relevance and is mirrored here, has been fuelled by credit. Today, money is being given away to enable people to buy cars so that the system can be kept going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) is, as the hon. Gentleman said, a very honourable and a very nice man in many ways, but his figures are sometimes wrong, and this is one of those cases. Forecasts for investment in manufacturing are also far from rosy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " credit for a cash increase. Whatever the statements made for public consumption about spending increases funded by the Government's economic miracle, in the comparative privacy of the Select Committee deliberations, faced with the stern countenances of the hon. Members for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) and for Bridlington (Mr. Townend), the Chief Secretary cracked and gave the game away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-23", "file": "debates1990-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6511babfb26b38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.854.6", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Trade Union Ballots", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ballot—the Government are proposing legislation to deal with any worker who takes such action. That is industrial slavery. The Government believe in the power of employers against the working class. That is what it is all about. The hon. Member for Dorset, South may laugh, but I spent years fighting people like the hon. Gentleman and I shall continue to fight people like you for as long as I live—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-23a.854.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Including Labour Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that no matter how much the Department spends on television advertisements, such as the pensioner telling her dog \"Flash\" about so-called community charge benefit, the reality is that 1 million people in Scotland are not paying the poll tax? They are likely to be joined in April by millions more in England and Wales", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.881.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.904.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend accept that the nonsense talked by Tory Members conveys the impression that teachers go along with the policy? The reality is that teachers in Nottingham are outraged because so much money is being spent on one school and a handful of teachers. Does my hon. Friend accept that other children and parents are angry at what is happening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.913.5", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I have a relevant part in my speech in which I shall reply precisely to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.913.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "nd I will add to them as necessary. They are focused; they are targeted; above all, they are positive. They recognise that there are issues seriously to be addressed. That is in marked contrast to the contributions of the hon. Member for Blackburn. I re-read his speeches in the previous two debates on this question in the summer. Then, and now, he has failed to make a single constructive proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "e get the same old, tired stuff from the Opposition that we have heard so many times. The Labour party's policies continue to be those of levelling down. Where excellence is seen, they seek to destroy it. They are completely negative and totally destructive. They will abolish grammar schools, grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges. They even seek to denigrate the independent sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Labour Government. Seventy five per cent. of all four-year-olds now go to local education authority maintained nursery or primary schools. During the last 10 years, the proportion of three and four-year-olds going to school has increased to almost 45 per cent., and nine out of 10 attend nursery classes, reception classes or playgroups. There is even more good news in primary and secondary schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": " is a shortage of those subjects, in the clear and complacent knowledge that delivery of those subjects will be below the standards that parents expect for their children. The Secretary of State fails to admit a crucial factor—that there is a shortage of qualified teachers in particular subjects. We may get teachers in front of children, but we do not always get teachers with the requisite skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "m will not be required to contribute towards an area safety net. For those on the lowest incomes, community charge benefits will be available to meet up to 80 per cent. of the charge—although, because of the low level of community charges in Wales, those who are on income support will actually enjoy an effective rate of relief higher than the 100 per cent. rate rebates that they obtain at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.992.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.997.14", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "mber. What is new? Opposition Members will vote against the revenue support grant report and the revenue support grain distribution report. There are seven Welsh Conservative Members. It appears that war has been declared on two knights of the shires, but I predict that the poll tax will put severe pressure on the remainder. There is discernible panic in Conservative ranks because of the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.997.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.1001.7", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes his point effectively. Meanwhile, the people of Wales are doing better in every way. Who then is letting down the people of Wales?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.1001.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-24", "file": "debates1990-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e4d88bd9e844f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "tremendously since 1973 and it is not surprising if rateable values have also increased in the same period. A lot of nonsense is talked about the increase in rateable values. A headline in my local paper says, \"Rates Shock for Traders\", and goes on to say: One trader in the town's High Street has seen the rateable value on his property jump from £64 to 1,450—a staggering 2,265 per cent. increase\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-24a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "secure justice. These six men were convicted on the basis of two pieces of evidence, the—first, forensic and the second, confessions. By the time that the case returned to the Court of Appeal last time, it was clear that the forensic evidence was rubbish and did not stand, so we are left with only the confessions. The court said that to believe that the men were innocent, it would have to believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1035.6", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I am asking a question. The Home Secretary knows that the serious crime squad has now been disbanded and that 11 of the 20 men involved in questioning those men have been disciplined. Hardly anyone in Birmingham believes that they are guilty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1035.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Public Prosecutions. I have no intention of having any such meetings and there is no reason why I should. When hon. Members talk about Wapping, while it is obviously important that people should be brought to trial as quickly as possible, it is also important that no mythology should surround what in fact happened at Wapping. The police came under regular and violent attack throughout the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1040.6", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. and learned Friend next meets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1040.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "summit of the Economic Community, fully supported by Germany, agreed that that could come about only having regard to the other obligations that have been assumed the four-power agreement on Germany and the Helsinki accord. Reunification could take place only against a background of stability and security, and having regard to NATO, too. With a regard to the problems that my hon. Friend mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I remind the House that Members should ask one question and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1060.5", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's natural and continued concern with this matter. As he will understand, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1060.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1065.7", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Do you agree that, if hon. Members wish to raise on points of order matters concerning the conduct of, or anything else about, other hon. Members, common courtesy requires them to advise the hon. Members to whom they intend to refer of their intention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1065.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-25", "file": "debates1990-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "72fbbfddb46711ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Housing and Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "still a tax. That must raise the constitutional question whether it is possible to have a tax in Scotland that is different from the taxes in the rest of the United Kingdom. If the Opposition are not aware now that that raises a constitutional problem, they certainly would be if they ever tried to introduce it. Another important point is that we are not discussing a charge. Rates are a charge but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-25a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-26", "file": "debates1990-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1bfdd8bd2b2b5166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "rtunity throughout their careers. He has used his opportunity wisely, and I hope that both Conservative and Opposition Members acknowledge it. As sponsor of the Bill, the hon. Gentleman has had support from both Conservative and Opposition Members, including that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown), the leader of the Liberal Democrats, and that of other members of my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-26", "file": "debates1990-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1bfdd8bd2b2b5166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Storm Damage", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": ". I expect that many here today were, as I was, especially saddened to hear of the deaths of the two schoolgirls while at their schools in Swindon and Bristol and the many tragic deaths which occurred. I am sure the whole House will wish to join me in offering heartfelt condolences to the relatives and friends of all those who died, and also in wishing those who have been injured a swift recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-26", "file": "debates1990-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1bfdd8bd2b2b5166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Storm Damage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "The whole House will be grateful to my hon. Friend for that statement and will join him in expressing sympathy to the relations of those who died and all those who suffered damage to property. The House will also want to join him in paying tribute to all the members of the emergency services, especially the ambulance men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-26", "file": "debates1990-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1bfdd8bd2b2b5166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Storm Damage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " global warming, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is now in Africa making a speech about the problems of global warming and following up the lead that Britain has given the world in seeking to address that problem. We should be aware of that, and the Opposition should pay tribute to it. In the long term, we shall consider every situation to discover how the arrangements can be improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-26", "file": "debates1990-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1bfdd8bd2b2b5166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1229.2", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "at in my speech because I was involved in running a retail business before becoming a Member. As the Opposition are keen to waste so much time, I guess that I will be unable to make my speech. I should reassure my hon. Friend that some members of the public will take advantage of every opportunity. I know that for the simple reason that, over 17 years, I have had to help my wife serve such people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1229.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-26", "file": "debates1990-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1bfdd8bd2b2b5166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1241.14", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "HUMAN RIGHTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-26a.1241.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.19.10", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Taylor Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is a matter which I am afraid I cannot answer. Whether a report is made available at the time a statement is made is a matter for the Home Secretary and for the Government. It is not a matter for me, but I understand that a report—I believe it is an interim report—is available in the Vote Office now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.19.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Taylor Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "otball identity card scheme first as likely to increase—not reduce—hooliganism inside and outside grounds; secondly, as probably not technically feasible; and, thirdly, as more likely to increase the risk of death and injury than to reduce it? Is the Home Secretary aware that, whatever language he may use today to save the Prime Minister's face and preserve her reputation for inflexibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.22.3", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Taylor Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "wants one and the creation of safe standing areas for those who do not? I want to ask the Home Secretary a specific question on which we pressed him to no avail during the months of the Committee stage of the Football Spectators Bill. If he persists in making football grounds all-seater stadiums by law, is it his intention to make it illegal for a spectator to stand in a seated area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.22.3", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Taylor Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " him to no avail during the months of the Committee stage of the Football Spectators Bill. If he persists in making football grounds all-seater stadiums by law, is it his intention to make it illegal for a spectator to stand in a seated area? [Interruption.] The incredulity of the Home Secretary and his supporters confirms that they have been to only one football match in the past 40 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Taylor Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "As a member of the Standing Committee that scrutinised the Football Spectators Bill, and having heard the Home Secretary today, I despair at his attitude and response to the Taylor report. Surely he should now be advocating the Government setting up a round table conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Taylor Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "nto computers has gone. Unless the Government tell us what action they propose to take, in June this year all the people whom Lord Justice Taylor and the rest of us have spent years discussing will be free to cause havoc in Europe. It is no good the Minister for Sport telling us that it is a matter for the Football Association. I want the Government to take the action that was proposed in part II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.46.9", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sorry to have to raise this point, but I appear on the Economic League's list twice. Will the Secretary of State tell us how people like me who, over the years, have consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.46.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I have already made that absolutely clear. The two flaws that I have identified are not technical: they are substantial. If they are dealt with, fine. Let us see whether the Minister will deal with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.56.5", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only a second time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ms that a union is conniving in unofficial action, it can already take the union to court. Worst and most obnoxious of all are the provisions that would allow the selective dismissal of people on site without any recourse to an industrial tribunal. The Secretary of State ducked that in his speech and I shall explain why. In particular, I shall explain why he would not give way to me a second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.56.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The debate has been like many of our previous debates on trade unions. Many of my hon. Friends' speeches have been based on their experience, whereas all that we have heard from Conservative Members has been the usual massaging of prejudices and the lunatic fringe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-29", "file": "debates1990-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe95b26de153e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.103.4", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "n the law what he described as a gateway to legality. If the freedom to strike was not to be rendered illusory, he said, trade union members should have the right to take strike action. Tonight, the Government are trying to close that gateway. I listened carefully to the Secretary of State's speech and I hope that the Minister of State will tell us what has changed. We have heard no justification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-29a.103.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " previous Secretary of State promised that 20 CTCs would be in operation by the end of last year and as this Secretary of State has managed to produce only three, he must know that his bluster about progress is wholly unconvincing. Is he aware that the business sponsor of the new Wandsworth CTC, a sleazy, Bermudan-based second-hand car trader, Mr. Michael Ashcroft�ž[Horn. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.145.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.151.12", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": " invite the DPP to investigate the recent abortive management buy-out of Bradford school meals service and the recent and unexplained resignation of one of the two senior council officers concerned? While the Minister is at it, will she lean on Bradford council to reduce substantially the cost of school meals, which have been substantially increased to boost profits on privatisation, resulting in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.151.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Hill Farming", "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": "eview later this year. This will be our review, on our terms, about our hill problems, and we will not automatically carry through the views that have been approved by the European Community contrary to our wishes. Finally, there is the new provision in the European Community regulation which allows member states to include measures in the HLCA scheme to take account of environmental requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Hill Farming", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I shall allow questions to continue for a further five minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker:", "preceding_text": "Order. An important matter has been raised with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker:", "preceding_text": " precedents, as he has done. I am satisfied that the main purpose of the Bill about which we are to hear is the appointment of a board. However, the hon. Member is correct in saying that, if leave is given for the introduction of the proposed Bill, its text should not have as its main object the creation of a charge. The Public Bill Office may be relied on to ensure that that will not be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. After most of us have left the House and have been long forgotten—that is, if any of us have been noticed in the meantime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I was saying, Mr. Speaker, that it is an arduous process. The hon. Member concerned must go to an office, a garret, an attic above the Chamber and spend a sleepless night tossing and turning about among yellowing folios, concerned lest he might lose his opportunity with a ten-minute Bill and another hon. Member might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.172.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.175.5", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Ambulance Staff Pay Determination", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "r service improvements as well as a joint review of the 1986 salaries structure and a national framework for staff with intermediate medical skills. With that on the table, and against the background of the settlements that I listed, I see nothing dishonourable in the unions saying, \"Yes, we would like to return to the negotiating table. We would like to talk in particular about local bargaining\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.192.8", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "st that some people do not have needs for which we wish to do more. I simply wish to bring some balance to the framework of the debate after the hon. Gentleman's speech. If I were in a more aggressive frame of mind—I rarely am—I might say that I saw little reason to accept lectures from a former social security Minister in a Government who twice failed to pay the Christmas bonus to the pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.192.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get a move on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "I shall be as brief as I can, but I must say at the outset that it is entirely unfair for Opposition Members to speak for so long and to allow such long interventions from other Opposition Members who have no intention of speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.210.4", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": " rhetoric that we have heard from the Opposition today. We have monitored the system carefully and have made adjustments, as anyone who looks at it in a fair-minded way would have to recognise. We conduct research, collect statistics, analyse the cases of Members of Parliament and look at an endless flow of articles, books, programmes and so on—and, not least, we listen to the House on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.210.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "In real terms, benefits have been improved—perhaps just a little—under the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Charlton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "rgan) says that some third and fourth division clubs may go out of business if they are not given proper financial assistance in introducing all-seater stadiums. I disagree with him in one particular: I fear that some second, and perhaps even first, division clubs will go out of business. I know that the Minister for Sport has a tenuous relationship with Millwall football club in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I assure you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the Home Secretary and I are not in collusion as a two-man comedy act. I had no idea that he would answer in that way. However, the right hon. and learned Gentleman has confirmed my point. Nobody is suggesting that Taylor would make it a criminal offence to stand up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.228.4", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Waddington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Waddington)", "preceding_text": "e obviously invaluable. I stated plainly yesterday the Government's response to the report, our determination to see a great change in the way in which the game is managed and a vast improvement in the way in which clubs treat their customers. I shall return to those matters shortly, but I have to say now that the Opposition's response to the challenge of Taylor has been nothing short of pathetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.228.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. and learned Gentleman and I might have an interesting semantic argument about this. I described the move to all-seater stadiums as inevitable, as distinct from irresistible. I urged the Government to do all it could to speed up that process, but by the agreement of the clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " He was absolutely right, so, like a black sheep, I can come home, and the Whip will be pleased to hear that I shall vote for the Government. A point that concerns me links with the whole question of the Taylor report. Football hooliganism is specific to football, but it is at the same time an outgrowth of a breakdown of law and order in society. We could see it in the permissiveness of the 1960s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "ertain amounts—I emphasise that they must be small—could be directed towards the improvement of grounds, in the same way that money comes from the spot-the-ball competition at present. However, it is not the duty of the House to see a problem and to pour vast sums into it. The Opposition, who are in the pockets of the Football League and the Football Association, seem always to take that attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "verton were offered a new super-stadium on Merseyside, although the fans would not like it, he for one would be happy to go to that stadium. I suggest to the House that that must be the way; that in cities such as Sheffield, Nottingham, Bristol—and, indeed, London—if clubs are to survive and retain their identity, they will have to consider a communal facility for one, two or possibly three clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "tion, but it is clear that we shall not get one. I refer now to the problems surrounding the World cup, which is to be held in June. Again, the Government have not referred to that. All that the Home Secretary said yesterday was that the problems of English hooliganism that may emerge in Italy in June will be the responsibility of the Italian Government. The Government expect a foreign Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Colin Moynihan)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERs:\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Colin Moynihan)", "preceding_text": "e Taylor and said that those supporters who wanted to stand should be allowed to do so. It is absolutely essential to the House, and as a message to people outside the House, for the Opposition to make their position absolutely clear. Do they support all-seater stadiums along the lines proposed by Lord Justice Taylor or do they not? I shall happily give way to the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Grounds (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "ill be put on the back burner. Work will continue to establish how Lord Justice Taylor's anxieties about the scheme can be met. The problem of hooliganism has not gone away and it would be grossly irresponsible of the Government and the House not to give Lord Justice Taylor's package every support and to implement it. But be aware that we have a national membership scheme which, should we need it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-30", "file": "debates1990-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f313cd00e00e9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Medical Insurance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " somewhere between 96 to 97 per cent. of the hospital and surgical claims that we receive are paid in full.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 17 January 1990; Vol. 514, c. 695.] I quote those words without endorsement. If the hon. Lady wishes to disagree with the noble Lord and show him that he is wrong, she is entitled to take up the matter in correspondence with him. I conclude by reiterating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-30a.280.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.292.4", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "he quite astonishing building programme that has occurred since 1979 under this Government during which time there have been 54 major hospital building programmes with another 32 in train. If that is not enough, there has been a 32 per cent, increase in qualified nursing staff to look after the additional patients which the expansion has occasioned. Does not my right hon. and learned Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Leaving aside the concept of averages or of the middle ground which is so favoured by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must contain himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman complains about the warrant sales system. I stress to the House that when the reform of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.303.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.303.9", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Is not the system of rebates for the community charge considerably more generous than the rebates for the old system of domestic rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.303.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.304.6", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will have noticed that following the altercation that we had some moments ago, the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas) has now left the Chamber, having made use of the television cameras—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As a former Law Officer, the deputy Prime Minister will certainly appreciate the role of the Law Officers. May I ask whether Mr. David Calcutt's inquiry will benefit from the services of outside lawyers, or whether it will be dependent on \"internal\" civil servants from the Ministry of Defence? Could he clarify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.310.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.311.10", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. Many Conservative Members are fed up to the back teeth with the bogus points of order raised by the Opposition. My right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House has already said that there will be a statement tomorrow. That is the time to raise questions. In the meantime, is it not about time that you, Mr. Speaker, laid down the rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.311.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.311.12", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Further to the business statement made by the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.311.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have called those hon. Members who are directly concerned with the matter because they were involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.314.9", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ers of Parliament. Since that date, which is almost a month ago, I have sat through every Question Time and almost every statement in the Commons, and I have risen in my place on more than 300 occasions to be called on supplementary questions. It is being said in my constituency that it appears that the Speaker is carrying out sanctions against me by refusing to call me on supplementary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.314.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "My constituents want to know why I am not being called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.317.10", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman please sit down? I am on my feet. I must advise the House that it disfigures our proceedings to start every day with half an hour of points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.317.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no idea about how this will proceed tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "the only question is whether Germany will be a member of it. I think and hope that it will be. But we must not offer the provocation of keeping US forces on the soil of a united Germany, given that the Soviet Union is withdrawing from all the satellite nations. A unified Germany without United States troops can still have the troops of Holland, Belgium and the United Kingdom stationed on its soil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Bogus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "could have made the speech that I am making now. We have all adapted and changed. In the European Community, we are building a unique structure. Forcing it into a mould marked \"United States\" would be ludicrous. It is utterly ludicrous to believe that, somehow, the European Community states will be like California, Montana and Oregon. The European Community that we are developing is unique, basic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Many people have told me that they are threatened with bankruptcy and liquidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The taxpayer, the taxpayer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "s. I do not believe that there is any logic in doing that unless the Treasury is prepared to take on at least a part of the burden, otherwise other companies that may deserve to benefit from the changes will see their benefit put off even further into the future. It is an obvious moment for the Treasury to make a contribution to earning the money that it will claim from businesses at a later date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "Well, in that case I am even more grateful to my hon. Friend. While he was commenting on the various points raised by the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor), did he pick up the slightly throwaway line about the introduction of a land value tax? Will my hon. Friend discuss the devastating effect that that would have on many businesses including agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "Well, in that case I am even more grateful to my hon. Friend. While he was commenting on the various points raised by the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor), did he pick up the slightly throwaway line about the introduction of a land value tax? Will my hon. Friend discuss the devastating effect that that would have on many businesses including agriculture—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and farming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": " Small Businesses seems to have? I will give the Minister an opportunity to talk about interest rates, to answer the question that was posed by the hon. Member for Macclesfield: how long will small businesses have to endure this crippling burden? Is no hon. Member on the Government side willing to intervene and give me, with my limited knowledge, a lecture about when interest rates will come down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "It is amazing that a party that has no future always wants to dwell on the past. My concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-01-31", "file": "debates1990-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "056d0c96e4e63e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Small Businesses and the Self-employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "d small businesses. That was achieved. If Conservative Members disagree with what I have said, I can tell them about a letter that I have in my office from Lord Plumb, the leader of the Conservative party in Europe. He wrote to me at the end of 1978 to congratulate the Liberal party and Members of the Lib-Lab pact because the 1978 Budget had been the best one ever for farmers and small businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-01-31a.385.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Scotland?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland in favour of a legislative assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.432.9", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "upport for the ambulance crews who are in dispute with the authorities and with the Government, and the Prime Minister is becoming more and more isolated in her stance. Even more concern is being expressed over the harder line being taken by management and some police authorities. After an accident in my constituency on Sunday night, crews were turned away by the police in favour of the Red Cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.432.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No—one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Two questions: first, are the Church measures coming forward soon; and secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is addressing issues about which I have no direct information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I find it very distressing to hear continual references to a former, much-respected colleague, a man who has now been dead for 10 years and who is not, sadly, able to speak up and answer some of the points and comments that are made. I know nothing about the points that have been made. Now, for the second time, we have these allegations about lots of names. I do not know what lists they were on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.449.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "them for briefing purposes in all parts of the Province. I did not know that. The first that I heard, in February 1975, was someone coming into Stormont house and saying that a document had been dropped in the door of a Times journalist, and it happened that the lady who looked after the house was the wife of a policeman. She had seen the classification and took the document to the police station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ence that was given by Peter Broderick, the chief information officer, at the time of the inquiry into Wallace, when he lost his job. I am astonished. How much more does one not know? It says that Mr. Wallace was The advisor on Irish matters to the whole Headquarters\"— he might have been a bit of use in the Northern Ireland Office, perhaps— In order to do his job he had constant and free access\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ons and information policy techniques in direct support of their military objectives\"? In the same statement, it says, \"We knew better than Whitehall\" This was a small group not of intelligence officers but the information staff, with Army intelligence, which includes the replies that we have had, taking over the job of the elected Minister of the day. I believe that this ought to be investigated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ays, \"We knew better than Whitehall\" This was a small group not of intelligence officers but the information staff, with Army intelligence, which includes the replies that we have had, taking over the job of the elected Minister of the day. I believe that this ought to be investigated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"] Some Tory Members might not like this, but our names have been impugned. Some of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Fifteen years on, we hear these allegations about the besmirching of reputations. I must point out to the right hon. Gentleman that these matters have been investigated twice. There is no evidence of attempts to undermine Ministers or former Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.453.4", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I have come to the House to report on a matter on which there is evidence and in which we are clear that a mistake has been made. We are anxious to remedy that, and any ill consequences that may have flowed from it, at the earliest possible opportunity. People jumping up and down one after the other—and I could join the club —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.453.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I have listened carefully to the right hon. Gentleman. I am advised that, as usual, he has got it mainly wrong. I am told that the idea that Mr. Wallace makes himself liable to prosecution does not apply, as he has never been a member of the security services. It has been made very clear,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "I speak as one who served with the Army in Northern Ireland. Does my right hon. Friend agree that, given that 300 terrorist murders per annum were taking place at the time, the Army was absolutely justified in using disinformation? Does he further agree that the Army would have been negligent had it not used disinformation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knew the answer to his question before he rose to his feet. He has indulged once again his interest in parading all kinds of rumour and innuendo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "straight to the House. I thought that he would feel able to applaud that. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me the opportunity to clear up one aspect of what I said. Of course I am not privy to and familiar with the details of what the director-general of the Security Service may have found out about activities that took place during a Labour Administration, to which I do not have access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.462.4", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Listening to some of the contributions that have been made, I well understand why my hon. Friend makes that comment. I am under no illusions that one or two contributors to this debate are very keen to undermine —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.462.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.462.8", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not hear. I am sure that the Secretary of State did not intend that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.462.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I made it absolutely clear—if the hon. Gentleman checks Hansard , he will see that I said \"one or two\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I made it absolutely clear—if the hon. Gentleman checks Hansard , he will see that I said \"one or two\"— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I say to the Secretary of State that even that is a reflection upon the honour of hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.7", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State now accept that he has demonstrated clearly that the Prime Minister should have been making the statement this afternoon? Having misled the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.463.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": " frankness. Will he confirm that, in his investigations in his Department, there has been no proved link between what he has revealed to us today and the allegations that have been made by the hon. Member for Workington (Mr Campbell-Savours) about the so-called \"dirty tricks department\"? Will he also confirm that the defence of Mr. Wallace, at his trial where he was convicted for murder by a jury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.469.8", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Ten-minute Rule Bills (Budget Day)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that there is an agreement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.469.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.469.9", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Ten-minute Rule Bills (Budget Day)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that there is an agreement —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]—that there should be a general debate on the five motions together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.469.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-01", "file": "debates1990-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "09508d9c9055d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Ten-minute Rule Bills (Budget Day)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks, \"Why not?\". That might be a fair question, but I think it right that hon. Members understand this when we are looking at the motion on leave to bring in a Bill. What happened in the last Session was that hon. Members queued upstairs in the Committee Corridor sometimes for as long as four or five days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-01a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-02", "file": "debates1990-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d1000b697b1ea73e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interest on Debts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "strongly in favour of my Bill as the Forum of Private Business, the Institute of Directors, the National Chamber of Trade and the Union of Independent Companies. It is most significant that the Institute of Directors, which represents directors of large, medium-sized and small firms should have changed its mind. I hope that all my hon. Friends have received a copy of the IOD's parliamentary brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-02", "file": "debates1990-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d1000b697b1ea73e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interest on Debts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "usiness, the Institute of Directors, the National Chamber of Trade and the Union of Independent Companies. It is most significant that the Institute of Directors, which represents directors of large, medium-sized and small firms should have changed its mind. I hope that all my hon. Friends have received a copy of the IOD's parliamentary brief. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It was in the mail this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-02", "file": "debates1990-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d1000b697b1ea73e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interest on Debts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "National Chamber of Trade and the Union of Independent Companies. It is most significant that the Institute of Directors, which represents directors of large, medium-sized and small firms should have changed its mind. I hope that all my hon. Friends have received a copy of the IOD's parliamentary brief. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It was in the mail this morning. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I did not post it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-02", "file": "debates1990-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d1000b697b1ea73e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interest on Debts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "ading is that that will allow us a month for mature reflection before we go into Committee. That will give us time for various views to surface and for them to be properly presented. The Minister knows full well that I am not seeking to override any properly conceived views, and that my willingness to meet him almost anywhere to get just some part of the way down this road is absolutely boundless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-02", "file": "debates1990-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d1000b697b1ea73e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interest on Debts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Former colleague.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": " it my unqualified support. Like it or not, there are unscrupulous firms. My hon. Friend the Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates) mentioned one or two firms which I have come across during the course of my professional career. One that he did not mention was the British Steel Corporation while it was in the public sector. BSC was referred to by our late colleague Mr. Richard Ottaway, who I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-02", "file": "debates1990-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d1000b697b1ea73e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interest on Debts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "I recall with some guilt that before the debate began I posted two envelopes from my small company—one to the PAYE office and the other to the VAT office. Although they have been signed, I did not post the cheques to the various creditors of that company. In a sense, that is one strong argument in favour of the Bill before us this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-02a.608.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-05", "file": "debates1990-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "5b3c19aab78fb338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-05a.679.4", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "try to persuade the House that a change of policy, as well as being necessary, can be fitted in with what the MOD has said before. He would have sought the help of an estimable but fictitious civil servant whom I shall call Carruthers. This civil servant, a fine protege of Sir Humphrey Appleby, would have responded to the Minister's point that the Royal Navy should employ Wrens at sea in warships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-05a.679.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-05", "file": "debates1990-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "5b3c19aab78fb338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-05a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "preceding_text": "I am not arguing for its indefinite survival, but if it is altered and non-Soviet Warsaw pact countries inject more control and influence over it, it will not necessarily be a force of instability but will be in their and our interests. That argument should be seriously addressed and is why NATO must survive, not entirely in its present form, but more or less in the way with which we are familiar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-05a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-05", "file": "debates1990-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "5b3c19aab78fb338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-05a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hearl.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "last time that he saw him carried away, he thought that he would never see him again—and he nearly did not. My hon. Friend was critically ill for many months, and it is a miracle that he is with us today. It is a matter of great sadness to me that he will be leaving the House at the end of this Parliament. Let us face it, we do not have many people here who are decorated as he was in the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-05a.731.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hs 3 and 4 give the overall picture and perhaps a better summing-up than that given by the right hon. Gentleman. They say: The overall picture is of a service in which most of what is done is of reasonable quality or better. That is a sound basis for improvement and change and should be recognised as such. Of course, they went on to say that a number of things were wrong and needed to be remedied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.756.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the inspectors faced their task more calmly that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.757.2", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "here is a new national curriculum, and the inspectors' report says: Across schools of all types, the implementation of the national curriculum is beginning to bring about specific and general improvement\", The majority of the primary schools visited had suitable and reasonably well-maintained accommodation\". Yes, of course there are still things to be done. There always will be, but it takes time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.757.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.758.10", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e laboratory of the Government chemist to undertake a scientific assessment, which is under way. I understand that, so far, those tests have not reproduced the result obtained by the independent researcher who proposed a link with fire-resistant chemicals. We shall, of course, consider whether it would be right to issue warnings in the light of the scientific assessment currently being undertaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.758.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Dorlux (Redundancies)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "ast 18 months, and our interest rates are the highest among the leading industrial nations. After 10 years of this Government, Britain stands on the brink of another damaging recession. The manufacturing base in my town suffered severely at the beginning of the 1980s, causing great misery. Between 1979 and 1989, the north lost 30 per cent. of its manufacturing and employment—almost 1 million jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Dorlux (Redundancies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member seeks leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that she believes should have urgent consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr.John Gummer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr.John Gummer)", "preceding_text": " most interested to hear hon. Members' views and, as I suspect that many hon. Members will support the Government's policy, I hope to be able to use their comments in our debates in the European Council. This is also a most convenient date for the debate, because we published today the 1989 edition of \"Agriculture in the United Kingdom\", which is an improved version, copies of which are available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.782.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.783.9", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wishes to continue making sedentary remarks, I have no doubt that we shall all listen with our usual interest. In 1989, there was an increase in farm incomes of about £200 million, or 16 per cent., on the low figure for 1988, but I would not put too much emphasis on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.783.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " him. It is perhaps only fair to give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle; then I shall give way to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Godman). The House should recognise that, in itself, a change in the green pound will not increase the incomes of farmers: it will merely remove the decrease in the incomes of farmers that would otherwise be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I have the great good fortune to come from, live in and represent one of the loveliest farming areas in the world. My farmers do not ask for an easy ride; they never have done. What they ask for is a fair deal. They want to be paid as much for what they produce as other European farmers get—not an unreasonable request, one might think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "r Labour Governments. We should welcome some support and participation from those involved in agriculture in our attempts to get rid of a Government who have taken their loyal rural supporters for granted and have ridden roughshod over the interests and aspirations of rural communities throughout the United Kingdom. I must say that it is difficult to criticise the Government's agricultural policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.846.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I beg to ask to leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-06", "file": "debates1990-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "733f074ab5747666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Motor Trade (Consumer Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to raise a point with you and to seek your guidance. There would appear to be some problem on the Opposition Benches, particularly in respect of the Bench below the Gangway and the one immediately behind that. I do not know whether the cleaners have not attended to that area recently and there are fleas there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-06a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.872.6", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "mber for Luton, North (Mr. Carlisle) has just said, will the right hon. Gentleman explain why it is that when he and the Prime Minister say that we must not lower our guard against the Communist regimes that are toppling day by day in eastern Europe, they nevertheless want to get rid of such puny sanctions as we impose on South Africa at a time when the whole structure of apartheid remains intact?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.872.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are swimming against the tide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, with democracy sweeping through eastern Europe and through repressive regimes, the Israeli Government will be swimming against the tide if they attempt——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "t of order, Mr. Speaker. It was not possible today, because of the way that the questions were selected, to ask any questions on the European Economic Community. On a day when my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary returned from important meetings in Germany, that was unfortunate. Is there any possibility of you making arrangements with my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "A number of those issues arose when the Opposition were the Tory party. However, I was not seeking to make a partisan point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "A number of those issues arose when the Opposition were the Tory party. However, I was not seeking to make a partisan point—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, I am sorry, I am not seeking to make a party political point but a much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Indeed. I am very glad that the hon. Gentleman understands what we have been saying repeatedly. I am very glad that he is now tuned in. We have said that we shall restore the link. There is no question of retrospective payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "not arguing that income support should increase to a level such as that in Haringey or Islington. I am sorry to see that the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) is no longer in his place, because he intervened on this subject. I do not think that anyone would argue that, because all voters, including pensioners, must recognise that they have to pay for Labour extravagance in those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.934.5", "colnum": "934", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I freely confess it to him before I make it—but he said that we had never had debates on the distribution of wealth and so on at the right time. We had an Opposition Supply day last week, when we had the chance of a proper debate. I do not know which part of the Opposition was responsible for managing to waste most of the day on discussions about identity cards for football supporters rather than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.934.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "It is a bit rich for the Minister of State to try to make a political point about debates on the distribution of income and wealth. When we had an opportunity last week, what did the Government do? They spent 50 minutes on a footling statement on hill farming when there was nothing of any significance to debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-07", "file": "debates1990-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7694a9d949529d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-07a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1003.9", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to stress that the crucial factor is our right as consumers to select a product based on informed choice. The Government are determined that any irradiated food should be clearly marked with the words \"irradiated\" or \"treated with ionising radiation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1003.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1003.9", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to stress that the crucial factor is our right as consumers to select a product based on informed choice. The Government are determined that any irradiated food should be clearly marked with the words \"irradiated\" or \"treated with ionising radiation\"— [Interruption.] Since we are determined that the labelling regime will be enforced and workable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1003.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1004.5", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "There is no evidence that the amount of nitrates in the water damages anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1004.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1007.6", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that of all the ideas for raising local government finance, the Socialist idea of a roof tax is the most unfair, uneconomic and unworkable? It will involve constant revaluation, the erosion of local democracy and the eviction of many elderly and council tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1007.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold (Gravesham)", "preceding_text": "an Opposition day, when this subject could have been selected for debate at length by the Opposition.] Does he appreciate that an Opposition Back Bencher handed over his ten-minute Bill slot to the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) to propose a Bill from the Opposition Front Bench? Does he realise that this muscling in on Back Benchers' customary prerogatives is unprecedented in over 20 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "hat its consequences would be. If that had been Government policy in the past couple of years, businesses would already have paid £50 million more than they have paid, or are due to pay in the forthcoming year. That is the first consequence, and it would be damaging to the Scottish economy and to employment in Scotland. But it is even more serious than that, because we know that local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "he same amount as the community charge. For example, in Strathclyde, which covers half of Scotland, the increase in business rate would not have been limited to the rate of inflation, but would have been 12 per cent. In Stirling, the district business rate would be going up by 18 per cent., and in Edinburgh by 24 per cent. I do not wish to debate who is responsible for that increase at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is that it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " would be damaging to heavy industry, to Ravenscraig, to Yarrow and to every business, big or small, wherever it may be in Scotland. If this debate is about the interests of the Scottish economy, I do not accuse the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends of deliberately wishing to do down the Scottish economy; I accuse them of a much more serious offence—of total and utter confusion and incompetence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have the chance to make his own speech later. What is worse is that, among the unemployed in Dundee, East, almost one in three have been out of work for at least a year. Does the Secretary of State wish to boast about such a record at the Dispatch Box? I hope not. I am conscious of the time and I may have spoken for too long already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1047.6", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tories aren't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "graphy. If he said that the Labour party had four seats including those in Dundee and Aberdeen—and I imagine that he is also including the Western Isles—he would not be right about what was pure north. I should not expect him to understand that. I draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact that in the Highlands, the Labour party is not considered to be the party that understands its problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1047.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1047.6", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "to productivity and to exports than those in Dundee. That is an example of why regional aid had, properly, to be changed. That is why I welcome the changes that the Government are making. I advise Ministers that the economic successes of our policies in Scotland are there for anyone who wants to see them. They can be seen in our supermarkets, stores and shops and in the bustle in the high streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1047.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "of my hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) from the Chamber. I should point out that my hon. Friend is attending a Committee meeting upstairs. I apologise to right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on both Front Benches for my absence during the opening few minutes of the speech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar). I was having a personal meeting with the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Ian Lang)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Ian Lang)", "preceding_text": "Enterprise initiative into the hands of the local authorities, and after its already well-known plans to introduce a tax-raising assembly in Scotland, it is not surprising that the hon. Member for Garscadden should fall back on selective quotations from a discussion paper of no status whatever, the substance of which was reported in an article by Alastair Balfour in the Glasgow Herald in December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1067.8", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State said that the substance of the article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1067.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1067.8", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State said that the substance of the article— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman may check that in Hansard . But as the substance of the report is incorrect, and as it was not accepted by the Scottish Development Agency-—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1067.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Chairman of Ways and Means for facilitating this debate. I thought that I might have to begin by introducing myself to right hon. and hon. Members, because I have been so long detained outside the Chamber that hon. Members may have forgotten who I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "the private Bill Committee, other issues emanate from that, which are of great importance to the House. Other hon. Members have touched on the procedure of the private Bill Committee and on the public's right to know what is going on. I have been following this from a distance. Now that the Whips have left the Chamber, I can reveal to the House that I have never served on a private Bill Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Members have touched on the procedure of the private Bill Committee and on the public's right to know what is going on. I have been following this from a distance. Now that the Whips have left the Chamber, I can reveal to the House that I have never served on a private Bill Committee— [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) is informing me that he is an agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-08", "file": "debates1990-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "65ed5dac1b3548fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "European Community (Right of Residence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "on. Lady handles as many immigration cases as any hon. Member. She must recognise, as the whole House should—as the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central recognises—that whether one is for looser or tighter immigration, there is something intrinsically wrong with being offered, on the one hand, a set of British immigration rules that say one thing, and now suddenly, in a midnight debate in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-08a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-09", "file": "debates1990-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cf49e7c70a62283", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Computer Misuse Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The case for the Bill gets stronger and stronger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-09", "file": "debates1990-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cf49e7c70a62283", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1158.5", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Computer Misuse Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "It is an accepted convention that, on Friday mornings when a private Member's Bill is being debated, Front-Bench Members often speak in a personal capacity. I assure the hon. Member for Corby that that is what I am doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-09", "file": "debates1990-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cf49e7c70a62283", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Computer Misuse Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. It is important that we tease out these issues. The Minister for Industry is a former Home Office Minister. I see that he is consulting his civil servants or, more likely, he is giving them instructions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-09", "file": "debates1990-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cf49e7c70a62283", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Warrant Sales (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "es. We might expect the process to end there and perhaps for 95 per cent. of people, it does. However, the logic of the warrant sales system is that it cannot end there. The system is based on fear and, to encourage others, there must be a few victims or examples for whom the procedure goes its full course. It is at that point that a warrant sale is advertised arid that is where the poison occurs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1190.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-09", "file": "debates1990-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cf49e7c70a62283", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1200.21", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Warrant Sales (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 16 February.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-09a.1200.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-12", "file": "debates1990-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1922a417227d0f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "In July 1988, the Arts Council, in conjunction with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-12", "file": "debates1990-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1922a417227d0f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-12", "file": "debates1990-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1922a417227d0f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Legal Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "of provision in the legal aid system the Labour party would extend the scope of the Legal Aid Board to that of a legal services commission. Furthermore, we would provide equality of access to the professions. I know that there have been improvements, but in my experience it is particularly difficult for someone to be called to the Bar and to succeed if he or she is from a working class background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-12", "file": "debates1990-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1922a417227d0f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Legal Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "udicial commission and the whole range of advice and representation. Such a department would be charged with putting the needs of users and consumers first. We want an efficient, user-friendly, legal system, not one which is full of mystery and lacks accountability. I know that this is only a personal view, but I find the courts intimidating. The judge is dressed in the clothes of another century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-12", "file": "debates1990-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1922a417227d0f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. Colin Wallace", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Archie Hamilton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Archie Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "First, I echo the sentiments expressed by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) about the loss of our colleague Harold McCusker. We send our condolences to his wife and family. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Linlithgow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-12a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.132.9", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Tredinnick.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.132.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.133.10", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman does not recognise, and give credit for, the fact that more people in the inner city areas are now working—as they are in the country as a whole—than in 1979. That is a tribute to the success of the Government's economic policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.133.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I think the right hon. Gentleman possibly takes his instructions from the African National Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.8", "colnum": "137", "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/1990-02-13a.137.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.10", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall start my reply again. The ANC believes in comprehensive economic sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.11", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall start my reply again. The ANC believes in comprehensive economic sanctions— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.13", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that I would start my reply again having withdrawn the previous words. I have said that now three times and hon. Gentlemen cannot hear me. The ANC stands for comprehensive economic sanctions; so does the Labour party. It stands for armed struggle; so, apparently, does the Labour party. It stands for nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.137.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at would justify a relaxation of the measures imposed by the Twelve. Those are orders which have gone through the House. The sanctions to which I am referring are totally voluntary: a voluntary ban on investment from outside and a voluntary arrangement that we do not try to encourage tourists. Those are not bound by orders of any kind. I was glad to see that the Archbishop of Canterbury also said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.138.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.138.7", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Archbishop of Canterbury said: There needs to be some measure of encouragement … if that requires some release of sanctions, I think that will be understandable. President Bush made it clear that he does not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.138.7", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Archbishop of Canterbury said: There needs to be some measure of encouragement … if that requires some release of sanctions, I think that will be understandable. President Bush made it clear that he does not think—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"]—The right hon. Gentleman asked me a question and I am trying to reply. President Bush—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "President Bush has made clear that he does not think that sanctions are necessarily the right answer, but he is bound by a law passed by Congress. In so far as we are bound by laws, we uphold them, and in so far as we are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.139.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.141.8", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Skills Training Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "That was in spite of an arrangement, up to 1987, under which fixed amounts of training were purchased from the Skills Training Agency by the public sector. That arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.141.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will remember that during Question Time today there was an unusual amount of disorderly noise. In the course of one of the quieter moments during that noise, the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) made a grossly offensive remark about my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.153.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.154.6", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "matter of grave importance in my constituency? More than 2,700 drums of contaminated waste have been dumped in my constituency, and a smaller quantity of the same consignment has been dumped in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Leeds, South (Mr. Rees). A number of my hon. Friends, some of whose constituencies are close to mine an in close proximity to the material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.154.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.154.7", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This point of order is addressed to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The time for private notice questions has passed. We are to have a debate on the subject tomorrow. I shall take one more question from the chairman of the 1922 committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The time for private notice questions has passed. We are to have a debate on the subject tomorrow. I shall take one more question from the chairman of the 1922 committee [Interruption.] Order. I decide who is called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been here a long time and he should know that, when an hon. Member has been called by the Chair to speak or to put a question, remarks from a sedentary position are not a proceeding of Parliament and such remarks are not shown in Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been here a long time and he should know that, when an hon. Member has been called by the Chair to speak or to put a question, remarks from a sedentary position are not a proceeding of Parliament and such remarks are not shown in Hansard. [ Interruption.] Order. The right hon. Gentleman had better look up the rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "ited Kingdom registered fishing fleet? The Minister will be aware that the European Community has instructed Her Majesty's Government to reduce the size of the British fishing fleet by about 25, per cent. What recent discussions have taken place between his officials and those of other Government Departments on the introduction of a decommissioning scheme, which would reduce the fleet in a humane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "onsible attitude would ultimately have been self-defeating and would have resulted in less provision over the medium term. In the Autumn Statement debate, I said that we welcomed the appointment of the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) and we are certainly looking forward to her first House of Commons speech devoted exclusively to public spending. We were looking to her for some answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.168.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How not to do it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "If the Government's record on privatisation is so appalling, why do so many other countries not only follow our example but come here for advice on how to do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I did not hear all the hon. Gentleman's remarks, but I intend to say something later about our own approach to public spending. The article to which he referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "White Paper shows that every class of road in Britain is in a worse state of repair than it was 10 years ago. The helpful little diagram from last year's White Paper with its categories of \"better\" above the line and \"worse\" below the line, which my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) used to such effect in last year's debate has—surprise, surprise—disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "l income. For example, West Germany spends a higher proportion of its GDP on public spending than we do, and does so successfully. Secondly, on each occasion, the level of public spending should be judged according to a balanced assessment of the nation's current needs and what can prudently be afforded, bearing in mind the American saying that one sometimes has to spend a buck to make a buck and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was listening. What I said was clear and simple—what we are promising after the next election is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on Nick!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "n. I do not criticise her for not giving way to me earlier as she had very fairly given way to a number of my hon. Friends. I now have the opportunity to ask the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) whether he will answer the simple question that I would have asked his hon. Friend. Apart from defence, is there any expenditure programme that the next Labour Government would reduce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dinner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": " I and many of my colleagues feel is the Government's real economic responsibility. According to my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South, there has been a grand total of £50 billion-worth of wasted expenditure in that respect. Another thing that the Chancellor could have a chat about with Sir Trevor Holdsworth and John Banham at their lunch—that is assuming that the Chancellor is still in post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-13", "file": "debates1990-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d7aef44252c4ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "e. Clearly he did not mean to say that because he went on to say: Proper control of public spending—tight control—remains central to the Government's economic strategy.\"—[ Official Report, 23 January 1990; Vol. 165, c. 749.] In winding up the debate, the Chief Secretary made a similar point. He said: It is because our finances are in order that we have been able to do three things simultaneously\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-13a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I confirm that the Cardiff operation is profitable and held in high respect by its customers. I also confirm that the hon. Gentleman got it totally wrong when quoting the chief executive of the ECGD. I have here statements that he made on radio referring to the Chief Executive in a press conference alongside Nicholas Ridley\". I remember no such press conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said, now that perestroika and glasnost have broken out in Leith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend had a chance to read the Labour party document \"Industry 2000\"? Does it contain anything that would indicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in Hansard. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in Hansard. \"] Of course it is in Hansard, because it was subsequently referred to, but I did not hear it. However, I have now had an opportunity of not only listening to it on the radio but seeing it on television. The remark appears to have been somewhat magnified on the medium. However, we cannot go back on it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.267.6", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "It is on a slightly different matter, Mr. Speaker. It is now in the public domain, as we all wearily know, that the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman), a man who chooses his words carefully, said yesterday that the Prime Minister should have done 27 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "s are truly biodegradable. Secondly, the research into biodegradability is far from complete. Thirdly, waste in landfill is so compact that it may take centuries to rot. If anyone wants a mint condition 1952 newspaper or telephone directory, our American garbologist advises digging down through 38 layers of any tip. With further development of recycling technology, I hope that it will be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has ingeniously managed to combine Nos. 3 and 11 of the interventions that the Foreign Office suggested, in a circular, should be made in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "nd by our consulate in Johannesburg on the ground and the projects to which the Foreign Secretary referred are wholly admirable. The trouble is that we have been doing good by stealth. The overall impression among the black population of South Africa is overlaid by the Prime Minister's repeated and isolated antagonism to bring effective pressure to bear. I welcome President Mandela's first speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I saw the oppressors at first hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "However, they have talked about and urged the need for improvements in their schools-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "deen, North asked how we could take such a step before the pillars of apartheid had been destroyed. That shows a complete misunderstanding of the European Community sanctions. I beg the hon. Gentleman to read once again the preamble to the 1986 decisions which were designed to bring about national dialogue across the racial barriers. As Mr. Mandela, among others, says, we are now approaching that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ary of misunderstandings\" and that the Secretary of State was taking A pitifully myopic approach to our desperate transport problems. Presumably the writer meant to say that he was doing a wonderful job. The same newspaper claimed that the luckless Transport Secretary\" was in possibly his last Cabinet post. The right hon. Gentleman no doubt interpreted that to mean that he was heading for the top—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Senior.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ckoo-land. I am sure that the Secretary of State will say that, on careful reading of his hon. Friend's remarks, he is sure that he was widely misunderstood. I do not take that view. It is a clear and categorical statement about the Conservative party's policy on transport, particularly with regard to fares. As I have been told to keep to transport, I shall say that as an influential Back Bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.329.5", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I have said it constantly. The Minister should look at the record. The last bulge in investment was in 1955. In various Governments, the Treasury has taken the view that investment could be put off and trains could be made to last longer. Now we have the bunching of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.329.5", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "r should look at the record. The last bulge in investment was in 1955. In various Governments, the Treasury has taken the view that investment could be put off and trains could be made to last longer. Now we have the bunching of investment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Investment is crucial and necessary but it means that we did not have a sustained level of investment in British Rail over a long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.329.5", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "crucial and necessary but it means that we did not have a sustained level of investment in British Rail over a long period. [Interruption.] Yes, it is bunching. We are investing today because of a bunching of investment requirements. I cannot argue with the fact that there is an investment programme. I fully accept it. It is hard to deny that a £3·5 billion investment programme is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. There are different ways and different priorities in financing such measures. We would not follow the crazy road programme that the Government have embarked upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Cecil Parkinson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Cecil Parkinson)", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East has promised to repeal section 42 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987, and has said that a Labour Government would underwrite the cross-Channel link. I hope that he cleared that with Sam McCluskie, who will find out today that his favourite son is planning to subsidise the competitors of the ferries and hovercraft on which his members depend for their living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.334.9", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "ingston upon Hull, East has suddently become the great friend of the long-distance commuter, who pays about 40 per cent. of the standard fare to travel at peak hours. He pays less than the cheapest off-peak fare. That was regarded as unsatisfactory by British Rail, and last year it proposed that, over a three-year period, the discount should be reduced—not eliminated—from about 60 to 40 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.334.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.346.6", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "rogramme on the Shenfield to Chelmsford to Colchester line, costing more than £19 million, is to start early next year. That will bring real benefits to commuters and to the line when it is in operation in 1993. The crux of the matter is investment. What is needed is investment. That is why I welcome the fact that since 1983 the Government and BR have invested more than £3 billion in British Rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.346.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolfson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolfson", "preceding_text": "It is no surprise that a number of hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies have spoken tonight. They have said they want the benefits of the Channel tunnel in Scotland. In Kent we are concerned about having too much growth, because it is not needed in all parts of the county. My hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) is in a different position. He could do with the stimulus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-14", "file": "debates1990-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd2bfb4bc78e1897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "lway stations. In my case, the nearest railway station is 15 miles away. Eight hundred constituents a re facing the most horrific circumstances because of the policy of selling off companies. That cannot be allowed to happen. It is not right for the Government to talk about freedom of expression in eastern Europe without acknowledging that people who adopt democratic practices in their workplaces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-14a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that although the battle against inflation must take priority, the burden of it is being borne excessively by small businesses and home owners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.384.6", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that more than 2 million more families now own their homes than in 1979? Is not there a strong case for raising the mortgage tax relief threshold from £30,000 to at least £60,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.384.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "What was said in 1979 was entirely correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "land. All that is going very well indeed. My hon. Friend is aware that we are pledged to support German reunification by longstanding agreements. Our concern has been to have a proper framework in which we can ensure security and stability in Europe, and we succeeded in getting that at the Ottawa conference which has just ended. We have a framework of the four Berlin powers, plus the two Germanys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When I am asked questions, I expect to answer them. We shall also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "sation Has Pushed Up Electricity Prices And Set Back Environmental Improvements\". I am considering the propriety of having such narrative descriptions of debates. I shall seek to do something about it. Afterwards, there will be a debate on the more compactly described subject, \"The Royal Shakespeare Company\", both debates will arise on Opposition motions. Motion on the Clergy (Ordination) Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.406.6", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Has the Leader of the House seen early-day motion 349—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.406.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "h of England, should be decided by such people as Scots Presbyterians married to Roman Catholics and by other assorted Members of Parliament? Without wishing to open 150 years of contentious history on the disestablishment of the Church, may I ask the Leader of the House whether the Government have any reckoning as to how many hon. Members are practising bona fide members of the Church of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.418.9", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the central case for the need for advice to be given to the Secretary of State. If, as we suspect—the Secretary of State did not deny it, although he made an intervention just now—the Government's intention is to continue to replace grants by loans until there are no grants and all loans, that should be considered by-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.418.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " of the grant. There is no intention to remove the grant, and we have made it clear on many occasions that the grant will continue. It is not being abolished and I do not know how many times I have to say that to the hon. Gentleman. He is trying to make a point about the position in the year 2000 and something, when probably neither my hon. Friend nor I will be here. Our position is utterly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "rmative members of society. I could be the better assured on those points if we had some such committee, perhaps composed of two or three distinguished vice-chancellors and principals, perhaps two or three representatives of the National Students Union, perhaps even the immediate past president, and people who know about higher education. That would be consistent with the spirit of the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "they are on higher national certificates. In my experience, the definition of the HNC is that it is part time. Are we, in the drafting of that schedule, allowing, and positively putting an incentive on, students taking HNCs because that way they can get a loan for part-time study, and not university part-time courses? The balance of the grant and the loan needs to be examined by a monitoring body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " processed, on present proposals, by a staff of 130? If so, and if Price Waterhouse is correct that a staff of 250 will process only 3,575 applications a day, it will take a staff of 130 seven and a half months to process the applications. At the rate we are going, students who apply in the summer will not know until 1991 whether they will receive loans. That is not an acceptable state of affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-15", "file": "debates1990-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7296cf6b55b0e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "st because the House would want the hon. Members for Staffordshire, South (Mr. Cormack) and for Leeds, North-West (Dr. Hampson) to regain their reputations after the savage attack by the hon. Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman), I am sure that the period of reflection provided for in the amendment is urgently needed. I should like to say just a few words before we consider the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-15a.476.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "I have heard and read this argument before, and it is not relevant. Once upon a time, in every industry and undertaking, there must have been a first time when arbitration was invoked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.668.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman— [interruption.] —setting out the basis on which the figures have been compounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "fferent policies for everywhere. We have seen an example of that today. The hon. Member for Govan complained that the Minister opening the debate was a Scottish Minister. I can just hear the same fellow complaining that the Minister was English. All Opposition Members, other than the nationalists, know and understand that. I shall now deal with the essence of the debate. The hon. Member for Govan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " in the House and that is why I am wearing it. Madam Deputy Speaker, I am responding to some of the uninformed comments of the Opposition. The essence of this dispute is that the ambulance men have said that they do not accept Whitley rules. In the previous speech we heard one of the reasons why. I have news for the hon. Member for Springburn. I have some years' experience as a Whitley negotiator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. It was not voted on. The position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "r cent. of workers who have settled. Any sensible employer would support workers who have settled. My advice to the ambulance men is not to listen to voices from the Opposition Benches. Since 1979, they have been looking for a union or any cause that could somehow discomfort the Government, or put them in a bad light. They tried it with the miners and with other workers. The fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The captain of the Titanic probably did not want to sink the Titanic, but people's actions have an effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-19", "file": "debates1990-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e1e6299c9ac4dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " one takes that hard line, there is an argument for going ahead with one of the recommendations of Gordon Wasserman's committee, which was set up by the Home Office, that there should be an independent forensic unit to which those who get into trouble or who find themselves prosecuted could appeal. I have argued elsewhere that the forensic unit might well be based at the university of Strathclyde—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-19a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I answered the original question with precision and accuracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.767.7", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the best possible way to facilitate a speedy and honourable end to the dispute is not to make party political comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.767.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Shipbuilding (Wearside)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Let us analyse the hon. Gentleman's remarks by considering the last point that he made. The hon. Gentleman suggested that the Southwick site should be mothballed for five years—in other words, no productive use should be made of 40 acres for about five years. That cannot be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.783.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Peggy Fenner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The House will be aware of the dastardly attack made on the Father of the House at the weekend. He is not at all well today, and cannot take his usual place in this Chamber. Would it be in order for you, Mr. Speaker, to send him, on behalf of the House, good wishes for his health and for his speedy return?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "No. I must get on a little. I will give way in a minute. The Opposition are also on shaky ground if they accuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the whole of Scotland is not as pessimistic about the fortunes of the Scottish economy as the hon. Gentleman. When I was in Scotland, I talked to a number of people involved in the electricity supply industry there, who believe that they can compete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "No, I am not recanting at all. I said, \"I don't pretend to have all the answers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I came to the Department on 27 July 1990—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "sually split on political lines—were then in the majority. That is why that report saw the light of day. That was an excellent report, in which the Committee advised the Government—who were hell-bent on shoving forward their privatisation programme, and had produced a White Paper with very little consultation on electricity privatization—that they were in danger of producing spatchcock legislation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was 10 years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "record on prices. Between 1974 ad 1979, domestic electricity prices rose by 9 per cent. in real terms. Under the present Government, between 1985 and 1990, they fell by 8 per cent. in real terms. Opposition Members may not like the figures, but they represent the truth. Under Labour, industrial prices rose by 6 per cent. in real terms; they have fallen by 10 per cent. under the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "ort, but I hope that he will do so. It will be interesting to know whether the Minister will say that the Government cannot afford to fund the arts properly. He knows that the arts are not funded and invested in properly in this country. However, I warn him that if he uses that argument, my hon. Friend has already effectively shot it. Last year, in the Budget, the Government had a £14,000 surplus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.842.5", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Yes, he does. In 1987, the latest year for which figures are available, military bands were funded by the Government to the tune of £62 million—due to the passionate advocacy of the hon. Member for Twickenham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.842.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "translate our foreign language phrases in the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Roughly translated, that means that the only way for me to obtain more money for the RSC is to have an illicit affair with the Chancellor's wife and hope that she will use her seductive wiles to obtain the money. Talking more seriously about the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the report of Terry Hands, who I see in the Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "I beg my hon. Friend's pardon. My hon. Friend said that the arts contribute to the quality of life. Perhaps he could explain to me one day how the arts' contribution to the quality of life affects my pensioners and ordinary people who want to buy a pint and have a game of bingo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "ers who prance around, pretending they are toys, at an annual cost of £600,000. I find it strange that the arts world is up in arms about the lack of money yet ballet dancers can get a 15 per cent. increase, which is twice the rate of inflation. Nobody mentions that—certainly no Opposition Member has mentioned it. When extra money is called for, all the whingers appear on both sides of the Chamber", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "rentford or Chelsea, apart from the cost that he must meet in the future towards increased safety in those football grounds. He must pay for that ticket from his own pocket, but the great and the good, in their bow ties and long frocks, get them paid for by someone else. It is strange that we adopt such an approach to the upper class in this House and we forget the ordinary people who put us here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "C now is that the rest of us pay 30 quid towards their seat. That cannot be right. No leisure pursuit, mine or anyone else's, should be subsidised. My football watching and old-age pensioners' bingo playing have as much right to be subsidised as the arts although, preferably, nobody should be subsidised. The definition of what is or is not art has never been given by the arty-farty crowd opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "mber: whenever a proposal that the Government oppose is made from the Opposition Dispatch Box in the interests of those people at the lower end of the scale, particularly the lower-paid workers, the hon. Gentleman goes into the No Lobby. He does not support us, and that is why his contribution was two-faced. He does not realise that many people in the lower income group are interested in the arts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "rly. The Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Richmond and Barnes (Mr. Hanley) has a smile on his face. I shall remind the hon. Member for Richmond and Barnes that not long ago we had a first-class debate on the film industry. I remember talking about his beautiful mother who worked in that industry—she is gorgeous. I am not afraid to say that I have held her in my arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.882.8", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "munds jumped the gun even before the banns were called for the second time. An exceptional circumstance arose the last time that the Measure was considered, on 17 July 1989, in that, contrary to all expectations, we reached it only at 2.6 am and the vote was not taken until 3.35 am. That late hour was considered by many inside and outside the House not to do justice either to the great importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.882.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.883.9", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.883.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "the Church should stand for something at a time when marriage is undergoing so much pressure, may we ask why the Church did not, in Christian charity, hold back the Measure to be voted upon again after the synodical election, when the case could have been put to its electorate? Why did not the Church allow the High Court case to be heard before bringing the matter before this House? My last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "that marriage should be indissoluble. I understand their point of view. However, that is not possible in the real world for every couple, and we have to make provision for those people. I am not referring to the much-publicised cases that appear in the tabloid press—married people jumping into bed with other partners. I do not think that they, or the press that exploits their stories, are typical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "and their point of view. However, that is not possible in the real world for every couple, and we have to make provision for those people. I am not referring to the much-publicised cases that appear in the tabloid press—married people jumping into bed with other partners. I do not think that they, or the press that exploits their stories, are typical— [Interruption.] We are fed on a constant diet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "he Home Office is now taking that seriously. If the victim of domestic violence finally manages to divorce her violent husband and subsequently remarries, why should the second husband be penalised for his understanding, care and love for someone who has been so cruelly treated? In the previous debate on the subject my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) asked me how we could ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "sband be penalised for his understanding, care and love for someone who has been so cruelly treated? In the previous debate on the subject my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) asked me how we could ensure— [Interruption.] —that the wife beater was not ordained. I said then that the procedure for ordination would be very strict. I cannot imagine that such a person would be ordained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "understanding, care and love for someone who has been so cruelly treated? In the previous debate on the subject my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) asked me how we could ensure— [Interruption.] —that the wife beater was not ordained. I said then that the procedure for ordination would be very strict. I cannot imagine that such a person would be ordained. [Interruption.] Perhaps I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.895.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.897.6", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend was. Some people know how to move around and how t work the system——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.897.8", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": " That was the distinction that I was making. Under the existing law, some people will be divorced and remarried. Today, however, we are being asked to approve a Measure which says that there shall be a privileged group of people who will be divorced and remarried, or who may have married a divorcee, and they can be ordained. But the vast majority of English men and women will be denied that right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.897.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-20", "file": "debates1990-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cec33b60381c2a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or woman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "force than they should to two essential concepts, as I understand them, of the Christian faith. The first is forgiveness, and the second is the supernatural power of God. It is rash to suppose that it is so serious a sin to remarry after divorce in the circumstances with which we are concerned that it cannot be conceived that God might wish subsequently to call such a man to serve him as a priest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-20a.898.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "Despite the hon. Gentleman's customary rant on the issue of the community charge, the House should congratulate him because his second home is in the London borough of Wandsworth. Contrary to his earlier protestations, he has registered there for the standard community charge thereby ensuring that his community charge will be about the lowest in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is secret\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman could make his point much more briefly than that. Whether a Minister knows where an hon. Member lives is not a material matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.930.25", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. George Robertson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.930.25"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "The Minister is misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I urge the hon. Member to be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Points of Order", "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": "e hon. Gentleman will know, my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment is well known and widely celebrated. Secondly, it is open to every hon. Member to apply for confidentiality, just as every citizen may apply. There is a box on the form in which we can place a tick and so apply for it. I understand that the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist) did not do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Points of Order", "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": "Secondly, it is open to every hon. Member to apply for confidentiality, just as every citizen may apply. There is a box on the form in which we can place a tick and so apply for it. I understand that the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist) did not do that— [interruption.] In that case, the hon. Gentleman's argument is with the community charge registration officer in Wandsworth. He—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "that he lived in Wandsworth. Fourthly, although it is true that my hon. Friend referred to the hon. Gentleman having a second home in Wandsworth, that was not a difficult thing to deduce because the hon. Gentleman said, in his question, that he was subject to the community charge in Coventry, where I understand that his name appears, whether or not with security advice, in the telephone directory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Rape in Marriage (Offence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": " would otherwise survive? What would be the effect on the children of a marriage of a police investigation on a charge that had been levelled in the heat of the moment and which on cooler reflection would be withdrawn? What would happen, for example, if the wife succumbed and then regretted it and her husband in the hiatus of emotional confusion persisted when his wife said no? Would that be rape?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Rape in Marriage (Offence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": " the children of a marriage of a police investigation on a charge that had been levelled in the heat of the moment and which on cooler reflection would be withdrawn? What would happen, for example, if the wife succumbed and then regretted it and her husband in the hiatus of emotional confusion persisted when his wife said no? Would that be rape? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Would we define that as rape?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Rape in Marriage (Offence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "for example, if the wife succumbed and then regretted it and her husband in the hiatus of emotional confusion persisted when his wife said no? Would that be rape? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Would we define that as rape? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Opposition Members should address the position of the arranged bride who says no on her wedding night but whose husband is deaf to her pleas. Would that be rape?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.947.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Rape in Marriage (Offence)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman have leave to bring in his Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Rape in Marriage (Offence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am on my feet. The hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) must pursue his objection at least to the point of saying no. I shall put the Question again. Does the hon. Gentleman have leave to bring in his Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Rape in Marriage (Offence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am on my feet. The hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) must pursue his objection at least to the point of saying no. I shall put the Question again. Does the hon. Gentleman have leave to bring in his Bill? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"] To the contrary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was much attracted to and voted for the proposals put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ened. In this instance, when the proposals came forward from the Select Committee on Procedure, the Government said, with a glint in their eyes, \"This is good. This is helpful to us. We shall ensure that we get it through because it stops the inconvenience of private Members' time which causes members of the Government to have to be in the House when they do not want to be and extending the time\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ust be able to touch briefly on subjects the time for which the business motion seeks to restrict. New writs are also significant. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), the most recent exponent of the art of moving a new writ, would need at least half an hour in which to explain his views on moving new writs. The House is starting to fill up with Members interested in this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Private Members' Motions", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "all, North (Mr. Winnick), who is in his place, and for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen), who was here earlier. They are not the kind of people to join any conspiracy with the Treasury Bench or, in many cases, with this Front Bench. I do not think there is a shred of evidence to sustain the conspiracy argument. The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith), for whom I have a high personal regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Private Members' Motions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "dy could not have had her ear close enough to the ground. I assure her that, in the days prior to that Friday, scores of her hon. Friends, some of whom were prepared to support her Bill on Second Reading, told me, \"I hope to goodness that you manage to stop it on Friday, Dennis.\" Certainly Government Members did not want to spend the weekend here; they had had enough having to stay for the Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-21", "file": "debates1990-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c772590ea1c7ceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " the House, but I am curious about what has become of the Civil Service Department. Am I right in assuming that, by degrees, control of all matters in relation to the Civil Service has gone back to the Treasury, that the Minister for the Civil Service is a Minister only in name on Monday afternoons to answer parliamentary questions, and that his real function and role are as Minister for the Arts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-21a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "bout prisons reveal the Home Office's difficulties. On the one hand, complaints are made about old and overcrowded prisons; on the other, complaints are made when we propose to build a new one. The hon. Gentleman asks why the prison cannot be built somewhere else, but I dare say that others would object to that. After the most exhaustive consideration, we believe that Fazakerley is the right site—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "The Minister is misleading the House to some extent. My hon. Friend did not say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " publication of a victims charter. On this day—European Victims Day—we lead Europe in the arrangements for looking after the victims of crime. Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that we need to make our criminal justice system more victim friendly? Should not we give more consideration to the way in which vulnerable victims are cross-examined in court, as well as to keeping them informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " victims of crime. Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that we need to make our criminal justice system more victim friendly? Should not we give more consideration to the way in which vulnerable victims are cross-examined in court, as well as to keeping them informed— [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not seem to pay as much attention to the victims of crime as do Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1063.5", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the new policy platform adopted by the Communist party of the Soviet Union, which extols the virtues of markets, stresses the importance of competition, and calls for the scrapping of indiscriminate subsidies and for the selling of shares in state enterprises, all of which are opposed by the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1063.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ding was not appropriate to guidance. Since the basic legal framework is not in question, the Government do not anticipate any sudden change in the pattern of awards. On the subject of the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist), it will be within the recollection of the House that he has made much of his residence in Coventry. The community charge register is a matter of public record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "as made much of his residence in Coventry. The community charge register is a matter of public record— [interruption.] Allow me to finish, please. It is a matter of public record and it is manifest from the public record that the hon. Gentleman is registered for the community charge in Wandsworth. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment inferred that it was his second home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-22", "file": "debates1990-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "39dff62fdc8c910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "East-West Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Conservative voters were not responsible for what the Government are doing. But it is idle and dangerous to ignore the fact that Germans performed the most awful atrocities during the last world war, and that is not forgotten. The obscenity of Nazism is a disease which could be caught in any country, if the conditions are right. If I may say so as a declining person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-22a.1111.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landlord and Tenant (Licensed Premises) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am concerned that a substantial number of tenancies will expire under the present arrangements between the passing of the Bill and 1992 when the Bill bites and will cover them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.86.5", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I look forward to our debates on the amendments which can be changed if there is some problem with the wording. There is nothing to stop the promoters or the hon. Member for Northfield from tabling an amendment to the new clauses. There is no need to play with words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.86.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "started to deploy the financial argument the look of horror on the face of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Dame J. Knight)—I regret that she has left the Chamber, but this is not an attack on her —was telling. She also has constituents who are involved. There is evidence from some reports that I have read that she has started seriously to question the financial arrangements of the race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "uit to ascertain whether they would welcome the race. If, as happened when the hon. Lady undertook her original canvass, a substantial number of constituents supported the event, then I would have no objection—bar one. Try as I might, I could not evolve a road system that is as attractive and offers the hotel accommodation that the existing road race circuit offers, which brings dynamic vibration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "se that a good reason for not considering the Bill any further would be to allow my right hon. Friend the Member for Small Heath to be present amongst us. I believe that if he could listen to the arguments of my hon. Friends the Members for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) and for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms. Short) he would have good reason to reconsider his support for the Bill on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Rooker) and for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms. Short) he would have good reason to reconsider his support for the Bill on that occasion— [Interruption.] Time is passing, and the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) has been notable for his absence throughout most of our proceedings this evening, so I think that he owes it to himself to listen to our arguments, especially since", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-26", "file": "debates1990-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a4b158271a58c86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ield has a special line to the people who support the Bill in the city council. The hon. Member for Northfield was able to say categorically that there was no breach of parliamentary privilege, and I have yet to see him withdraw that statement, as I have yet to hear him explain the position on a number of the factors which affect the Bill. The hon. Member for Yardley—I cannot leave him alone—said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-26a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.134.2", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In fact, the real price of electricity has gone down in recent years. Since privatisation, the real price of gas has gone down and since privatisation the real price of British Telecom services has gone down, so I am really rather proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.134.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Having last week blamed Conservative councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Having last week blamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The maximum amount spent on education does not mean the very best education. We learned that many years ago. The standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.137.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Flooding (North Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (International; Co-operation) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "leman rather slapped me down, which concerned me in view of what was said the previous night—I have the transcript with me—in a BBC \"Newsnight\" Programme. Hon Members who are familiar with that programme will be aware that each programme involves an in-depth investigation of a particular topic. In the programme to which I refer, the laundering of drugs money and the various ramifications involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (International; Co-operation) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "s problem are saying that. One can track it and trace it and see the hot spots in our country. In the 1920s and the 1930s, between the wars, like most fashions it was high society and the upper classes in this country who were the drug addicts and who were involved in drug taking. The problem was small. The Home Secretary shakes his head. Yet he used to have some claim to being a social scientist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-27", "file": "debates1990-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8ff6993738967e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Redbridge London Borough Council Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "yours.\" That applies particularly to Spain, Greece and Italy. It applies to the Irish farmers, who, in their lovely slap-happy Irish way, keep hurling the same cattle and pigs back and forth over the border and collecting money every time they pass go. It must be absolutely splendid for them. I love the Irish, and I think that if peace ever came to Ireland I would have a farm on the border myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-27a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The administrative costs of the transitional scheme are being reimbursed to local authorities, as the hon. Gentleman knows. As for his remark about the roof tax, if he does not accept criticisms from Conservative Members or from the rest of Scotland, he might at least listen to the Labour party in Paisley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.265.8", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "May I declare an interest, Mr. Speaker, as I am wearing a free pair of trousers in the comrie and strathearn tartan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.265.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am not gaining thousands of pounds. The whole premise of the hon. Gentleman's question is false—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ajority of people in Scotland are paying our legal taxes. The hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan ) is refusing to pay his lawful taxes and, as a result, is adding to the burden on his constituents, who will be obliged to pay the sums that the hon. Gentleman is refusing to pay. If the hon. Gentleman is a man of integrity, he should not expect his constituents to pay his taxes on his behalf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the hon. Gentleman to be patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question No. 11—Sir David Steel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.6", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "First, more than 1 million people in Scotland at present receive rebates. That is extremely important and it is especially designed to help those who are not well off. I should point out to the hon. Gentleman who feels so strongly about this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.8", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Evidently the hon. Gentleman does not want to hear the reply. The most resented aspects of warrant sales were removed by the 1987 Act—anonymity has been brought in, certain exemptions have been made to the range of goods affected, and redemption has also been introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.8", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "as been brought in, certain exemptions have been made to the range of goods affected, and redemption has also been introduced— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is shouting from a sedentary position, but under the community charge virtually everyone makes a contribution to local authority services. It was an absurd system to assume a link between services used and the size of a person's property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.268.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is this not just an extension of Question Time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Alan Clark)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a Tory Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Alan Clark)", "preceding_text": "itain was a very close-run thing. There were two points when the attrition rate of aircraft and skilled aircrew was such that our survival—and thus the survival of western democracy as a whole—was in jeopardy. That crisis can be directly linked to the neglect—founded in optimism, in parsimony and in political cowardice, for some of which the House of Commons cannot escape blame—of the early 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-02-28", "file": "debates1990-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "93ef8c67b76ad015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The Minister says that there will be some equation about payment and that service men would not pay more than £1 above the average. Surely the Minister accepts that the poll tax is substantial and will average well over £200.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-02-28a.355.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Longden worked for Defence Systems, which has links with MI5 and MI6. Rupert Murdoch's minions paid £45,000 to bribe her to commit perjury and to concoct a smear story for the News of the World. Therefore, can we have a wide-ranging debate on the security aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.417.5", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Conservatives only panic in a crisis. The Secretary of State has given us no answers this afternoon. However, he has had the brass neck to ask us what we shall do when his Government have had 10 years of office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "verwhelmed. How extremely touching! Tears are coming to my eyes already that he should ask after my health. Labour Members must be in trouble if they do that. The Labour party cannot attack the community charge unless they spell out what the alternative is. Labour Members escaped having to do that in Committee by saying, \"We are not here to debate our alternative; we are here to debate your Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "t yet. The hon. Gentleman must be patient. I shall give way to him later. I have just embarked on this subject. I shall gladly give way to him once I have made my principal point. Perhaps he will just listen for a moment. The high county council community charge is the biggest man-made disaster imposed on my constituents by the Labour party. The leader of the Labour group or' Clwyd county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "hould talk to the TUC. The TUC will tell him what is going on in Wales. We are outperforming the United Kingdom economy. Nowhere is that more evident than in the constituency of Alyn and Deeside where my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is doing more than the hon. Gentleman ever did when he was a Minister. We never hear the good news from the hon. Gentleman. In Alyn and Deeside since 1988—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "abour Members have said that they do not like the rating system. They have acknowledged that it is unfair. It is indeed unfair that an old lady living on her own and using the local authority's services once should have to pay the same in rates as three or four adults who live in the house next door, who use the services three or four times as much and who have three or four votes. Surely that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.440.7", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. A married man with two children younger than 11 years who earns £157 per week will be eligible for a rebate on his community charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.440.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Datydd Elis Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Datydd Elis Thomas", "preceding_text": " to wilt a little, so I shall not speak for too long. I see that some hon. Members have been seeking sustenance for their daffodils and that some hon. Members, including the Minister of State, have leeks which were never alive in any case—as far as I am aware, anyway. Perhaps it came back with him from Brussels yesterday when he was on one of his many missions—in which case it is a Brussel sprout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "ber for Clwyd, North-West or to the Association of District Councils, will he listen to them? The Secretary of State tried to avoid the issue today. My hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) rightly nailed him for his responsibility for bringing the poll tax to Wales. The Secretary of State also tried to avoid the challenge to say whether he would cap any local authority in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly has not appreciated all the facts that I have put to the House, which I now invite him to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-01", "file": "debates1990-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d1a872d2d7bbef0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "South and Penarth, that Opposition Members support local authorities that are levying community charges higher than the Government believe are justified, and in spite of the 8·6 per cent. increase in aggregate external finance. That is the total of revenue support grant, national non-domestic rates and the most specific grants. Despite all of that being made available to local authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-01a.482.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-02", "file": "debates1990-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ad3e3356e4120528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-02a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning Permission (Demolition of Houses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "dly the minority—came from nowhere to filibuster. You have a right to make sure that the procedures of the House under Standing Order No. 35 are carried out. Otherwise, people out there, especially the relatives of those who have died of cancer from serving in the Pacific and the ex-service men who are dying will wonder what is wrong with the procedures of the House of Commons. You have a duty to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-02a.544.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-05", "file": "debates1990-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7f156cf8c1e0649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-05a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Midland Metro Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills (Meridan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills (Meridan)", "preceding_text": ". The other point that has been made about the denial of locus standi is that those groups are not truly representative of the people affected. I understand that about 90 per cent. of the residents concerned are paid-up members of one of those small groups. As the local Member of Parliament, I have experienced 200 people arriving at my advice bureau when I was expecting only 15 or 20 in that area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-05a.653.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.724.8", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was very glad that the \"Today\" programme this morning virtually confirmed the figure that I gave the House on 20 February, when I pointed out that if local authorities were going to spend up to about £3 billion over what the Government considered reasonable, that would be equivalent to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.724.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bye, bye!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is rank hypocrisy for Left-wing Harlow council to try to pin the blame for a £425 community charge on the Government, when it is the highest-spending local authority in the country? Does she accept——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that although there will be some stormy weather over the next few weeks, eventually the public will realise that the community charge is there to protect them against high-spending authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Lowlands Airports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "e Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 to discuss a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the announcement today by the Secretary of State for Transport of a review of Scottish lowlands airports policy. The House should debate the matter, because it has serious implications not just for air transport in Scotland but for employment in Ayrshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Lowlands Airports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "whose constituencies are under the flight paths at Glasgow and Edinburgh, like my hon. Friend the Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Mr. Worthington), will wish to express their concern about the environmental impact and the increased dangers that extra flights will pose at both those airports. It has also emerged today that, in Glasgow, check-in facilities for transatlantic flights will have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The exchange rate that is best at the time for British industry. Does the hon. Gentleman expect the Chancellor to tell him what the right exchange rate is at the moment? I am talking about a negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "The last thing I want to do is spend more time with my family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "at he does not like it, but he might as well take it. Those of us who have been here for a few years remember Lord Callaghan telling us in 1960: I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has asked me to tell people in eastern Europe, they would be rather shocked. It is likely that the rates paid to people in Scotland who are on benefit are higher than the industrial wages paid to many people in Poland. The hon. Gentleman has no idea how lucky he is. Unemployment in Scotland is very low compared with previous figures, simply because so many new jobs have been created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "nd every few months so that he can clear up all the messes left by his colleagues. That applies equally to his hon. Friends the Members for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) and for Dagenham. Perhaps the shadow Chancellor will tell us what has happened to the payroll tax. He should know. Is it still Labour party policy? Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman please tell us the solutions?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " the shadow Chancellor will tell us what has happened to the payroll tax. He should know. Is it still Labour party policy? Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman please tell us the solutions?—[HON. MEMBERS. \"Come on.\"] The Opposition are long on diagnosis, but short on prognosis. I have only one question. Have the measures outlined in Labour's policy review been ditched. or not? Just yes or no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "l logic, but we must understand the consequence. There is an outflow of capital. We lose exports because goods are produced locally. We lose jobs because they are not needed here. We probably lose the profits too, because, unfortunately, British companies do not do what the Government say they should do. They do not repatriate profits to provide the invisibles to pay for the deficit on real goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Jaguar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "of jobs which, if they had been changed and diversified when the economy was prosperous and growing, would have resulted in much less pain and much more benefit. It took the Conservative party to face up to that, and it is because the Opposition have learnt nothing that they must remain what the hon. Gentleman made them today—an eloquent, uproarious joke, fit for opposition but not for government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "ng the deficit. Every home owner, small business man and large company is funding the deficit. It is not a negative or neutral term; it means that we are paying through the nose because of the Government's economic failure, despite the best efforts of individuals to keep the economy, their business or livelihood alive and to keep a roof over their heads. It appears that some people are doing well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "mum wage to some 4 million employees? If he does not know where to find that, it is on page 30 and 31 of the policy review. Does the Labour party intend to have a national investment bank? Does it intend to have a network of regional banks? Does it intend to encourage pension trustees by changing the law to take account of the interests of regional economy? What are the answers to those questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Waddington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Waddington)", "preceding_text": "t all the powers that require renewal should continue in force for another year. I do so because of the continuing threat of terrorism to the lives and property of the people of this country. All right hon. and hon. Members can rest assured that the Government have no intention of weakening our resolve to meet that threat or of ceasing to provide the security forces with the powers that they need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.819.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that such orders had been rarely used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that such orders had been rarely used. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] To the extent that they have been used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Home Secretary on introducing the measure and in particular on introducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has just given an excellent example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has just given an excellent example—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am trying to do so. I have just been advised by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General that an appeal is outstanding and that, therefore, the case is sub judice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "xcellent example—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am trying to do so. I have just been advised by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General that an appeal is outstanding and that, therefore, the case is sub judice— [Interruption.] No. That is a reference to the situation in the past. I am advised by my right hon. and learned Friend that I cannot go further, any more than I could, in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman forgive me if I do not give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " to the length of detention in this country under the PTA, as opposed to that in other countries. We have heard a good deal about seven days' detention without charge being draconian. In Belgium, detention by the police lasts for 24 hours, and is followed by indefinite detention without charges while investigations are carried out. In France, suspects can be detained for two years without charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-06", "file": "debates1990-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "9bda353110c3304b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "r wish to allow detention for up to seven days to deal with the most serious terrorist threat in western Europe. The right hon. Gentleman asked what was our justification for the exclusion order provision in the PTA. The power of exclusion is intended for those whom the Secretary of State is satisfied have been involved in some form of terrorist activity, but who cannot be prosecuted successfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-06a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that, as one of the international observers, I can confirm the view of almost all the observers that the elections were conducted fairly, to the great credit of the Sandinista Government? President Ortega has not only gracefully accepted the result", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that, as one of the international observers, I can confirm the view of almost all the observers that the elections were conducted fairly, to the great credit of the Sandinista Government? President Ortega has not only gracefully accepted the result [Interruption.] I hope that Conservative Members will do the same at the next election here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "vers that the elections were conducted fairly, to the great credit of the Sandinista Government? President Ortega has not only gracefully accepted the result [Interruption.] I hope that Conservative Members will do the same at the next election here— [Interruption.] Ortega is co-operating in the orderly transfer of power, which is now jeopardised by the failure of the Contra terrorists to disband.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.867.6", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " are now leaving freely to go to live in Israel? As Israel, unlike nearly all its neighbours, labours under the advantage of being a democracy and thus cannot direct its citizens, however new, on where they may or may not live, does the Minister accept that fewer than 0·5 per cent. have settled outside the green line, which nails the propaganda lie that there is a danger of mass settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.867.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the Somoza regime was overthrown because Mrs. Chamorro's husband was killed and that the Sandinistas were totally in association with her and others who were then fighting the dictatorship? Will he also bear in mind that in 1984—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.871.5", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "There was a general election in 1984 which was won by the Sandinistas. They won that election fairly. Now, having lost the latest election, they have handed over power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "House of Fraser", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State explain why the Government insisted on clearing the deal in such a remarkably short time? Why did they not investigate the allegations in more depth? Why did they not fulfil their responsibility to protect the public interest, and why did the Secretary of State's statement not acknowledge the final responsibility that his Department must carry for clearing a fraudulent takeover?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "House of Fraser", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, for whom I have the greatest respect, is as astute at spotting a can of worms as anybody, and I shall rely on him coming to a decision on the report. He will forgive me if I remain neutral in my comments on what he has said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "House of Fraser", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I cannot add to what I have said about that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "House of Fraser", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that chapter 25 of the report reveals that non-corporate offerers are not required under the takeover panel code to provide information about their financial background?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "House of Fraser", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that chapter 25 of the report reveals that non-corporate offerers are not required under the takeover panel code to provide information about their financial background? [Interruption.] t is what it says in the report. If the argument is about the takeover of Harrods, who is the greater villain: Muhammad Ali—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.883.10", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I have never complained about not being called. I have complained, and will continue to complain, that you, Mr. Speaker, do not listen to Members who raise points of order but intervene before they have finished. Is it not about time that you listened to hon. Members making points of order before you move in and stop them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.883.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Blasphemy (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "in other common law offences; and for connected purposes. Disagreement about religion has a long and extremely dismal history. Michelangelo's religious art in the Sistine chapel, when he painted frescoes for one pope, was painted out after his death on the orders of another incumbent in that office. In the 15th century, Joan of Arc was burnt at Rouen. John Huss was burned as a heretic in Bohemia —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "rounds, we bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to our duties, whether on the Back or the Front Benches, and that is important. As one hon. Member said in 1974, God forbid that we ever get 635 full-time Members of this House. It would be a political monastery…This place benefits greatly from people with outside financial interests.\" —[ Official Report , 22 May 1974; Vol. 874, c. 432.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.894.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "Although the House may not be a court of law, does the hon. Gentleman agree that an hon. Member's reputation could be ruined as a result of the decision of the Select Committee? If an accusation is laid against anyone, it is only natural justice for him to be entitled to invite witnesses on his behalf and also to cross-examine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "e appropriate Standing Order, so that when a Member is named, and the House has voted to suspend that Member from the service of the House, that will be the normal procedure. There is a strong case for tightening up the rules. My impression is that comparatively few hon. Members have read them, but those who have would agree that they are quite tight already, including on the point of expectation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I shall not follow the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn). It is a pity that we could not have called for the question to be put when my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) completed his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "e-scale fraud or child abuse in a court of law, but it would not be justifiable for the errors of judgment of which he has been found guilty. Although the Committee on Members' Interests is not a court of law, outside this place it is perceived to be one. The dire consequences that will follow a decision adverse to my hon. Friend's interests will as assuredly follow as if this were a court of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "With either or both, how happy should I be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.936.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"A clype?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " wish to appear on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester. I am not willing to judge whether his admissions or his follies were right or wrong. As someone who believes in the concept of justice, and in the House of Commons, I am horrified that we should adopt a procedure whose nature is contrary to justice. We have set up a Committee because of what in Scotland would be called a clype—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-07", "file": "debates1990-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2578d913dc4294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "t is perfectly proper for this House to take account of the record of my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester, but the question remains—to what judgment are we to come? The dilemma was identified most correctly by my right hon. Friend the Member for Shropshire, North, and I shall close my remarks by returning to that question. I put the question before the House not in any sense as a prosecutor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-07a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " are coming out because animals ate contaminated feed. The second issue is whether the Southwood committee was exactly right in the number of cases that it predicted. The growth that it predicted was exactly right. That is what we are seeing. The committee predicted that the growth would be exactly as we have seen it; its figures were merely slightly lower than the ones that we have at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "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 answered a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s. Any question on that would therefore lie with my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry said yesterday, he has answered the questions about the report in full, and I must rest upon them. I have not, however, answered the right hon. Gentleman's first comment, that he agreed with me fully about condemning Militant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": "rose——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1000.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime M inister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1003.14", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "lity —to come to the House and bring with him his 12 Cabinet colleagues, of whom the Leader of the House is one, who represent constituencies in Conservative counties, where in every case the poll tax is hugely in excess of the Government's recommended level? Why do the Government blame Labour councils when, under Cabinet Ministers' very noses, these huge poll tax figures are being set? Can I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1003.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " excess of the Government's recommended level? Why do the Government blame Labour councils when, under Cabinet Ministers' very noses, these huge poll tax figures are being set? Can I say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] May I ask the Leader of the House to explain why in Tandridge, in his own constituency of Surrey, East, which has a Tory council, the poll tax is £79 above the Government's recommended level?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1003.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House give further consideration to the possibility of a debate on the poll tax? Does he recognise the growing anger and resentment that is felt all over the country and is reflected in our postbags? I entirely repudiate any violence perpetrated by a few outsiders; Opposition Members have no time for violence of any kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric F. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric F. Heifer", "preceding_text": "ally opposed to the use of violence, but the chairman of the Tory party, the right hon. Member for Mole Valley (Mr. Baker), has suggested that the violence is the result of the activities of Militant Tendency. Some of us have had, unfortunately, to live with members of Militant Tendency for many years. However, whatever criticism we may make of them, we have never found that they support violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The Minister read his intervention, prepared by civil servants, amazingly well, and I congratulate him on his diction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "cattle slaughtered at abattoirs so that we can see how serious the problem is. The Minister may not regard it as serious, but the majority of British farmers and a large number of consumers do, and the Opposition believe that the Minister should be more responsible about this. I do not criticise the Government only for inaction. Problems have been made worse by cuts in staff made by the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "hers on how to make political speeches. I am notifying the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of what happened this evening and I leave the matter with him in the expectation that he will put his house in order. I warn him that if he does not do so, I shall refer the matter to the House authorities with the intention of making sure that it does not happen again. I turn to the Bill itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "t grant, he and other Opposition Members asked whether that was new money. When, in winding up the debate, my hon. Friend the Minister made it quite clear that it was new money, the hon. Gentleman sought to get even greater promises and commitments from the Government. The hon. Gentleman asked why we expressed the issue in the Bill in that way. That is the normal way in which we always express it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-08", "file": "debates1990-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "cddf6e04634555c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "We have made no calculations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-08a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-09", "file": "debates1990-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c47035a459227edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-09a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "I understand that Mr. Eavis has a good relationship with the local police, which is why he gets a licence year after year, but every year he faces charges for technical infringements of the licence such as the ones I have described. The police do not object to granting his licence in subsequent years. There is a distinction between that sort of technical offence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-09a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-09", "file": "debates1990-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c47035a459227edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-09a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "id Burton, the environmental health manager of Mendip district council, who monitors the Glastonbury festival. He feels that the existing penalties are realistic for violations of the conditions of licences, and he is working at grassroots level. The Bill seems to be unnecessarily heavy handed on licence violations and could have the undesirable effect of making certain venues no longer available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-09a.1138.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-12", "file": "debates1990-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddab1b5b51cd36df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because BREL was privatised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I should advise my hon. Friend that the shortage does not arise from a shortage of money. It is because deliveries of new rolling stock are already 40 weeks late, which means that rolling stock that should have been replaced is still being used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.9.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-12", "file": "debates1990-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddab1b5b51cd36df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "estigation. They instigated that investigation to secure the best chance of investigating matters with a view to prosecuting, if appropriate, to a successful conclusion. That was why they established the police investigation and why they asked the Secretary of State to withhold publication of the report. Of course I agree that the same law should apply to the Al-Fayed brothers as to everyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.14.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-12", "file": "debates1990-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddab1b5b51cd36df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Terrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland speak at by-elections. Whenever we have a by-election in Wales or Scotland, the most natural thing in the world is for the Secretary of State to speak in support of the Conservative candidate. Mercifully that which we have failed to do in Northern Ireland, my right hon. Friend and even other Ministers will shortly have to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-12", "file": "debates1990-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddab1b5b51cd36df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Terrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "The Conservative associations in Northern Ireland are anticipating a forthcoming change in Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-12", "file": "debates1990-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddab1b5b51cd36df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "eir heads, because, in common with many others, the IRA decided that the buildings of Sion Mills should be blasted to the ground. Those elderly people have been left without one stick of furniture, without one piece of bed clothing and, other than the clothes on their back, they have absolutely nothing. We are supposed to discuss agriculture, but what about the farmer who was doing his day's work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-12", "file": "debates1990-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddab1b5b51cd36df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "n speaking about the tragedies in his constituency. He said that words could kill. One of the problems in Northern Ireland is that words are certainly misunderstood. When a new Secretary of State is appointed to Northern Ireland, he is given a brainwashing session for 10 days and educated on what words to use or not to use. Only after those 10 days is he released to the public in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-12a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right. If anyone wants evidence of the fact that Labour is the striker's friend, as it always has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.150.9", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "We in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.150.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.150.11", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend needs reassurance, which I doubt, may I assure her that last Sunday's press reports of polls and plots against her were absolute poppycock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.150.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Political Parties (Income and Expenditure) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ted in the House of Commons to publish reports and accounts. I am proposing in my Bill some limited measures, including a limit on the amount of money that a political party can spend nationally during a general election campaign. That must make sense when there has been, rightly, a tight restriction on what may be spent in a constituency on behalf of a candidate. We are all aware of what happens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Political Parties (Income and Expenditure) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "eanuts—£200 or £400—but about rather larger sums. In 1988 alone Taylor Woodrow donated £111,000, P and O Steamship Company £100,000, Allied Lyons £95,000, United Biscuits £85,000, Hanson Trust £80,000, Whitbread £76,000, Consolidated Gold Fields £75,000, Trusthouse Forte £61,000, Hambros £61,000, British Airways—once privatised—£50,000, General Electric Company £50,000 and Trafalgar House £40,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Political Parties (Income and Expenditure) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": " always done that. However, that is not the case with the Conservative party. Labour Members are not the only people who say that. I had never heard of the river companies until the story appeared in a national newspaper. They are organisations that were set up after the war to secrete funds from companies to the Tory party. Peter Hardy is a prominent dissident and a member of the Charter movement", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.194.6", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "y agree. We shall expect the new body to strengthen links with education authorities and schools. When I was Education Minister I was particularly conscious of the great work that is being done in our schools, particularly on drugs and AIDS, and all credit is due to the education authorities involved in that. The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) asked me about independence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "er many different standards. There are those that offer poor standards and there are those that offer all sorts of luxurious standards. My family live in west Sussex, so I recently had the opportunity to visit one of the cream of the nursing homes on the south coast, the costa geriatrica. It was a wonderful home with superb standards. All its residents were offered a glass of sherry every morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "at have written to hon. Members on both sides of the House, and it is clear that by April 1991 thousands of elderly people will have faced' eviction from residential care homes because they cannot afford the fees. The Secretary of State referred to safeguards. What safeguards can he offer to the House? What comfort can he offer to people who face the prospect of eviction within the next 12 months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "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": "was going to address the points about my new clause later, but I will deal with them now. I am aware that the new clause is not a thing of beauty or great perfection. In my many years in this House moving from the Back Benches behind the Government to the Opposition Front Bench, I have never produced an amendment or new clause that did not turn out to be technically deficient in 15 different ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": "I have followed the arguments of the last half or three quarters of an hour with care and understood every question that has been asked, but I have not understood one answer. Am I to understand—perhaps either the hon. Gentleman or someone else could tell me—that there is a danger, a probability or a certainty that some old people will be removed from their present accommodation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": "ree quarters of an hour with care and understood every question that has been asked, but I have not understood one answer. Am I to understand—perhaps either the hon. Gentleman or someone else could tell me—that there is a danger, a probability or a certainty that some old people will be removed from their present accommodation? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"] If that be the case, how can anybody support it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.258.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " of State are doing to make the NHS better. I accept that, as the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) said, we have good area health boards and good general hospitals. But that does not mean that that is the case throughout the country. Certainly it is not the case throughout the United Kingdom. I hear stories about hospitals in urban areas where a great deal needs to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman could have spent a few hours in Standing Committee to help balance things up. I will not rise to his challenge about the Select Committee. He knows as well as I that all the Select Committee's reports over the umpteen years produced singularly few results, particularly the report on the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ndering, ensuring that the standards of that service are maintained\". I accept that, but carrying out investigations from time to time to ensure that such standards are being met is another matter. Those are the words of paragraph (b) Paragraph (a) says that the commission's responsibilities will include establishing the standards that shall be met by Health Boards in carrying out its functions\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many? Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "at happened at his meeting, but he said that there was as much concern now as there was at the beginning. That cannot be true, because even the BMA has withdrawn the allegation that it made that patients would not be able to get the drugs that they required because of the proposals. To date I have had 28 expressions of interest from doctors who wish to become budget holders. A number of hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "he building of the Borders district general hospital. I mention that only as a means of getting back to a point made by the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker)—the hospital building programme. It is the only point on which I shall take the hon. Gentleman up. It is the very nature of politics that progammes started under one Government are continued and completed by a succeeding Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ho have waxed eloquent about the standard of health care in their constituencies. I cannot do the same, but that is not a criticism of the doctors, consultants, nurses or anybody else who works in Falkirk royal infirmary. The problem is the net result of the constant transfer of facilities and services from Falkirk royal infirmary to sustain Stirling royal infirmary in the Minister's constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ies in rural areas. I am happy to assure my hon. Friend that we are keen for progress to be made in that regard. Unlike Opposition Members, we feel that, if it is possible to provide them more cheaply by involving the private sector, it should be done: we have no ideological baggage to prevent us from acting in the interests of patients. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Rutherglen (Mr. McAvoy) smiles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "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": "I have been listening to this farrago for long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the charity out of which he has had a good living for years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am terribly sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but I have to say that I responded to his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "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": "ing review? What will happen if their hospital decides to form a self-governing trust? What will be done about appeals? To whom, for that matter, would they appeal? Not only do the staff find themselves outwith national negotiating systems, but they find that they have no absolute right to collective bargaining. A self-governing trust has no obligation to recognise even the existing health unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "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": " the statements that he made, I stray out of order, could you guide me, Mr. Deputy Speaker? Since the Secretary of State has raised this point, let me respond to it. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that cash limits were introduced by the last Labour Government, to which I can make two responses. First, I pray in aid my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield (Mr. McCartney) and invite him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "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": "We can answer that succinctly. The Bill provides for £10 million to be paid to members of the new health authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " intriguing from beginning to end. I concede that we had a reasonably civilised discussion in Standing Committee. We completed our clause-by-clause analysis of the entire Bill—the National Health Service reforms and the care in the community clauses—within a reasonably fast time, without having to have any late-night sittings or a timetable and, for much of the time, without excessive controversy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " was underlined to me that the deph of opposition in the Labour party to many of our proposals was not quite as great as one might have thought, given the froth outside. After a pretty easy ride in Committee, in terms of the qualitative arguments and the length of time that they took, when we have come to the Floor of the House, we have suddenly turned to a long filibuster on the first NHS clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "d to show that his descriptions of the present service were pretty rum too. There has been reference to the professional standards required in the National Health Service. It is not the case that self-governing trusts will be allowed to set their own qualifications and professional standards—a serious point made by the hon. Member for Livingston. He did not attend all the proceedings in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s block of contracts will remain free to do so. Under those arrangements, the DHAs will be much more responsive to GPs. I am sure that my reforms are building up the role and influence of general practitioners in the NHS like never before. When we ask the DHAs to take on this task, we are discovering that they are having to get to know their GPs for the first time. Many DHAs do not know their GPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "doctors and, as soon as we proceed and I am able to answer that question, I shall reveal to the hon. Gentleman that the vast majority of GPs who are eligible to be fund holders and to have a practice budget have expressed an interest in doing so, because GPs see what I see—that they will have a much more influential role in placing contracts than British general practitioners have ever had before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "is a jewel in the provision of health care. But because it has been so efficient the Secretary of State cannot kid me that he is not making a decision on that authority until later in the year. He has already made his decision about Montagu hospital because of political dogma. It is a tragedy and it makes a mockery of his statement. I am not a gambling man, but I will bet the Conservative Whip £l—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " general or specific direction that hon. Members and their delegations want, they believe that the Minister has listened to the health authority. Any Minister from any Government has to listen to the facts of the case. He has to operate within certain guidelines. The guidelines are the resources available to the region and the district. The consultation procedure is not a sham. A balloting system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.411.7", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.411.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "erstood it had he done so last night to save his hon. Friends from a night out of their beds. But now that we have gone throught the night and we are feeling enthusiastic about a day's debate in prime time, an explanation is required. We were just getting into our stride and beginning to enjoy ourselves. Before the Whip moved the motion, we were about to debate a new clause relating to GPs' lists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "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": "h the doctors. There would be merit in pressing on with the debate, at least until we reached the new clause dealing with junior doctors' hours, so that the House could address that important and serious issue in the same state of fatigue and sleep deprivation in which junior doctors are asked to carry out operations in our hospitals. Next, we shall come to the new clause on competitive tendering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "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": "r there is no advantage to us in adjourning the House at this stage—he had decided not to pursue the closure. As to new clause 9 and competitive tendering, one of the points that we wish to examine is the remarkable casualisation of the hours that goes with competitive tendering, and the frequently deeply unsocial hours that are associated with private contractors, who have no regard to retaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. friend agree that it is extraordinary for the Secretary of State to accuse those who took part in the debate on new clause 1 of mere filibustering? He should remember some of the many considered, constructive and heartfelt contributions from Conservative Members. Is he smearing them with his accusations of filibustering?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.430.5", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I said that, after we finished the first debate on new clause 1, we started to filibuster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, Welsh Ministers have been represented on both Front Benches during the debate. There have been several separate debates on Wales, too. On the appointment in due course of the new Secretary of State for Wales, I am sure that all my hon. Friends wish the new Secretary of State for Wales every success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.446.11", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I raised an issue earlier. I put it to you that you are now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.446.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "Anybody who attended the 100-hour-long Committee, as I did, would have to accept that our debates were infinitely superior in terms of point and conciseness than the farce of the past 12 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No. Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "At the end of this 23-hour marathon session of the House I am pleased to have the opportunity to present a petition that has been collected by my constituents in the Wavertree, Edge Hill and Smithtown areas of the city of Liverpool. I could mention many of the streets included in the petition, but I am sure that the House would not wish to be detained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gynaecology (Privacy)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the debate is to restore to women the dignity and privacy on gynaecological matters that the new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-13", "file": "debates1990-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "093999316ae445ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gynaecology (Privacy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should sit down, as we are in the middle of the Adjournment debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-13a.462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.465.6", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the public concern over his failure to reappoint Esther Rantzen to the National Consumer Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.465.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend voices an anxiety which I know is shared by many. It is legitimate when considerable sums of taxpayers' money—£9 million or £10 million per year—is given to an organisation such as the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux. I think and hope that those involved with the work of CABs are aware of the worries that my hon. Friend has expressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Extradition Decision (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I have already registered our disappointment in the outcome of the case. However, we should respect the independence of the Irish judiciary in the same way that we would expect them to respect ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.485.5", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Extradition Decision (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Northern Ireland prison service?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": " Court, were any steps taken to try to contradict the evidence produced to support the appellants who based their case on Chief Justice Hutton's decision in the Pettigrew case? Was evidence produced to show how much the Irish prison service has improved over the years? Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to the Irish prison service for doing a job that none of us would undertake willingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.485.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.496.7", "colnum": "496", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e a timetable, we concede to the Opposition the whip hand when it comes to deciding how much time is devoted to each part. As the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) said this morning, the Opposition were keen to devote four days to the community care part of the Bill. We reached the end of the Committee stage in a highly satisfactory fashion, but thereafter something appears to have gone wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.496.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "y those who should have known better. Nevertheless, this is a serious matter. The Bill affects all of our constituents and contains controversial elements that demand careful and detailed scrutiny. Our debate this evening calls into question not only the Bill but how we deal with all legislation. It is time seriously to consider that aspect. We let down our contituents by our perfunctory approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": " mine—is saying, because I am a member of the Committee that is considering the Broadcasting Bill. How much attention did members of the Committee that considered this Bill pay to the allocation of time to consider questions that might arise? We are often in danger of spending too much time waffling in Committee when we should be concentrating on important questions, some of which are arising now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "preceding_text": "Exchequer, not the Prime Minister, should run the Government. That fact remains; it was ever thus. I have to register my disquiet at the timetable motion which was moved by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Health. Visiting Parliament here at the beginning of the 18th century, Peter the Great—incidentally, he introduced the poll tax in Russia in 1717, but it did not last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "preceding_text": "ook) knows precisely why he has chosen his tactics on Report. The hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay) talked of 60 hours being two and a half days, but he knows that that was a delusion. He knows what parliamentary days are because he is a very experienced Member. He should not deny that there were discussions between the Front Benches on how long the Report stage should last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "If I respond briefly to the remarks of the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman), hon. Members may be able to confine their remarks later and thereby help to deal with the shortage of time. I have considerable respect for the hon. Lady as a political opponent, but at times I find her political style startling, even somewhat unpleasant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "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": "Publicity was attracted to the case to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman referred, my having raised it in the House. I am afraid that the doctor withdrew the comments that he had originally made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The distinction is that the junior pilot is flying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "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": "Will my hon. Friend accept a fact from a former professional pilot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.581.7", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "n possibly advocate such wage levels, yet people do. That is why we took such strong exception to the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Stirling. Before coming to Parliament, he spent his life pushing these appalling contracts that led to low-income families throughout the country suffering. They could not afford to go to work and earn as little money as they were earning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.581.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.581.7", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not cringeing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " people do. That is why we took such strong exception to the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Stirling. Before coming to Parliament, he spent his life pushing these appalling contracts that led to low-income families throughout the country suffering. They could not afford to go to work and earn as little money as they were earning. [Interruption.] Hon. Members can cringe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.581.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I have absolutely no intention of giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.588.5", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Of course, some small companies are involved. No one is suggesting that the multinationals have an absolute monopoly. What I suggest, though, is that 81 per cent. of catering is in the hands of two or three major companies and that they are nearly all contributors to Tory party funds. That is the first sleaze factor. The only point that I want to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.588.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-14", "file": "debates1990-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "17ddc5250619e9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ts because they are the only providers of a service in that region. What effects will there be on people having to travel, as that clearly will be a logical component of the internal market, and on the fact that the Secretary of State will view a local monopoly in an entirely different way from patients because many patients in rural areas have to travel significant distances to receive treatment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-14a.604.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.652.5", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "t is that the Government have no chance of getting inflation down to zero per cent., even though that was the stated aim of the previous Chancellor of the Exchequer. It will not fall significantly from the present rate of inflation. Many of my constituents are suffering great hardship because of the Chancellor's and the Government's policies. Many of them are facing hardship because of increases——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.652.9", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.652.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.652.14", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that all three local authorities in the Mid-Staffordshire constituency—two of which are Conservative—have set poll tax levels —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.652.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I recognise my hon. Friend's point, which continues a fruitful discussion that we had at a recent Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.655.7", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question No. 8 Mr. Cunliffe? Question No. 9. Mr. John P. Smith?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.655.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary is adept at talking about tax cuts, but he talks only about income tax, when the total tax take has increased under the 11 years of this Government. As a result, total tax as a percentage of GDP is higher than it was when the Labour party was in office. If the Tory party is not to be permanently saddled with the tag of being the tax, tax and tax again party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.658.9", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has the pleasure of dining with the CBI in May, he will be able to remind it that in the 1980s we had low inflation compared with the 1970s. The highest rate of inflation under this Government is lower than the best achieved by Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.658.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.658.9", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "ation under this Government is lower than the best achieved by Labour— [Interruption.] The underlying strength of the British economy is as great as that of most other countries in the western world. Investment has been increasing by 40 per cent. in the past three years. Profitability has hit record levels. Manufacturing productivity in Britain in the 1980s has been higher than for 20 or 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.658.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.659.9", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is trying to entice me crown an incredibly attractive path, but I shall resist the temptation. As he knows, the question is not when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.659.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.661.9", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": "Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission, in rejecting the proposals for new labour laws as part of the social charter of the European Community? Does not that show that she was right in being the first to speak up against these damaging proposals, despite the fact that they were being put forward so enthusiastically by the Labour party and its Socialist allies? Is not it a shame that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.661.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " Iraq earlier today, may I make it clear that the Opposition will support the Government in taking the strongest possible action, consistent with international law, in response to the barbaric execution of Mr. Farzad Bazoft? We are, of course, aware of the importance of doing all that we can to protect Mrs. Daphne Parish and Mr. Ian Richter. The Government, by their actions as well as their words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.662.9", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister know that she recently scored 66 per cent. in a popularity poll in Lithuania—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.662.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Mr. Farzad Bazoft (Execution)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement about Mr. Bazoft. The Iraqis executed Mr. Farzad Bazoft this morning. Her Majesty's consul-general visited him early this morning. I can recall no recent case in which such a strong and unanimous view was expressed across the world in favour of clemency. That view has been ignored. The House will wish to express its total revulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "And indeed, as my hon. Friend might have said, the hon. Member in question, who is unfortunately no longer in the Chamber, was photographed with members of the Militant anti-community charge protesters. That was disgraceful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "on the poll tax and the transitional provisions, as requested by his right hon. and hon. Friends, it will become increasingly apparent that, if all the local authorities in Britain, including Derbyshire, Cheshire and all the rest, received the same kind of relief—82p in the pound—that Wandsworth has received, every single local authority in Britain would have a poll tax of less than £200 per head?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have here a copy of a letter, dated 27 February, which the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) sent to all local medical committees. First, I question whether it was in order because it was a circulated letter and I do not think that the rules of the House allow circulated letters to be printed on House of Commons notepaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. I have already given way generously on that point. The next myth that has been peddled by Opposition Members is that GPs who become fund holders will run out of money and will turn away expensive patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "on, despite the clear evidence of the facts. The facts are that a GP's budget will be determined by his past expenditure and the profile of his patients. If a OP exceeds his budget, patient care will not in any way be threatened or diminished. The hon. Lady also argued that no GP was interested in the scheme, and that it was a crackpot scheme that had been invented by people who were out of touch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I will happily give way to the hon. Lady. who can reject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.686.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I hope that people throughout the country are listening to what the hon. Lady is saying because on three major issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.688.7", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I credit the hon. Gentleman with some understanding of the Government's proposals. He knows well that a GP's referrals will be based on a contract which will be negotiated either by the GP himself, where he is a budget holder, or by the health board. He also knows that if a GP wished to send a patient to a hospital where there was no contract, he would be able to do so if it was an emergency case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.688.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is not a point of order, but it is a good opportunity for me to remind the House that a Third Reading deals with what is contained in the Bill. I hope that hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.692.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way to a Right-wing ideologue.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe (Mid-Kent)", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": ". Friends the Members for Newbury (Sir M. McNair-Wilson), for Stamford and Spalding (Mr. Davies) and for Gainsborough and Horncastle (Mr. Leigh) for their powerful speeches in support of the Bill on Third Reading. The Bill is based on five key principles. It might be helpful to run over them. First, it is based above all on the need to provide better patient care. The patient comes first and last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Newbury was absolutely right about the third principle behind the Bill, which is better value for money. In response to a seated intervention from the hon. Member for Sheffield. Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery), he said that improving the quality of the NHS is not only about more money. The Government have provided more money. It is about managing resources better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He of all people from the north-east of England has a wide knowledge of industry and commerce. He is constantly in touch with all the people in the region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "I am quite happy for Opposition morons to make as much noise as they like. They have no logical arguments and they have not put many questions to me. There exists a commercially very successful organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.742.9", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": " from the THPA as constituted at present? It is more likely than not that any large company which takes over the THPA will have its headquarters elsewhere. That will be our first problem. Secondly, the shares would reflect a certain amount of public reaction. Some people would have a handsome windfall. We have seen that happen in some of the recent privatisations, of which water is a good example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.742.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "It does not matter which paper. I want to get this on the record. The port authority may rebut it, if it can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "Speaker. The point of order that the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell) just raised fell into two parts. The second part was expressly ruled on by your predecessor in the Chair earlier this evening, having received notice from the hon. Member for Middlesbrough of all the points that he just made. May I ask you, therefore, whether you will respond to only the first part of the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.750.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ecollection of constitutional history is that when an hon. Member crosses the Floor of the House he should make a speech so that we can hear why he did so. However, your predecessor in the Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker, said that we should not use the word \"poppycock\" too often in the Chamber, so it would not be appropriate to ask the hon. Gentleman to comment on why he crossed the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "lery display manufacturing division. I should like the hon. Member for Stockton, South to tell me what that has to do with a port authority. It had a retail display manufacturing division. The hon. Member for Stockton, South might like to tell us what that has to do with a port authority. It had a shop fitting division. The hon. Member for Stockton, South might like to tell us what that has to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ine of credit; and again £13 in share capital in the bank. According to the financial statement of 30 September 1988, The company's activity is the making of long term loans. The directors consider that the result for the year is satisfactory. The hon. Member for Langbaurgh looks somewhat disconsolate. He has not listed a single investment by the Tees and Hartlepool port authority during the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.773.6", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "ult in practical terms for the Chair or anyone else in the House to hear what is being said by the hon. Member who is raising the point of order. From the points that the hon. Gentleman raised during the first Division, it is clear that he was not making a point of order relating to the Division. It is sensible and practicable in those circumstances for the Chair to use its discretion in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.778.8", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "e. The work taking place there relates directly to the Lords amendment—the one that the Government told us we did not want. A very good ecological experiment has been taking place. Reeds have been moved out of some ponds on that site and placed, at the right time of year, in some neighbouring ponds about half a mile away. That has been done to protect newts' eggs laid on the leaves of those reeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.778.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-15", "file": "debates1990-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9131d5f2375e6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is the most beautiful part of the United Kingdom. There were crowds down lovers lane, and when the lovers went they left the evidence that they had been there behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-15a.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-16", "file": "debates1990-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "08a76ebd6fc8d383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-16a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "g men. No one should sneer at working mothers. They have the right to use their talents like everyone else. They have an obligation to use them to the benefit of society. I venture to think that a fulfilled woman is a happier woman and that a happier woman is likely to have a happier family. I know that my family would never find it acceptable if I was stuck at home whingeing at them all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-16a.814.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-19", "file": "debates1990-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d668b649e1841723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " seem pretty peculiar that we should try to restart 45 years later the unfinished business of that period. Where would all that stop? Are we to import into Britain arguments about crimes that may or may not have been committed in other countries? It is not clear whether the 1957 decisions would cover all them. There may be people from Cambodia, or even China, who would qualify as British citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-19", "file": "debates1990-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d668b649e1841723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "etween the side that was responsible for the aggression in the first place and for committing the most terrible atrocities, and the side that took up arms against fascism and the rest. At the same time, no one would argue that the resistance in occupied Europe has a spotless record. Under the circumstances, it is unlikely to do so. However, it was Nazi policy almost since the beginning of the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-19", "file": "debates1990-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d668b649e1841723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.910.6", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Calculated and diabolical cruelty has been inflicted on other people. I am not here to distinguish any particular period of time or part of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.910.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-19", "file": "debates1990-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d668b649e1841723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "port, which may enable some people to accept that a fair trial could be provided. However, with my small legal experience—I have defended and prosecuted murderers and I have appeared in many extradition cases for both requested and requesting countries—I believe that there is no possibility of the individuals affected by the Bill being given a fair trial or having the slightest opportunity of one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-19", "file": "debates1990-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d668b649e1841723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Even that is debatable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-19a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.995.5", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hoey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hoey", "preceding_text": "ps to reverse the underfunding of West Lambeth health authority? Is he aware that next week it will be taking decisions to cut another 160 beds, to cut out-patient services and to cut the number of people who can use the accident service? Is he further aware of the strong feeling on the matter, and will he assure the House that St. Thomas's will be taken off the list of hospitals that can opt out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.995.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "e have now been dozens of ballots of staff and of patients, and that he has not won a single one? Is he aware that the average \"No\" vote across the London hospitals is 89 per cent? Is it not time that he paused to reflect that it is just possible that nine out of 10 people who work in the Health Service are right and that it is just possible that he might be wrong? Why, therefore, does he not now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1003.5", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. We have increased the number of nurses in the NHS, and it is plain that we shall continue to do so. By comparing records—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1003.5", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. We have increased the number of nurses in the NHS, and it is plain that we shall continue to do so. By comparing records— [Interruption.] —the public should be able to make a judgment about the real concern and commitment shown by the Conservative party to the Health Service compared with that of our opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would rather address my comments to the change in Beverley. Beverley is unfortunately in a Socialist county—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would rather address my comments to the change in Beverley. Beverley is unfortunately in a Socialist county— [Interruption.] It has the great misfortune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "be reasonable, their community charges are usually reasonable. If people cannot afford to pay, they will get rebates. The community charge has brought relief to many people who live alone, who were paying high rates and who now, for the first time, have fairness and justice in paying only one community charge, which is often a good deal lower than the amount of rates that they would otherwise pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1021.9", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am confident that such an arrangement can be negotiated with the pools promoters and the football authorities. Provided that we do so, the duty will be reduced, in the first instance for five years. At the end of that period we shall review the position again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1021.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There must, of course, be some upper limits above which help is no longer given, but the present limits are widely resented as a penalty on thrift and self-provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1027.4", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " have therefore reviewed the present limits with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security, and we have decided that they should be raised. The limit for income support and family credit, where the stress is less great, will rise from £6,000 to £8,000, but the problem is most acute for those whose savings disqualify them from housing benefit and from community charge benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1027.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1027.14", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "This measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1027.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1028.10", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "oubt, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall repeat that this measure will benefit around a quarter of a million people, two thirds of them pensioners who are at present wholly excluded from benefit. The total cost will be £120 million a year, which will be met from the reserve and will not increase the public expenditure totals. To avoid delay, my right hon. Friend is laying the necessary regulations today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1028.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is a saver's Budget. It takes no risks with inflation. It further strengthens the public finances. It helps the less well-off. It gives women a better deal. It offers help to charities and sport, and it reduces the tax burden on growing companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1030.8", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "irection and that major changes are needed? Of course that is not strange. People know too that there are practical and progressive alternatives to what the Government are doing. We put those alternatives, the CBI and the TUC almost identically put those alternatives as did the Engineering Employers Federation. The right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) put alternatives to Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1030.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-20", "file": "debates1990-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cbd4b1cef78cf3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "BISF Houses (Nottingham)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "t do so, I promise him that this campaign will continue until he does justice by my constituents and people elsewhere. Having encouraged people to buy their council homes, the Government have walked away from the problem. Their attitude is, \"You bought, it's your fault, you take the blame and we shan't help.\" The Minister has refused to meet not merely me but other Members of Parliament and peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-20a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bright", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is complete nonsense for people in Bedfordshire to compare this year's community charge with last year's rates? Under the spendthrift Labour-Liberal authority that we have in Bedfordshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1114.7", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "gathered by, and expertise of, the spotters and the national football intelligence unit will be on offer to the Italian authorities. The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that I cannot comment on the detail of police operations. The hon. Gentleman's supplementary question related to the exchange of police. That is already under way. As he will be aware, about 50 carabinieri are at present in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1114.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals (Opting Out)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know what hon. Members say behind their hands when they are unable to be called at Question Time, but the House knows that I am constantly being urged to speed up Question Time. I did allow a rather longer time today on the community charge, or poll tax as I believe it is now called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " might be the Thatcher tax. After all, the Prime Minister has pursued it ruthlessly. She has trampled on opposition, on wiser counsels and even on wiser councillors to secure its implementation, come hell or high water. However, before we rush to judgment about what the poll tax should properly be called, we should recall the shrewd observations of the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I shall not follow the advice of the hon. Gentleman, and I shall answer the question. The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) knows perfectly well that the advantage of being in the exchange rate mechanism is that we shall have stability of the exchange rate. That is the prize that we gain and the objective that we secure if we join—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1159.9", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "hancellor of the Exchequer for having avoided what would have been a substantial mistake. Without doubt, great pressure was exerted on him to make greater concessions, by way of tax relief, to those who borrow on mortgage against housing. It was urged that the £30,000 limit should have been raised to £41,000, or even £60,000. It was good that the Chancellor of the Exchequer resisted that pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1159.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "erefore on inflation. As all hon. Members strongly oppose encouraging young people to start smoking and support preventive medicine, perhaps we can agree across across the Floor of the House that the best way to reduce the long-term cost to the NHS is to take tobacco and cigarettes out of the RPI. Incidentally, I should also like to see mortgage repayments taken out of the RPI, but Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas McAvoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas McAvoy", "preceding_text": "Thank you for that, Madam Deputy Speaker. After listening to the hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) and having ascertained that his majority is not all that big, I look forward to seeing his photograph flashed across the television at the next general election with the words \"Labour gain\" above it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "Back Benchers have been offering a great hope to the people of Britain that next year will be the big give year. Between £16 billion and £17 billion will be thrown about by the Government before the election. However, they have missed a real opportunity this year to do something for the millions of electors who are pensioners and who, for the past 11 years, have had a bad deal from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I am glad to find such eager anticipation on the part of the hon. Gentleman for what will be the heart of my speech. So let us get to it now. Let us move from the ju-ju economics of the monetary system—the Chancellor knows as much about ju-ju as I do—to another difficulty for the Government, which causes us no difficulty—our entry into the exchange rate mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "As soon as possible after the election of a Labour Government, so anything between 18 to 24 months. I know that that will be of some comfort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "As soon as possible after the election of a Labour Government, so anything between 18 to 24 months. I know that that will be of some comfort— [Interruption.] I said \"after appropriate negotiations\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1201.4", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "se affected by the community charge differ from those that he has received in reply to an earlier question. The answer is that the level of overspending—as illustrated by the London borough of Islington—has increased considerably since the earlier estimates were made. As a result, larger sums are being made available to those who benefit and more people come within the range of potential benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1201.4", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "considerably since the earlier estimates were made. As a result, larger sums are being made available to those who benefit and more people come within the range of potential benefits— [Interruption.] Opposition Members are clearly extremely nervous of associating themselves with Islington borough council, and I can well understand it. Not one of those items of expenditure did they seek to justify.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ems to us, the Inland Revenue has responded with immense vigour to the challenge that our decision to abolish CRT has given it. I want to pay tribute to the Inland Revenue and to those who work there for the vigour, imagination and energy that they are putting into forcing this measure through as rapidly as we intend so that the provisions can begin on 1 April next year. The hon. Member for Beith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-21", "file": "debates1990-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b2ac7e911032d3d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1206.7", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Of course, in that case I shall say that the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie was on the staff of a borstal and, as I said, during his period there he clearly learned more from his fellow inhabitants of the institution than he was able to teach them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-21a.1206.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1227.6", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I imagine that the right hon. Gentleman's last reference had nothing to do with the Birmingham Six, but was a reference to my reply about neighbourhood watch schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1227.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The community charge will be very popular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " popular— [Interruption] with people living alone, such as widows and widowers, who for years have paid high rates and who will be far better off paying a fair and reasonable community charge. Those people—often people who have saved all their lives—have been ignored by Opposition Members. With regard to the announcement made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ows and widowers, who for years have paid high rates and who will be far better off paying a fair and reasonable community charge. Those people—often people who have saved all their lives—have been ignored by Opposition Members. With regard to the announcement made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] earlier today, he will be considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He will be considering with colleagues and with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities how a simple and workable scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They will consider how a simple and workable scheme of ex gratia payments can be devised. It will be a scheme administered and funded by the Scottish Office from within its existing resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " will consider how a simple and workable scheme of ex gratia payments can be devised. It will be a scheme administered and funded by the Scottish Office from within its existing resources. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] My right hon. and learned Friend will report the proposals to the House as soon as the details of a Scottish scheme have been fully worked out. I stress that the scheme is an ex gratia one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.9", "colnum": "1233", "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 thinks that the excellent proposals that we have made in the Budget were gross incompetence. They were in fact very good and very generous and could not possibly have been announced when a Labour Government were in charge of the economy. With regard to the way in which people in Scotland are treated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1233.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister, as she is responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1235.5", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on the excellent Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Lady— [Interruption] —my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has already made plain, my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland will make a statement to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Scots have been very patient", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is again allowing his fancy to run riot. The fact is that the proposals that my right hon. and learned Friend has disclosed will be presented to the House in due time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " coming to the very point that he has raised, but I would rather put it in the right context. All this is a far cry from the days of the last Labour Government when, with very high levels of unemployment and inflation and appalling standards of living, all the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey)—who, I am sorry to see, is not in his place—could say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Opposition said that they were going to impose? It must be important for Toyota to know the answer. I am afraid that I cannot give my hon. Friend the answer to her question, but perhaps one day the Opposition will. I wonder what the truth is. Either the Opposition have no real criticism of what the Government are doing, and thus no alternative policies to offer, or they intend to press ahead with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ted would reduce the current account deficit over time. The deficit fell to £1·4 billion in February, reflecting the continued strong growth in export volume and the sharp slowdown on the growth of import volume which has been obvious for some time to all but the Opposition. Underlying export volumes have been growing more than twice as fast as underlying import volumes since last November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will answer the hon. Gentleman's question when he gets his facts right. The Chancellor said that manufacturing industry will stagnate this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1261.6", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Of course the policy review proposals on trade and industry are still this party's policies. The policy review was passed by the party's annual conference. I have been going round the country talking to representatives of business and industry and they have made it clear that they want the implementation of Labour's policies to deal with the problems of the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1261.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rest rate policy is more applicable to a three-ball shop. How slowing down manufacturing industry is good for the country needs explaining. What do the Government do? What is the Conservative party's policy? What do they say to these business men throughout the country about the impact of interest rate policy? I have here the Conservative party's own document, \"The Economy: Questions and Answers\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he Conservative party's policy? What do they say to these business men throughout the country about the impact of interest rate policy? I have here the Conservative party's own document, \"The Economy: Questions and Answers\". [Interruption.] Indeed, very useful and very interesting. We see on page 212: Don't higher interest rates increase the cost of borrowing thereby hitting industrial investment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Read the answer.\"] It goes on to say that, as the great majority of investment is funded from firms' own funds, the key to boosting investment is to create conditions to create profits. But, as the House knows, profits are not being sustained; businesses are having great problems. Then it says: British business is actually less exposed to high interest rates than it has been for a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "e been saying about the Prime Minister, and it usually means that it is time for the person to go. We can well understand why that in happening. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, inflation is starting to go up. It will go up to 9 per cent., which was almost its level when the Government came to power, so what have all the sacrifices of the past 10 years been for? Inflation is going up again", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "ent. My right hon. Friend could also have fallen into the trap of overkill. Not only are interest rates high, but he is also running a pretty tight fiscal policy. The combination of those two factors is already beginning to work its proper and intended effect. The magnificent surge in investment by British industry during past years is beginning to show in the immensely encouraging export figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1322.8", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "elvey). I am concerned about the health of the whisky industry. It is important to this country, and I hope that the increases will not place unacceptable limits on its operation. My hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Miss Hoey) made good points about football and the pools betting duty. My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Garrett) made the valid point that the number of nurseries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1322.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-22", "file": "debates1990-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "150daf373a2845f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "rformance has been the greatest bout of activity from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry that I have witnessed for a long time. The country has been split. It is true that some people have done well, but not if they have been unemployed, not if they are old-age pensioners and certainly not if they have a mortgage. The monthly mortgage increase for existing home buyers is £134·29—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-22a.1327.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Davis (Boothferry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Davis (Boothferry)", "preceding_text": "deceleration. In effect, the City is calling for a reinstatement of \"stop-go\". That is extraordinary and the City would deny it, but in effect that is what it has said about the Budget. It has said, \"We want a tougher Budget because we have been frightened by a few numbers in the past few days.\" That is not the only error that the City pundits and their proxies on the Opposition Benches have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "We have heard a great deal about the poll tax and even Tory Members justifying their support of it. In the debate that follows and in further debates this week we shall see how many Tory Members rebel against their Government. On Saturday more than 1,000 people gathered in Leicester town hall square to oppose the poll tax. I was presented with a petition which was signed by more than 2,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ng the PSBR £2·5 billion, of the result of slightly lower privatisation proceeds than we had imagined and of the result of truly massive overspending of local government as councils sought to avoid new capital controls. To call that a loosening of policy is a perversion of logic. It may fill the columns of newspapers, but it ought not to fill minds as being the reality of what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ng a decent return on their money. We hear a great deal about how the Opposition have changed. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East and his loyal lieutenant the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East tell us, in every newspaper that we open, that Labour has changed and that as they lunch their way around the City, as they do day after day, they are finding a very appreciative audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "At times, it is hard not to feel sorry for the Secretary of State and his Ministers as they wrestle with their poll tax inheritance, but sympathy for them must be strictly limited when we consider the plight of those millions of people who deserve it much more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman refers to the statement made in the House of Lords on that day and to the speeches made subsequently, he will see that it was made absolutely clear at all stages that the assumed charge would be based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the Minister to respond to each intervention. We cannot have one on top of another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.162.8", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for at last giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.162.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I would just say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I would just say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Give me a chance. I do not believe that there is no one in my hon. Friend's area who could claim transitional relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.163.8", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "hat was a direct quote from the press release by his hon. Friend the Member for Brightside which said, \"e.g. Wandsworth\". The reason why single people do not benefit—except pensioners or disabled people who do not presently pay rates or are not part of a ratepaying couple—is that the majority of them are generally better off. In Wandsworth they will pay £148 and therefore they will pay only three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.163.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "It is about time that, instead of turning silently away from the hon. Gentleman and pretending that his words had not been spoken, the Opposition Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-26", "file": "debates1990-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6cc8a6b50fdcb381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": " or empire building. The effects of local authority overspending were outlined very clearly in the earlier speech by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The regulations for Wales have been welcomed by Welsh local authorities and by the financial adviser to the Welsh counties, who said that they were extremely well targeted. They are clear, easily understood, and cheap to operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-26a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Training Credits", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "itiative that I am announcing today marks an important new departure in our policies for training young people. Its aim is to excite young people about the benefits of continuing in training and further education after they have left school and to raise the amount and quality of training provided by employers. The initiative has the potential to revolutionise attitudes to training in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.218.4", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Training Credits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ul to my hon. Friend for her welcome for the proposal. She will recall that I specifically identified small businesses as one of the criteria on which selective schemes could be put forward by the training and enterprise councils. We will be looking with interest at the bids that we receive to examine the extent to which they reflect the concerns of my hon. Friend and many others about this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Training Credits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that, when I saw that this item was on the agenda, I realised that it was part and parcel of the idea to prevent any extra publicity for the Mid-Staffordshire victor? Then I thought that perhaps the Government were worried about the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "London (Traffic)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his kind remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Light Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "out Britain. I have dealt with some of the details of the Government's changes to the criteria for giving the financial go-ahead for such schemes. It appears that the Avon scheme—about which the hon. Member for Kingswood has already spoken—meets the criteria. I must say a few words about private sector involvement. I have made it plain that the Opposition have no deep ideological objections to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Light Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had contained himself for a few seconds more, I was about to explain how the Labour party will speed up the process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Light Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "igure of the Minister leaning over their shoulders. If a financial case can be made for such a scheme, I hope that there will be no ideological objections from the Conservative party to allowing local authorities the right to approach the private sector direct to seek its involvement. I hope that that little policy snippet also appeals to the Government Whip, although I had better not provoke him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "out underfunding in the Health Service and I have stated the record to date. Not one Opposition Member—certainly not the hon. Member for Monklands, West—has said anything about the scale of real terms increases in expenditure that a Labour Government would introduce. I honestly believe that one advantage of our democratic system of government, in which the party in government periodically changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Policy (Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "many new firms have been established. Many national companies are also located in the city. I get tired of people looking at Bradford and speaking in terms of its decline. That was true in the past, but it is certainly not the case today. When one thinks of Grattan, Morrisons, Fine Art Development and the many textile and printing companies which are national names, the names speak for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Policy (Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conal Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conal Gregory", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Sir M. Fox) on initiating this debate, because Yorkshire is one of the most successful regions in Britain under Conservative Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.335.7", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Policy (Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "preceding_text": "ll now rise to £22,000. Petergate rents were £1,500 in 1973; today they are £70,000. A typical shop in Coney street had a rental value in 1973 of £7,000; today the figure is £152,000. Clearly such market forces for rents—and various groups, especially the pension funds that have purchased such properties, appreciate this—are a reflection in certain respects of Labour's failure to revalue the rents", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.335.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Policy (Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I want the next debate to be three hours, not one and a half hours. There was a time when the Consolidated Fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Policy (Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "r-increasing evidence that, with the advent of 1992, we shall face some serious problems. Those problems must be seen against the present background of a reduction in support for the regions. It is difficult to discover the Government's regional policy, as they have been withdrawing from the regions ever since they came to power. That withdrawal is now costing Yorkshire about £47 million per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-27", "file": "debates1990-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0dabe68d3e833785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (London)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "The Minister says, \"That is right.\" Where is his faith in new road building tonight? His right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has rejected all the road proposals for London which, at that meeting, he said were absolutely essential to solve the problems of this capital city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-27a.357.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.485.7", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend will make a statement to the House on the details of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.485.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "hrough in an allotted time, would do great injury to the House as a whole. After all, every Government, even the next Labour Government, would like such powers. We never sought such powers when we were in office. I accept that I introduced, and urged the House to introduce, guillotine motions on particular Bills. Indeed, we introduced five in a single day, as some people are kind enough to recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " when they are given the chance to run affairs, will resist any temptation to follow the present Government's example in this field—as in any other field. Indeed, I am sure that they will. The Leader of the House comes into the Chamber with a real hangdog look on his face. Time and again he appears looking as if he has just come from a meeting with the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "exists only because of the House of Commons being given authority by the people out there. Consistently, time and again, we are throwing through ill-considered legislation. I am sorry that my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House has more important business elsewhere, as has the Patronage Secretary, and I am sorry that those on the Labour Front Bench have responded in like measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"She saw you standing there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "e the levels that Conservative Members and even the Government anticipated. That is due, in part, to local authorities being extravagant in their expenditure. However, that is the position with which we are faced. Like other hon. Members, I recently canvassed my constituents. I knocked on one door, said who I was and asked the lady what she thought about the community charge. She burst into tears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "nly reason why we have returned to the issue tonight. The social fund features in the Bill only because the Government acted illegally in their advice to local social security officers, which caused them to be overruled in the High Court. Child maintenance features in the Bill only because the Prime Minister, belatedly and following an Opposition initiative which I launched three weeks before her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I do not want to embarrass the hon. Lady, but I have to say that she knows that, week by week, in Committee, we had considerable discussions on whether we should sit not only in the mornings but in the afternoons and even, if necessary, in the evenings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. Before I launch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "That was a small speech in itself and I shall reply to a number of the points raised in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Hawkins", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ple with high amounts of capital up to £16,000 have a notional income for DSS purposes which is way above their actual income because of attributing 20·8 per cent. interest to every extra £1,000 of savings above £3,000. That is the £1 per week per £250—being £52 a year per £250—which is £208 a year per £1,000, and that is 20·8 per cent. interest on every extra £1,000. The problem is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "the nuclear weapons test programme conducted in the south Pacific in the 1950s, and the suggestion that that programme has bequeathed a legacy of illness to those who participated. The Government's view is that there is no evidence, either medical or scientific, to link participation in the nuclear weapons test programme with the ill health that some of the participants have suffered subsequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.643.8", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition on behalf of Mr. G. J. Welsh of Hawthorns, Hammersley Lane, Tylers Green, Buckinghamshire, and another on behalf of Mrs. T. Coppin of 55 Robinson Road, Loudwater, High Wycombe. The second petition is signed by 67 other constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.643.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister for Social Security is sleeping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ber of Inland Revenue inspectors to follow up employers who are breaking the law. We want the 1984 legislation changed back so that employers can be prosecuted for these debts. We want the Labour Government, because this one will not do it, to ensure that local authorities, regional development agencies and the Department of Trade and Industry fully investigate all companies that apply for grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": "nd inspectors for investigation and correction. Many thousands of queries are investigated each year and, as a result, contribution records are amended and arrears of contributions are collected or refunds made. Although some contribution errors arise from deliberate fraud, it is fair to say that they do not typically arise from it but are the result of genuine mistakes, misunderstandings or even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-28", "file": "debates1990-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "fad57496bb236a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "re inspectors would be employed instantly and that the numbers would increase year on year in the unit, rising to more than 2,000 inspectors in all. Our reorganisation will not stop there. From April of next year, the unit will be given agency status and there will be increased management accountability and flexibility to allow the development of a more professional approach to contributions work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-28a.651.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.667.4", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is infinitely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.667.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.667.8", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Gentleman wisely keeps silent about his own policy of a roof tax plus a local income tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.667.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Before long, most student nurses—those who are not yet registered as full nurses—will be on Project 2000. That means that they will be paid a bursary and treated fully as ordinary students: therefore. they will pay only 20 per cent. of the community charge. Before long, most of them will be on that system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is considerable anxiety about the teaching of English history in our schools? Instead of teaching only what are called themes, why cannot we go back to the good old days when we learnt by heart the names of the kings and queens of England, the names of our warriors and battles and the glorious deeds of our past?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that she has many friends and admirers in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, but it is a matter for the whole House. Witnesses coming before a Select Committee of the House should have the absolute assurance that the information that they give will be used for the purposes of the Committee and of the House and for no other purpose. There is a conflict of interest between the offices that the Chairman of the Committee holds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.692.8", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is the latter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.692.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.693.7", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am on my feet. We have a very important debate on the community charge in the form of two prayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.693.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "If I were to stand at the Dispatch Box this afternoon and explain exactly how each local authority is operating and how it has managed to fix its poll tax or community charge limits I should spend a great deal of time here. I have done my best to be generous in giving way to hon. Members of all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "ople need our help; they must not be kicked in the teeth by a system that is becoming increasingly hard on them.\"— [Official Report, Standing Committee E, 23 February 1988; c. 884.] I am not quoting a Labour Member of Parliament; I am quoting a Conservative Member of Parliament. I shall not embarrass him by identifying him. The hon. Gentleman is no longer in his place, as he was a few minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I particularly welcome the uprating of the rule on savings because the old system was a disincentive to savers. We must increase saving levels in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "nghame, North (Mr. Wilson) should reflect that the previous Labour Government, instead of giving incentives to savers, had negative interest rates and taxation at 98 per cent., at the highest rate, on savings. We had a ludicrous state of affairs. That reflects Labour's commitment to savings. We must increase saving levels because the higher they are, the larger the pool of investment for industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.716.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "se councillors have spent £600,000 on an equal opportunities and race relations department; £140,000 on twinning arrangements mainly with towns in China and Russia; and nearly £15 million on a dubious so-called community education programme that most people believe is of little educational benefit. Derbyshire county councillors have no interest in efficiency and in keeping costs down. That is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Exmouth Docks Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Exmouth Docks Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "l press, I make it clear that I have no shares or interest in Exmouth Docks company, the Exmouth Docks Steamship company, the land surrounding the docks or any land in Exmouth, or anything to do with the companies which suggest a development at Exmouth docks. It is interesting to note that, according to the journals, a previous Bill relating to Exmouth docks received a Second Reading in July 1868—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Exmouth Docks Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "of traffic. The hon. Member for Honiton said that arrangements are being made by the company to allow the petition of Exeter local authority to be withdrawn. My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East then asked him what the present position was. He could not say, because a committee of Exeter council has yet to meet to discuss the position on the closure of the docks and loss of fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-29", "file": "debates1990-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e4281d33812d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kangaroo group?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "here, but is recognised in the Strasbourg Assembly, is for the complete removal of barriers. Reservations have been expressed in the Trevi group of Home Office Ministers, but there is pressure from the Common Market to remove customs barriers. There is a group known as the kangaroo group because it wants to leap over barriers. Prominent members of the Conservative party support the kangaroo group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-29a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.794.5", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman was not here, but had he been he would know that the money resolution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.794.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.806.5", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": " of this mess, many accusations will follow. There will be attempts to spell out for the British public who was to blame. I can already imagine the toothy smile on a Sunday night, with a series of little pictures saying that these are the people who spoke about the procedures of the United Kingdom —send them a postcard. I can equally see some screaming headlines in Which?, with little photographs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.806.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here at the beginning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "It is not done every time. If my hon. Friend had been here from the beginning, he would have heard it said that we are in danger of setting a precedent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": " clear that it is very much my hon. Friend, who has been at the forefront in this matter. It is appalling that a number of hon. Members have criticised the civil servants and the Clerks of the House, who must be silent advisers. As one of my right hon. Friends said on another occasion, advisers advise and Ministers decide. To attack advisers is deplorable and unparliamentary. They have no redress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Patronage Secretary is here at last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "for virtually all purposes. That, for the benefit of the public watching or reading this debate, is the significance of the matter before us. As to the principle of what business should or should not be considered on the Floor of the House, during my 11 years in this place, it has been clear to me at least the kind of legislation that is conventionally considered by a Committee of the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "here was only a short discussion on the clause, at that juncture he was in a position to receive advice and help from a large number of people. One of the principles of private Members' Bills is that they will not have major revenue or financial implications. I should have thought that the first thing any private Member would do, when presenting a Bill, would be to look carefully at those aspects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will agree that what the promoter says will be crucial in persuading us whether we should support the motion. I have not yet made up my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well, sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. This is a revealing episode. My hon. Friend the Member for Spelthorne has asked the promoter to explain how he saw the procedure developing and I am waiting to hear the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.824.7", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way and I will not be a party to talking out my own Bill. I wish to put straight the many unnecessary and trivial comments that we have heard today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.824.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.824.7", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way and I will not be a party to talking out my own Bill. I wish to put straight the many unnecessary and trivial comments that we have heard today. [Interruption.] Credit is due to the Minister for putting right what he admits was his mistake. He said he was to blame and I commend him for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.824.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-03-30", "file": "debates1990-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d617ef4d63d49d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It came first in the ballot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ept your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As far as I can see, Mr. Deputy Speaker, even within the terms of your guidance on the narrowness of the motion, we still need answers to questions. Why is the Bill so much more important than 25 other measures? Just because it has a strong pressure group and that pressure group has easy access to the television, must we give it preference over everything else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-03-30a.833.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "London March (Disorder)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks about the part played by the police and for his wishes for a speedy recovery to those officers who were injured. My hon. Friend asks who was behind the anti-poll tax demonstration. I gather that the part played by Militant is well known and that something over 500 buses were used to bring people into the centre of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "London March (Disorder)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": " that something over 500 buses were used to bring people into the centre of London—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"] People have a right to demonstrate peacefully and, as I have already said, I firmly stand for that right, but I hope that the organisers of such demonstrations will remember the appalling burdens that they place on the police who have better things to do, the inconvenience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.895.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.898.8", "colnum": "898", "heading": "London March (Disorder)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister, who is sitting beside him, who she has the stomach to fight, now that she is fighting her own Back-Benchers, her own Government and the people of Scotland? I will tell her, through the Home Secretary: we will not bend the knee to her poll tax; we will not bend the knee to her state-sponsored violence against the poorer sections of the population. We will demonstrate peacefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.898.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "London March (Disorder)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary accept that the organisers of the march, and I was there to witness it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "London March (Disorder)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—did everything possible to ensure that there was a large and peaceful demonstration? Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman reconsider his reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and call for an open public inquiry into all the events of last Saturday? If he does not do that, the question of who caused the violence and the policing tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Strangeways Prison", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that, from the moment our right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) became Prime Minister, we have had a most massive building programme for prisons? It was started by Lord Whitelaw and continued by successive Home Secretaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is perfectly right. The Labour Government of the day allowed time for a private Member's Bill to go on to the statute book. It was not tacked onto the end of a public Bill. Please let us be clear about this matter. We have a public Bill. It could be about anything. It could be about electricity privatisation, or it could be the poll tax Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "I have given way many times. I ask the hon. Gentleman to let me finish my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "It is more than incongruous, it is downright immoral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.941.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-02", "file": "debates1990-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c185e9b152bb4b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It is designed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-02a.997.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is it not obvious to anyone who has observed the Prime Minister in recent days that she was rightly horrified by the injuries done to the public, the police and property last Saturday? Is it not equally clear, however, that she can barely conceal her delight at the diversion and uproar provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I now pay community charge in two places. The hon. Gentleman may take it from me that I shall continue to be generous with the money that I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "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": "he country about the level of many charges, and I can understand the feelings of outrage of a number of my hon. Friends when faced with the burdens that some authorities have chosen to impose on local people. The simple fact is that high charges are the direct result of authorities' own budget decisions over the years. In time, I believe that the ballot box will bring greater prudence and realism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " their budgets are either excessive or represent an excessive increase over the previous year. I am not empowered to select any authority whose budget is below the statutory threshold of £15 million. For 1990–91, I have decided to select authorities whose budgets are in my opinion excessive in absolute terms. Selection of authorities for capping has to be on the basis of general principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1033.5", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "e sake of only a small reduction in the burden on their charge payers. The special allowance that I am making for inherited ILEA overspend means that for inner-London boroughs I have deducted from each borough's budget, for the purposes of comparison with the SSA, the amount of its inner London education grant entitlement as set out in the special grant report approved by the House on 18 January —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1033.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "By applying those principles to authorities' budgets for 1990–91, I am designating 20 authorities for capping. These are, in alphabetical order: Avon, Barnsley, Basildon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "By applying those principles to authorities' budgets for 1990–91, I am designating 20 authorities for capping. These are, in alphabetical order: Avon, Barnsley, Basildon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Brent—Mort. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] That is not very surprising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We cannot hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I will tell Opposition Members why it is not very surprising: I would have almost to reach No. 60 before I came to a Conservative authority. In alphabetical order, the authorities are: Avon, Barnsley, Basildon, Brent, Bristol, Calderdale, Camden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1034.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I shall give the House the list again: Avon —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barnsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Basildon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I shall give the House the list again: Avon —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barnsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Basildon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Brent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "erbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Doncaster—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hammersmith and Fulham —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hillingdon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Islington—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; North Tyneside— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Rochdale [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Rotherham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; St. Helens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Doncaster—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hammersmith and Fulham —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hillingdon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Islington—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; North Tyneside— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Rochdale [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Rotherham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; St. Helens—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Southwark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hammersmith and Fulham —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hillingdon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Islington—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; North Tyneside— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Rochdale [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Rotherham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; St. Helens—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Wigan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Perhaps in view of the stress that the hon. Gentleman placed on the selection of the criteria, I should take him and the House through the arguments for the criteria. I take it that the House will want me to do so reasonably patiently so that it knows exactly why we chose these criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "e capping was applied in the past. On that basis, we decided on the criteria that I announced. Just as in the past we used the grant distribution formula—the GRE—as the basis for rate capping, so it seemed perfectly reasonable to take the SSA as the basis for charge capping, since it is expenditure and bills above the SSA which represent excessive spending and charging. There is a political point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1037.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You should be answering.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " to which the hon. Gentleman referred. On the \"Today\" programme last week—I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition or his hon. Friends are aware of this—the hon. Gentleman said: There must always be in extremis a reserve power to cap. In the hon. Gentleman's view, there is no argument about principle. It is right that there should be a reserve power to cap. What I ask the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1037.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Since, as I understand it, the hon. Gentleman has said that he will not pay the community charge, I am somewhat reluctant to answer his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": " having a difficult time trying to run its services. Will he acknowledge that the poll tax that it has had to levy is necessary to sustain the level of services for which the councillors were elected? Is he aware that more than 100,000 letters have already been sent, and that the borough treasurer estimates that it will cost at least £500,000 to re-bill poll tax payers in the borough? Will he say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1044.6", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not have the figures quite right. The figures are substantially in excess of that—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"]—16·1 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1044.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1044.7", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that ordinary citizens and businesses and industrial and manufacturing companies will be delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1044.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not taken on board the point that the Labour party has no objection in principle to charge capping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that the euphoria of many of my hon. Friends whose authorities have been capped will not be reflected in Cleveland, where my long-suffering constituents in Middlesbrough do not meet the criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: It is not excessive.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "ot accept that there is one glaring omission—the Labour-controlled district council of Harlow, which happens to be the highest spending council per head in the whole of the United Kingdom? It has been spending ratepayers' money with the gay abandon of a drunken sailor. Is it not a fact that it has reduced the charge to a still staggering £425 by eating into reserves, and selling the family silver?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1047.5", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on behalf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1047.8", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend on behalf of my constituency for cutting Basildon's expenditure. Among that authority's extravagances in a £27 million budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1047.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I can understand my hon. Friend's concern that the local authority to which he has referred does not come within the criteria that I mentioned earlier. One of the considerations that I have to take into account is not only the present law but precedent and what has happened in the past. I believe that the criteria that I have announced are the most robust legally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " not come within the criteria that I mentioned earlier. One of the considerations that I have to take into account is not only the present law but precedent and what has happened in the past. I believe that the criteria that I have announced are the most robust legally. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] Of course. That is an important point to take account of. We have taken account of it before and I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1049.6", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must have regard for the subsequent business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1049.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "creases of up to 57 per cent. over the past 10 years and a present excessive community charge figure of £418, which is £150 over the Government's assessment for Wolverhampton, is the figure with which my long-suffering constituents have had to live? Is my right hon. Friend aware of the bitter disappointment that will be felt by my constituents today that he has not managed to come to their rescue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might know why, but if the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) had to go, he was not able to convey that information to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Community Charge Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than you do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "rities that I have decided to cap, the mean figure for the increase over resealed GREs among the authorities that I have mentioned was 26 per cent., so by any standards those authorities have been substantial overspenders. When referring to a number of local authorities, the hon. Member for Brightside knows perfectly well—because he knows and understands a good deal about local government finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I have to make a contribution now, because it is obvious that the Government are taking us back to the 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillian Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillian Shephard", "preceding_text": " about 30 per cent. of people in full-time employment are not in either an occupational or a personal pension scheme. The majority are taking advantage of the contracted-out rebate. Secondly, it is not the case that the national insurance fund has been either bankrupted or plundered. The fund still has a healthy balance, which is twice the recommended level. The great success of personal pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "hat secretly we are unhappy with the rest. Far from it, and that is why I was anxious to contribute to the debate. I went into my village church last Sunday morning with a heavy heart. We had seen on television the disgraceful scenes in the west end of London on Saturday. The weekend press was not kind to the Government or our leader and, it being my turn to read the lesson, I took encouragement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "ber for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) rightly pointed out, that provision has been dropped. We now have some valuable additions to our pensions legislation. Much is happening in the whole sphere of social security for which the Government can take credit. I find deeply distasteful much of what is said purely for party advantage about the care and compassion issue. No political party has a monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Prescription Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "egulations 1990 (S.I., 1990, No. 537), dated 8th March 1990, a copy of which was laid before this House on 9th March, be annulled. This will be a short debate, as it is based on a prayer and must finish by 11.30 pm. Indeed, it will be so short that the House will remember that I have made speeches longer than this whole debate. In opening the debate, I shall confine myself to the central proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Prescription Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "d at the hon. Gentleman's observation about the integrity of election pledges. May I invite him to consider two issues to which he must address his mind in the context of this debate? First, will he show my hon. Friends and me where, in the Conservative manifesto in 1987, there was a commitment to introduce charges for eye tests or dental examinations? Will he cast light on how it was that before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Prescription Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They should be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " the longevity of the Government and, alongside that longevity, the extent to which the public have become much less interested over the years in increases in these charges. For slightly more than a decade, we have become used to way-above-the-odds increases in prescription charges that, even compared with when I entered the House in 1983, are no longer as big and as dramatic a story in the media—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Prescription Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " Member for Chislehurst (Mr. Sims) said, the increased resources available to the NHS in the coming year are of the order of £12 million to £13 million. The hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) called that chickenfeed, following the hon. Member for Livingston, who said that he would forgo that increase. I invite the House to consider what £13 million amounts to per district health authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1167.5", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Prescription Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The Minister is creating a problem for a future Labour Government. Every time the Government increase the prescription charge, they increase the cost of abolishing it, as the Minister well understands. I said that in the first instance there would be no further increase in real terms and that we would seek to reduce the prescription charge as resources permitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-03", "file": "debates1990-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "300a6dd83cb86b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1167.6", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Prescription Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is changing his tune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-03a.1167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Romania, which I had the chance of visiting recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1186.7", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister explain why no representations have been made? Is he saying that the Government support such naked aggression by America on a small neighbouring country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "But the American Government are violating a large number of international agreements to which they and the British Government are signatories, in what is now being described as tele-aggression on Cuba —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nister of Poland who were entertained at No. 10 recently? Is it the voters of East Germany or the voters of Hungary who have just defeated communism? Is it the Soviet troops who, as the Prime Minister herself says, should continue to be stationed in East Germany for the sake of European stability? We realise that the Prime Minister is totally irrational on this issue, but if the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1190.4", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is wasting time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "You must be the only one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1195.6", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Since the conclusions of this very important Council might have ramifications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1195.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1195.8", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Since the Council's conclusions might have substantial ramifications for the future of Britain, would not it be a good idea, in the interests of parliamentary responsibility, for us to be told in advance of such meetings, the order of agenda and the views likely to be expressed by British Ministers?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1195.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " discretion on how I use funds for the normal purposes for which the Scottish Office is responsible. However, when I am considering the use of certain funds for a policy issue which does not normally come within the responsiblilty of the Scottish Office and which will be properly interpreted as a change when compared with the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer only two days earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before I call Back-Bench Members today, I must say that I understand that yesterday there was concern that some were not called following the statement, although I did call all those who were adversely affected. As this statement is welcomed by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend is right when he says that the average contribution of community charge payers is lower in Scotland than the average in England. Of course these averages vary from place to place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As one of those who has been to Hong Kong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Education (Student Loans) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Straw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " and rendered incapable by the desperate prospect of defeat that inexorably comes closer every day. One word should awaken them from their trance, although whether it will I do not know. One word should make every Conservative Member with an ounce of self-interest and survival refuse to back this guillotine motion. One word should be sufficient warning to send them running, and that word is Baker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Education (Student Loans) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "s closer every day. One word should awaken them from their trance, although whether it will I do not know. One word should make every Conservative Member with an ounce of self-interest and survival refuse to back this guillotine motion. One word should be sufficient warning to send them running, and that word is Baker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Straw.\"] It is Baker. This Bill has the curse of Baker upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1282.4", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "o by the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw)—recompense for institutions. The institutions have consistently gone on record as opposing the Bill. They have never resiled from that position. They are against the Bill and they believe that it is detrimental to higher education. The parliamentary private secretary shakes his head, but he well knows that the institutions have consistently said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that could possibly be the case. We are talking about information on legislation that has not yet been enacted. The information was quite properly sent out under the rules that govern the provision of information following Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "etary could offer no proper answer to the detailed questions that my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) asked him. In the closing seconds of this guillotined debate, I should like to place it on record that, because of the guillotine forced on the House by the Secretary of State and his hon. Friends, the House has been denied the chance properly to debate major issues of principle", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-04", "file": "debates1990-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80bb623962d4062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1310.9", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. One of the amendments which was passed in the other place, and with which we have disagreed, was moved by my noble Friend Earl Russell. Is it not inappropriate that no colleague of his can take part in the Committee proceedings that you have now put in motion? Is it not an exclusion of an opportunity for hon. Members in this place, of my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-04a.1310.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady always runs down British shipbuilding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Watson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Watson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Frank Field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Watson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Frank Field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Tony Lloyd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Watson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Frank Field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Tony Lloyd. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Home Robertson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Watson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Frank Field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Tony Lloyd. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Home Robertson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Ronnie Campbell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Watson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Frank Field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Tony Lloyd. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Home Robertson. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Ronnie Campbell. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Rowlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.9", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that that is not a matter for me. It is a point that he is consciously making across the Chamber. I call Mr. Snape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.9", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that that is not a matter for me. It is a point that he is consciously making across the Chamber. I call Mr. Snape. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Fisher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.9", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that that is not a matter for me. It is a point that he is consciously making across the Chamber. I call Mr. Snape. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Fisher. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Eadie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1419.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. McAvoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not herel Ms. Short. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. McAvoy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Jack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. McAvoy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Jack. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not herel Ms. Short. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Ingram.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. McAvoy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Jack. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not herel Ms. Short. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Ingram. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Steinberg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. McAvoy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Jack. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not herel Ms. Short. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Ingram. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Steinberg. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Livsey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Radice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. McAvoy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Jack. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not herel Ms. Short. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Ingram. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Steinberg. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Livsey. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"] Mr. Maxton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.5", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Gun Components (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "Should the Secretary of State not only give the Customs and Excise department thanks, but apologise for the press briefings that were given throughout the week saying that it had got it wrong? Could he enlighten the House by explaining exactly what is polymerisation of polyethylene —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1428.8", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Gun Components (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1428.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1430.5", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Gun Components (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Sit down, please. We have a very important debate today and a ten-minute rule Bill. I shall allow three more questions from each side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1435.6", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It was a highly charged Question Time. I did not hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1437.6", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Some of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I rise on a point of order to try to establish better in my mind the criteria that you, Mr. Speaker, adopt when deciding how long ministerial statements will be allowed to run. We have just returned from a fairly generous Easter recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1454.5", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "epartment and being involved in licensing, more criticism will be made of him than when a judge occasionally makes an intemperate remark that does not find favour with people inside and outside the House. I hope that I have made my point abundantly clear. I thought that I had made it clear the first time, but I certainly made it clear the second time. I hope that I carry the hon. Lady with me now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Famous last words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "oyal commission, even if it transpires that ultimately its recommendations are ignored, as in the case of the Benson commission. The Lord Chancellor's Green Papers have impelled the Bar to look again at some of its own practices and itself to initiate some important changes. I hope that other lay Members will participate in the debate and I shall try not to inhibit them by continuing for too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "s and interests. They are political decisions, although probably not party-political ones in this case. They are decisions about how best to conduct the affairs of the body politic and they should be decided by the political process, after political debate by those who have to answer to their constituents at weekends and, probably, explain them in the British Legion club at 10.30 pm on a Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "days I experienced great difficulty in negotiating fees with counsel's clerks, or securing the man I wanted for my client, because of that rule or something similar. No cab rank rule was applied in those cases. I cannot bring those papers before the House now, as they are more than 20 years old, but they are engraven on my memory as a young solicitor trying to represent clients through the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "articular fields of work. In doing so, they have had to decline to represent certain classes of defendant. For example, some provide a service by specialising in housing work on behalf of tenants, and others have built up a relationship of trust with rape crisis centres. The business of those firms would be endangered, and the sensitive relationship between solicitor and client undermined if they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1485.0", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": "e. I hope that the following matters will be raised in Standing Committee. First, there will obviously be several amendments and matters to be considered in relation to conveyancing and to probate law, especially with regard to professional standards and the independence of advice. When it comes to the last word, perhaps the market place is not everything, and professional standards are something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ssible way that if he allows himself and the Government to be railroaded down this route he will be making a grave mistake. Let us imagine that the man in the village runs over someone or is run over himself. Once again, he will need a lawyer, a specialist. In the old days he went to the rural solicitor, who sent him on, perhaps, to the town solicitor, who, in those days, knew about these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "preceding_text": " a review of legal aid, coupled with the careful administrative review that the Legal Aid Board is carrying out, and because he is seeking how best to target the money on legal aid. That is not a matter for criticism. It is a matter of good government. I do not know what impression the Opposition wish to give the country about legal aid. I have peeped into their policy review to see what they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-18", "file": "debates1990-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "443f9e93aa93aac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1519.3", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "It is, perhaps, entirely appropriate that a non-lawyer should speak on this Bill via the money resolution, because the Bill has been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-18a.1519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1544.8", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed to see that the hon. Gentleman has not used his recess to think of some new questions. I discuss a large number of matters with the president of the NFU, but few of his comments or the matters that I discuss with my farmers lead me to suspect that they are about to vote Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1544.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uropean monetary and economic union; another has been proposed informally by Chancellor Kohl and concerns political union. Neither matter is properly defined, but in so far as economic and monetary union was defined in the Delors paper, in stages 2 and 3, this House has already made its view clear: we could not possibly accept stage 2 or stage 3 of Delors as they stand, although we accept stage 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1579.6", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady missed the television at 5.10 pm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1580.5", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " Select Committee also recommended, we should use section 4(5) of the British Nationality Act 1981 generously. That section allows the Home Secretary to grant British citizenship to public servants who have worked abroad in colonial administrations. It enables the Government to offer citizenship to public servants of every rank, whereas the points scheme would clearly favour more senior officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1580.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1580.5", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Langbaurgh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "n 4(5) of the British Nationality Act 1981 generously. That section allows the Home Secretary to grant British citizenship to public servants who have worked abroad in colonial administrations. It enables the Government to offer citizenship to public servants of every rank, whereas the points scheme would clearly favour more senior officials. [Interruption.] How do I know? Who asked me how I knew?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1580.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1581.5", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I shall gladly give way to the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Holt) if he will tell me the five basic principles of the points scheme that I have cited. Can he do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1581.6", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1581.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1581.6", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"] The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1581.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. It was you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Now that the right hon. Gentleman has fully developed his argument, we can understand it. He has said, first, that he is worried about the possibility of 50,000 people coming here from Hong Kong because of the effect that it may have on community relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I had no doubt that the Home Secretary would eventually ask me the numbers question because that enables him to support the Bill and still preserve his racist credentials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1585.0", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I shall support the Government in the Lobby tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "y dispositions themselves. The larger problem relates to the attitude of the People's Republic of China. We are faced with the major task of restoring the relationship between Peking and Westminster and Whitehall and of both sides gaining confidence in each other. There is nothing to be gained from constantly dwelling on the tragedy of Tiananmen square, as did the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, but I shall not give way. The democratic problems are not easy to solve. That was the problem in Tiananmen square. With a population of 1,050 million, it is not easy to say what democracy will be, how the people will vote or who will represent them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To enjoy freedom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ard their international jets and come to Britain the day after tomorrow. That is arrogant nonsense. Who would wish to leave Hong Kong, which has a higher growth rate, lower unemployment and an immeasurably better ordered society? Do we believe that people in Hong Kong will dash to Britain to enjoy the poll tax, record mortgage rates, a failing economy and social disorder? What a ridiculous notion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1590.6", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that he did not ask that question when he granted right of abode in Britain to 250 million people. If the hon. Gentleman wants me to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1590.6", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "an wants me to say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall give an answer. If, in extremis, the people who are being crushed under the Chinese tanks in Nathan road in 1997 are British passport holders and my responsibility, and if someone asked me or my constituents to give them sanctuary, the unequivocal answer to that I, and probably my constituents, would give would be, \"Yes, of course.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1590.6", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Move on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "S: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall give an answer. If, in extremis, the people who are being crushed under the Chinese tanks in Nathan road in 1997 are British passport holders and my responsibility, and if someone asked me or my constituents to give them sanctuary, the unequivocal answer to that I, and probably my constituents, would give would be, \"Yes, of course.\" [Interruption.] May I move on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "aced politics. I shall not go in for any humbug or evasion. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook should know more about the Bill that he is opposing. When one of my hon. Friends sought to intervene the right hon. Gentleman said that he would let him intervene if my hon. Friend could state the five criteria to be used for admission. I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that there are seven criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "isk, on political grounds, after 1997. My difference with the Government is that I believe that the Bill will fail on three counts out of four. There is no difference between any of us about the need to offer the security of a home here to those Hong Kong Chinese who served the Crown, police or judiciary, or might otherwise be at risk, if the mood of China was difficult after the takeover in 1977.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1599.3", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No, if my hon. Friend will forgive me. I will not take any stick from Opposition Members over the processing of applications, because the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook was critical of the fact that almost 20 years after the Ugandan Asians came here there were some people who, although they appeared to have been entitled to come here, were still kicking around the world without visas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "er cent., will make them less rather than more inclined to vote Conservative. My hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire, South (Mr. Cormack) must recognise that since I made my views known in public immediately after the issue arose in the House of Commons I have given no television interviews or written any articles about it. The issue will be decided here tonight, not out there in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "sk my right hon. and hon. Friends whether they will make the mistake that I made in 1972. What would the Conservative party Whips be saying if this had been a Labour Government's proposal? Would we be supporting it in breach of our election commitments? If we would have voted against a Labour Hong Kong Bill, why should we vote for it just because it is brought forward by a Conservative Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " all British nationals in Hong Kong. Then, of course, the scream would go up, helped by some of the more disreputable characters in the House, \"You are letting in 3¼ million Chinese.\" What a load of rubbish. Of course nothing of the sort would happen. And who in their senses would want to come to Thatcher's Britain, with its inequality, its collapsing public services, its general tattiness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you doing about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " go up, helped by some of the more disreputable characters in the House, \"You are letting in 3¼ million Chinese.\" What a load of rubbish. Of course nothing of the sort would happen. And who in their senses would want to come to Thatcher's Britain, with its inequality, its collapsing public services, its general tattiness—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Us.\"] You fellows cannot get away; you are stuck here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1641.5", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "That s a useful intervention and I shall certainly respond to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1641.7", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " Britain this January and called for one third of the Legislative Council to be elected in 1991, 50 per cent. in 1995 and 100 per cent. in 2003, we supported their case, although it was a retreat from our position and that of the Select Committee. Indeed, the present Leader of the House, when speaking to the House last June, seemed to favour OMELCO's 2003 target for 100 per cent. direct elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1641.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "lcome the opportunity to speak in this debate, especially as it concerns the allocation of additional resources for the purpose of immigration control. I listened carefully to what the Foreign Secretary had to say about the operation of immigration control under the Government. It is right to place the Bill in the context of the Government's approach to immigration control over the past 10 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-19", "file": "debates1990-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5b072505103b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1658.10", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "oad. The wait is six months in Bombay and a good deal longer elsewhere. The situation in Peking will be affected by the money resolution, especially for those who seek to come to Britain through Peking and have to be referred to Hong Kong. I am speaking specifically about the case of my constituent, Mr. Peter Flack, a British citizen who went to China as a teacher, seconded by his local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-19a.1658.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-20", "file": "debates1990-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "558a1fd6f41ea414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1671.9", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Low Alcohol Drinks) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 8, in page 1, line 6, leave out from '1964', to end of line 12 and insert 'for the words \"not exceeding 1016 and of a strength not exceeding 1·2 per cent.\" there shall be substituted the words \"not exceeding 1009 and of a strength not exceeding 0·5 per cent.\".'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1671.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-20", "file": "debates1990-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "558a1fd6f41ea414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1678.3", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Low Alcohol Drinks) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "No doubt this is interesting, but it is a long way from the matters before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-20", "file": "debates1990-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "558a1fd6f41ea414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1680.2", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Low Alcohol Drinks) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brandy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "This is only the preamble; I shall he coming to more detailed aspects of the Bill later. One important truth may have escaped even my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. Today is the anniversary of the birth of his late imperial majesty, Emperor Napoleon III of France. Why do I mention that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-20", "file": "debates1990-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "558a1fd6f41ea414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1695.0", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Low Alcohol Drinks) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I see the point that my hon. Friend is making. I must acknowledge that even non-alcoholic beer may have contained alcohol at, say, one part per million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-20", "file": "debates1990-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "558a1fd6f41ea414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1702.4", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Low Alcohol Drinks) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tion. I shall turn to conclusion No. 6, on page 13, which states: Drinking non-alcoholic beer at a rate of 1 pint per 20 minutes does not increase alcohol levels beyond 15 mg per millilitre. There is even more damning evidence in the report, where it states: Drinking low-alcohol beer at a rate of one pint per 20 minutes may raise the blood-alcohol level\"— wait for it— to 800 mg within three hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-20a.1702.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.6.12", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my constituents I thank my hon. Friend for that extremely good news. May I persuade him in his busy schedule to take a ride down that road with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.6.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.6.13", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Be careful what you do in cars.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "n made, at some of the busiest areas the traffic mostly stands still because the worst congestion is at either end of those improvements, particularly where the Blackwall tunnel crosses the A13. At night a journey from this building of under five miles can take three hours because of the congestion. Will he give an assurance that work on the two ends of the road will also begin in the near future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.6.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that if an hon. Member wants to know what is going on in the Chamber, all that he has to do is to walk through the door—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that if an hon. Member wants to know what is going on in the Chamber, all that he has to do is to walk through the door—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and that if he wants to take part in the discussion, all that has to do is stand up and catch Mr. Speaker's eye?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "As a drink or a cup of tea on the Terrace is a most desirable occupation, it might deflect hon. Members from taking their places in the Chamber. Will the Leader of the House consider making access to the Terrace easier for members of the public so that they, too, can enjoy the facilities that are available to Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.18.9", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "my right hon. and learned Friend aware that it is not only banking services that Members need in this place? There is a dearth of good shops anywhere in the area for buying simple groceries. We should be concerned about the difficulties faced by the staff and all those who work in this place, apart from the 650 Members. They are a long way from any shops where they can get the necessities of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.18.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Mr. Paul Ashwell", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " whole of this exercise? Finally, why was my constituent told that any arrest that might take place would be a mere technicality? Mr. Ashwell is a young, innocent trucker with a young family. He was doing a normal commercial job. If EC matters mean anything to this House, the two Governments should make it very clear that such an innocent party should be returned to the United Kingdom immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Mr. Paul Ashwell", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recall that quite a long time ago, when we had a decent Government in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Mr. Paul Ashwell", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recall that quite a long time ago, when we had a decent Government in this country— [Laughter.] —and when Lord Palmerston was in charge, he stated the principle, \"Civis Romanus sum\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I shall not be drawn on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I shall not be drawn on that. [Interruption.] We are dealing here with questions of life and death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-23", "file": "debates1990-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "1b727e84fe8c29ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "is to say no to destructive experimentation. Why do I say that? Because, surely, if there is any reasonable doubt about the status of the human embryo, we should give it the benefit of the doubt. The human embryo has an overwhelming call upon our conscience and duty. We have heard a great deal recently about the views of the Archbishop of York, but he does not speak for the majority of Christians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-23a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.141.10", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "it a scandal and an outrage that tens of thousands of workers are being paid below the minimum wage in companies such as Superbadge in my constituency? In view of the Minister's remarks, I hope that he will look into that company. The Government have been particularly vindictive in several ways. First, there is now only one inspector for 5,000 workers and there were only nine prosecutions in 1989—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.141.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.146.10", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ssion can be based only on the views and, if the hon. Gentleman likes, the fears that people have. In due course the evidence will be available and it must be taken into account. I thought that the hon. Gentleman might have been using his question as an opportunity to remind the House that business rate bills in Birmingham for 1990–91 have been reduced by just under 30 per cent. on average—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.146.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.155.9", "colnum": "155", "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 to the reply that I gave some moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.155.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.156.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Customs and Excise, in a case such as this, is the prosecuting authority. It is not for Government Departments to decide whether there was anything wrong in the application. That is for Customs and Excise. It cannot do that until it has completed the investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Can't hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister made the point that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.159.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "essions to request an abortion. Under the new clause, she and women in a similar position could not have an abortion. Many family circumstances lead people to decide to have an abortion, and the present social provision must be available. Let us not forget the distress that has been caused through delay in the National Health Service. It often depends on the part of the country in which one lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.193.7", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way for some time. I will take interventions later. I wish to address myself to the case of the Carlisle baby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.193.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.200.13", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "It must be said in defence of the hon. Member for Maidstone (Miss Widdecombe)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.200.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "abortion to be contemplated. However, we are not considering with sufficient care the sanctity of life. I was in the Members' Post Office on Saturday morning when all the parcels arrived and my initial feeling was of great sympathy for the staff. When I opened my parcel I found a legitimate and graphic piece of campaigning, because nobody disputes that that is what a 20-week-old foetus looks like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "sake of other hon. Members, I will not be sidetracked to Romania—a country which I have just visited and which is one of the saddest places that I have ever seen. I shall not talk about the obscene antics of the Ceaucesceu regime and the actions that people were driven to during that time. I am talking about our attitude to life. I am trying to put my case with a degree of calmness and moderation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "eaucesceu regime and the actions that people were driven to during that time. I am talking about our attitude to life. I am trying to put my case with a degree of calmness and moderation— [Interruption.] I hope that the hon. Lady will accept that I understand how passionately she feels. I know that she was a member of the nursing profession and must have just as great a concern for life as I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.210.5", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": ". One has only to consider the statistics for children born out of wedlock, or the increasingly powerful demands, which I shall not expand on at the moment because it would be out of order, from some sections of the community for women to be allowed to have children without any thought of marriage, to realise that there have been many changes. No one could have been married for 23 years as I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.210.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "he SPUC supporters made their views known in the Whips' Office, and there were conflicts with the Secretary of State for Health. The result is the nonsense that is before the Committee tonight. There will be a whole series of Divisions tonight from which many right hon. and hon. Members will be absent, while others will not really know what they are voting for. Rational decisions will not be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.256.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "s follow the debate and the guides to voting, and contemplate their personal positions seriously, as we all will, the Government have provided a perfectly adequate and probably overdue opportunity for us to exercise our undoubted duty to make our best judgment according to our own conscience on the matter. We are not debating or voting on the policy of having legalised abortion under the 1967 Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-24", "file": "debates1990-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "44773dadddc26b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "e the clause stand part vote on whatever the House has decided. In the three minutes remaining, I shall not add to the information given. Lest people outside argue that whatever view is decided was reached in ignorance, hon. Members should ensure that they have their copy of the explanatory note from my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House setting out what all the amendments mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-24a.263.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sandwell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hackney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hackney—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Southwark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Local authorities with the highest number of empty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hackney—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Wolverhampton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "mpty council dwellings in April 1989 were Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Hackney—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Wolverhampton—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Newcastle upon Tyne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Oxfordshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Oxfordshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cheshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Oxfordshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cheshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Isle of Wight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Oxfordshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cheshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Isle of Wight—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal.\"]; Humberside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Oxfordshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cheshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Isle of Wight—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal.\"]; Humberside—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Nottinghamshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The list is as follows: Derbyshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Avon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Northumberland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cumbria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Oxfordshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Cheshire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Isle of Wight—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal.\"]; Humberside—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Nottinghamshire—[HON. MEMBERS \"Labour.\"]; and Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": " pressure that the poll tax has put on family life: about their obligation to maintain an adult child or an elderly relative for whom there is suddenly a new responsibility. Moreover—I believe that my experience is unlikely to be unique in this respect—the overriding question that has increasingly been asked by the great majority of those who have written is about why the poll tax bill is so high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ried the House with me to the point where we had explored this catalogue of errors and I had suggested that simple incompetence was hardly an adequate explanation. I believe that the Government deliberately set out to create that shortfall because they wanted to build into the poll tax the unfairness, the high bills and the oppressive burdens that are now manifest. Why should they want to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.346.9", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.346.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I am glad to carry the hon. Gentleman with me to some degree at least, in that he joins us in the criticisms which the vast majority of people make of the Government's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": " how much difficulty the Government are in. For the sake of all those who want to live in a fairy-tale land where people do not understand what our Labour replacement for the poll tax will be, let me read from the report in The Independent. When people were asked what alternatives to the poll tax they favoured, Labour's system of taking income and property values into account was the most popular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ale land where people do not understand what our Labour replacement for the poll tax will be, let me read from the report in The Independent. When people were asked what alternatives to the poll tax they favoured, Labour's system of taking income and property values into account was the most popular— [Interruption.] Unlike those Conservative Members who are or pretend to be ignorant, 43 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ny other proposition. The next most popular alternative was a return to the rates, which was favoured by 17 per cent. A local income tax, which is favoured by the Liberal Democrats, was preferred by only 16 per cent. and surprisingly, only one in seven of that dwindling band of Tory voters—those who intend to vote Tory in the local elections—favoured the poll tax Let me quote from The Independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will know that I am extremely grateful to him for giving way. The Government amendment accuses the Labour party of not producing the goods in respect of the roof tax. Is he aware that the reason why the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) was afraid to give way to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "instead of continuing for four years. In his Budget statement, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the doubling of the ceiling on capital disregards. Whatever our political disagreements, and although there are exceptions to which my hon. Friend the Minister referred earlier, by and large, the administrative arrangements for this extremely complicated new way of raising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.352.8", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could give way first to the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.352.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way to him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "unfamiliar with extremis. Some of us, as we trudge wearily through middle age, are old enough to remember the days when we had a Labour Government, and they were capped by the international bankers. Therefore, it is not surprising that 21 of the 21 authorities capped this year are Labour or hung Labour. I turn now to the uniform business rate and revaluation, on which the hon. Member for Dagenham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.356.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "I shall give a personal view and a party view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas French", "preceding_text": "at, had the local authority got its act in order at the correct time—before 1 April—the problem could have been avoided. It could have created a class that made the multiplier zero-rated, and then Miss Godbold would not have been obliged to pay a double rate. The local authority then decided to blame the Government on the wrong grounds, and sought retrospective discretion to put right its mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.414.4", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "er than that set by Conservative authorities in Surrey and Berkshire. And what about the position of Barnsley? I know Barnsley well because I worked there. The Government are destroying the most basic services and are undermining the most basic education opportunity for youngsters. That borough, in the heart of the south Yorkshire coalfield, must be able to alleviate the problems that people face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "preceding_text": "ember for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) has put his finger on a couple of rather uncomfortable facts about the Bill. If I may dare to correct my hon. Friend's history, I do not think that 5 June 1945 was VE day. We discussed this in Committee in some detail, and discovered that there were two possible options for that day. First, as everyone knows, it was the day when Brazil declared war on Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-25", "file": "debates1990-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "babdd06ee5176bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "I made my position on the Bill clear in the debate on amendment No. 2, and I see no point in repeating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-25a.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful response. As a former managing director, I know only too well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "er managing director, I know only too well—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Those were the days when I was gainfully employed. Bad debts are bad news; they go straight to the bottom line and adversely affect the balance sheet. I therefore welcome unreservedly my right hon. Friend's Budget changes, which will substantially help companies. I wonder whether I might pursue one matter with my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will have received many representations in the past 12 months about alternatives to the community charge. Was not the most callous unveiled yesterday in Scotland, when there was a proposal which made no allowance for rebates for pensioners, the sick, or the unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "preceding_text": "on. Friend will have received many representations in the past 12 months about alternatives to the community charge. Was not the most callous unveiled yesterday in Scotland, when there was a proposal which made no allowance for rebates for pensioners, the sick, or the unemployed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] That proposal was outlined by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.480.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "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 makes his own point very effectively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS' ``Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "May I return my right hon. Friend to the mutiny at Strangeways prison?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.482.9", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed that in the second year of the community charge in Scotland local authorities' expenditure programmes are largely within the rate of inflation and that 20 of them have expenditure programmes at about the same level or below the level the previous year? Does not that show clearly that the community charge is working?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.482.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.490.6", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "preceding_text": " clause 4 to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which no doubt gave the House and the country the broad view of parliamentarians. I invite my right hon. and learned Friend to exercise his talents in that direction yet once more. He will be aware that 5 million people shop regularly on a Sunday. Would it be possible to mount a similar exercise, whereby various options could be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.490.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial consequences of winding up", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "in Committee that he was announcing the flexibility that is being introduced into the employment training scheme throughout the United Kingdom. I leave it to the Minister to demonstrate that there is any flexibility which applies particularly to the scheme in Scotland, and any Scottish aspect of youth training or employment training that is distinct from training in the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.560.4", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial consequences of winding up", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "bout? New clause 11 imposes a duty (which shall not itself be delegated) of keeping under continuous review the suitability and adequacy of any training provided by that agent\". I should have thought that we would all agree. The hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie seems to think that we need to set up a training inspectorate. I spent many years as an inspector on behalf of the Royal Air Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.560.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-26", "file": "debates1990-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0233231e3b14b4bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial consequences of winding up", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "eep training schemes \"under continuous review\" will not achieve that end. A properly financed and resourced inspectorate with people who understand training and know what should be achieved from properly designed training programmes would be much more likely to act as a watchdog with teeth in that important area. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) has left the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-26a.565.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-30", "file": "debates1990-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83dfa74d1806d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-30a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that I need any help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-30a.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-30", "file": "debates1990-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83dfa74d1806d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-30a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "I strongly disagree. The RSPCA waged a low-key campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-30a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-04-30", "file": "debates1990-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83dfa74d1806d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-30a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the poll tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "preceding_text": "Another important principle is that exemptions must be permitted. There can be no justification for imposing the fee on pensioners with low incomes, whatever its level may be. My hon. Friend the Member for Drake and her supporters have been very cagey about mentioning a figure. We know that suggestions have varied from £15 to £60. Whatever it may be, we could not include pensioners on low incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-04-30a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.883.5", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not have a public relations adviser and I do not intend to have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.883.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.892.11", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at subject last week, he would have known the answer. We are looking to see whether any adjustments need to be made to the community charge for next year. Some of those were indicated in the debate, and there is no surprise about it. When one goes from a rate tax to a community charge, adjustments will, of course, need to be made, and we are looking to see which ones need to be made for next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.892.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.893.5", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When we have a statement to make we shall make it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.893.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.893.7", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The community charge is a much fairer charge than rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.893.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.893.9", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—and a far fairer charge than the alternative roof tax. I notice that when the right hon. Gentleman gave an interview to The Independent on 21 April, it stated that Mr. Kinnock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.893.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.894.8", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.894.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.894.10", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.894.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly pay tribute to the eficient Conservative authority in Medway. With regard to my hon. Friend's question about the five worst education authorities and so on, I am sure that the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly pay tribute to the eficient Conservative authority in Medway. With regard to my hon. Friend's question about the five worst education authorities and so on, I am sure that the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly pay tribute to the eficient Conservative authority in Medway. With regard to my hon. Friend's question about the five worst education authorities and so on, I am sure that the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "gladly pay tribute to the eficient Conservative authority in Medway. With regard to my hon. Friend's question about the five worst education authorities and so on, I am sure that the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rvative authority in Medway. With regard to my hon. Friend's question about the five worst education authorities and so on, I am sure that the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Sandwell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " authorities and so on, I am sure that the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. The five authorities which have most empty council houses are Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t the House is avidly waiting to hear my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. The five authorities which have most empty council houses are Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " my reply. The five councils with the worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. The five authorities which have most empty council houses are Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he worst education results are Knowsley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. The five authorities which have most empty council houses are Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Waltham Forest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Barking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Newham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Sandwell—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. The five authorities which have most empty council houses are Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e five authorities which have most empty council houses are Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. Between them, those Labour-controlled authorities have more than 20,000 empty houses. The five authorities with the highest rent arrears are Southwark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "empty council houses are Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. Between them, those Labour-controlled authorities have more than 20,000 empty houses. The five authorities with the highest rent arrears are Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Lambeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. Between them, those Labour-controlled authorities have more than 20,000 empty houses. The five authorities with the highest rent arrears are Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Lambeth—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ol—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Sheffield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. Between them, those Labour-controlled authorities have more than 20,000 empty houses. The five authorities with the highest rent arrears are Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Lambeth—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Brent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Birmingham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]. Between them, those Labour-controlled authorities have more than 20,000 empty houses. The five authorities with the highest rent arrears are Southwark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Lambeth—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Liverpool—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Brent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Islington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.895.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "RAF Shackleton (Crash)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "e 40-year-old aircraft in service. The task has been made extremely difficult in recent years because of the reduction of operational Shackletons from 11 to the current six. During this time, planes which have gone out of commission have been cannibalised to keep the rest in the air, which is a significant achievement. The provision of early warning planes has had a sorry history in this country——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "RAF Shackleton (Crash)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "We find it difficult to understand why the Shackleton seems to have had no upgrading in recent times. Apart from the many questions relating to the condition of the aircraft there are questions peculiar to this crash that need to be answered. One matter of great concern is the role that the aircraft was playing at the time of the crash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I think that what one has noticed over the past 10 years is that the rhetoric and the practice often vary very much in countries in the European Community. We must define our terms, or we shall have artificial debates and arouse needless fears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition has ceased to surprise me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "pean Economic Community. I believe in a socialist Europe. I want a united socialist Europe. I do not want the type of system which is being proposed at present. So I suggest that we need to be much more serious about this question—at present, some of our people are only too keen to rush into it. While I disagree, therefore, with everything that the right hon. Lady says in relation to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The reason why I sought to raise this point of order about one and a half hours ago was that I wanted it to be heard while the Prime Minister and others who had been involved were still present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Control of Inflation (Local Government) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "pening. I say gently to Conservative Members that if they think that year two will be any easier than year one, they are mistaken. It will make parliamentary life a misery. If we could start all over again, for the sake of personal convenience rather than political advantage I would never want to embark on such a road again. There is a geological flaw in the system. The hon. Member for Accrington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Control of Inflation (Local Government) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "hat if they think that year two will be any easier than year one, they are mistaken. It will make parliamentary life a misery. If we could start all over again, for the sake of personal convenience rather than political advantage I would never want to embark on such a road again. There is a geological flaw in the system. The hon. Member for Accrington— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hyndburn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Control of Inflation (Local Government) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. The hon. Member for Accrington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "game and a safe game. One of the results of lower tax rates and higher take home pay is that people have more disposable income to give to charity. The Government have consistently encouraged that, and since 1979 charitable giving has more than doubled in real terms. This year's Budget continues that approach. In 1987, my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby introduced the payroll giving scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "intend to introduce. Opposition Members did not like it when Mr. Keating of Credit Suisse First Boston estimated that as a result of their policy many couples without children and on below average earnings would be substantially worse off. He estimated that those earning only one and a half to two and a half times average earnings could, over time, find themselves paying up to £4,000 extra in tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ord straight by telling the Chief Secretary that my hon. Friends and I were not amused or critical of the Government's proposals on charities, although no doubt we shall debate them. We were amused that the Chief Secretary had dared to mention the name of the departed figure, the man who is not to be referred to except to be blamed for all the mistakes—the right hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be suffering from a pre-speech brief saying, \"For heaven's sake, ask this question irrespective of whether it is relevant or follows on from what has just been said.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.949.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.953.8", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.953.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " no impact on the growth of money, but in fact that was the Select Committee quoting the Red Book. So the Chief Secretary was quoting what the Government say, not what the Select Committee said. The report suggests—in particular, the comments of Mr. Reading suggest—that the Government should consider alternatives to the use of this single instrument. The report recently produced by the Bundesbank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.958.9", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I have not read the report of that. The report to which I am referring was published only two weeks ago, so perhaps the Bundesbank needs to sort out what advice it is giving the rest of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.958.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " year. It would be reasonable for the Opposition to say that we should facilitate the introduction of any new clauses that would bring immediate relief from the impact of the poll tax this year. We see no reason why the Finance Bill should not be used to carry out those measures. I should prefer to see the Finance Bill used to abolish the poll tax entirely and to set in its place a far better tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-01", "file": "debates1990-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2091659e14883842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.1001.11", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "ly know, Mr. Speaker, this matter is of great concern to many of my constituents because one of the factories in question is Sheffield Forgemasters, which is in my constituency. In the light of the Government's refusal to make a statement this evening, I would like your guidance—probably overnight —Mr. Speaker, as to what the position will be tomorrow at the Select Committee on Trade and Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-01a.1001.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend confirm that student support next year will increase by a massive 25 per cent., probably the largest ever single increase? Can he confirm that that includes an element of £420 interest-free student loan? Will he also confirm that such loans are not repayable until the student is earning 85 per cent of the national average wage? Will he further confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State have a little pity for the two dunderheads on the Opposition Benches who cannot give answers about the roof tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State have a little pity for the two dunderheads on the Opposition Benches who cannot give answers about the roof tax— [Interruption.] Let no Labour Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that there is something fundamentally undemocratic about well-heeled, freeloading scroungers who are elected to public office in this House and elsewhere seeking to get support for a change in the law and not obeying the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1022.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sam Galbraith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that because it is a matter for ministerial discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "estions regularly realise the difficult position in which you regularly find yourself because you cannot possibly call everyone who is standing. Let me make it clear that I speak as a Scot who regularly attends but is frequently not called. I understand why that is, and I make no objection to it, yet Scottish Opposition Members are regularly called more than once—sometimes as often as three times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1035.6", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "The point that I am trying to get over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1035.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "arks of his noble Friend, so that issue at least remains firmly established. On the second issue, I intend to move immediately to the effect of the proposals, because that issue was unnecessarily left in great doubt for a very long time in Committee. I intend to invite the hon. Member for Gordon, the Liberal Democrats' representative in Committee, to comment on it. We are very clear on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "tance. In the event of a difficult dispute that could not be resolved because there is no provision for its resolution, the matter would be resolved by the intervention not, as I understand it, of the Secretary of State for Scotland, but of the Secretary of State for the Environment. Is that right or wrong? Is the resolution of such disputes to rest with the Secretary of State for Scotland or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "sumably he made some inquiries to discover whether Michael Griffith had a good record on footpaths, but when we discussed the matter in Committee, and when I tabled parliamentary questions before Easter, the Minister could give us no answer. I am glad that he has started to sort out this problem and that Mr. Griffith is now saying that he will attempt to improve on what was not a very good record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " agree with the new clause, for a number of reasons that are consistent with the position I took in Committee and which my party has supported. My party has a relatively small percentage of the membership of the House, but our Members of Parliament represent large constituencies. We represent about 20 per cent. of the land area of Great Britain, and nearly half the land area of Scotland and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1067.4", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "of what goes in in rural areas in Scotland and Wales and of the interaction between parts of the community. If the hon. Member were a little more knowledgeable, he would understand why we have taken a vigorous line on this matter and why nature conservation is about the recognition that all land, throughout Great Britain, is managed and has to be conserved. The argument is about how it is managed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1067.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am aware that it is opposed to the Bill in its present form. I am aware, however, that it will accept at the end of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I note that the Secretary of State did not dispute the remarks which I attributed to the Prime Minister, nor did he take the opportunity of commenting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-02", "file": "debates1990-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "060cbf34744d55aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I note that the Secretary of State did not dispute the remarks which I attributed to the Prime Minister, nor did he take the opportunity of commenting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—on the far more important point, which is the actual cost of his proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-02a.1081.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-03", "file": "debates1990-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "af69d5ec32c11c7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1204.3", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the Opposition?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for reminding Members on the Conservative Benches that they are still in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-03", "file": "debates1990-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "af69d5ec32c11c7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1204.8", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because it is local councils which set the community charge—I trust that the right hon. Gentleman does not argue with that—and, as he knows, the top 50 overspenders are all Labour-controlled councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1204.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-03", "file": "debates1990-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "af69d5ec32c11c7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "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 the right hon. Gentleman for referring to that action by Dudley Labour council, which was not under an obligation to collect that sum from the deceased person's estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-03", "file": "debates1990-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "af69d5ec32c11c7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "l the Leader of the House consider—I emphasise the word \"consider\" because I know that these are difficult and delicate matters—whether we should have a statement next week from the Foreign Secretary? We just witnessed, in effect, a statement from the Prime Minister with no opportunity for hon. Members to ask questions, which was an abuse of our procedures. I do not regard that as an adequate way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-03", "file": "debates1990-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "af69d5ec32c11c7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1218.3", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I have indeed seen that report, and I join my hon. Friend in sending sympathy to the family of the police officer concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-03", "file": "debates1990-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "af69d5ec32c11c7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Local Authorities (No. 2) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "rs have a veneer of authority about them. I recall the case of a Japanese business man arriving at Heathrow. This tale is not apocryphal, but true. He drove from there, in a licensed black cab, to the centre of London, where all three Japanese passengers were asked for the amount on the taxi meter. Not only minicab drivers are crooks. They exist in all walks of life. There are crooks in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-03a.1249.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-08", "file": "debates1990-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "86f51274eb3d3b80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.18.10", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "preceding_text": "During a busy day, will the Prime Minister spare a thought for the people of Kashmir who are being murdered, raped and illegally imprisoned by the Indian army? As the titular Head of the Commonwealth, would you bring all pressure to bear upon India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.18.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-08", "file": "debates1990-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "86f51274eb3d3b80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Football Violence (Bournemouth)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "ring the past season and that there is nothing much to worry about. The fact remains that there was disorder in a number of places during the bank holiday weekend, which caused a great deal of trouble to the police, led to police injuries and spoiled the holidays for many people. It is time that the Football League addressed itself to its responsibilities in these matters. It is as simple as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-08", "file": "debates1990-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "86f51274eb3d3b80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.25.5", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Football Violence (Bournemouth)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "being a member of the membership scheme and of the Leeds United travel scheme. They were properly stewarded. That begins to put the matter into perspective It proves that the House spent one year on the Football Spectators Act 1989 and, from the 10 answers that the Home Secretary has so far given today, he has confirmed that that Act has been totally ineffective, as we predicted. This is a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.25.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-08", "file": "debates1990-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "86f51274eb3d3b80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.112.7", "colnum": "112", "heading": "New clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "something for which we should legislate lightly. Instead, we should consider the matter in great depth. The remarks of my hon. and learned Friend the Minister were constructive. Although he did not go as far as my hon. Friends and I would have liked, if he and the Government say that they are prepared to consider the matter again, I accept that assurance. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.112.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-08", "file": "debates1990-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "86f51274eb3d3b80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.116.4", "colnum": "116", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "The new clauses provide a new and more open way of awarding the Channel 3 television and new national radio licences. They would give viewers and listeners a direct say in the consideration of applications by the Independent Television Commission and the Radio Authority and would exactly meet the ambition of the Government, as expressed in their White Paper published in 1988.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-08", "file": "debates1990-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "86f51274eb3d3b80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "New Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "r training undertakings made in the original round of applications. I suspect that that will constitute one of those minor omissions that will not result in a major penalty. When it comes to local government, the Government say that it is right that everyone should contribute. One could almost understand that if contributions were based on some equity, but they are not in the case of the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-08a.140.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-09", "file": "debates1990-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55dd3c8d9d90656b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-09a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " the broadcasting organisations are placed under no obligation to carry the programmes. I fully accept that channels would want to show most of the events on the list. There may be genuine reservations about the boat race, although it has the advantage of starting in my constituency. Apart from that, one cannot make a big case for it, particularly now that Cambridge seem to be losing all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-09a.352.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-10", "file": "debates1990-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f0d025090ab3e8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for Dover.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for her remarks about the employees and workers in Dover engaged on the construction of the Channel tunnel. On a different subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-10", "file": "debates1990-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f0d025090ab3e8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.403.4", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery (Sheffield, Hillsbrough)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery (Sheffield, Hillsbrough)", "preceding_text": "I am sure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-10", "file": "debates1990-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f0d025090ab3e8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider arranging a debate on the spread of satanism and devil worship in the United Kingdom and the involvement of children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-10", "file": "debates1990-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f0d025090ab3e8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "rned Friend consider arranging a debate on the spread of satanism and devil worship in the United Kingdom and the involvement of children? [Interruption.] I well remember the reaction in the House 10 years ago, when I warned of the spread of child abuse. I was greeted with disbelief, but we now know differently. Two years ago, I warned of the spread of devil worship, satanism and black witchcraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-10", "file": "debates1990-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f0d025090ab3e8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — General Product Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " under the restrictions which would affect drugs and medicines. I think particularly of those products which are sold as slimming aids and as some sort of aphrodisiac or sexual enhancer. At present, the United Kingdom law in that area is inadequate. That matter needs considering. With the wider range of products which will be available in future some kind of blanket directive covering those areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-10a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-11", "file": "debates1990-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee42eef5b17e6cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-11a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": " convinced that greater policing will solve the problem. If the Minister said that by passing the Bill we should solve the problem of prostitution, I should have some sympathy for him. However, all he is saying is that we shall simply change the type of problem. I should have liked him to spend a little time addressing the question of what happens if we simply move people from one area to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-11a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-11", "file": "debates1990-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee42eef5b17e6cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-11a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members may find this unbelievable, but when I went to Cuba three or four years ago I found that no woman was frightened to be alone on the streets at night. That is not because Cuba has adopted the proposal of the hon. Member for Streatham or the new clause about putting prostitution under the control of local authorities. It is because in Cuba there is a different attitude to women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-11a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-11", "file": "debates1990-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee42eef5b17e6cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-11a.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ich a conviction can be obtained: first, that the woman concerned gives evidence in court and is believed on her oath, as against whatever the car driver may say, that he sought to solicit her for the purpose of prostitution. Currently, even if the hon. Gentleman's wife, mother or daughter were to be grossly offended by a guy approaching her and saying, \"How about 50 quid, love, for a quick one?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-11a.544.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-14", "file": "debates1990-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "42d64c262a3e09bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that that response has demonstrated to the House what happens if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-14", "file": "debates1990-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "42d64c262a3e09bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The Committee was plainly compromised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.600.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-14", "file": "debates1990-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "42d64c262a3e09bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Taxation (Opposition Policies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that it is not as simple as the hon. Member for Newham, North-East suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-14", "file": "debates1990-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "42d64c262a3e09bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Clyde Port Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "nts rather than borrowed funds. I hope that the Clyde port authority has been using its assets to create the maximum advantage for the core part of the business. I believe that it probably has, since it appears to be profitable. That must be welcomed by us all. The Clyde port authority board unanimously support-ed the use of the private Bill procedure. It must have considered a variety of options—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-14", "file": "debates1990-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "42d64c262a3e09bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Clyde Port Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "controversial \"may\" with which we always have difficulty— deepen, dredge, scour and improve the bed and foreshore of the river and firth of Clyde within the port or in or near any approach to the port\". There is a power whereby the port authority can use its resources to dredge, which is very different from saying that it \"shall\" always do what is necessary to enable the area to operate as a port.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-14", "file": "debates1990-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "42d64c262a3e09bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.690.7", "colnum": "690", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "You seem to make up the rules as you go along, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-14a.690.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "In the future battlefield of central Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The phrase to which I object is \"paid hack\". That is not a parliamentary expression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.733.11", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely right. I am sure that my hon. Friend agrees that we need to maintain the flexibility of nuclear response. Therefore, I sincerely hope that a tactical air-to-surface missile will be introduced as part of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.733.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.735.12", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "ations for European social fund money that was available from January? Why is it that 11,000 training places and £25 million are put at stake in that way? Why is it that organisations such as the Scottish Association for Mental Health and the organisation for the disabled in Glasgow, Goodwill, have their existence endangered by the Government's failure to use European social fund money? Why is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.735.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Nuclear Dumping (Dounreay)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "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 decision today by the Secretary of State for Scotland to allow test boring for nuclear dumping at Dounreay. This disgraceful decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Nuclear Dumping (Dounreay)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "tary of State for Scotland seems prepared to allow major waste dumping in Scotland. The Secretary of State may wish to run away from the wrath of Scottish Members, but his party will not be able to avoid the political consequences of his decision today. The campaigns that will be launched against the proposals in Scotland, by the SNP and by Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping, will equal in strength—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will take Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "hat is more than I can say for the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker), who did not have sufficient decency or courtesy—or the good fortune to be sharing that attractive company. He did not, therefore, bother to tell me. I have know the hon. Gentleman since his pre-House of Commons days, so nothing about him surprises me. If I felt for one minute that I was wrong in what I said last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will not comment on that. I have had a report from the Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means on the matter. As to the hon. Gentleman's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.746.6", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thank you", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell). While he and you, Mr. Speaker, were absolutely right in that the wider issue of Members' interests in general is a legitimate subject for debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.746.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.747.6", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether I can remind you, Mr. Speaker, that last June unanimous concern was expressed in the House—there was no dissent—about the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in China. We paid tribute to the people who were fighting in a terrorist dictatorship for the principles in which we believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.747.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say again that I discussed the matter with the First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means this morning. He did not feel that there had been any slur or attack on him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "g a tax and paying it to Customs and Excise. It was a most unfair system, because they were required to pay a tax when somebody else was unable to pay it. The clause is welcome, as it introduces a comprehensive system of bad debt relief for the first time. The hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) does not seem to understand a great deal about VAT and would do well to listen at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.816.8", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "erential has remained at almost the same figure; it is now about 30 per cent. A number of organisations argue that the differential must be greater. An additional tax on leaded petrol is not required, but the Government could forgo a little tax on unleaded petrol. Last year the Treasury paid back £7 billion of the national debt, so it could offer a slightly greater differential on unleaded petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.816.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.818.7", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady must examine the curves for the national debt in the past 150 years. It is true that it increased during the first and second world wars, but it has decreased under Labour as well as Conservative Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.818.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.818.11", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "More cars could change to unleaded petrol than are doing so now. We must remember that lead in petrol damages the heart, the kidneys and the central nervous system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.818.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "In addition, many consumers are price-insensitive and there is nothing that the Government can do about that. Some drivers wrongly believe that leaded petrol gives better performance than unleaded petrol. However, tests by manufacturers and consumers associations show that this is not so. Our having made the fiscal benefit available, it is now up to those who have not yet made the switch to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am anxious to get on with the debate and to be helpful to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I understand why the right hon. Gentleman is in error. We are concerned tonight with very minor rule changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "nd is the \"Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules\". That is what it is called. The word \"Changes\" appears. I would have assumed that everything that appeared within the cover labelled \"Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules\" is appropriate for debate. I cannot contradict your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker, but the logic of my position, if not the Standing Orders on my position, is impeccable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point for the Chair; it is a point for debate if I were to call the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersely", "preceding_text": "int, which is certainly covered by the rules, is the treatment of asylum seekers in several particulars. The Home Secretary will recall that paragraphs 173 and 174 of the document deal with that point. He will also recall that those paragraphs describe the way in which asylum seekers should be treated. There is now documented evidence that because of the Immigration (Carriers' Liability) Act 1987—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-15", "file": "debates1990-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2bdfdd63c0e79e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "On a point of order Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-15a.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-16", "file": "debates1990-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "515fe97f5a459a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-16a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "You shake your head, Mr. Speaker, as perhaps you should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-16a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-16", "file": "debates1990-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "515fe97f5a459a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-16a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " may concede the reasonable points that he has already heard and that he knows will be forthcoming not only from the Opposition but from at least one Conservative Member. Not trusting them, the right hon. Gentleman has come here to ensure that there are no concessions. 5 pm We should not be surprised that Conservative Members speak with a forked tongue about child care. I do not mean to be unkind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-16a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-16", "file": "debates1990-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "515fe97f5a459a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-16a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "Members? It was someone to whom they should pay attention—indeed, someone to whom they must pay attention day in, day out. The Chief Secretary suffered more in that respect than any other person. It was, of course, the Prime Minister, no doubt speaking from her vast experience while other women took care of her children as she practised part tune at the Bar and practised part time as a politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-16a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.997.5", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady raises two very good points. First, any pesticides used on crops in this country are safe. If they were not, they would not be authorised. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "That is a load of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1003.6", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "The Government have commissioned extensive research—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1003.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t salary that the Labour party aimed to attain. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we have also put forward new proposals for determining teachers' pay. In the meantime, I should point out that most teachers with seven years' experience will be at the top of the scale, and have a big incentive allowance: their salary will be £19,000, the deputy head of a typical secondary school will be earning £26,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Beef", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "My officials offered some time ago to meet Parents for Safe Food to discuss its concern about BSE and meat, but the organisation has not taken up this offer, nor has it submitted any scientific evidence that we can study. I am naturally concerned to ensure that the public know that the clear and consistent advice of the best scientific opinion is that British beef is safe.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1009.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1024.10", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman returns to the same set of fantasies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1024.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Stevens Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": " and why I hope that the Secretary of State will act with the greatest possible urgency in executing the revisions that have been found necessary and exposed in the report. This is not the first time that various screens and processes have been reorganised. That has happened at least five or six times in the past 20 years. What is going wrong in allowing those evil people to slip through the net —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Stevens Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "cy in executing the revisions that have been found necessary and exposed in the report. This is not the first time that various screens and processes have been reorganised. That has happened at least five or six times in the past 20 years. What is going wrong in allowing those evil people to slip through the net — [Interruption.] Another point that I should like the Secretary of State to address —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I repeat that anyone who believes that they are listed by the league should contact the organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-17", "file": "debates1990-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "87a9aca673175a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Even if someone considers himself or herself a revolutionary and a danger to capitalism, Opposition Members realise—although Conservative Members do not—that many such people take themselves more seriously than their activities justify. We have a police force, special branch, MI5 and MI6 and if people are attempting to subvert the interests of the country it is their job to attend to such matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-17a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-18", "file": "debates1990-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cd55a66e0fa2e204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-18a.1185.4", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": " Germany and Spain is changing its gauge. They are all gearing up for 1992 and a single market. Those whom I represent, and those in my region generally, are fearful that we shall be left behind, with the line going up either the east coast or the west coast. One of the major engines of the British economy—the east midlands—will be left to flounder and to fend for itself in a competitive new area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-18a.1185.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about directors' pay rises?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": "Labour Members talk as though the money to provide child care for lone parents will drop out of the sky. It has to be paid for by other taxpayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order of the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Mr. Thompson). First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I did not quite get the thrust of that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "us and severe implications for the Lanarkshire economy and suggest the implications for the wider Scottish economy, but they know as well as I do that the importance of Ravenscraig is similar to that of IBM, Ferranti and other companies of a comparable size. It is not appropriate to suggest that different fundamental considerations apply. Only one in 300 employees in Scotland works at Ravenscraig—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.35.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": " hope that I shall be helpful. Because of the social consequences and differences between the contracts with British Rail, the Scottish electricity authorities and so on, does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that if the management of British Steel could negotiate keener prices with these companies that depend so much on Ravenscraig, Ravenscraig could again become a commercial consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are giving up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "erwell if the hot strip mill closed next year. Accordingly, on a contingency basis, I am asking the Industry Department for Scotland and the Scottish Development Agency, together with the other relevant interests including local authority and private sector interests, to consider what could be done to encourage new employment and investment in Motherwell in the event of the hot strip mill closing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "itish Steel for the way in which it carried out this exercise. I have made it quite clear why I cannot support the motion in the name of the Labour party and its leader. I cannot support a motion that calls for \"everything possible\" to be done in terms that are understood by the Opposition. That was why I thought that the hon. Member for Garscadden, who did not allow me to intervene in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "ing for a level playing field. We in the west midlands do not feel that we have been playing on one. All our expanding industries were directed or redirected to Scotland under the industrial development certificate policy, thus weakening the west midlands' industrial base, with no gain to Scotland. Scotland still enjoys higher subsidies from central Government. If one examines regional assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "ers in this place. Any matter that relates to Scotland immediately results in the nonsense to which we listen in these debates. Last week it was announced that there would be a modern, clean industrial and leisure development at Consett which will employ 1,300 people in jobs that are not related to the steel industry and are not historic but futuristic. We should look forward to such developments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "fitable, well-run organisation cost the taxpayer millions of pounds a year at one time. It now wants to expand and diversify in Germany by buying German steel plants so that the industry operates in a wider European context. Yet they talk about a 27-year-old plant as though it was the heart and soul of Scotland. It is not; it is a steel works like any other which must stand or fall like any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have read the report and I commend the hon. Gentleman on his assiduity in reading it. It may be that Professor Smallwood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "d may not be like a stagnant pool; it may change. The hon. Gentleman rightly quoted Professor Southwood's words, but only yesterday he said the words that I have just quoted. Clearly, Professor Southwood, with the benefit of hindsight, has changed his mind and been honest enough to say so. Professor Southwood had a difficult task. With the slashing cuts in research staff which the Government made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "possible. No one has a monopoly of scientific knowledge about the new disease—the wider the scientific investigation the better. I regret that the Minister has so far blocked that initiative and I hope that he will change his mind today. Fifthly, the Minister should be more frank with the House and the public. On Thursday, when we finally dragged him to the Dispatch Box, his behaviour was abysmal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.84.8", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "en out all the specified offal from all adult cattle reaching the slaughterhouse, so as to make doubly sure that consumers are protected. So once again the Government have acted to implement all that, and more than, the experts recommended. One of the most important Southwood recommendations was the establishment of a consultative committee on research, under the chairmanship of Dr. David Tyrrell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.84.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman does not understand the facts. Dr. Tyrrell reports to me. I then publicly state exactly what he has told me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.86.5", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "No, I shall finish what I have to say first. Dr. Tyrrell has reported to me; I have published the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.86.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.86.5", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "No, I shall finish what I have to say first. Dr. Tyrrell has reported to me; I have published the report—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"] In the Library, and I am holding a copy of it now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.86.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-05-21", "file": "debates1990-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "11e4b86d918fe786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister repeatedly refused to give way to Opposition Back-Benchers. As to bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cats, the right hon. Gentleman said——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-21a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend considers giving more grants to the British Tourist Authority, with which I entirely agree, will he lean on it and ask it to encourage restaurants to print their menus in English rather than in French? Is not it a fact that tourists and British people find it totally unacceptable to have to read menus in French rather than in English?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "There was an increase in expenditure on helping the disabled from £220 million in 1986–87 to £350 million in 1988–89—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.166.11", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would put up taxes all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.166.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think everyone has been impressed with President de Klerk's integrity and courage. He has embarked on a reform that will bring an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree with me that on this side of the House we have history and tradition on our side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Drug Testing (Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave to given to bring in a Bill to allow random—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "It was spent on, for instance, homosexual activities and parties for lesbians. Certainly no letters to the town hall were answered. While the rates and the community charge have increased in Ealing under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.192.7", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "is meant to pay it. The last time that that question was posed to the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), he replied enigmatically that that would be a matter of \"maximum choice\". Suppose the hon. Gentleman and I went out to dinner, the bill arrived and we tried to decide who would pay it. If that was left to a matter of maximum choice, we would be there all night trying to decide who would pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.192.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about education?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Even with the Government making a 50 per cent. contribution for protection services such as the police, the fire and road maintenance services which notch up a large percentage of the revenue spent by local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the Labour party going to do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That is a helpful intervention because it reminds me that £5 million of this year's income of the well-known London borough of Westminster came from the standard poll tax. That says a great deal about the flats of business people in Westminster, and about what the relatively poor would have to pick up if the standard poll tax were abolished. Therefore, it is an interesting point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are five \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "er from central Government revenue to local government on a basis that is not, and cannot be, equitable. In Scotland, the poll tax accounts for 17 to 18 per cent. of local revenue in some authorities, whereas in others it accounts for as little as 4 per cent. Some have referred to accountability in electoral terms. I defy any Scottish Member—and I must be careful as there are four here at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are poll tax capped.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " not giving way. Having said that, I express my genuine thanks to the officers in Calderdale—Malcolm Fearnley and his team—for their efficient implementation of the community charge in my constituency. They have managed to deal with 32,000 applications for rebates and 40,500 applications for transitional relief. They have done that efficiently and speedily and they have also dealt with extra help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.215.2", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. Will my hon. Friend the Minister consider exempting people under 25 from the community charge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "nt, the level to be determined by equalisation grants that would be calculated in exactly the same way as for rates and the community charge. With a local income tax, we are effectively talking about persuading central Government to give up some of the tax they take and to allow the local authorities to take that tax directly to ensure that they have access to the revenue from the public at large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "No. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] Conservative Members would do well to listen to this. That means that, if a local authority wants to increase its overall budget by 5 per cent., it must increase its poll tax by 25 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": "toria street and in Parliament square and Whitehall. The whole area is already enormously congested not only during the rush hour but throughout the day. I beg the Minister to take the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West made. We are talking not just about one area but about several major routes to various parts of London which will be seriously affected. I close by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-22", "file": "debates1990-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "8dab11fe54dadb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.246.11", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "This Bill has been rushed through. Some hon. Members expected more time to prepare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-22a.246.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "Further to the question of the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Shepherd)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.277.7", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "I recognise the excellent work that my hon. Friend has done in trying to persuade his council to use a simplified planning zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.277.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you know, my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton) is about to explain to the House, not before time, the workings of the roof tax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Roof Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": " will tell the more sagacious Members of the House that Moreton-in-Marsh is represented by our right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) and we can well understand the eagerness with which the hon. Gentleman desires to become one of his constituents. But as I understand it, the hon. Gentleman's flat is in a very large 18th century country house called Northwick park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "s that building if they are prepared to allow that to happen. There ought to be shame on the Conservative Benches. Certainly there ought to be shame in No. 10 Downing street for having gone along with this carnival, this festival that has had such an unhappy ending, the problem still not having been resolved. Battersea power station is a London landmark. Many of us have come to love that building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "appen to county hall. Proposals are now coming forward that are not entirely dissimilar to Mr. Broome's proposals for Battersea power station. The county hall proposals are for a luxury hotel, offices, a business centre, an amusement park and luxury flats—all the Flash Harry ideas that Mr. Broome had for Battersea power station. I disagree with the proposals. The Secretary of State is considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": " Geoffrey Lofthouse. Why on earth can we not occasionally use the language of the real world? When we refer to someone as, for instance, the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup, the commentators who must make our proceedings intelligible to the world outside must say in hushed tones that we are referring to Edward Heath. Our next comments are then lost, because the commentary drowns them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-05-23", "file": "debates1990-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "abc8fb39a920bf05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "900, and that is a disgrace. It is easy for Members who call themselves the national party, as they did in the election a short while ago, to tell people how interested they are in Northern Ireland. There are three Conservative Members and one Opposition Member in the House. That certainly says something. Perhaps there is not so much competition to speak because we are not on peak-time television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-05-23a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not only not admit, but I strongly deny my hon. Friend's allegation and his ridiculous travesty of our appointment process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "period there has been a steady increase in the number of dental treatments given under the National Health Service. Over a lengthy period I expect to see a continued and satisfactory level of dental check-ups. I do not believe that for the 60 per cent. of the population who are asked to pay, £3·45 is a deterrent charge for a perfectly reasonable part of any individual's preventive medicine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.501.4", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "t hon. and learned Gentleman tell the House that there is no evidence of a decline when the Minister for Health told the House in February that there had been a slight dip and when in May his Department reported a reduction of 700,000 cases, thus bucking the upward trend throughout Europe? Does the Secretary of State accept that he has got his figures wrong and will he go back and do his homework—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.501.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.505.6", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "mind that Australia, Canada and the United States, three countries with legal systems not dissimilar to ours and which do not take second place to us in regard to human rights, legislated on this long ago? Will she weigh very carefully in coming to any decision on this grave matter the words in the conclusion of the Hetherington-Chalmers report that to take no action against such monstrous crimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.505.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.507.10", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend note that I had British beef for lunch?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.507.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.508.6", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "p out rough in London. Some of them have other problems such as being mentally retarded, or have genuine problems and are genuine social cases. Others are not. During the lifetime of the Government, a great many hostel places have been built. There are now more than 21,000 hostel places in London, including some 3,000 emergency places and direct access beds. We have already just allocated another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.508.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Coach Crash (France)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Cecil Parkinson)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Cecil Parkinson)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Coach Crash (France)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "t off the road near Auxerre in France, approximately 80 miles south of Paris, and rolled on to its side. Of the passengers and crew, 11 were killed, 18 seriously injured and 47 slightly injured. On behalf of the Government and, I am sure, the whole House, I should like to take this opportunity to express our sympathy to the families and friends of those injured or killed in this dreadful accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Coach Crash (France)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "roduce a ban on recut as well as remould tyres for coach operators, especially those operating over long distances? Will the right hon. Gentleman comment on the story, featured in the Daily Mail this morning, that the company had been operating illegally for some months? Is he aware that Opposition Members believe that this appalling tragedy is a direct result of coach deregulation, which has led—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Shellfish (North-East Coast)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Obviously I have respect for the fishermen in the hon. Gentleman's constituency. Attempts have been made to study previous years to see if there is any correlation between the years when the algae bloomed to produce high levels of toxin and those when nutrients, including nutrients from sewage, have existed at a high level in the North sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "National Audit Office (Extension of Powers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "AT, national insurance and so on. The hon. Gentleman asks why we do not cost our programme. I have to say: It would be irresponsible, and anyway impossible, to say … precisely how much it will cost. We do not have the advice which is available in government from professional advisers; we do not know what the world situation—or the domestic economic situation—will be when we come to office\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": " a respect for our serving soldiers and who served in the Army, was the publication of the book \"The New Model Army\" by Michael Yardley and Dennis Sewell, who are former cavalry officers. Their claim of undeniable symptoms of moral decay in a system that rewards \"ruthless careerism\", and tolerates bullying in an organisation that contains the worst racial bigots in Society is extremely disturbing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-05", "file": "debates1990-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1380f94c4c432c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seventhly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " up by the Government, why did no Minister intervene and insist that MI5 assist the police in the matter? Sixthly, when Parliament was being repeatedly misled by the conclusions of the Terry report over Army intelligence knowledge of the scandal, why did none of those who knew about MI5's refusal to co-operate with the inquiry bother to bring that to the attention of the House of Commons? Sixthly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-05a.587.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.618.7", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister totally ignorant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.618.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.622.5", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "In contradiction to the Opposition, will my hon. Friend the Minister tell the House how grateful Perth is for its southern bypass so that St. Johnstone football club can have the most modern football ground in Scotland with the best facilities in a greenpeace site—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.622.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "or diabetes. It is strange that a block should suddently be imposed on one preventive test while other such tests romp along without interference. I do not know whether this means that eventually we are to have charges for other checks. I should like to know whether they are to be introduced. Thirdly, the money that is saved is not to be spent on projects for which greater need is claimed. It has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Welfare of Children", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "Over the past decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Welfare of Children", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": "ote of the subjects raised. We will both ensure that matters which concern other ministerial colleagues are referred to them. I shall briefly mention some of the excellent contributions from hon. Members on both sides of the House. My hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman) gave her usual spirited defence of Lancaster health authority. I am sorry that she is not in her place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Welfare of Children", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": " The Government do not need a crystal ball to see where their policies are leading. It is in their own books and those of others. A Policy Studies Institute survey has shown hat 50 per cent. of couples on benefit run out of money halfway through every week and that 60 per cent. of them lack a complete standard set of clothing—not a Picasso or a Porsche, but a basic decent standard set of clothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Welfare of Children", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1990, which was laid before this House on 11 th May, be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "g local education authorities to tackle geographical and subject teacher shortages—giving special consideration to the problems in London—and to review specifically the pay of heads and deputies. In my view, the committee has fulfilled its remit admirably and produced the third in what has been a series of excellent reports. The committee endorsed the thinking underlying the present pay structure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Straw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.739.7", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ment's response? Is it to recognise the nature of the crisis? Is it to start to reward teachers properly? No—it is none of those things. It is to cut the real pay of teachers. Conservative Members had better recognise that by voting for the order they will be voting for a real terms cut in the pay of teachers. The authority for that comes not from me, but from the interim advisory committee report", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.739.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "That was exactly the point that the Secretary of State made, and it went down like a lead balloon at the NAHT conference. It is crass in the extreme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "he committee wanted him to offer. The figure is miles behind inflation. A figure of 13·5 per cent. in real terms would be required to return to the 1987 position, and 14 per cent. in real terms would be required to return to the position that obtained in 1974. When the Government withdrew teachers' negotiating rights—they have still not given them back—they committed an undemocratic action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "t the Minister the next day. There are many things that we did not want in the report and many things that should be in the report but are not. There is a growing crisis in the recruitment and training of teachers, and it must be taken into account. The problem is national, widespread, and inextricably linked with inadequate salary levels, bad conditions and scarce resources under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "are grossly underpaid. Let us have no nonsense about it. They know it and are miserable about it. They are overworked. They have to attend endless meetings, during their lunch hours and after school. They have to be at school earlier than ever before and have to spend endless more hours marking. Their morale is at its lowest ever ebb. The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) can laugh and laugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way, because there is so little time. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will be called. Indeed, he has received a lot of fame in the past few days on College green—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "not to deepen further and endanger our children's education, this Government, who see that their children have plenty of money, must release the necessary funds to make teachers' salaries competitive with those of other professions. The numbers will fall and we will have to offer more money to attract more teachers. The interim advisory committee and the Select Committee both asked for more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-06", "file": "debates1990-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "b92c8896bcd48982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "The background to the debate is the present position in our schools. Some Conservative Members have referred to the professionals in the schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-06a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.780.8", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "When the Economic Secretary attacked yesterday inaccurate and misleading advertising of mortgages, was he referring to either or both of the following, beginning respectively: John Major might take a year to cut\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.780.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.780.10", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "Was he referring to either or both advertisements that suggest that the Chancellor might cut mortgage rates or that the surest way in which to ensure that mortgage rates come down is to bring about a general election in which case there would be nothing to pay? When he was referring to misleading mortgage advertisements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.780.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "to tell the House and the nation why he thinks our economy is in such a shambles? What does he say to our constituents who cannot meet their mortgage instalments and to industrialists and employers facing ruin because of the high levels of inflation and mortgages? What does he say about the unparalleled trade deficit and to people labouring under the unfair chaos of the poll tax? What does he say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.786.9", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sir Hugh Rossi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.786.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman must have an opportunity to put his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.799.8", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.799.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.799.11", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have sat now through 20 years of screaming in my ear from my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster (Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.799.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "o a Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. That is a misguided approach—and I go further. What is needed is a separate Ministry of Consumer Interests and Affairs. I do not say that because I am a former Minister in the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection. The Ministry in which I served lasted for six years and then ceased to exist for a reason that would apply to a Ministry of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "I could not tell which prawn was irradiated and which was not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "s by 2000. We have done nothing about flue gas desulphurisation or acid rain—not one of our power stations has been cleaned up. During the Whitsun recess we heard the scares about the beaches at Blackpool and elsewhere because of sewage pollution. Thanks to the Government, another product of our times is toxic algae. Above all, the Tories have given us the disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " from the National Farmers Union to the women's institutes, consumers demand that knowledge and the ability to exercise that choice. However, it seems that Ministers are not prepared to give them that choice. Why not? When testing is being carried out at only three sites using only 71 cows, why not collect the milk separately, bottle it separately and label it to see whether people want it or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "o the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor) and to the House that instinctively the Labour party is opposed to BST. We have made that clear. Whether this is the right vehicle to express our opposition to it is another matter. The hon. Gentleman would not expect us to go that far. As this is the only occasion tonight on which I shall seek to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I take this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "—and if the hon. Lady continues to interrupt me, I will say it a fourth and a fifth time. It is a valuable point. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is unfortunately obsessed with theology and pays too little attention to the proper running of his Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " in life. I shall be happy to stay for the rest of the night taking what they have to dish out, but I warn them that I shall give it back with interest. The Minister preaches the virtues of feeding vegetarian cows a diet of vegetable matter. But he presides over a Department which has regulations allowing the rendered remains of pigs, chicken litter and plywood to be fed to cattle. That is a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": " a public warning. We must be careful that we do not become obsessed with food safety. People have stopped eating beef because of mad cow disease, chickens and eggs because of salmonella, soft cheese because of listeria and now we have a public warning about shellfish. On Saturday night I had a dinner party at which I served scallops and good English roast beef and no one was any the worse for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "It obviously makes the hon. Gentleman very bad-tempered. I can give an example of an alternative scenario involving corned beef. It was in Aberdeen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "There is no limitation of the export of bone-out British beef—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister most sincerely for coming to the House at such a late hour after spending so many hours locked in deadlock in negotiations. We very much welcome the lifting of the ban on the trade in British cattle, but having listened to the Minister with great care, I thought that he delivered a deliberately carefully constructed statement that concealed more than it revealed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "with all the deboning that will be necessary as a result of the agreement? Will the Minister clarify another point that worries many people? Both the British and the French housewife will buy beef from British cows, but is there not a distinct difference between what they will buy? Are there not now two markets for British beef in Europe? Will the Minister confirm that following his cave-in today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "es many people? Both the British and the French housewife will buy beef from British cows, but is there not a distinct difference between what they will buy? Are there not now two markets for British beef in Europe? Will the Minister confirm that following his cave-in today—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—beef will be allowed to be sold to the British consumer which cannot be sold to the French consumer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": ", but is there not a distinct difference between what they will buy? Are there not now two markets for British beef in Europe? Will the Minister confirm that following his cave-in today—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—beef will be allowed to be sold to the British consumer which cannot be sold to the French consumer? [Interruption.] This is a very serious point and people have the right to know about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "Cheat, cheat, cheat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that when I ask purely factual questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " I have not proffered any opinions but merely asked questions. If the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Mr. Thompson) wants to shout from a sedentary position \"Cheat\", that is up to him. I know that he is in the butchering industry and that he has a vested interest in that respect. Conservative Members may not be interested in the long-term interests of the beef industry and the consumer, but we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "sted in the long-term interests of the beef industry and the consumer, but we are— [ Interruption.] It is important that we save our beef and farming industries. Will the Minister take some initiatives to get reassurances not only at home but abroad? Will he urge the EC to establish a committee of medical experts to complement that of the veterinarians to examine the human aspects related to beef?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "] It is important that we save our beef and farming industries. Will the Minister take some initiatives to get reassurances not only at home but abroad? Will he urge the EC to establish a committee of medical experts to complement that of the veterinarians to examine the human aspects related to beef? [ Laughter.] I wonder why Conservative Members laugh. Are they afraid of the scientific evidence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-07", "file": "debates1990-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "a1a7501ad17a15f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.8", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It is always a sure sign that the Opposition are rattled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-07a.901.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "y. They realise that over the past 10 years the vast majority of them have been paying additional tax to featherbed the rich and powerful. The Tories' attempt to give the impression that they are the party of low taxation is no more than an ad-man's hype. The brutal truth is there for us all to see. The Chancellor was interviewed on 22 May this year on Channel 4 News about Government tax policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman hopes so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": ", taxation is a disincentive to intitative and enterprise. It is much preferable to finance an expanding public sector from a smaller slice of the infinitely larger cake that we can create in terms of the wealth of the nation. I hope that Her Majesty's Government will continue to reduce taxes only when it is prudent to do so. Their record over a decade shows that that is exactly what they will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.964.6", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may yet regret giving way for another reason. I refer him to a parliamentary answer given by the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that the Financial Secretary follows Tiberius Caesar, because he was followed by Caligula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " was trying to adopt Tory policies, that the electorate would see through that and would vote for the real thing rather than for some shoddy imitation. The Labour party is not trying to adopt Conservative party policies. Indeed, when we have won the next general election, it will give us great pleasure to discard them, and I assure the House that the poll tax will be one of the first things to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "extent that we have never witnessed before. The debate is valuable. I hope that my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury is listening carefully. He made some general points about policy and where it leads us. We all accept that we have not got taxes down as much as we would like. I dredged up an interesting statistic which, funnily enough, was not in the research department briefing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.978.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.993.27", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS (CONTROL) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.993.26"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT 1984 (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-08", "file": "debates1990-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "b406f95337ba2c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.994.7", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did not hear any objection to the Hare Coursing (Abolition) Bill. Was it the hon. Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle (Mr. Leigh) or the hon. Member for Dorset, North (Mr. Baker) who objected? Surely we should have the right to know which hon. Member objected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-08a.994.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that the question was about the transport of radioactive material within the United Kingdom, not outside it. I assure the hon. Gentleman, whose new-found interest in the matter I discovered recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "he transport of radioactive material within the United Kingdom, not outside it. I assure the hon. Gentleman, whose new-found interest in the matter I discovered recently—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] I draw it to the attention of the House that the Radioactive Materials (Road Transport) Bill recently passed through the House in one-and-a-half minutes and that the Liberal party was completely unrepresented", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "How dare the hon. Gentleman suggest that the M25 is monstrous? There are plenty of people in this part of the south-east of England who thank God for it, in terms of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blasphemy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Atkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.11.6", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is clearly wrong to link safety standards with private enterprise. There is no connection whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.11.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.12.6", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that most London theatres are unsubsidised and must succeed without public funding? Therefore, is not it clear that theatres can succeed on their own two feet? It can cost, for example, £50 for a seat at Covent Garden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.12.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Explosion (Islington)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you will know, in my constituency on Saturday evening there was an explosion at the Honourable Artillery Company premises, and a large number of people who had been enjoying a birthday party were injured in that blast. I am sure that the House will feel a sense of outrage and shock at what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Having taken part in such debates. I am sure that the Minister's view is often shaped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "is often shaped—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] No, I mean that. Ministers' views are shaped and shifted by many angles of aproach as a result of such debates. That is what Parliament is about. One does not expect Ministers to do 180 deg turns in public, but one expects them—and this is what happens—to be influenced and to tell their officials as they leave the Box, \"I do not want to go through that again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "As the Foreign Secretary pointed out, we shall debate that matter later in the week. The rate at which we enter the exchange rate mechanism is an extremely critical matter on which I shall certainly not expand this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "e but the most recent manifestation. As I stood in Wenceslas square three weeks ago and saw the hoardings, lamp posts and shop windows festooned with the election posters of the 22 parties contesting the first free elections for more than 40 years, I understood something of Wordsworth's passionate response to the French revolution: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. Certainly, President Havel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " to find out what assessment has been made of the drastic reduction in the heteroptera section of the natural history museum and the implications for work sponsored with British money by the Foreign Office in Surinam on shield bugs. Shield bugs are devastating coconut plantations. The research is into the whole question of the transmission of disease, and coccid research is also being carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the score?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "oconut plantations. The research is into the whole question of the transmission of disease, and coccid research is also being carried out— [Interruption.] If I may explain to the hon. Member for Dorset, North (Mr. Baker), this is all about mealy bugs and their agricultural implications for Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Kenya, South Africa, Zaire, India, Guyana, Costa Rica—dare I mention the place tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " quotations from it: We have a large and skilled army on the Rhine and an army of semi-literate unemployables at home. We have well-equipped forces to help us win wars which seem increasingly unlikely to happen, while we strive to win contracts with an under-skilled and under-educated workforce … When it comes to staffing our Embassies abroad, we are highly selective. Only the best will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-11", "file": "debates1990-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "09e8180fce1f5137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "What was said by the Prime Minister five weeks ago certainly needs no reinforcing by me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-11a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.119.14", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister literally whistling in the dark because the policy is an utter failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.119.14"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend receives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should blush when making such references to pay. Under the last Labour Government, teachers' pay rose by 6 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that teachers, parents and pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Ten years of bad manners on the Labour Benches. Does my hon. Friend accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Ten years of bad manners on the Labour Benches. Does my hon. Friend accept— [Interruption.] —that parents, teachers and pupils of Lancaster boys grammar school are delighted to have freed themselves from the stultifying control of Lancashire county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": " Friend accept— [Interruption.] —that parents, teachers and pupils of Lancaster boys grammar school are delighted to have freed themselves from the stultifying control of Lancashire county council— [Interruption.] —which dislikes grammar schools and over the years has deliberately starved the school of funds? Is my hon. Friend aware that Lancaster girls grammar school voted 10 days ago to opt out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.132.8", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Sir Alan Walters is a friend of the family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.132.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "USSR (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He has a peanut brain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would stop interjecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "USSR (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y have had Governments in the republics, they have not really been able to set their own budgets or exercise much power. Undoubtedly, as I saw in the Ukraine and elsewhere, they want a clear sign of what powers remain with the federation and what powers go to the separate republics. There are many models from which they can choose; they can look at the United States, Canadian or Australian models—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "conveyancing services should be able to do so, subject of course to rigorous consumer safeguards. Part II of the Bill satisfies that objective, and provides clients with greater choice, while maintaining and sometimes enhancing existing safeguards. I have been concerned throughout the Bill to ensure that a level playing field is established between solicitors and other providers of legal services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The nine comprised three licensing boards, four community councils, the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Faculty of Advocates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Indeed, the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker)—I do not see why I should be called upon to distinguish between peas in a pod in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "Given that I am not likely to receive an invitation to join the Committee which will scrutinise the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it was Ian MacCormack.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ily Record in Scotland has highlighted month after month the issue of under-age drinking and the serious problems that that causes. I end my speech on the subject of divorce law reform. Once again I pay tribute to a former Member of Parliament who sat on the Scottish National party bench. The Divorce (Scotland) Bill was not a Government Bill, but a private Member's Bill introduced by George Reid —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "undertaken research to establish the present accessability of the people of Scotland to solicitors' offices. The results of that exercise are now available and I am placing copies of the report in the Library. Using the most recent available data, we see that 98 per cent. of the population of Scotland live within five miles of a solicitor's office in urban areas and within 10 miles in rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EC Railway Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": ". The latter cannot run on the track currently laid to Lyons. When we refer to ensuring that high-speed trains can run on the whole European network, we must remember that the French already have a problem with running those two types of train. The House ought to give credit for the fact that British Rail operates more services at 100 mph and above than any other continental country except France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EC Railway Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: `Windy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Never to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EC Railway Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " the Secretary of State should do the same. The Government's position on these matters is: leave it to the market; everything must pay its own way; the needs of the community are irrelevant. As our amendment makes clear, we reject that point of view. I should have thought that even those with an A-level in economics would know that transport costs are an essential part of any economic development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-12", "file": "debates1990-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b4921e144d89dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Birmingham Pub Bombings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " must answer that question. If he does not answer it, the House must draw its own conclusions. If the hon. Gentleman wants to present a rounded case to the House, I cannot understand why he cannot present a totally rounded one, giving all the names that he claims to have in his possession. The hon. Gentleman also mentioned the material contained in the new edition of his book \"Error of Judgement\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-12a.270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the only other country in the African continent that can assist with resources is South Africa, which is already doing what it can? Therefore, when Mr. Mandela visits my right hon. Friend and his colleagues in July", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "I am not joining an attempt to filibuster the Bill. I do not like the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.310.7", "colnum": "310", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"What about the Evening Standard?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "low up some of the remarks made by the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden) concerning the impact of the proposed report by the governor and how we would deal with it in the House. Such a report would be a nice thing to have. It will make a nice piece of work for someone to write an article about in The Times or even talk about on Sky television where perhaps it would get a larger audience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.310.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too many\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "42,800 people are eligible under the scheme, but only 19,703 will be allocated places. In engineering, there are 57,300 possible candidates but only 3,230 places. In medicine and science, 44,700 would qualify but only 2,584 would be offered places. Members of my old profession, lawyers, will do particularly badly. Less than 1 per cent. of the 3,700 eligible will be allocated one of the 323 places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "My new clause would not contradict clause 1(5). It is a qualification of it or addition to it. It makes it clear that nothing in the Bill precludes the possibility of courts judicially reviewing decisions. I made it clear in response to an earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rs. If one went to the CBI and asked who were the deserving entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom, it would probably omit from its list a great many people who would feel that they had been wrongfully omitted. The CBI would upset a lot of people. Any establishment will do that. We are well aware of the way in which the ranks close in establishments if somebody should be so unwise as to criticise it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Indeed. The serious point that I am making is, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) said, that to get on to that key entrepreneurs list a person's face must fit with the establishment of Hong Kong, not with the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.344.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman cannot speak a second time without the leave of the House. Does the right hon. Gentleman have the leave of the House to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "Indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker. These people passed through Hong Kong on their way to Panama and were seeking to travel to Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give me one good reason why, if those people are so uncomplimentary about this country, we should make any effort on their behalf, as opposed to the very honourable people who are wives of British citizens who have more right to come here? Why should we bother about the others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sacrificed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "tary is feeling some unease at the way in which he has been criticised from all sides today, and at the fact that pleas have come from both sides of the House for him to accept the new clauses. With the Home Secretary beside him, I hope that he has all the authority and approval that he needs to be able to say that he accepts the new clauses. Then some honour and dignity will have been sacrificed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I dread to think of the visions that that metaphor conjures up for Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.422.7", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Time will tell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-13", "file": "debates1990-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "058b7c7cb80f5684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jarman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where? Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jarman", "preceding_text": "I was not seeking to criticise the electorate of Tower Hamlets, and it is not only the Labour party in the borough which has made such criticisms—there have also been criticisms of the housing policy there from neutral quarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-13a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "We brought forward a solution that was not acceptable to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend will be aware that Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.456.12", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "Representations covering all shades of opinion continue to be received in response to the Green Paper on summer time. The results of the consultation exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.456.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "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/1990-06-14a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "s of life in Scotland? Does it concern the Leader of the House that it is apparently becoming increasingly profitable for Ministers to fall out with the Prime Minister? Is not it time that the House had the opportunity to debate the increasing flow of former Cabinet Ministers into highly paid posts in recently privatised industries? That phenomenon is unlike anything that has ever happened before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I come back precisely to the point that former Labour Ministers, of whom the hon. Gentleman was once one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Channel Tunnel (Rail Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": " told his friend Sam McCluskie that subsidies will be given to the competitors—to the union that sponsors him. The hon. Gentleman used to argue forcefully for section 42; now he denies it. The other night we saw the hon. Gentleman's piece de resistance on television. He was explaining to a bemused world that if only Britain sanctioned the European infrastructure fund the freight could be paid for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Channel Tunnel (Rail Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I shall leave on the board for the hon. Gentleman this book about the trains which have been developed—and are ordered—by Belgium, France and Britain. There will be a pool of jointly owned rolling stock, and identical trains will run between Brussels, Paris and the regions of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.497.4", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Channel Tunnel (Rail Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has underlined an important point—that too much of our discussion about transport is centred around the channel tunnel and the channel tunnel link—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.497.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.498.9", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Channel Tunnel (Rail Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that Opposition Members believe that what is needed is a new rail link that will benefit the whole of the United Kingdom, and that, to that end, we shall continue to consult the civil engineering industry and other railway technical experts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.498.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. I do not have time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": " talking about 46 per cent. of the whole. The Chairman of the Select Committee referred to other percentages, but they were percentages of the 54 per cent. who actually went along. In numerical terms, the biggest chunk consists of drop-outs who never even start on the scheme. We must consider that as a matter of urgency. My hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Stevens), who has left his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.530.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-14", "file": "debates1990-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b73d654f3d484a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "However, some people in my constituency are falling deeper and deeper into debt. As the hon. Member for Birkenhead knows, my area has seen tremendous strides made in recent years. We have had immense economic improvement in our area and it is scarcely recognisable compared with what it was 20 years ago. I have seen an immense improvement since I have been the Member of Parliament for Macclesfield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-14a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-15", "file": "debates1990-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "212b63a89b6250e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-15a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": " consider that as we adjust the political structures. I question whether some of the decisions that are emerging are realistic. The present issue of the eight-hour shift being the limit right across the Community is one such decision. An eight-hour shift may be perfectly sensible for some work, but those working in mines and on buses and those on night guard patrol all have different requirements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-15a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-15", "file": "debates1990-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "212b63a89b6250e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-15a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "There are differences between one country and another in the European Community, but I would not generalise about that. I do not accept the idea we are better than everybody else, but nor do I say that we are worse than everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-15a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-15", "file": "debates1990-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "212b63a89b6250e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-15a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "d fear centralisation, but, in my view, our fear is misplaced. While we are discussing political democratic models, I must refer briefly to our electoral system, which is unique in Europe and which is not often thought about. It profoundly affects our political style and the way in which we do things. Let me cite one statistic to illustrate my point. When there was a presidential election in Chile", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-15a.621.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "of BSE and the new European settlement on Welsh farmers? Does he agree that it is particularly unfortunate that they should be hit, since, by and large, they were not responsible for the outbreak of the disease? They certainly were not consulted on the negotiations in Brussels, and they have completely rejected the negotiated settlement. Will the right hon. Gentleman answer two specific questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.672.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that none of the short-term changes will involve delaying payments to suppliers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.691.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "The response to that question would have to depend on the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman puts figures on cuts that have yet to take place. As far as I know, he, CND and some of the more exotic fringes of the Labour movement have been the only ones to try to impose figures of that nature. I am certainly at one with the Secretary of State. I am not going to put price tags on cuts that may or may not be available to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "y buying oil on the spot market that propped up the economies of those countries and, over the years, by selling arms to those two countries. The sale and export of arms create conflicts such as the Iran-Iraq war. It is no strategy to continue promoting the sales of arms to countries that can ill afford them and should not have them because the needs of their people are far greater than the needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "cent. and the Soviet armed forces will be out of Czechoslovakia and Hungary by the end of 1991? Is it not a fact that 10,000 Soviet troops have already been withdrawn from Poland; that East Germany has reduced its forces from 165,000 to 100,000 in two years; that Soviet tank production has been halved; and that last year the Soviet Union cut its forces by 5 per cent.? My figures come from the CIA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-18", "file": "debates1990-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d457756ddc3eec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "sed are more properly a matter for a wider debate on foreign affairs rather than one on the defence estimates. However, he made an important point when he touched upon the gradation of nuclear response, which is absolutely fundamental to rejecting the arguments of the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell) who, if he is not the leader of the Liberal party, certainly should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-18a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.788.4", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that it is no courtesy to the people of London to allow a nuclear-capable aircraft carrier to dock for a week's visit near the centre of our most densely populated city if the public cannot be guaranteed that there are no nuclear weapons on board? Can the Minister tell the House whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is notorious for the company he keeps, so I am surprised that he should be so fastidious about who meets whom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.791.8", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend explain why the Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) who posed that question is so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.791.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.796.9", "colnum": "796", "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": "Does the right hon. Gentleman seriously maintain his position, and his ridiculous economics, by saying that to get inflation down one needs to cut interest rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.796.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Holt) has a very short memory. He should read Hansard . In 1987 I gave a measured ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Abolition of Deer Hunting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the hunting and killing of deer with dogs; and for connected purposes. My purpose in introducing the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "gate (Sir G. Finsberg), who asked whether the suppliers would receive their money for the work that they had carried out. He responded by saying that the computer at the Ministry of Defence had broken down, and that therefore the suppliers could not be paid. I thought that that was the usual Government response to social security claimants; I never thought that it would be a response to suppliers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "I shall bow to the right hon. Gentleman's version as he was involved in that particular scandal, although he was not responsible for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "ery different standard of morality from ours. The Minister of State for the Armed Forces talked at length about morality today. However, what has he and his Secretary of State done about the Rapier contract? They will not even do what the right hon. Member for Pavilion did—instigate an inquiry. They have kept their heads down and they have shut their mouths. The whole circus carries on performing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "he jargon and I provided the jokes. Sadly, it did not sell and was not made into a film. It might have helped to swell the profits of Mr. Robert Maxwell. It might be said that the spectre of being remaindered at Waterloo station looms over the hon. Gentleman and me. The Government are undertaking the first defence review since the halcyon days of the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "nd a united country. That would give us a country in which there is greater equality of opportunity and in which social service provisions would be spread in a way that matches Britain's desperate needs. When reductions in arms expenditure are mentioned some Conservative Members, and also some of my hon. Friends, defend constituency interests in the way that the hon. Member for Aldershot has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "Then I must defer to the hon. Gentleman. I was just a lonely lance corporal in the Royal Military Police.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "on.\"] I shall answer the question in a moment, in my own time. It ill becomes the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Franks) to tell the Opposition what we should or should not do with regard to Trident when the Conservative Government have yet to order the third boat and have refused the funds to allow the pipework on the fourth boat to start. This is the truth. The Trident force is not yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-19", "file": "debates1990-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "b15d962ea16b0faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "preceding_text": "r party has to offer for the defence expenditure of this country. Does it offer the official Opposition amendment or the amendment tabled by some Labour Back Benchers? Will the Opposition be voting twice or only once at 10 o'clock? Several hon. Members warned us against taking things too easily—against accepting the conventional wisdom that peace has broken out barring, or including, the shouting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-19a.891.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman claims knowledge beyond that which I possess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.908.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "e Department will be able to find them at this stage. Will my hon. Friend confirm that the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Leadbitter) may be inaccurate in his statement that few hardware components are manufactured in the United Kingdom? I am delighted to say that hard disc manufacturing takes place in West Germany and in Denmark, for example. That is the central story of component manufacturing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.908.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I know that the Labour party is upset about the way in which the public are beginning to realise what is in its programme. Let me tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "European Court of Justice (Decision)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ue course and taking account of all the other laws of our land. However, yesterday's judgment on the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 creates an entirely new situation. The European Court has taken upon itself the right to declare that an Act of this Parliament becomes null and void if it receives what it regards as a justifiable complaint of damage or loss until such time as the Court makes a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.923.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "European Court of Justice (Decision)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "decision of the European Court of Justice yesterday on interim relief. I have listened with great attention to what the hon. Member said about this matter. As he knows, I have a difficult decision to take: whether his application should take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow. In this case, the matter that he has raised does not meet the requirements of the Standing Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is really impossible to expect the Chair to monitor the answers given to questions. That is a matter for the Ministers concerned. I must say that today I do not think that the length of answers to questions was the problem. I think the problem was that so many questions were linked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.925.11", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should do further homework and reflect upon the Single European Act, which was passed by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.925.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I entirely share the concern of the hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members who no doubt will be rising on this matter. I repeat that the Leader of the House is here and I hope that he will have heard what has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.926.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.926.6", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They were not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is a reprehensible statement from the hon. Gentleman. I cannot be held responsible for answers that are given from the Front Bench, provided that they are in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.926.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.928.10", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not taking any more points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.928.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "But the House passed it. I will not go back on the decision which I have taken. We all agree that the matter is important. The question is whether it is so urgent that it must be debated immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "No. There will also be supervision by Members of Parliament. We will be able to ask the Secretary of State for Health questions about what is going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.975.7", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "In Committee, considerable attention was given to gamete intra-fallopian transfer. Government amendments Nos. 39, 41 and 51 seek to provide redress for those who have been concerned about the technique. The statutory control of any medical technique is an unprecedented measure and, following the debates in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.975.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.986.16", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "f anonymity and striking a balance when talking about personal secrets. Should a mother tell her child that her apparent father is not her father? This is an area of family secrets for which it is most difficult to decide how the House should legislate. Apart from the issue of donor children, I understand that between 5 and 20 per cent. of the population have a father who is not their true father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.986.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ces in which the donor of sperm for the treatment could conceivably be accused of a wrongful act which gives rise to injury to the child, unless there were a deliberate failure or refusal to disclose a transmittable disease. If a donor wilfully donates what he knows to be contaminated or genetically defective sperm, such an action could possibly arise, but that is to go into the realms of fantasy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The identity of the donor would have to be disclosed to all those people taking part in the action because the defendant would obviously have to know the name and identity of the person that the defendant is accused of having injured. At the moment, there is no express provision in the new clause for hearing in camera —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1004.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1057.7", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the amendments is to add the police to the list of persons to whom it would be an offence under section 21A of the Aviation Security Act 1982 and clause 37 of the Bill to make a false statement in answer to questions relating to baggage, cargo or stores intended for carriage by a civil aircraft or by sea. The amendments also make it an offence under section 21 A—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1057.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "mplicated piece of legislation in the middle of the afternoon and finished discussing it at 11 pm. Let us not have any more little smirks from the Minister after he has concluded his gabbling and got through his speeches in record time in order to justify his presence at the Dispatch Box. He is there to provide the House with some sort of explanation, which, by common consent, he has failed to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1064.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1067.13", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I want to be quite clear that the House knows what we are doing. There was a certain amount of noise. I shall put the Question once more. The Question is, That the debate be now adjourned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1067.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1078.10", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": " is a tragedy. The Government are not prepared to practise what they preach to the rest of the world. They should remember that they tell others to follow the example set by the Mother of Parliaments. They are setting a disgusting example tonight. It appears that hon. Members want to go to bed instead of discussing safety and security. Surely they recognise that important issues are before us and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1078.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-20", "file": "debates1990-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0882379556cf49fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "I will. I wonder if my hon. Friend agrees that the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown), who does such a wonderful impersonation of B'stard that it amazes me every time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-20a.1080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1100.6", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We all abhor that carnage, but the Minister must know that there can be no solution in Ireland, particularly to the security issue, unless there is a political solution. There must be some movement towards that end, so will he consider withdrawing—perhaps on a phased basis—troops from Northern Ireland, especially Scots troops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1100.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1100.6", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "re can be no solution in Ireland, particularly to the security issue, unless there is a political solution. There must be some movement towards that end, so will he consider withdrawing—perhaps on a phased basis—troops from Northern Ireland, especially Scots troops? [Interruption.] That would be helpful. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to maintain peace he should encourage worker defence squads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1100.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1100.6", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "asis—troops from Northern Ireland, especially Scots troops? [Interruption.] That would be helpful. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to maintain peace he should encourage worker defence squads— [Interruption.] —composed of Catholics and workers. If he cannot accept that—for reasons which I understand—what about a United Nations peace-keeping force coming into the Province to control the situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1100.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1108.5", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is not quite what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said, in a most excellent and constructive speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1108.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, the Government wish to see the maximum use of airports in the regions, to meet as much local demand as they can attract, Since 1981 we have given borrowing approval for more than £287 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have given borrowing approval totalling over £287 million for the development of local authority airports and I hope that a new site can be found quickly for the airport to which my hon. Friend referred, I understand that discussions have already taken place between Suffolk county council and the Ministry of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " totalling over £287 million for the development of local authority airports and I hope that a new site can be found quickly for the airport to which my hon. Friend referred, I understand that discussions have already taken place between Suffolk county council and the Ministry of Defence— [Interruption.] Clearly Opposition Members are not in the least bit interested in the new airport for Ipswich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1112.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "I do not deny that there are good arguments for having two doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-21", "file": "debates1990-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "894914fe5d3973f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "made the position infinitely worse. In these debates we rarely talk about post-abortion trauma. But we must consider the effects of an abortion on the woman. I have received hundreds of letters from women describing the effects of early and late abortions. It is not an easy operation. Indeed, it is a disaster for everybody involved. Frequently people are psychologically scarred for life. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-21a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-22", "file": "debates1990-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1e9eaf45c82647e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-22a.1259.7", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Member for Crawley put a question to me and I shall try to answer it, but first I should like to return to the Official Report of 29 June 1989. My hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills put a question to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. Her words are relevant to the motion of my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton. All of my hon. Friends who are here now were here on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-22a.1259.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.67.2", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "Are you calling me to make my speech, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because I am very happy to respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.98.7", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "uture the Lords amendments will be accepted by the House. I have with me a letter sent by one of the original petitioners to the legal services department of the European Community about directive 85/337/EEC and the Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill. It comes from Greg Kayser of the European relations sector of the Coalfield Communities Campaign secretariat. I shall not read the whole letter——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.98.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.102.5", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I heard the original point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.102.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that I understand the hon. Gentleman's point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.115.6", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "id maternity leave, the officer who remained at work would no longer receive only half rent allowance but would receive the whole rent allowance. Of course, the officer who remained at work would have qualified for the whole allowance anyway, since the other officer was no longer being paid by the police service, and did not qualify for any rent allowance. The Home Secretary should be driven into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Waddington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Waddington)", "preceding_text": "ce officers who live in their own homes on a broadly equal footing with those who live in a police house or quarters, but there has long ceased to be a credible relationship between the two. Much has been made by the right hon. Gentleman of the decision to set aside certain conclusions of the police arbitration tribunal. There were, however, very strong, grounds for doing that, as I shall explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "ates, and I could not possibly agree that into the pool out of which the new allowance was to be paid should go an amount to cover rates when they no longer existed; nor could I accept the recommendation that police officers in police houses should receive the new allowance and pay rent. The payment of rent would have meant giving the occupants the right to buy, and police houses are badly needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "ving the occupants the right to buy, and police houses are badly needed— [Laughter.] I do not see what is particularly funny about that. It would not have been wise of a Secretary of State to accept a recommendation by the police negotiating board which would have resulted in people in police houses paying rent having the right to buy and therefore the stock of police houses gradually diminishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Under the existing system, the allowance differs according to housing costs. Under the new system it will differ in the same way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "That is the difficulty of being the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Many policemen will think that they are being done out of £50 million-plus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-25", "file": "debates1990-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "c57af3d4a3652544", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": " the police negotiating board had been put in place large sums of money would not have been involved over a period of years. Therefore, it was important that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook should have made it abundantly plain that the Opposition are pledged to an increase in rent allowances, which would deprive police forces of substantial sums that undoubtedly are needed for other purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-25a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.181.3", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "With Government spending on the arts up a full third since 1979, in real terms, and with a further 27 per cent. increase planned for the next three years, does my right hon. and learned Friend know why the Conservative party is still regarded as philistine by the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " I realise that many of my hon. Friends are racking their brains to try to recall exactly what the GLC was. People outside certainly have difficulty in remembering exactly what the GLC did for them. Despite all the expensive hype during the abolition of the GLC, few now mourn its passing and in general the London boroughs have made a very good job of taking over the services that the GLC once ran—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ing phrase: if you provide on a bus a kind of camera that can catch people using modern technology and say, 'These lanes must remain free, 'cause we want to provide the bus … ' which already is 1 per cent. of the vehicle movements, carries 30 per cent. of the people … whereas with cars, they're 30 per cent. of the vehicle movements—only carrying … far less people in movement\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is an idiot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes, we are seeing more and more signs of a departure from policy and a move towards abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ture Prescott to tear at the corpse of the Government's anti-terrorist position. I am prepared to allow the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie tragedy to answer for me the Secretary of State's cheap abuse. Perhaps more relevant was the Secretary of State's remark about me, reported in The Sunday Times: He can't make the facts fit his case. He was referring to safety in the railway industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "But it is expressed as a proportion per 1,000. I shall not prolong the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "o say that the channel tunnel was not important, the proportion of freight went from 20 per cent. to 7 per cent. Mr. Morton, the channel tunnel chairman, was furiously trying to raise money in Japan. The Secretary of State told him that it was an insignificant amount of freight. There are many such examples, and they are not helpful to politics. If the Secretary of State is to change those things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "t was her first statement on future transport policy—yet again, a road solution—when she had already sabotaged the channel tunnel rail link. I do not intend to reiterate the arguments that I have put in previous debates about the cut in the quality of services. The consumer body for the railway service made it absolutely clear—I have the relevant quotes, but time has been taken up by interventions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is organised; it is cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "g the lead in promoting liberalisation. A vital part of the Commission's transport policy is the removal of subsidies that distort competition while recognising their acceptability for social reasons in special circumstances. The Commission is not planning to see Europe with a huge range of heavily subsidised railways. So the Commission is planning to follow precisely the policy of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.208.7", "colnum": "208", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The others will follow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "There is nothing wrong with it, but it goes against everything that has been said about section 42, which has bedevilled the whole discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "cy. In the past week the Prime Minister has placed enormous emphasis upon the environment. Very well, that is quite right, and I fully support it. She has emphasised the problem of the hole in the ozone layer, which I do not understand. When we had the best summer in our history last year, and everybody said that it was due to the hole in the ozone, I said, \"Well, then make the hole a bit bigger.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "osing line of the letter states: This is a question for the politicians. Step forward and be counted, Mr. Parkinson. Step forward and listen, is my advice to the right hon. Gentleman. The other customers, both of rail freight and rail passenger services, have also expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the level of service provided and with their quality and their concern about their rundown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "freight being carried by rail, and certainly prevents any additional freight from being carried by rail. I hope that the Secretary of State will reconsider section 8 grants and the possibility of transferring freight from road to rail through the grant mechanism, no matter which roads the vehicles use. That would be of genuine environmental benefit, even when lorries use motorways and trunk roads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-26", "file": "debates1990-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8729e6b4c11a7663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "got from the Minister and from the hon. Member for Gravesham. Their statistics are not facts. My hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley referred to the green glossy handbook on the environment and the British aid programme. It is, indeed, the pinnacle of doubletalk and contradiction from the Government. Under a smiling and attractive colour photograph of the Minister of State, her foreword reads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-26a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.294.7", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take it from me that come the next general election the Labour party will have clearly stated its proposals on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.294.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "May I advise the Minister that this afternoon I have requested a meeting with the president of UEFAH—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " been deported without trial, have no support on the Opposition Benches or among responsible people? What steps has the Minister taken to tell the Italian authorities that to round up and deport people, some of whom were tourists, miles away from the scene of the incident, is a disgrace and that every citizen is entitled to defend himself and his reputation under Italian, English and European law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "rt on the Opposition Benches or among responsible people? What steps has the Minister taken to tell the Italian authorities that to round up and deport people, some of whom were tourists, miles away from the scene of the incident, is a disgrace and that every citizen is entitled to defend himself and his reputation under Italian, English and European law? [Interruption.] May I say to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.6", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister to follow the policy on which we have supported him—that guilty people should be prosecuted and dealt with, but that innocent people should be presumed not guilty rather than being rounded up as they have been?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.6", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister to follow the policy on which we have supported him—that guilty people should be prosecuted and dealt with, but that innocent people should be presumed not guilty rather than being rounded up as they have been? [Interruption.] It was clear that Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.301.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I can assure you, Mr. Speaker, that when I started this question, it was quite a short question. May I finally say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.304.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.307.7", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell the House and the country what became of the initiative launched by the Prime Minister under the leadership of Richard Branson?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.307.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The same point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am amazed to hear the hon. Gentleman talk about block votes with the eloquence of Satan denouncing sin. We have debated the Bill at considerable length. There were tremendous contributions from both sides, particularly the Government side, in Committee. That is most unusual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "are of mentally handicapped people? Their welfare will go by the board if the Government oppose that Lords amendment. What discussions will we be able to have about that? The Secretary of State referred to all the hours that we have devoted to the Bill including all those hours in Committee, but we will not be able to deal with the Lords amendments which will deny something that is very important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "National Health Service and Community Care Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "stify them—not at this moment but perhaps in a later debate. Greenwich health authority, for example, has—what a surprise—chosen as its representatives on the district health authority three Labour party prospective parliamentary candidates. That reveals its view of the sort of people whom it wants to put on the health authority. One individual concerned has absolutely no connection with the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "I shall give way later; I want to develop my argument. Our amendments would give people at local level the right to stop their local hospital opting out of the local NHS by a decision of the Secretary of State. Under the Bill, all hospitals will be forced to compete for patients in the internal market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.350.6", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "re has been much talk of the freedom that will be bestowed on opted-out hospitals—the freedom to drop uncompetitive services if they are expensive and do not bring in enough revenue, for instance. These will be services such as those provided for the long-term chronically ill, geriatric patients and the mentally ill. Opted-out hospitals will have the freedom to divert services to private patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.350.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "I have already given way once to the hon. Gentleman, and I know that he will seek to catch the Chair's eye later. If private patients prove more lucrative than local NHS contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "raise money for it. He deplored the transfer of the management of St. Olave's from the board of governors to a district health authority. The Bill seeks to give the opportunity to Bob Mellish—were he still here—to support the reversion to local management of St. Olave's and many other hospitals. I suspect that if he were in the House this afternoon he would speak in favour of devolving management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eye tests?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) commonly talks a fair old load of rubbish, but he has excelled himself this evening: I have never heard a greater load of rubbish. His assertion that the Government are hostile to the national health service flies in the face of every single fact —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eye tests?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) commonly talks a fair old load of rubbish, but he has excelled himself this evening: I have never heard a greater load of rubbish. His assertion that the Government are hostile to the national health service flies in the face of every single fact —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Eye tests?\"]—and everything that has been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.2", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "f notice of what the Government have done so far. He made a historical point about the voting on the National Health Service Act. In fact, a Conservative, Sir Henry Willink, was the originator of the terms of what later became the national health service. The Conservative party voted not against the principle of the health service, but against the way in which the legislation was being introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.2", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "e, but against the way in which the legislation was being introduced— [Laughter] This is historical fact. Opposition Members can go to the Library and look it up. The hon. Member for Walsall, North is fond of quoting the BMA. He may like to remember that, at the beginning, the BMA opposed the national health service root and branch. It has always opposed any changes in the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "I am happy to put it on record that I should be absolutely delighted to have a ballot in my constituency; it will be called the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ugh (Mr. Flannery) said that the Conservative party had voted against the national health service in the past and therefore all Conservatives are against the national health service. I was slightly more than a gleam in my father's eye when the vote to which the hon. Gentleman referred took place. No doubt he can tell me what year the vote took place, but I do not believe that I was out of my pram—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend had the misfortune to live in the Lancashire county council area or to be in charge of community care there, he would find that it blows every penny that comes its way on the least important things. That council is quite different from my local health authority, which is highly efficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "nity care we shall diminish the expenditure of the DSS without producing a corresponding increase in local authority spending. At the beginning of his speech, the Secretary of State said that resistance to the Government's position and support for ring-fencing was partly based on the obscurity of the issue. This is a bipartisan debate, so let me counsel the Secretary of State in a friendly spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is different.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " on a local authority at one time, but not in Lancaster. Those of us who listen to what local authorities are saying about ring fencing do not lecture local authorities on what we think is in their good, but show greater confidence in them. I can give the hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) the precise breakdown he seeks. Of the 88 local authority directors of social services who responded to me, 84—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-27", "file": "debates1990-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d8d408243ad8a790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.410.6", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "inied on this issue and stuck to their guns. In case the hon. Member for Lancashire, West (Mr. Hind) seeks to intervene to prolong my speech yet again, I must point out that not just the directors but Wandsworth and Westminster social services committees concluded in favour of ring fencing. The chair of Westminster social services committee has been to see the Secretary of State to argue the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-27a.410.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-28", "file": "debates1990-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e635a9080d6f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I answered the question on 14 December 1989. I was kept aware throughout of the progress of the negotiations at British Aerospace under the basic terms and conditions of the agreements reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-28", "file": "debates1990-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e635a9080d6f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I answered the question on 14 December 1989. I was kept aware throughout of the progress of the negotiations at British Aerospace under the basic terms and conditions of the agreements reached. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"] Our main objective was to secure the privatisation of this company which was utterly bankrupt and broke and on which the taxpayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-28", "file": "debates1990-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e635a9080d6f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"Yes or no?\"] Our main objective was to secure the privatisation of this company which was utterly bankrupt and broke and on which the taxpayers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"]—had already spent £3·5 billion in aids and a further £1·6 billion in contingent liabilities. We successfully privatised the company and it is profitable, but that means nothing to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-28", "file": "debates1990-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e635a9080d6f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.7", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I answered the hon. Gentleman in the reply that I gave on 14 December 1989. May I say how very much the Opposition have changed their tune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-06-28", "file": "debates1990-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e635a9080d6f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.11", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She will not answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is intolerable that when the Prime Minister has been asked a qustion she is not given an opportunity to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-06-28a.483.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-02", "file": "debates1990-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "b20bf8456a68415c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-02a.747.7", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Clyde Port Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "bit effective decision making. As the House knows, my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has announced that the authority has planning consent to proceed, in partnership with Tarmac Construction, with a development of about 200 acres of redundant land at Braehead, which is, I think, in the constituency of the hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-02a.747.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-02", "file": "debates1990-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "b20bf8456a68415c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-02a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the answers given by the chief executive of the port authority at the Committee hearing that the level of take and its mechanism had been something of a shock. That view is underscored by the fact that the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Field), who chaired the proceedings, tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill to reduce the percentage of the Government's take. That amendment has disappeared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-02a.801.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "preceding_text": "Amidst the excitement of World Cup football—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.858.9", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in the past 12 months of freedom from union domination and restrictive practices, Britain's docks have moved from strength to strength? Is not this anniversary of the abolition of the dock labour scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.858.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.859.9", "colnum": "859", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "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": "answering parliamentary questions, I discovered that there were 32 questions on the Order Paper about applications for national health service trust status. Last night there were eight such questions in the first 25. It became quite clear that, if we tried to handle those in the course of ordinary parliamentary questions, first, most hon. Members would not get an adequate reply to their questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.859.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members must reflect, if they are concerned about protecting the Opposition's time, that a statement would take much longer than questions answered together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.861.12", "colnum": "861", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will reflect quietly on this. This is an Opposition Supply day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.861.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.862.5", "colnum": "862", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "he reality of what the Secretary of State is up to, does not contain that protection of the rights of the Opposition. I therefore submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that since it would appear that you are now persuaded that what we are hearing is not a parliamentary answer but a statement, the appropriate thing to do would be to invite the Secretary of State to take away his statement, to return with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.862.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.862.7", "colnum": "862", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "wn, which is a serious matter. When I heard about the matter at lunch time, I understood that the usual channels had come to an agreement on it. Those hon. Members whose questions are on the Order Paper today have a right to have their questions answered. If communications between the usual channels have broken down on whether to have a statement or to have supplementary questions, we should hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.862.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ved by regional health authorities in local consultation and any other relevant information. No group will have a veto over my decision, which will be based on my assessment of whether, in the light of all relevant factors, NHS trust status for a particular unit will benefit NHS patients in that locality. We have made it clear that the cost of implementation of the NHS review will not be met from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is absolutely intolerable and more bad behaviour on the part of the hon. Members concerned. They know the situation perfectly well. The Secretary of State must be allowed to finish his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that the only basis for judging applications for national health status, self-governing status or any other reforms is whether or not they are likely to lead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.865.12", "colnum": "865", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Harry Barnes.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.865.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.866.11", "colnum": "866", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "This place operates by consent and can operate in no other way. When consent and agreement are trampled on by a Government determined to impose their will on the House regardless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.866.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw the word \"twit\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's dismissal of the efforts of teachers and his slighting of their efforts will be bitterly resented in common rooms throughout Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "s a courteous man. When he and I first met we were attacking wicked cuts in education by the Labour Government of the day. At that time he had the courage to stand up to his party, but he seems to have lost that courage. The hon. Gentleman will remember that in 1976 there was such a shortage of teachers that those of us who were running schools had to scour the streets in an effort to find people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ments in standards in schools in the past 11 years. If, as the Secretary of State claims, 11 years of Tory Government have led to lasting improvements in the state system, is that system now good enough for him to have his child educated by it? I invite the Secretary of State to reply to this critical question about whether the Government apply one standard or two to the education of our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": " prepared to give parents a commitment about the availability of a teacher in every classroom this autumn; will he now give a commitment to the parents of Tower Hamlets, and to the 300 children who have no teachers? I shall give way if he wishes me to, but once again the House and my right hon. Friend will notice that he has no interest in these matters, and is not prepared to give any commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "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": "want for their children they will choose academic standards. I direct the attention of the Opposition to an Islington school that has recently had a change of head teacher. It is in one of the inner-London areas that we have heard about in the debate. Parents are flocking to that school to which the head teacher has introduced old-fashioned ideas of academic standards, uniform, and good behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.911.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.914.6", "colnum": "914", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.914.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "access to home ownership stretches to those who are on lower incomes. That is one of the reasons why we are considering ideas such as rent to mortgage, extending shared ownership arrangements and part equity. I agree with the hon. Member for Dagenham that under a sound and balanced housing policy there must be a thriving rented market. That is why we intend to revitalise the private rented sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "nd in most cases does not exist? As I have told the Minister, the big difference between today and 1979 is that when I was a probation officer in the worst areas of London around King's Cross, if a homeless person said to me \"I want accommodation\", I could obtain it for him, whereas today I could not. People must queue for cardboard boxes. That shows the success of the Tory party's housing policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-03", "file": "debates1990-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "534f0f8b67f0513d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C.", "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": "o debate the issue of housing today. The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) treated us to a low-key contribution even by his standards. It was free from ideology, but it was also free from ideas. It was seductively bland and, as one of my hon. Friends quipped, no cliche was left untouched. By contrast, my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning responded with a devastating critique of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-03a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State meets local authorities in Edinburgh on Friday, will he inform them at least that there will be no capping of local authorities in Scotland? How will he react to their fears, published in the press today, that the poll tax is likely to increase by 25 per cent. in Scotland in the oncoming year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman can represent his constituents perfectly well in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The answer is no. The Scottish Constitutional Convention is unrepresentative of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.983.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.990.7", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for the agreement that he has reached with the Law Society of Scotland. I remind him of Churchill's words In War, resolution; in defeat\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.990.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, you must have observed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.991.12", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Gentleman please now sit down? I trust that I speak for the whole House when I say that I hope that there will not be a repetition of the disgraceful scenes that we had yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.991.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.991.17", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "No. On a further point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.991.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "et a trust go ahead \"despite overwhelming opposition\", the right hon. and learned Gentleman replied, \"Yes\"? If that is his intention, why not tell us that now and admit that the consultation is a fraud—the fake product of Ministers who love to lecture and hate to listen? If the Secretary of State wants fair consultation, will he reveal who he will appoint as the chairs and directors of the trusts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State cannot allow fair consultation that he cannot convince the public? Does not he understand that he can spent £3 million on the most expensive election address in history, but that he will not persuade the public that fragmenting the NHS will make it more efficient, or that turning their hospitals into business enterprises will make them more caring? I warn the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I appreciate the importance of the statement, but we have an important debate today on the arts. It is a rare opportunity to debate the arts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ll ask them to publish the results of that consultation and come back to me with their comments so that I can make a better-informed decision. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reading that passage in my booklet. Like him, I would emphasise the \"general public\". The difficulty with public consultation is that it becomes dominated by overnight committees, various interest groups and trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.1002.7", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We asked for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Opposition did not want the statement today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.1002.7", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Opposition did not want the statement today—[HON. MEMBERS: \"We asked for it.\"]—because they do not want the public to hear that there is genuine enthusiasm among all sectors of the service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-04", "file": "debates1990-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5196c937bb6d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.1005.4", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that patients of the royal national orthopaedic hospital, for example, come from such a wide area of the country that the only conceivable ballot of those interested would have to be a general election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-04a.1005.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-05", "file": "debates1990-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "e11832e3ff8661fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-05a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "embarrassed by an article and photograph which clearly should not have been published. It brings us back to the question of the invasion of privacy that repeatedly takes place. I am not concerned with hon. Members or pop stars, I am concerned with the working class, because it is clear that, unless one has money in this country, there is no justice. What do the Government intend to do about that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-05a.1124.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-05", "file": "debates1990-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "e11832e3ff8661fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-05a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Direct Rule)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "That hope is carried not only in the words of the Secretary of State—we can all understand his position—but in the important and perhaps almost historic speeches that we have heard from the leaders of all the constitutional parties in Northern Ireland, with the exception of the leader of the Alliance party, who is not in the Chamber. However, he is here in the Gallery, if I am permitted to say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-05a.1161.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-05", "file": "debates1990-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "e11832e3ff8661fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-05a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Direct Rule)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " in Northern Ireland. Apart from Inspector Byford's letter in the Times of 8 June 1990 I haven't seen any come back from the Yorkshire TV Film, but don't see the full coverage of the National Press up here. If no replies to the questions you put are provided there must be further reactions. She then says that she is sending copies of the correspondence to a number of people with personal contacts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-05a.1193.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.177.7", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "d by the hon. Member for Warley, East (Mr. Faulds), Mr. Speaker. Not only was it difficult to hear his point of order but it was difficult to hear your response, too. Is it not appropriate, Sir, that the amplification in this place should be turned up before we hold the debate on whether television is to continue—so that Members can hear what is going on and the House can make the right decisions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.177.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Mortgage Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "so on behalf of some of my constituents, with great success. The main fault of the Bill is that it does not tackle the underlying problem in housing—that over the years the Labour party has constantly sought to regulate, to bully and to control the private-sector landlord, so that the only option open to people on low incomes is to buy or to seek housing from their local council. When I was young—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Mortgage Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question is, That the hon. Gentleman have leave to bring in the Bill. As many of that opinion say aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Mortgage Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question is, That the hon. Gentleman have leave to bring in the Bill. As many of that opinion say aye. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"] To the contrary, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I waited until we were alone to raise this point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": " in this context, since he is the Chairman of the Select Committee—and by my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd, North-West (Sir A. Meyer). I am delighted that we are holding this debate on the breach of the sea defences on 26 and 27 February along the north Wales coast. As I said in yesterday's debate, initiated by Plaid Cymru, we hold far too few debates on Welsh affairs on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "e are in an unusual and I understand, unprecedented position, because the Government's proposals to cap the poll tax in an enormous number of local authorities—which are to be debated for an extended period tomorrow and until 7 o'clock on Thursday—do not allow sufficient time for proper consideration of what is probably the most draconian imposition on local government that we have ever witnessed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.273.6", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "e Government have a majority. It is rare for Ministers to concede that delegated powers should come to the House. On some occasions—not in these orders—they have powers to produce statutory instruments which do not even have to come back to this place, so I suppose that it is some modest consolation that we shall have at least some debate on the important capping instruments. I must conclude soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.273.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-10", "file": "debates1990-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7011bbf23a0fcddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point which reflects the fact that we cannot accept the agenda that the Government have set. We have our socialist ideals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-10a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Do I take it from the Minister's quotation from Mr. Mandela, the deputy president of the African National Congress, about the Prime Minister, that the Government now take their orders from the ANC?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take it from me that, having seen the democratic way in which the elections were conducted on 20 May, my Conservative colleague and I were disappointed to see what happened with the incursion into Bucharest of what I can only call Communist party vigilantes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.306.7", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HoN MEMBERS: \"Hard left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I note what the Minister says. Bearing in mind the historical changes that have taken place, especially in the past year, such as the ending of the Russian empire in eastern Europe, the democratic changes in the Soviet Union and the fact that the right-wing Conservative majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.306.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Ninety education authorities which are not capped are carrying out their statutory responsibilities. I believe that that is an adequate answer to the hon. Lady'sobservation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"With interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has just spoken for over an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ice that all local councillors have, the councillors will immediately take up the hon. Gentleman's suggestion. The Conservative party is the majority party on the council in Brent. It has resolved not to cut front-line services, to sell land, property and houses and to collect the rent and rate arrears. Brent has the largest rent and rate arrears per head in the United Kingdom. It is £55 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "h major economic change from the traditional industries such as coal mining to high-tech modern manufacturing with companies such as Toyota. If Derbyshire county council had had its way—and it continues to back Mr. Scargill—our pits would still be open. However, the south Derbyshire miners voted and decided to work and they now have a chance to participate in modern industries in the 21st century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "r the GLC can be politically independent. I will say this for Mr. Race: apparently, he was so disgusted by what he found when he arrived at the county council that he left after six months. At least he had the integrity to do that, even if he did not have the integrity not to accept hush money, in the form of a golden handshake, to keep his mouth shut about what was going on at the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend corrects me. I had understood that Derbyshire's retention was the highest of any county council, but it may well be the second highest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.369.7", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I am sure that he will be delighted to learn that I have made exactly those same comments outside the Chamber, and I stand by them. It is not a question of hiding behind privilege. Everything that I have said in this and previous speeches about Derbyshire county council, I have also said in the local press outside this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.369.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Of course I shall pay regard to it, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I always do. Finally, local government is not about providing jobs for the friends of the Labour party. It is not primarily about providing jobs at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": " changing the level of services provided to its residents. I am in no doubt that, when people voted in the elections on 3 May they realised that a lower community charge would mean a change in the level of some of the services provided. With a more realistic standard spending assessment for Hillingdon and other outer-London boroughs it would be possible to avoid further service cuts in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "ided. With a more realistic standard spending assessment for Hillingdon and other outer-London boroughs it would be possible to avoid further service cuts in the future. [Interruption.] I do not know whether Opposition Members are having difficulty hearing me, but I am certainly having difficulty in making myself heard. I hope that they will have the courtesy to listen to me as I listened to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "ldon to be ripped off again. If the local authority seeks to abuse its responsibility and increase its expenditure substantially next year, the Government will have the decency and the courage to take effective action again to stop a repetition of what it sought to do this year. We should examine some of the extraordinary ways in which the local authority in Basildon is seeking to spend its money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made my point. Perhaps it is not unusual for a formula to be constructed which does not catch a single Conservative-controlled authority even though their poll tax levels are much in excess of the poll tax levels set in my authority and in the constituencies of other hon. Members who have spoken tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": " is entitled to be angry. We have carefully analysed the changes that accompanied the introduction of the poll tax. It has been established beyond doubt that there has been a marked and deliberate shift of resources from the areas of need. For example, changes in Government grants to local authorities cost Yorkshire and Humberside £373·8 million this year, whereas the south-east of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "iate that the poll tax is not fair, and that the standard spending assessments are not fair. Had she been here earlier, she would have heard the brilliant speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy) and realised that the whole basis of the SSAs is the 1981 census. In St. Helens as much as anywhere else, times have moved on. The industrial base has changed. Demography has altered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-11", "file": "debates1990-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ada415c2548f03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "encouragement that the Government can give them to ensure that due rents are collected and that the housing department gets its act together. That is important, but it is also important that Conservative Members understand and appreciate the level of deprivation in the community, which is now making old and disabled people choose between food and heat, and paying the poll tax. That is the reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-11a.421.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.437.7", "colnum": "437", "heading": "INTERIM REPORT ON THE MAGUIRE CASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I do not want to pursue the matter further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.437.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "s a wider problem? Many instruments are being used for the furtherance of crime and the Home Office must do more to stop the sale of such things by direct mail. I refer, for example, to the direct mailing of skeleton keys to members of the public, which can easily be used for opening car doors. That is an obnoxious and dangerous activity, which should be brought under review of the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the main question has nothing whatever to do with the sale of keys; has a lot to do with the sale of surveillance devices. The hon. Gentleman has not addressed his mind or his question to the two difficulties that I identified in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley (Mr. Cran)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.442.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.442.5", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask hon. Members to listen to Home Office questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ight. The Ealing consultative group has been doing extremely good work without Ealing borough council representation, but it will now be able to do better work because it has that support. It is extremely interesting that of the five councils that did not send representatives to their consultative group, the residents who felt disadvantaged by that turned two of those councils out—quite right too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.446.9", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I am not infringing the sub judice rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.446.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.449.5", "colnum": "449", "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 has expressed his very great regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.449.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.449.11", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It will take time out of Prime Minister's questions, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.449.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister realise that she cannot talk about increasing international co-operation while retaining in her Cabinet a Secretary of State who has not only been downright unneighbourly, but has cast a slight on the attitude towards the European Community? Does she agree that this is the worst example of little Englander behaviour that we have seen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have indicated clearly that my right hon. Friend has unreservedly withdrawn his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.451.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Economic Summit (Houston)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I will make a statement on the economic summit held in Houston from 9–11 July, which I attended with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Economic Summit (Houston)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "2000 and to provide financial assistance to developing countries to enable them to meet their obligations. We also attach particular importance to action to save tropical forests. I believe that as a result of the summit there is now a much better understanding and sense of common purpose among the G7 countries on environmental issues, which is vital if we are to tackle these problems effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Economic Summit (Houston)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Briefly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e commitments that we made at Houston. But it was very important that we made this commitment before the Uruguay round ends this year. We are also using the De Zeeuw report, which was produced by the negotiating committee of GATT, as a basis for our negotiations. It recommended that we should have a common measurement among all agricultural countries and that we should reduce our export subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Economic Summit (Houston)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eport, which was produced by the negotiating committee of GATT, as a basis for our negotiations. It recommended that we should have a common measurement among all agricultural countries and that we should reduce our export subsidies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Briefly.\"] The right hon. Gentleman asked me the questions, but he does not like it when I answer them thoroughly. The environment conclusions reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.458.8", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Economic Summit (Houston)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "ancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary? The only timetable at which the right hon. Lady hinted in her statement was that of the election. Can she be a little more precise about bringing down the rate of inflation, about joining the exchange rate mechanism and about the progressive reduction of agricultural support? On the question of the Soviet Union, is the Prime Minister aware that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.458.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Economic Summit (Houston)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at. We have done a great deal for the environment, which the Opposition did not do. Their only action was to cut capital expenditure at the behest of the International Monetary Fund. We have also kept NATO going, and it is probably because, like the United States, we have been such a staunch ally of NATO that the changes in the Soviet Union have been brought about. The summits are very productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will be glad to know that the Parliamentary Works Officer has informed the Serjeant at Arms that the Government chemist has now confirmed that the drinking water supply in the northern block of outbuildings has received a favourable test result and that drinking water supplies throughout the building are now perfectly safe and may be used without risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ted Fund Bill on Monday 23 July. Members should submit their subjects to my office not later than 10 pm on Wednesday 18 July. A list showing the subjects and the times will be published the following day. Normally, the time allotted will not exceed one and a half hours, but I propose to exercise a discretion to allow one or two debates to continue for rather longer, up to a maximum of three hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Underground Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "untry. I would hate to see Her Majesty have to come here in a motor car for four or five years instead of in the procession to which we are all so happily accustomed. I well remember the state opening in February 1974 when she did come in a motor car. It was very subdued—and we know the reason. Nevertheless, in October of that year, when the hon. Gentleman's party was returned to government again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.553.3", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Underground Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "that we have quiet trains. The Evening Standard today states: London Underground is to spend more than £500,000 smoothing out the shake, rattle and roll of its trains. Loads of people will say amen to that too. London Underground have already promised that when the new Jubilee line extension is built through south-east London and on to Stratford by the mid-1990s it will be a 'whispering railway'.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.561.4", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Service Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "The House will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.561.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.561.6", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Service Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "preceding_text": "On another point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the Conservative deputy Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.561.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-12", "file": "debates1990-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7286ba43a4788ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.561.8", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Service Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Hamilton", "cue_text": "interruptioni.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Before I start my remarks, I should like to express our deep sense of sympathy to the widow and child of the late hon. Member for Knowsley, South, who, of course, has previously addressed the House in this debate. His regrettable and early death is something that we all bitterly regret and it is a great loss indeed for the Opposition Front Bench. The purpose of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-12a.561.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-13", "file": "debates1990-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d6a1889bd5b7289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-13a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Policing in London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute. I can say precisely which those authorities were: Brent, Ealing, now happily free of Labour control, Hackney, Lambeth and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-13a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-13", "file": "debates1990-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d6a1889bd5b7289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-13a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Policing in London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Is that all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "lice in their thousands and morale plummeted. By May 1979, forces in England and Wales were 7,710 below establishment, and in the Met there was a 16 per cent. shortfall. Within a week of taking office, our Government implemented the Edmund-Davies pay award in full and we have honoured the Edmund-Davies formula ever since, so that police pay is now up 41 per cent. in real terms over its 1979 level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-13a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-13", "file": "debates1990-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d6a1889bd5b7289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-13a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Policing in London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " the other points he was not incorrect. As I said, I am merely putting the matter in its proper perspective. I have withdrawn the remark about Islington on my right hon. and learned Friend's behalf —as he did himself in an intervention. What my right hon. and learned Friend said about Islington is incorrect now but it was very much correct until recently. The hon. Gentleman should understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-13a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I have had the benefit of most valued advice from fellow Members since my arrival here about five weeks ago. It occurs to me that, in the event of a general election, when many new Members will be attending the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.680.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is correct: the public may not understand the criteria laid down under Standing Order No. 20—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "If this matter is as important as the Leader of the Opposition says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "bout these matters than I, can tell me the origin of the suggestion. Was it a ministerial proposition? Was the idea put into the minds of Ministers by the Inland Revenue so as to supplement what the Inland Revenue had done itself? There must be a reason for the change. As there is a great deal of dissatisfaction within the acting profession and outside it, we need to know how the suggestion arose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.700.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "me to our proceedings my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Critchley), who is an expert in these as in other matters, and to whom I shall give way presently. I was just coming to the fourth of the Treasury Ministers—who is he? He is my right hon. Friend the former Financial Secretary. My hon. Friends have been falling over one another in paying tribute to my—is he now my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May I help the hon. Gentleman and put it to him that all the work will have been done before the Budget statement has been made, so he does not have to worry himself about such matters? The Chancellor will have the statement in his pocket when he stands at the Dispatch Box because it will have been produced as part of an assessment made prior to the introduction of measures in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.720.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.767.5", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.767.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.769.5", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Powell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 8 concerns the relief that I claim should be given against inheritance tax in respect of shares in long-term unquoted, usually family, businesses. I act as an adviser to the Unquoted Companies Group, and the debate is essentially about the taxation of the shares in unquoted companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": " clause for this reason more than any other. In some areas, only one primary school in eight plays cricket, in others no soccer or other team games are played, often because no teachers are willing to take part in activities out of school. That follows recent industrial disputes in schools, and it is a sad outcome. It is also a result of the movement, especially by left-wing education authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ion into the finances of the game. Its recommendations have been strengthened by the Popplewell report on the Bradford disaster and Lord Justice Taylor's report on the Hillsborough disaster. If funds for football were important in 1978, they are vital now. However, the amendment is not just about funds for football. The House should consider the best way in which such funds should be administered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.791.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-16", "file": "debates1990-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "03e5546b8b0aa131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.818.14", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to amendment No. 40, to be moved formally. I call Mr. Nick Brown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-16a.818.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "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/1990-07-17a.843.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.849.5", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " and the federal republic. In those circumstances, is not it the more surprising that one of the right hon. Gentleman's colleagues tried to upset the apple cart with his ill-tempered outburst last week? Will the right hon. Gentleman reassure the House that there is now no one in the Tory Cabinet prepared to talk in terms of German revanchism in the way that his former colleague was prepared to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.851.2", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "In as much as the supplementary question refers to mobility, I have answered the hon. Gentleman's question. As he well knows, that occasion was not laid on solely for the benefit of the Tory party. Serious sums of money were raised for other charities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "preceding_text": " much better than does the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace). It is true that the average sortie takes at least 300 to 500 miles, and it must encompass that distance to be worthwhile practice. It is our intention, through the United Kingdom low-flying system, to spread low-flying training as fairly and evenly as possible. Avoiding one area puts an unnecessary burden on other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.856.7", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that when I read the memorandum from the Chequers seminar and saw the words \"angst\", \"aggressiveness\", \"assertiveness\" and \"bullying\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.856.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.856.8", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Lady proceed with her question please?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.856.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am amazed that the deputy leader of the Labour party chooses his opportunity to question me to use it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.858.9", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "May I say to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.858.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "He should have been at the seminar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Prescribed Drugs (Compensation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide statutory rights to compensation to sufferers from serious side effects from prescribed drugs; and for connected purposes. Alongside, and complementary to, the great advances in medical science—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Prescribed Drugs (Compensation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "tion of new drugs which, in their efficiency and effectiveness, have helped to banish so many of the illnesses that were common when I was a boy. Diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever and even tuberculosis, which were once the scourges of our nation's health, are now of little consequence. I name those diseases; I could easily name a dozen others that have ceased to be serious and epidemic illnesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.864.6", "colnum": "864", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House would do best to leave these difficult decisions to the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.864.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.865.15", "colnum": "865", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of all hon. Members, the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) is certainly not deprived in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.865.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.865.15", "colnum": "865", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of all hon. Members, the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) is certainly not deprived in any way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and the reason why he is regularly called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.865.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"MITI.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the Japanese pursue the model that the hon. Gentleman describes. It may have been the model in Japan after the second world war; the Japanese may have a different relationship with their banking system, but that is a different matter. However, the relationship between the state and the industry is not as the hon. Gentleman describes it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "From memory, if one leaves out—as the Chief Secretary prefers to do—the figures at the start of this Government's period of office, from 1979 to 1980, the answer is yes. However, once those figures are included and we look at the Government's entire period in office, the picture is different. I made that point earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "As the forecast by my right hon. Friend less than four months ago appears to have been too optimistic about the size of the public sector debt repayment, and as Treasury forecasts made by people, however eminent, have turned out in the past to be dramatically different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ent. That is an unusual undertaking by the Government. It is a deliberate disincentive to the devising of schemes by which resources that have been largely contributed by local communities and through local effort and enterprise could be retained in those areas. The Chief Secretary said that a 50 per cent. or greater levy was a reasonable rate of return on the Government's investment in the ports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "ell rewarded by the Government. The move to increase payroll giving from £480 to £600 a year is extremely constructive. It is disgraceful that Members of Parliament who so regularly castigate the Government for not giving enough to charity, for whatever cause they espouse, set a miserable example. Hon. Members will say that Members of Parliament must meet many expenses out of their meagre incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "s of the Budget. The threshold for inheritance tax has been increased in line with statutory indexation from £118,000 to £128,000. Most people who think of inheritance tax believe that it is right to tax wealth when a person dies. There is, however, one item which does not make one say that a family is wealthy but which on a death may give rise to a high payment of inheritance tax—the family home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "resents the removal of one of the last shackles on women. A married man, for example, was entitled to receive a tax rebate on money that had been paid by his wife through her PAYE if she had made an overpayment of tax, and there was nothing in law to make the husband pay that money back to her. That is how we treat chattels. It is only right that the party that first created a woman as its leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "e which has debauched the currency, debased the coinage and depreciated the pound in everyone's pocket. Inflation is now exactly 9.8 per cent. higher than the Government's objective of zero inflation—a lamentable performance by any standards. Let there be no doubt about the fact that the Government are depreciating the pound in our pockets. The Labour party will be the Government of low inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "I could come to the global plans if I had more time. I could set out the macro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-17", "file": "debates1990-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc83db21cc752123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Elections come and go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-17a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "On the question of the long-term view for this country and for industry, does the Secretary of State agree with the Chancellor that the hard ecu is one possible route to a single currency, or does he hold to the view that a single currency without a single European Government is almost inconceivable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.983.8", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the previous Secretary of State. In this respect, I speak on behalf of all Ministers and officials who had the privilege of serving under him. We very much regret what happened. My right hon. Friend was held in the highest affection and respect by those who knew him well, and I have a low opinion of those who now try to make personal political capital out of his misfortune. As to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.983.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.987.5", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important and valuable point. It has always been a tradition in this country that laws are passed after consultation and discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.987.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The evidence abounds. Joint ventures are increasing, and there is a growth in trade with countries in eastern and central Europe. The time warp is with the Opposition. They are the ones who want policies that failed in east and central Europe. They want to foist back on the British people interventionism, expensive subsidies and sweeteners, at the taxpayers' expense, which would not be successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.991.5", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Harry Greenway. Question 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.991.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.999.6", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "It is, Mr. Speaker. We have a statement on community care and a debate on community care. I suspect that both are exactly the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.999.10", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Community Care", "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": "an sensibly take on the new duties in a way that is fair both to the people who require services and to their local taxpayers. Since I announced the Government's proposals last July it has become overwhelmingly clear that many local authorities are not managing their services and their spending so that they deliver good quality services effectively within reasonable spending limits. In many cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.999.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.999.10", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Community Care", "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": "overnment's proposals last July it has become overwhelmingly clear that many local authorities are not managing their services and their spending so that they deliver good quality services effectively within reasonable spending limits. In many cases— [Interruption.] —as even Opposition Members must have noticed—local authorities have imposed excessive levels of community charge on their residents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.999.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "hat local authorities will require £1,500 million more next year for personal social services policies—a 40 per cent. increase. He gave no explanation of where that money was going to come from. I do not believe for a moment that he had the authority of his shadow Treasury colleagues to put that view forward. What annoyed me and would annoy other people was his total indifference to charge payers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "licies—a 40 per cent. increase. He gave no explanation of where that money was going to come from. I do not believe for a moment that he had the authority of his shadow Treasury colleagues to put that view forward. What annoyed me and would annoy other people was his total indifference to charge payers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question. The hon. Gentleman is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It can be a good, caring policy to sell off a hospital ahead of its final closure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "They are not all over the country. The hon. Gentleman must allow me to answer his intervention. If centres provide only day facilities and have no residents, they cannot obtain income support and cannot have been expecting to do so in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.5", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "There was no such promise. That is total nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.5", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "n must allow me to reply. If a flow of funds is going to a voluntary body of any kind at the moment, I have not said anything that will end that. If a body was anticipating a flow of money next year, presumably it was anticipating a decision to be taken by the local authority, which it has not yet taken, which it cannot have yet taken and which was not backed by any promise made by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.5", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " the answer. There has been no withdrawal of funds and no promise of funds next year. The hon. Gentleman has merely described a body which, no doubt with worthy intentions, has anticipated a decision by the local authority next year to give it added support. It is ridiculous to suggest that the country is full of people banking on some promise that we made to pay, because no such promise was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "the same time throughout the debate. No money has been withdrawn from any voluntary body. No plans have been drawn up for expenditure by any local authority next year. If the voluntary body was expecting expenditure by the local authority next year, it must look to the local authority to meet it. I do not accept the validity of the hon. Gentleman's point. Hon. Members say that nothing has changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "eople are suffering. I think that I can claim that all of them—I am open to challenge—are appalled at the Government's actions. I do not see how any responsible Minister can find a hint of evidence to support the Government. I should not say to the people who are working with crippled, blind, deaf, spastic or mentally handicapped people that they are wrong. They unanimously condemn the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "d that there will never be precisely enough money for community care. It is an untapped resource. The Select Committee said that carers save the community £24 billion a year. We owe them a debt, and they will not be forgotten. It is quite sensible and proper that local authorities do not implement the proposals with a big bang, because the Government would be held hostage by left-wing authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "ur right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security has set up a study. There have already been extra resources to the degree of £145 million to provide additional assistance to the likes of Florence Smith and others about whom we heard during the detailed debate earlier in the year. Care in the community policy will take time to implement fully and effectively. Over the past 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. These regulations should be withdrawn because they are technically flawed and defective. It is centred around the allocation of access funds and the moneys will be disbursed under section 100 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": ". We are now making extra resources available through the education system to ensure that students have sufficient alternative support for the long vacation. Doubtless Opposition Members will remind me that the Social Security Advisory Committee is opposed to the Government's policy on unemployment benefit. It argues that, if the contribution condition is met, unemployment benefit should be paid.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "ject. However, tonight we are discussing student maintenance and whether they may be maintained through the education maintenance system or through the social security system. Before I leave this issue, I draw the House's attention to the fact that the majority on the Social Security Advisory Committee accepted the Government's proposal to remove students' underlying entitlement to income support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "er—such vague and open-ended powers to the Secretary of State. That was Mr. Justice Purchas' complaint about the unfettered powers voted to the Secretary of State over the administration of the social fund. However, one month later, we are being asked to do exactly the same again. That is why I ask every hon. Member who cares about the rule of law and having a check on the powers of the Executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "r young people from working-class families, which is another term that I dislike although I do not abjure it because I know the class to which I belong. Such young people do not have a cushy background and will look at the figures. We have talked generally about student loans, but many hon. Members spend £50 or more on one dinner and that is more than a student receives to keep himself for a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1116.7", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "about further education within Scotland. I believe that the access funds will be better administered by each individual education institution. Institutions will be given guidance, but that guidance will be largely in terms of accounting procedures and how the institutions account for the money that they get from the funding councils. They will be much more finely tuned to the needs of individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1116.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Alan Howarth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Alan Howarth)", "preceding_text": "e assisted places scheme. The draft regulations before us provide for certain small amendments to the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1989, which were consolidated last year. The assisted places scheme was established for the purpose of widening the educational opportunities of able children from less well-off families. As the House knows, it provides their parents with assistance towards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1126.4", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who wrote the book?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": " meant for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and the Minister outlined the history. I hope that he has read some of the research into the scheme. I hope that he has read \"The State and Private Education: An Evaluation of the Assisted Places Scheme\", which was published in the past year. An interesting review of the book in The Times Higher Educational Supplement was written by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "h is already wealthy beyond measure. It is a bribe to Tory supporters and a handful of others. It is money taken from our children who are being starved of funds in the state system. They glory in it. It is all part of a merciless attack on the state system, which the Tories loathe and never use. It is the same with the national health service, which they also do not use and are starving of funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-18", "file": "debates1990-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "879118125aeeceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "ough (Mr. Flannery) referred to the money that is going into the assisted places scheme. He said that that money is lost to the state system and to our young people. It is an insult to the 172 young people who are going through Norwich high school on the assisted places scheme. They would not like to be told that the money that is being spent on them is a waste. These arguments are total nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-18a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, certain aspects of community care are going ahead. He also knows that—as I have said—the Labour party's record in government of looking after the elderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the House that today, together with other right hon. Members, I attended upon Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, to deliver the House's message of congratulation on her 90th birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " my life I have seen changes and developments, new patterns of behaviour and fresh outlooks—much has been transformed but the loyalty and devotion of our people to the Crown remains constant. It is my prayer that with God's help our country will go forward from strength to strength in the years ahead. And now, once again, may I tell you how touched I am by your message of good wishes at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " winter months are forced to queue outside in the rain and are unable to obtain any refreshments unless they are accompanied by a Member of Parliament. The facilities here are, frankly, archaic and a disgrace to the country. It ill behoves the House to pass legislation requiring adequate facilities for the disabled in public buildings throughout the country if such facilities are not provided here", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "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": "ng sent to local authorities today. Copies are in the Library and the Vote Office. I also have in mind improvements to the community charge bill. The contribution of individual authorities to high charges is not clear enough on the face of the bill, and charge payers are inclined to think the council whose name appears on the top of the bill is responsible for the whole of any excessive spending.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1194.6", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "Against the background of the most generous settlement for many years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1198.2", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "At first hearing, the arithmetic of my right hon. Friend's package sounds extremely attractive. He deserves to be congratulated on bringing his package forward in this way. Can he reassure the House that people living in areas of low-spending or prudent-spending local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "First, while my right hon. Friend was referring to low-spending and prudent authorities, he was interrupted by the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) and by the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks)—my unofficial pair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dagenham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "mpt, which has seen us through many long nights together. I do not want to get the hon. Gentleman into any difficulty. The hon. Gentleman interrupted my right hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) to suggest that he was referring to rich or Conservative local authorities. With a bit of difficulty, I can think of one or two reasonably prudent, reasonably low-spending Labour authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1199.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1204.3", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "t so much a statement, more a redrafting of the poll tax legislation, made that much more cynical because he is attempting to bribe the electorate before the next general election. What calculation has he made of the increase in pay and prices that local authorities will face in 1991–92? What will the poor people of Newham have to do in terms of their further contribution to the safety net?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I wondered whether the hon. Gentleman would continue with his list of rhetorical questions and ask what happened to those Labour Back Benchers who are not here, and what happened to the Labour party alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1207.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Aviation and Maritime Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Aviation and Shipping (Mr. Patrick McLoughlin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Aviation and Shipping (Mr. Patrick McLoughlin)", "preceding_text": "hat the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) was not able to make his speech a little earlier, because some of his points would have given the sketch writers some amusing thoughts and ideas. I remember the hon. Gentleman's visit to Paris, because I think that we met each other on the Gatwick express and I gave him a lift back to the House. I can assure him that I do not have his luggage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-19", "file": "debates1990-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "263c2be2e4a95d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " Wreking as well as by me, could not put it more plainly. The wording takes account of suggestions made by the hon. Member for Thanet, North: We reiterate our belief in the need for a dedicated channel providing continuous, unedited coverage of the House's proceedings and we recommend that his should be provided at the earliest opportunity, as an adjunct to the permanent televising of the House. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-19a.1271.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-20", "file": "debates1990-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf757125fe695400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-20a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Good Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "ble. In the Gilbert and sullivan opera \"The Yeoman of the Guard\" the character Fairfax, who was under sentence of death, began his famous song: Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death whene'er he call, Must call too soon. Fairfax, a young man when he sang that, was awaiting execution. One often hears the young say, \"I do not want to live over 80\". They may feel differently on reaching 79.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-20a.1319.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "nal Power. My announcement is about PowerGen and it has no direct impact on National Power. I can confirm that, subject to market conditions at the time, the Government's present intention is to offer shares in National Power for sale to the public in February 1991. However, I must consider the interests of the taxpayer. If a serious offer were made for National Power, I should have to look at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "ct to market conditions at the time, the Government's present intention is to offer shares in National Power for sale to the public in February 1991. However, I must consider the interests of the taxpayer. If a serious offer were made for National Power, I should have to look at it. [Laughter.] Would those Opposition Members who are sniggering expect me not to look at it? They had better consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "ider the interests of the taxpayer. If a serious offer were made for National Power, I should have to look at it. [Laughter.] Would those Opposition Members who are sniggering expect me not to look at it? They had better consider— [Interruption.] That is right. They may not like this, but their cavalier approach to public expenditure will cost them very dear at the next election. That is for sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.47.3", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in his most important statement this afternoon, the shadow spokesman on energy, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson), committed a future Labour Government to renationalising at least 85 per cent. of PowerGen without compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.47.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "charge. The hon. Gentleman also asked about local management of schools and the counties. I assure him that we took all that into account before I announced the settlement. The hon. Gentleman's ninth question was about extra money for extra duties. All those were carefully taken into account before the announcement today. Finally, I come to the question that the hon. Gentleman did not ask. It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to rewrite the hon. Gentleman's brief, from which he has just read so clearly. I have not yet seen details of the Labour party's new fair rating system. The only Labour alternative that I have seen details of—I am delighted that the right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Teachers' Pay", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "rth will be able to fly direct to the United States, which is a good thing. I am particularly delighted at this decision because, as the chairman of Manchester airport said at the time, it will bring more industry and jobs into the region and will help the growth of the airport as a business. Amid all this euphoria, praise must be given to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "ed highlighting. I am afraid that I cannot say to my hon. Friend the Member for Spelthorne, who so ably introduced the debate, that I can wholly rule out Heathrow. If I did that, my hon. Friends who have spoken on behalf of other areas would ask me wholly to rule out their airports as well. That is not the way forward. The way forward is to do as the Government have done—to set up a working group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "onal duties. Special units are rightly being established to cope with child abuse. Police are becoming more involved in support work with victims. But all those new activities take up the time of police officers. Some jobs have been created unnecessarily by the Government. They provoked an ambulance strike, during which the police had to carry out duties that did not fall within their normal work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz) will have something to say about it later when he is called to speak. Some excellent initiatives have been taken to combat motor crime. One is the initiative taken by the police to persuade car manufacturers to make cars more secure. I understand that there is a specific problem with Ford cars —especially the XR2 and the Fiesta, which are seen as easy targets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "re. Hon. Members may be aware that Vauxhall have recently made their cars more difficult to break in to, and I think that hon. Members will agree that that is a most welcome development. The chief constable suggested recently that sports accommodation should be made available free during school holidays. The suggestion has great merit. I hope that the county councillors will consider it carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "n to, and I think that hon. Members will agree that that is a most welcome development. The chief constable suggested recently that sports accommodation should be made available free during school holidays. The suggestion has great merit. I hope that the county councillors will consider it carefully— [Interruption.] —not for this year, because it would take time to implement, but for future years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "that organisation and I, too, spoke at the conference. The Home Secretary arrived, puffing at his cigar and drank a glass of sherry. He told the assembled journalists what he regarded as the cause of crime. According to the headlines in the Leicester Mercury, the right hon. and learned Gentleman told us that there was more to steal. He said that we had to put up with the increasing level of crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "e way in which crime affected his constituents. That is why he had chosen this subject for today's debate. One of the saddest aspects is that we all feel that here was a man with great potential and promise, never to be realised in the House. He would have made a fine mark and a great contribution, and it was with great sadness that we learned that his life had been cut short at such an early age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "nemployment, inner-city decay or the alienation of young people who have been stripped of benefit and denied homes and the opportunity to lead a full and creative life. The Government cannot believe that the rise in the crime figures can have anything to do with that, so those factors are excluded from their analysis even before it begins. The dramatic difference that the Government cannot accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-23", "file": "debates1990-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a92d5c3b5e8b8ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "proliferation of similar demands elsewhere it is entirely understandable that many hon. Members, some of whom have spoken today, have sympathy with those aspirations. This important issue was the subject of careful consideration and, indeed, a resolution at the recent meeting of the Socialist International in Cairo, in which the British Labour party participated and fully supported the resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-23a.206.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.293.11", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "There is private enterprise, and there is looking after your friends. I think that the country can tell the difference between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.293.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " indicated that he will maximise the price, and he is duty bound to do that to get the best value for the taxpayer. However, other bids will be asked for. If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that PowerGen is being sold at a knockdown price, why do not he and some of his trade union friends put forward a consortium and bid at a higher price? No, the right hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.294.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.295.10", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "As a chemist, and having been Prime Minister for 11 years, which environmental achievement would the Prime Minister like to be remembered for—the deterioration in Britain's beaches, the continued dumping of sewage sludge in the North sea, the 10-fold growth in the import of toxic waste, the continuing increase in carbon dioxide emissions, Britain's exports of chlorofluorocarbons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.295.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman asked me which I prefer to be remembered for. I should like to recall to the House that the European Community sent a directive in 1975 to the then Labour Government requiring that all beaches that were not up to standard or in accordance with the directive be identified and that something be done about them. The Labour Government did absolutely nothing. It took a Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ify those beaches, to deal with three quarters of them in the first 11 years, and, in the next few years, to have a £3 billion investment programme to bring all those beaches up to standard. I am glad to go on to answer the rest of the hon. Gentleman's question. I have a lot of information. For example, on achievements since the 1987 election, the national debt has been reduced by £30,000 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.296.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " the Government have become increasingly entangled in snares of their own making. As the Chief Secretary has already warned his colleagues, there will be fierce struggles over the summer between the Treasury and other Departments because inflation has disrupted the Government's spending plans. As I look at some of the disappointed faces on the Government Back Benches, I am reminded that yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I am sure that he wishes to be fair. If we are to compare like with like on inflation, the underlying rate of inflation in Britain is 6·9 per cent., not 9·8 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.321.5", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " by 1 per cent. because of concern about the growth of credit. That was a considerable shock and surprise to people, but he acted so because he wanted to restrain what he thought might be an incipient growth of credit. If the Leader of the Opposition would also care to come to the Dispatch Box again to give me chapter and reference of when he said \"steady, steady\" in 1987 I shall happily give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about inflation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman said: This is a time for judgment, and that judgment should be\"— as Leader of the Opposition, his judgment is important— a big cut in interest rates.\"—[ Official Report, 29 October 1987; Vol. 121, c. 446.] That is what the right hon. Gentleman said in October 1987. Let us leave it to stand on the record between us whether that judgment was \"steady, steady\" or slippery, slippery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " sketched out by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. The policy is a long-term attack on inflation. First, we must get our inflation down to our competitors' average level. Then we must get it down further still, then down to the level of the best and onward down beyond that. That is clearly the policy. Perhaps I may attract the attention of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steady, steady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I think that the conduct of monetary policy, and economic policy generally, is a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and not for the Governor of the Bank of England, however distinguished. Moreover, Mr. Leigh-Pemberton's discussions with me, whatever they may contain, are a matter for Mr. Leigh-Pemberton and me and not for the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "t this year we have had the lowest number of stoppages in industrial relations for 35 years. The right hon. Gentleman made a number of comparisons with Germany—one was misleading and one was incorrect. On the misleading one, the right hon. Gentleman told us that, this year, output growth would be less in this country than in Germany. That is true on a one-year basis, but it is not true if we look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are whipped.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right. Perhaps I am sometimes a bit unfair to Ministers in that this is not a Government Bill—as I shall no doubt shortly be told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The development will probably put phase 2 back into the next century. Phase 2 will take between eight and 10 years. Phase 1 is nearly complete and it would be an outrage if, because of the development, people had to be decanted from the new development and moved back into a crowded Palace of Westminster. I hope that the Government will consider this matter. We are not being Luddites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is further to and in support of the point of order made by the hon. Member of Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett). I ask you and your colleagues to reflect on the matter. I do not make a personal comment when I say that the Bill's sponsor is a Conservative Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-24", "file": "debates1990-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fa302e1e75d01ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "EC Merger Control", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "n-Tweed (Mr. Beith). The Government believe that this is important. That is why, over the past year, my colleagues and I have persistently raised it at Council meetings in the European Community. We have made it clear that, if our markets are to remain open and other European companies take advantage of that, we expect reciprocation in market-opening measures in those other European member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-24a.429.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "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/1990-07-25a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "Surely it is understood that the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Defence (Options for Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "Without casting aspersions on the morals of the Secretary of State, may I say that he sounds like a religious prostitute who said, \"Oh God, make me pure, but not yet.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's original remark could not have been more wrong. If he consults the old valuation rolls he will discover that he owes me a substantial apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "Why is it that, when the Secretary of State believes that he has given a generous settlement, he preens himself at the Dispatch Box, whereas today he has come here blustering and foaming at the mouth? Does not that disguise the fact that the settlement that he has announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "We have said that we wish to see a phased introduction of community care. The hon. Gentleman may have noticed from today's reports in the Scottish newspapers that that decision has been welcomed by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, which feels that delay in implementing the Government's community care programme provides much-needed time to co-ordinate mental health services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.501.9", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.501.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ive. I cannot quote him verbatim because he spoke at such length and with such rapidity, but in essence he said that the judges are on the side of the Executive and have never done anything to protect the liberty of the subject. I should like the hon. Gentleman to think about the emergence of judicial review, of which I do not doubt he has heard. Judicial review was not the creation of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-25", "file": "debates1990-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "aeff948448385dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.608.15", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts and Legal Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 89, in page 50, line 1, leave out 'has a 10 year' and insert 'is a solicitor or barrister of 10 years standing with a'. The purpose of the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-25a.608.15"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-07-26", "file": "debates1990-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "91e1b39593c3e4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-26a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "preceding_text": "ctices, there can be no question of the multi-fibre arrangement being phased out or even weakened. If the negotiations are, indeed, finally successful, the Government and the European Community as a whole are committed to accepting an eventual phase-out of the multi-fibre arrangement. What worries me is that the Government appear to be giving support for an unrealistically short transition period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-07-26a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The nub of the debate is to secure the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait and the legitimate restoration of the Government of Kuwait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "my view when I have finished this section of my speech. May I repeat what I have said? We have acted throughout in accordance with international law and we shall continue to do so. I pointed out that resolution 661, which called for comprehensive economic sanctions, expressly affirms the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence in response to the armed attack by Iraq against Kuwait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "I am rather puzzled, the right hon. Gentleman having admitted that he requested the recall of the House, why there is nothing on the Order Paper in his name or in that of his right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "mitted that he requested the recall of the House, why there is nothing on the Order Paper in his name or in that of his right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman)— [Interruption.] I put it to him that on the specific point with which he is dealing, he does not wish a vote to take place because he is uncertain that he would get the support of the majority of his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that intervention. I think that everybody understands, including the Prime Minister—I mean no disrepect to the right hon. Lady, but the period to which my hon. Friend has referred was a formative one for her, as it would have been for anyone of that age at that time—that in thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ert with our European partners in the long term. I urge the Prime Minister to resist any temptation that she may feel to argue that this crisis is a reason for resurrecting a nostalgic illusion of a special relationship with the United States at the expense of fulfilling our destiny in a closely integrated Europe. In the political phase of this crisis, it is vital that we strengthen international—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "It was a great mistake, and I have the sense to admit it. I did it because I was assured by the Foreign Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divisions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ssein, is determined to bring him down and to establish a new base. I do not need to dwell on the consequences of war. They include a massive loss of life and possibly an air attack on oil installations. In the peculiar circumstances, we would to some extent, if not in every sense, be taking on Islam. Stalin is remembered for asking a very silly question. He asked how many battalions the Pope had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "re then using against the red Chinese the language that we are now using against Saddam Hussein. They were seen as worse than the Russians. Nevertheless, there was a Peace for China Committee, and China was later admitted to the United Nations. Whatever the Chinese Government may have done in Tiananmen square, no one wants a war with the Chinese, otherwise they would not have been given Hong Kong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "r march uneasily together in public life. At the time of the Suez crisis, the Father of the House and I clashed—something of which he generously reminds me occasionally. What was said then about Nasser is exactly the same as what is being said now about Saddam Hussein. The Falklands may be too close for comfort. Not all that many people looking back, think that that huge expenditure was justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " which he generously reminds me occasionally. What was said then about Nasser is exactly the same as what is being said now about Saddam Hussein. The Falklands may be too close for comfort. Not all that many people looking back, think that that huge expenditure was justified— [Interruption.] I do not think so. I have been in a minority before, and I might be in one now, but that does not worry me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "ol ourselves about this. The first is, in the memorable phrase of an American commentator, to make the world safe for gas guzzlers\". The Americans intend to control the supply of oil from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to ensure their immense consumption of oil. To do that, their second aim is to destroy the Iraqi regime and, by their continued military presence, to ensure a compliant successor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-06", "file": "debates1990-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "899ffd4646c44db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hamilton did not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-06a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "nd to appreciate the speed with which they moved. Many were brought back overnight from leave. The ships Jupiter and Battleaxe were in Penang and Mombasa, and their personnel were on leave with their families. Their leave had to be interrupted on the spot, but the spirit and resilience of those people, often working in difficult conditions, is something to which the House will wish to pay tribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I listened to the right hon. Gentleman with interest yesterday and noticed that he ceased to quote entirely correctly from the reported conversations, but I can confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman excuse me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.842.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.842.7", "colnum": "842", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "an that. As one of my predecessors, the right hon. Gentleman knows the position perfectly well and he knows perfectly well why I cannot go any further. The House may be aware that, while my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been dealing principally with the vexed and difficult issue of our hostages, I think that the House knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.842.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": "ever have arisen if it were not for the ending of the cold war. If there were still two major super-powers—the Soviet Union and America —the Americans would never have dared to enter Saudi Arabia and say that they were doing so to defend Arab interests. They would have known that the Soviet Union would immediately come from the north to defend their friends in the northern part of the middle east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "situation if President Reagan were still in office. There would not have been the concern to create such a wide-ranging international consensus, or to work through the United Nations, or the circumspection and restraint that have so far been the hallmark of the speeches and statements of President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker. Naturally, the Americans want to protect their oil supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-09-07", "file": "debates1990-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "f6a8e676c05eded3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "t. It must be right to time and organise measures with that aim in mind. I ask those who have emphasised that—I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Walsall, North and others who emphasised this approach—to consider a further matter. It cannot be right to put the choice entirely and wholly within the machinery of the United Nations. We know that machinery. We know that it includes vetoes and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-09-07a.901.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-15", "file": "debates1990-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "8c394205ac881420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-15a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " the central banks under the Basle-Nyborg agreements will be adequate to sustain the management of a currency as widely traded as sterling? Why did he not seek a strengthening of regional policy in the Community as one means of helping to bridge the gap between countries with more successful economies and countries, such as Britain, which are in difficulties? Finally, I wish to ask the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-15a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-15", "file": "debates1990-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "8c394205ac881420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-15a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "e now concluded and more are in hand. The third related to progress on financial services, which is also nearly concluded. The fourth was progress on competition policy, on which the Commission, on this at least is acting firmly. The only remaining condition was the need for inflation convergence, and it is now clear that we are moving away from divergence in inflation to convergence in inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-15a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-15", "file": "debates1990-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "8c394205ac881420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-15a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "On the final point, it depends on the individual company and the individual company's productivity. On the substantive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-15a.933.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1037.17", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The situation on grading appeals is something of a disgrace and it is entirely the fault of the nursing trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1037.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "versary reunion of the nurses who, with her, went to that hospital in 1965? During that visit they were amazed to discover that there were twice as many nurses on the wards and that many patients were sent home for the weekend due to the improvement in clinical techniques and methods. Does not that demonstrate not only that there are more nurses but that when the Government's reforms are in place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Minister's fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are making rather slow progress this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd further progress in competition policy. Monetary conditions here made possible a reduction of 1 per cent. in interest rates. Yes, we could have gone on further and waited until inflation had visibly come down, but so many of the conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going into the exchange rate mechanism that we took advantage of the excellent opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1051.6", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Unlike the right hon. Gentleman, I have a most excellent Chancellor, an excellent Treasury team and a superb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1053.4", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the indignation and outrage felt by Cypriots in my constituency about the Government's two-faced attitude to invasions? Troops have been sent to Saudi Arabia as a result of the invasion of Kuwait, but absolutely nothing has been done about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Is the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1053.6", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the international financial bandit Mr. Asil Nadir and his company, Polly Peck, have made their money by stealing property, orange groves and hotels from Greek Cypriots who are living in exile in my constituency? Will she do something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1053.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " of the House. Yesterday, immediately before Social Security Question Time, I happened to come across a set of abandoned papers, of which I have full copies with me. When I was able to examine them more closely after questions, I discovered that they were photocopies of 14 oral questions tabled to Social Security Ministers for that day, together with the replies that were to be given by Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. and learned Gentleman. I have a feeling that it is the same fella. The present chief constable of Grampian took up his post on 1 September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "l debate. I advise my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn) that the drafting is based closely on the previous Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 which my hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) piloted on to the statute book and on which my hon. and learned Friend himself may have advised on the drafting when he was Solicitor-General for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " board has exercised its discretion in an unreasonable manner. The background to the new clause involved representations from the police and the Grampian fire brigade. I have checked, and the letters that I received are not confidential, so I shall make arrangements to have them placed in the Library. I stress that it was not the same chief constable who wrote on both ocasions, but different ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I have not overlooked the matter, and shall come to it later in my speech. I may say in passing that I have a voyeur's experience of social work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ven local business men. In Hull, none of the non-executive members lives in Hull. In Leicester, none of the non-executive members lives in the city of Leicester. In Lancaster, four out of the five non-executive members do not live in Lancashire. In Greenwich, the local authority representatives have been replaced by a double glazing executive from Bromley and a computer executive from Chislehurst—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "use of patronage—an abuse all the more serious because the posts are no longer filled out of a sense of duty: they are now paid posts, with part-time salaries of £5,000 for 20 days' work. Ministers cannot treat that patronage as a private pork barrel for friends of the Conservative party. I wish to make it clear that the next Labour Government will not regard itself as bound by those appointments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I am a bit surprised that the Secretary of State for Health has left the Chamber. He should be ashamed of himself. He should be here listening to what we are saying because the Opposition totally disagree with his proposals. Indeed, one or two observations have also been made by Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "member well what happened. The Secretary of State has made a mess since he took over his flaming job. He is now moving towards more closures for the national health. The Secretary of State need not frown because I shall put him in the picture. He is coming to my constituency on Saturday for \"Europe Week\" and he will stand on a platform with the Conservative candidate for the next general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In my contribution I have not mentioned Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "o which of the new appointments to Central Nottinghamshire health authority does the hon. Gentleman really object? He is a fair man. He is not as partisan as he likes to make out on the Floor of the House. He knows perfectly well that we have appointed people who are interested in a better health service in central Ashfield. Would he please not lark about trying to claim that he seriously objects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1175.8", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Health Authorities (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "y of State is still laughing—he has been laughing throughout the debate. He thinks that this a damn joke. This is a serious matter. We are all complaining about the rundown of the national health service in our own areas, and now the Secretary of State has appointed bosses who jump to attention when he says so. He is pouring money into their pockets. No doubt they will get an increase pretty soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1175.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-10-16", "file": "debates1990-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7cc9d0c62132faf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MEMBERS, ETC.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the week as that on which the question is to be answered and shall not be fewer than fourteen days before the day for answer; and also setting out the latest day for notice of questions for oral answer on each of the first two sitting days following that adjournment provided that each such day shall not be fewer than two days (excluding Saturday and Sunday) before the day for answer.— [Mr. Wood.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-16a.1184.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman, on behalf of the Liberal party, is calling for the renationalisation of the steel industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1198.2", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ending on how matters develop. I have two points in response to the hon. Gentleman's other questions. First, the categorical assurance that Sir Robert gave me was that there would be no dismantling of the plant or of any part of it before the proposed closure in April next year. Secondly, however, Sir Robert also stated his intention to co-operate with the SDA study. I would find it inconceivable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1199.5", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Yes, I certainly do. In the course of time eligibility will be open to 320,000 local authority tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are doing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " that they will have them in future. I also suggest that authorities such as Dundee, which I shall visit again shortly with the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. McAllion), would be well advised to do what they are doing—to work closely with housing associations, and to explore all the possibilities, including the possibility of using its land bank—this applies to authorities that have land banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "It does not matter where an Opposition Member sits if that hon. Member engages in the irresponsible and reprehensible action of encouraging people not pay their community charge. That hits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1207.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or Speakers.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I applaud the hon. Gentleman's high standards. All I am saying is that he would find this a contentious subject if he were to table a motion banning Members from drinking at lunchtime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "New Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I would not say that I knew better than the Law Commission. I have discussed the matter in detail with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1258.6", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 140, in page 70, line 17, leave out 'had a right of audience in both the Court of Session and the High Court of Judiciary' and insert 'been admitted as a solicitor in Scotland'. I cannot find the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1258.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1258.6", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 140, in page 70, line 17, leave out 'had a right of audience in both the Court of Session and the High Court of Judiciary' and insert 'been admitted as a solicitor in Scotland'. I cannot find the amendment— [Interruption.] It is obviously an interesting amendment of great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1258.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Heathrow Express Railway Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "I shall have considerable doubts about supporting the carry-over motion unless proper attention is paid to the environmental aspects of the Bill to which my hon. Friend has referred. In my constituency, we need safeguards to prevent children from getting on to the line because they can do so all too easily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Heathrow Express Railway Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "r diesel multiple units—which now operate on the former Great Western main line. As the hon. Member for Christchurch would tell us, that is an argument for electrification, but so far as I am aware the Government have no plans to electrify the Great Western main line. So unless common sense prevails and there is a change of heart by the Government we shall be stuck with a private piece of railway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1315.3", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "erably damaged and we shall have to wait for action by a Minister if it proceeds. The residents say: Can the Bill be defended if the Commons Select Committee was unconvinced by the promoters' technical case to the extent that the final decision has been left to the Secretary of State for Wales? That statement is incontrovertible. The Committee examined the Bill in great detail and at great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr. Rowlands) on the public expenditure considerations of the barrage. Perhaps I should remind him that it was that incomparable popular singer, Shirley Bassey, who made a great name for herself with a song, among others, entitled \"Hey Big Spender\". Shirley Bassey comes from Tiger bay, which is part of the area that will be the beneficiary of all the public expenditure. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-17", "file": "debates1990-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "18e12ace6928c905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman may be misleading the House. If he means that Labour councillors support the project he may well be right, but he is not right if he means that the Labour party supports the project. Four of the five general management committees of the Labour party are against the barrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-17a.1343.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "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/1990-10-18a.1360.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1374.8", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Even though the right hon. Lady is trying to evade, it is obvious from what she said last week and from what she just said that she is in favour of vouchers for schooling. The Prime Minister is a crank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1374.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1374.9", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1374.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1374.9", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at is a form of giving extra choice and of giving the voucher to the parent for the pupil. Of course the right hon. Gentleman hates it. He wants total central control of education through socialist, Labour authorities that hold money back from locally managed schools. Of course he hates choice. Of course he hates higher standards. Of course he hates opportunity. He is socialist—a crypto-communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1374.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1375.6", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on authority administration. Head teachers of grant-maintained schools find them extremely good. There have been a number of comments about them recently—the head of Bankfield school in Cheshire, for instance, has said: 18 months ago I had serious reservations about the applications for grant-maintained status—not now. For me seeing and experiencing has been believing. Another in Northampton said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1375.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ttered, I have had the opportunity to consult \"Erskine May\", which on page 381 makes it clear that the imputation of false or unavowed motives is unparliamentary language. I assume that the rules on unparliamentary language apply even to the Prime Minister. I hope that you, Mr. Speaker, can advise me how that totally dishonest and abusive smear of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Seven-Year-Olds (Testing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this afternoon's announcement represents a major and humiliating U-turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Seven-Year-Olds (Testing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Straw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That is the biggest load of nonsense that I have heard in a long time. I am astonished at the attempts by the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) to build bricks out of air—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-18", "file": "debates1990-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "d23deb45905b59e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about David Trimble?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": " to the work of the Committee—work that is considered, reflective and courteous, and brings about the unanimity that is so important to the integrity and power that the Committee's reports carry. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) on having got his hands on the Committee's papers, and also on being the only non-member of the Committee to take part in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-18a.1456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-22", "file": "debates1990-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f37f2d03fc31ff8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.5.2", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "very misleading account of an alleged postponement or nigh cancellation of west coast main line improvements. That is absolutely untrue. The west coast main line investment, which will be substantial—about £750 million, I understand—is still in British Rail's plans. Improvements cannot be built overnight. When British Rail comes forward with a specific investment proposal, that is a matter for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.5.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-22", "file": "debates1990-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f37f2d03fc31ff8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "epresent the rich or the well off. They will do everything possible for a small minority. That is why the Government have lost so much support in the past few years. I have referred to Eastbourne, but in the Mid-Staffordshire by-election the swing against the Government was even greater. That was in the region of which I represent part—the west midlands—and so I am pleased about that. It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-22", "file": "debates1990-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f37f2d03fc31ff8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.52.5", "colnum": "52", "heading": "European Company Statute", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has plenty of time in which to participate. I shall conclude my remarks. I shall come back later if the hon. Gentleman wants any particular points answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.52.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-22", "file": "debates1990-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f37f2d03fc31ff8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "recall that last week the Redbridge London Borough Council Bill was withdrawn because of technical imperfections. Have the Clerks obtained from the Committee the minutes for the Bill that we are about to debate? Have they also obtained the record held by the Clerks in the Private Bill Office? I understand that there could be a discrepancy between the two and I should be grateful for your guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-22", "file": "debates1990-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f37f2d03fc31ff8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "European Company Statute", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) mentioned two named individuals. I do not know exactly what he was referring to, but it is clear that hon. Members would regard with dismay and worry the programme on Cambodia. If the Minister sees his way clear to writing the letter for which my hon. Friend asked, Opposition Front-Bench Members would appreciate a copy. My penultimate point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-22", "file": "debates1990-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f37f2d03fc31ff8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "European Company Statute", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Interruption.] The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment might find this debate ridiculous. I am sorry that he does. The debate began earlier this evening. Opposition Members were quite happy to discuss the matter at a sensible hour this evening. Conservative Members caused hon. Members to return to discuss it at 2.19 in the morning. Like him, I should like to be tucked up in bed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-22a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "What standards are being set for, and what lessons are being learnt by the primary school children at St. Paul's school in Staffordshire, whose parents were told a couple of weeks ago to bring in not only their own pens, pencils, rubbers and hand towels, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.177.4", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "—but their own toilet rolls? Is not it a fact that not one education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "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 must await a statement from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security on his annual review of social security benefits. Our family policy has increased payments to the family. Indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "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 must await a statement from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security on his annual review of social security benefits. Our family policy has increased payments to the family. Indeed— [Interruption.] Whereas Labour cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "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 must await a statement from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security on his annual review of social security benefits. Our family policy has increased payments to the family. Indeed— [Interruption.] Whereas Labour cut— [Interruption.] They hate facts, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.9", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r cent. more than inflation. Despite his meaningless words, the right hon. Gentleman's Government cut it by 7 per cent. Furthermore, by means of family credit we have helped poorer families in particular: they now receive three times as much over and above inflation as they used to receive under Labour. I do not wonder that the right hon. Gentleman is forced to go for trivia: his record is so bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.186.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick.", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Riddick—come on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.6", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Manchester Olympics committee is an excellent organisation. The Duke of Westminster is in charge of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Manchester Olympics committee is an excellent organisation. The Duke of Westminster is in charge of it— [Laughter.] —and he has great faith in the infrastructure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The trivia was attempting to say that I was in charge of everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has any information whatsoever to suggest that there was advance knowledge of entry into the exchange rate mechanism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not give way for a moment. The House will remember that I answered questions on this matter for an hour a week ago. I shall be here at the Dispatch Box on Thursday and a vast number of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "re is ever going to be a perfect time for Britain to enter the ERM, and I think therefore that we should take the opportunity to do so at the earliest time. That is what I have done and the reason why Opposition Members attack us is that they know that we have taken the right decision and they do not want to acknowledge it. They want to hide the fact that their party is split asunder on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your attitude.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " been pushed. The simple truth is that my right hon. Friend first stated our commitment to entry during stage 1—over two years ago. She and I have been discussing possible dates for months. Four months after the start of stage 1 we found an appropriate date and honoured our promise. That is what Opposition Members cannot stomach. Their attitude is the typical triumph of expediency over conviction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": " of the European Community. There can be no one in the House or outside who does not regard the decision to enter the exchange rate mechanism as being truly worthy of the adjective \"momentous\", and since that is self-evidently true, it is all the more difficult for us and the British people to understand the refusal by the Head of the Government who made that decision to participate in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t Conservative Members are hearing exactly the same thing. Those economists were only two of many people in similar positions who put the view that agreement to ERM entry was nothing more or less than the price paid by the Prime Minister for the 1 per cent. cut in interest rates that she needed to take to the Tory party conference. Never has so much been done that affects so many to please so few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Our case was never made in the way in which the hon. Gentleman professes that it was made. Our argument has been, and remains, that when, from time to time, Europe is faced with the threat of Eurosclerosis—the hon. Gentleman will be familiar with the term—the case for joint growth strategies exists and is widely accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "—the hon. Gentleman will be familiar with the term—the case for joint growth strategies exists and is widely accepted. [Interruption.] I realise that Conservative Members are very reluctant to allow any answer to be given to a Liberal Democrat on this particular day: there is a certain Eastbourne sensitivity about. None the less, I shall reply to the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I must continue. If Conservative Members have any questions, please address them to the Prime Minister—although she never provides any answers. The Prime Minister felt that she could not say that she knew that the whole Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I must continue. If Conservative Members have any questions, please address them to the Prime Minister—although she never provides any answers. The Prime Minister felt that she could not say that she knew that the whole Government— [Interruption.] Perhaps I could have some order, Mr. Speaker. She knew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The exchange rate. That is the whole purpose of the mechanism. If the hon. Gentleman does not have that basic piece of knowledge, I am not suprised that he takes the view that he does. I am sure that he has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "very clearly. I have to say, however, that those reasons and those advantages have been valid for years. They are not reasons and advantages that have suddenly appeared relatively recently. The great thing is, however, that the pound is now in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS or, as some might put it, we are committed to shadowing the deutschmark at a rate not very far from DM3 to the pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.216.8", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why didn't we join then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "There is another reason why it is a tragedy that we did not join five years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.216.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman had decided to leave us. We shall miss him in our deliberations. Having listened to what the right hon. Gentleman said today—and he has made explosive speeches undermining the Government, from whom he has departed, on more than one occasion—perhaps some of his right hon. and hon. Friends wished that he had applied for the Chiltern Hundreds rather than taken the City thousands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "cy at home as they are about it within the Community, but such a policy is vital in building a strong Community that operates fairly in respect of all its member states. We shall work to support the social action programme, which is vital to the balance between economic success and social cohesion. The need for that is understood by many countries in the Community, but not by Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "he first impression gained was that the hard ecu is an alternative vehicle for exporters, but the way that it has been described by different Ministers puts me on my guard. There is the belief in the House, and probably in the country, that the Prime Minister is against all this stuff—that she is a resolute defender of sovereignty and an even more resolute defender of parliamentary accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend because he has come a long way along the road to making this matter clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Single currency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "oad to making this matter clear— [Interruption.] Of course, it is correct that entry into the ERM, the hard ecu or even the fact that today's date is 23 October could lead at some time—if people wanted it to—to a common currency. I am asking my right hon. Friend to confirm that the Government are irrevocably opposed to a common currency, whether it is Mr. Delors' common currency or anybody else's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " entered the ERM at too low an exchange rate. I have no doubt that the central rate of DM2·95 strikes the right balance between the need to maintain a firm anchor against inflation and the importance of preserving the competitiveness of British goods on world markets. The right hon. Gentleman chose to quote some figures. He compared the level of the deutschmark today with the level of 1927—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-23", "file": "debates1990-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "88cf8789c4f81c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Exchange Rate Mechanism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us about the arrangements for accountability for the European monetary fund? Does Sir Michael Butler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-23a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-24", "file": "debates1990-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "42e4238011ae9f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has earned his reputation for selective quotation. He omitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-24", "file": "debates1990-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "42e4238011ae9f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Yes, in parts of Jordan. The presence of both forces is unacceptable for exactly the same reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-24", "file": "debates1990-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "42e4238011ae9f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " should be knocked firmly on the head—the suggestion that what I have announced today, whether in respect of child benefit or in any other major respect, is in some way the result of a sudden change that has taken place in the past few days, let alone since last Thursday. The proposals are precisely what I agreed with my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury nearly a fortnight ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-24", "file": "debates1990-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "42e4238011ae9f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.356.4", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " an interest in promoting family policy, to refuse year after year to uprate child benefit fully? Also, it is profoundly unsatisfactory to have crisis Downing street summits as a way of managing this country's benefit policy. Far too many people depend on it for that. What was the Prime Minister's impact on the policy change? What is the future for child benefit in the Secretary of State's hands?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.356.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-24", "file": "debates1990-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "42e4238011ae9f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Redbridge London Borough Council Bill [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "I spy strangers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-24a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.486.6", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend remind the macho champions of manufacturing interests on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary is wrong if he believes that Labour is the party of low taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary is wrong if he believes that Labour is the party of low taxation— [Laughter.] Will he confirm that the percentage of GDP taken in taxation has been much higher during this Conservative Government's years in office compared with the halcyon days when Labour was in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.494.11", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Harry Cohen. Is he here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.494.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.494.12", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister believe that the rise in unemployment—by 36,000, in the south-east alone—is a sign of a successful economic policy? Will not unemployment increase enormously in the next two years as a result of the Government's policy of slowing down growth and output because they had overheated the economy in the first place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.494.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.495.8", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister have made it perfectly clear that the Madrid conditions have been fulfilled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.495.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "Whatever problems we may have with inflation, there is nothing that we can learn from the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "On the first point, it is for the lenders to decide when and how to reduce mortgage interest rates for borrowers. As for any further reductions in interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Popular attitudes and aspirations change. Wise political leaders like my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister respond to those changes. In the 1970s, she encapsulated them; in the 1980s, she gave effect to them. What is her assessment, her perception, of the aspirations and attitudes of the British people for the 1990s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.503.4", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "per Alpha is in the hands of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy. I understand that it is a substantial document. My right hon. Friend is arranging for it to be published and will make a statement in due course. The hon. Gentleman draws an uncharacteristically misguided conclusion from the fact that there are 436 amendments to the Environmental Protection Bill for consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.503.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "What on earth is all the fuss about? We left for our summer hols in July happy in the knowledge that we had persuaded the Minister of State that, at long last, he was on the right lines, only to find in October that he has been shunted into a siding. That is due to an unholy alliance between Lord Wyatt and an early-day motion signed by 100 Conservative Back Benchers—one sage and a hundred onions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "and presenters' views should not be peddled in the programmes that they make. Of course, everyone has a perfect right to a view, but they should attempt to present a balanced approach in the programmes that they make. One radio programme that I regularly listen to is a classic example of the sort of thing that we get. It is \"Start the Week\" on Radio 4 on Monday mornings, presented by Melvyn Bragg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "they should attempt to present a balanced approach in the programmes that they make. One radio programme that I regularly listen to is a classic example of the sort of thing that we get. It is \"Start the Week\" on Radio 4 on Monday mornings, presented by Melvyn Bragg— [Interruption.] That programme is one of the more notable but subtle exponents of the sort of thing about which I have been talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "As it happens, it is my misfortune to listen to \"Start the Week\" most mornings on my way to the station. The other day my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) was on the programme talking about bias on television. It was interesting to hear how Mr. Bragg interrupted my hon. Friend far more than his other guests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Hots. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ached. There was a lack of professionalism. Clearly we cannot legislate for professionalism in broadcasting. This is not a draconian amendment. It will spell out to the ITC firmly and clearly Parliament's intention in seeking to ensure that there is proper impartiality. The amendment is not prescriptive. It creates a framework, and Parliament is entitled to draw up that framework. I will conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ertaining to independent television since 1954—not a word of it has changed. That is a commendation of the Bill, not a criticism of it. One thing has changed, for good reason. There is now a statutory requirement for a code instead of guidelines. My hon. Friends the Members for Eltham (Mr. Bottomley) and for Thanet, South (Mr. Aitken) made speeches that expressed my views on many of these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "t, when a biased programme was shown, a balancing programme had to be shown within one month and he wanted that provision to be on the face of the statute. That drew forth my remark in September to the Royal Television Society that I thought such an approach was unwarrantedly mechanistic and would not be successful. The original proposal was rejected and we ended up with an element of reassurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ies of programmes. We approach these issues as experienced legislators, now that we have got down to the hard core of what might be called activists. Most of the people in the House now sat through the various stages of the Bill and know what we are talking about, and the more populist figures have gone for their supper. Most of those present now would not want to call themselves populist figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Let us not forget entertainment programmes. We are, after all, talking about a popular channel which must contain entertainment and all the programmes that some people do not like to acknowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ypes runs the risk of narrowing the range of options that would be available on Channel 3. I do not want to speak at greater length, but that is the only reason why I am inviting the House to disagree with the amendment. We are entitled to take some pride in what we achieved in our debates. If there had been a glaring omission of the type that we are discussing, we might ourselves have spotted it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.596.7", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "t out leaflets in support of their activities or ask people to support them in door-to-door campaigns, that seems to be going extremely far, and I am not sure that that is the intention. I should be grateful if the Minister would give his views on that and some guidance, both to the Radio Authority and the ITC, which are currently drafting their guidelines. It is difficult to define proselytising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.596.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-10-25", "file": "debates1990-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "2da2f16c9c3b078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "indicated assent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " the convenience of the House if I moved future amendments formally—not to avoid debate, but to avoid unnecessary debates. If there are then points on which I can assist the House, as I am sure there will he, I can respond to them. That may be preferable to my introducing at any length questions on which, given the consideration the Bill has already received, hon. Members may be perfectly content.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-25a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-26", "file": "debates1990-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "316c263f5c2308bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-26a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cambodia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "uthority for this whole issue goes much higher than the Ministry of Defence or the Foreign Office, one would prefer to hear the Prime Minister's view on the subject. The only recorded interview of which I am aware on the subject of Cambodia, apart from a few brief comments that the Prime Minister made when she visited the border two years ago, was in the Blue Peter children's television programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-26a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree— [Interruption.] —that the livestock sector in Wales, in Scotland and in upland parts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Oral Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Could you please explain, the question of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "—to refuse to name the father when she fears that he might be violent or where she may not be certain that she knows who is the father?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.733.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.733.10", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is an unworthy allegation for the hon. Lady to make. I ask her to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.733.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.734.8", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes you have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I have made no specific allegations, Mr. Speaker, against any right hon. or hon. Member.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.734.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.734.13", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we cannot continue like this. I heard the hon. Lady make that allegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.734.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.735.6", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.735.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "May I assure the House that I have no intention of taking the risk of making any general observation about women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.740.6", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will be aware that Hackney has one of the largest number of single-parent families in the country, more than 17,000. They, in common with millions of other women struggling to bring up children in poverty, will have been dismayed by the facetious way in which some Conservative Members treated this subject this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.740.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that many of my constituents will welcome the fact that financial responsibility is being returned firmly to the childrens' parents? May I suggest that my right hon. Friend and his colleagues might consider broadening the use of the Child Support Agency in the long run into a number of other areas, such as housing? I have a number of violent husbands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have now had an opportunity to send for the extract from Hansard . I find that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms. Short) said: Some of the children are yours. That appears to be a reflection on me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Child Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "To the best of his knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " say that we should not discuss something today if we are going to discuss it soon. Are there any inconsistencies between the British and European plans? I am afraid that they are huge. The European plan speaks of a tattoo mark on the animal's ear, another tattoo mark on a dog's thigh, a computer chip inserted in a dog's neck and a nationality certificate indicating the dog's or cat's nationality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ng something that could soon be overturned. We have already done that—the Merchant Shipping Bill is a clear example. I know that our splendid Transport Ministers put forward overwhelming arguments about why we should have that Bill. There was a great debate and we spent 18 hours on the subject, but then it was overturned by a Euro-decision. I am desperately trying not to make a pro or anti speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "The proposal was that a section of the business should be deferred to the end of our debate because of a report being produced by the EC Assembly. I am pointing out that that report does not at present have the position of legislation and so does not represent a clash with the Government's view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "Listening to the claims and counter-claims of the Labour party and the Liberal party one could be forgiven for forgetting that it was the incoming Conservative Government in 1970 who first established a Department of the Environment and the present Government who have brought forward this large Bill—the first serious attempt to deal with a range of environmental problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "The national registration scheme which has been advocated by its roponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "attacked in the course of their duties. Those are only the recorded attacks, and they are in addition to an 18 per cent. increase in 1987. Not only do such dog attacks cause trauma, misery and distress, but they result in many lost working days. Indeed, the number of lost working days between 1987 and 1988 increased by 45 per cent. Dog attacks were directly responsible for 4,711 lost working days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-29", "file": "debates1990-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "15233675a3a815c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Shelton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Shelton", "preceding_text": "ed. She would agree that a registered or unregistered dog is just as likely to attack a postman or anyone else. The hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. McAllion) referred to urine and faeces, but a registered or unregistered dog behaves in the same way. I have two golden retrievers, which presented us with eight puppies a month or two ago. Our family has had dogs since it started being a dog family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-29a.819.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.857.4", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Off and on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been in the House for 16 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.857.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That is right. That is basically the understanding of the START agreement as far as it has got. There will be a radical reduction in arsenals on both sides. If the Labour party insists on negotiating away our deterrent in return for some balancing reductions by the Soviet Union, it will still leave the Soviet Union with a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.861.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "European Council (Rome)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": ", tell the House what will be her conditions now for putting sterling into the narrow banding of the ERM? The Prime Minister could come to a debate and explain all these things from the Dispatch Box if she was willing to do so. When the Prime Minister conducts herself as she did in Rome this weekend, is it any wonder that she cannot even get agreement for the necessary reduction in farm subsidies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "European Council (Rome)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the matter, and I wrote to him. He did everything that he could to see that a matter so urgent was not discussed, but we succeeded in getting it discussed. As to the right hon. Gentleman's strictures about economic and monetary union, that phrase was agreed by the European Community before we went in. It is one of those things that we inherited. It was agreed in 1972. When it came to defining it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.872.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "European Council (Rome)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "alise that in a single meeting she has isolated this country in Europe, weakened our voice in Europe, divided the Government and betrayed this country's long-term best interests? Does she realise that if she faced a Labour party that was not equally divided, muddled and confused on this matter, she would today face a motion of no confidence in her failure at this historic moment? Does she realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "European Council (Rome)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Better that than the red flag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "What is the point of the Prime Minister trying to wrap herself in the union jack for electoral purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "European Council (Rome)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that we have accepted. The Single European Act defined economic and monetary union as Co-operation in Economic and Monetary policy\". That is all you need, in my view. The hard ecu is a proposal that does not require a central bank, which would make it an inflation-proof currency and which could be used if people chose to do so. In my view, it would not become widely used throughout the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.878.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-30", "file": "debates1990-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e46f3bd5b03546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "European Council (Rome)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "olleagues will have heard my right hon. Friend the Chancellor say many times that many of his colleagues are very worried about any suggestion of a single currency before we have almost a common economy or an economy with about similar prosperity. It just would not work. Once one goes to a single currency, all the differences would come out in heavy unemployment and in massive movements of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-30a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.969.12", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "Asia, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.969.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.969.12", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "Asia, Mr. Speaker. [Interruption.] Conservative Members may not like it, but they will have to listen to my supplementary question. Is it not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.969.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "to the change to the UBR, business rate payers will pay £1 billion less than they would be paying if we had stuck to the previous system. Manufacturing industry, in which the hon. Gentleman and others affect to have some interest, will as a result of our changes see a real terms fall outside inner London. This year, small shops will pay £10 million less in aggregate in real terms—2 per cent. less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I shall try to answer my hon. Friend, recognising as I do his expertise in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " at a reasonable cost, which will encourage several commercial sectors, and that it will encourage local residents such as the Leader of the Opposition, who I am sure must be grateful to have such a good local authority. May I return to a question that I was asked earlier by the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas)? I said that we would be using definitions that are familiar in tax law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Noise Abatement and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "y been referred to by hon. Members and they are listed in the documents before us. They include the noise of aircraft, helicopters, trains, lorries, industry, including the construction industry, sport, entertainment, and recreation, noisy parties, amplified music, dogs, burglar alarms and car alarms. As living standards rise, people tend to worry less about where the next meal is coming from and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-10-31", "file": "debates1990-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ae2cc86d95624bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Noise Abatement and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "ocuments before us. They include the noise of aircraft, helicopters, trains, lorries, industry, including the construction industry, sport, entertainment, and recreation, noisy parties, amplified music, dogs, burglar alarms and car alarms. As living standards rise, people tend to worry less about where the next meal is coming from and— [Interruption.] There is a little noise going on at the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-10-31a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.2.4", "colnum": "2", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that Parliament is not allowing the Sessional Orders to go through on the nod. Some people were unkind enough to suggest that on the last occasion when I raised this issue, it was because of the television cameras—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.2.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "nurse's arms. I thought it apposite that I should recall the final lines of that play, which I studied for O-level. The hon. Member for Halesowen and Stourbridge may recall that the quote concluded something like this: Last scene of all … second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste\"— and, I would add, \"sans common decency and common humanity\"— sans everything.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "As we consider the Queen's Speech, we are bound to reflect on the condition of the Government who produced it. After all, it is only a year since we were told that the Government had The Right Team for the Future\". Since then, no fewer than five members have left the Cabinet team. Some went—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " her, but who now anonymously attack her. Those who snipe at the Prime Minister publicly, but then cast around for surrogates or stalking horses deserve much the same disdain, especially when they write voluminous letters of criticism and then go off to the middle east to see the Palestinians and the Israelis—but, apparently, not to speak to any interviewers. We have a latter-day Samson Agonistes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ent community care, but the Prime Minister did not do so. She absolutely postponed it indefinitely. In the process, the Prime Minister condemned millions of her fellow citizens, including some of the most frail and needy and those who care for them, to continued isolation and poverty, without care, without proper support and even without respite. Now, from the Prime Minister who speaks of wanting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "y. In the process, the Prime Minister condemned millions of her fellow citizens, including some of the most frail and needy and those who care for them, to continued isolation and poverty, without care, without proper support and even without respite. Now, from the Prime Minister who speaks of wanting— [Interruption] —a classless and opportunity society when her main instrument of economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "an Community and on the European continent. That way, under this Prime Minister and this Government, lies relegation to the second rank of the European Community. That is understood not only in the House but by the majority of the British people. They are not given to celebrating the process of European development in any demonstrative way, but they most certainly do not want to be left out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The realities are understood not only in the House but by the majority of the British people. They are not in the business, as I said earlier, of celebrating with great demonstrativeness the process of European development, but they do not want to he left out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", one wonders what country he has been living in. Until 1979 we were in the corporate state era. It was an era of relative economic decline and social disintegration. We enter the 1990s with the supply side of the British economy in incomparably better shape than at any time in our history. Those are not my words. They are the words of the director general of the Confederation of British Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ionalisation. Let there be no going back to local rates, the principle of representation without taxation for householders, to the poisonous politics of envy. Let there be no going back, in short, to the dreary, dreadful days of failure\", under socialism. One hon. Gentleman who thought that the words were mine called out, \"Ask the CBI.\" I am quoting the CBI—the people who know who to run industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", in short, to the dreary, dreadful days of failure\", under socialism. One hon. Gentleman who thought that the words were mine called out, \"Ask the CBI.\" I am quoting the CBI—the people who know who to run industry. [Interruption.] Yes, as the Leader of the Opposition said, we need to get inflation down, and we shall bring it down. I shall refer to that in a moment, but first let us consider what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As I and my hon. Friends can hear nothing of this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let us first consider what has been achieved. Nearly 400,000 extra businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Those who are watching these proceedings will draw their own conclusions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "One moment. The economy needed to slow down, but such was the sheer strength and vitality of the expansion that it has taken some time to rein back the momentum. But we are now getting on top of inflation. The growth in money supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.24.7", "colnum": "24", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman did not hear because of the noise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.24.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " this Parliament, are now giving people more choice. Parents, not the local council, can now choose the school they want their children to go to. They are not restricted just to local authority schools, because every school now has the choice to become an independent state school. Patients can choose their doctor and doctors can choose the hospitals to get their patients treated sooner and better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.27.6", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense. He knows that community care has not been abandoned: certain parts are already being implemented through local authorities, and other parts will be implemented when the local authorities are fully ready to take over those great responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.27.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. The fight against crime will be carried forward by a criminal justice Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must continue. I have given way far more than did the Leader of the Opposition, which is not surprising, because there is far more content in the Queen's Speech than in anything of which he spoke. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the resignation of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe). We very much regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ore than did the Leader of the Opposition, which is not surprising, because there is far more content in the Queen's Speech than in anything of which he spoke. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the resignation of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe). We very much regret—[SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"]—We, the Government, very much regret that, after his long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-07", "file": "debates1990-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "27eca1a1a5742a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": ", he may remember, he did last year and the year before. In this type of debate it is essential to raise an issue that is not tied to the big issues being dealt with by everybody else. I commend the hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford for the admirable way in which he presented his important case. I should like to refer to the speech made by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-07a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "We shall add to that this year. The main objective of economic policy at present must be to bring inflation down, but, as we do so, the short-term prospect is bound to be one of weak activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " weaken and some countries such as Canada and the United States are expected to grow very slowly indeed over the coming year. The outlook has also been complicated by events in the Gulf, with the rise in oil prices and the uncertainty that they have produced. Against that background, our new plans are designed to protect the most vulnerable groups in society against the effects of higher inflation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Getting better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "s country? The Chancellor made some predictions. Has he reflected on the record of the Treasury at making successful economic predictions? I assume that he has read the Treasury bulletin issued recently which confirms that in 1988 the Treasury was wrong by 288 per cent. about the balance of payments; in 1989, it was 30 per cent. wrong about the balance of payments; and in 1990, 20 per cent. wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me for saying at the outset that that was an odd response from the shadow Chancellor, who keeps telling the markets that he would spend money only on child benefit and pensions. He produced a litany of areas on which the Labour party clearly thinks that it would be wise to spend a lot more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "rty clearly thinks that it would be wise to spend a lot more money. [Interruption.] The right hon. and learned Gentleman is clearly sensitive about the deep split between himself and the shadow Chief Secretary on these matters. Let me deal first with the questions that the right hon. and learned Gentleman asked. He made a point about recession. He used the word in the way most calculated to alarm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "nflation will fall, savings will increase, the trade gap will close and investment will be 50 per cent. higher than in 1979. We shall still have more people in employment than any other European nation. It is clear from what is happening and from what I have been able to forecast today that the British economy is coming back on track—that is what the right hon. and learned Gentleman does not like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.126.4", "colnum": "126", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How far?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I expect underlying inflation also to fall next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor will recall that a couple of weeks ago he was a most unwelcome guest in my constituency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Chairman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "While, Mr. Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wee Scots?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, aware that this matter has a considerable background. I am aware also that we Scots are very tenacious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "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": "ix months more has happened than ever before in South Africa to change the awful face of apartheid. As the right hon. Gentleman and the House know perfectly well, the United Kingdom is not only talking to all the parties but is trusted by all the parties. If the negotiations are carried to the successful conclusion that we all hope to see, the United Kingdom may yet have an important role to play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-08", "file": "debates1990-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "acc51a041df0705c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "f the unexpected and of the need for flexibility and mobility. I did not know that within eight days the need would be so clearly demonstrated. As I speak tonight, we have some 17,000 men and women committed to the Gulf from the Army, Navy and Air Force. The move of the 7th armoured brigade involved 40 ships, 4,200 vehicles and 40,000 tonnes of ammunition and stores. It was an amazing achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-08a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-09", "file": "debates1990-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c905a2ddd2150fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.232.9", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Transport", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "preceding_text": "Although Friday is not the most crowded day in the House, in my experience it is a day when those hon. Members who attend are among the most perspicacious, assiduous and discriminating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.232.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-09", "file": "debates1990-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c905a2ddd2150fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "to decipher as Linear B, so I shall have to call on the help of members of the Opposition Front Bench Trade and Industry team, who I assume are more familiar than I am with their policy and their leader's involved style. Perhaps I could ask the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East some simple questions. First, is the Labour party in favour of an independent European central bank? Or do they not know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-09", "file": "debates1990-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c905a2ddd2150fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it is not surprising that the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry spoke for half an hour but failed even to mention the words Bradford and Bootle. I well understand his reticence. In the early hours of this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-09", "file": "debates1990-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c905a2ddd2150fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are saying clearly that we would not make these cuts. If the Secretary of State is asking me whether a Labour Government wants to spend more on the regions and training, the answer is yes. The resources available to us will depend on the economic circumstances of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-09", "file": "debates1990-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c905a2ddd2150fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er, that without prior, sustained, long-term investment in the British economy, imports would rise at an alarmingly fast rate after the boom and there would be a widening trade gap. The Government went ahead with the boom and accordingly there were pressures on interest rates, which had to be forced up. In the wake of that came inflationary bottlenecks. The damaging feature of high interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-09a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-12", "file": "debates1990-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "d312acc70e2cb568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.313.7", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "bout the North sea, it is clear that the level of activity is as high as it has ever been and that the level of capital investment is steadily going up. There is no lack of investment in the North sea. On the more general point raised, the hon. Gentleman will know that, as a result of many things, not least the revenues from the North sea, we have been able to spend far more on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.313.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-12", "file": "debates1990-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "d312acc70e2cb568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "That is a most extraordinary question which has been framed by the hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-12", "file": "debates1990-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "d312acc70e2cb568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Only if the hon. Gentleman's intervention will not touch on broadcasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-12", "file": "debates1990-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "d312acc70e2cb568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "e to wait for another speech. In Brent, the money from the standard spending assessment has gone up this year from £190 million to £216 million, which is a 13·5 per cent. increase. Provided that the Labour party and the Liberal party in Brent behave properly, which would be a new experience, but there is still time for it to happen, because I have always believed in the forgiveness of sums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-12", "file": "debates1990-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "d312acc70e2cb568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "sidise the residents of wasteful Labour authorities. If we were to strip away the surcharges and handouts, we would find that the Labour party's arithmetical inexactitude is almost a case for reference to the Advertising Standards Authority. Having done that, we find that totally Conservative areas have an average community charge of £305, compared with the rip-off in totally Labour areas of £412—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-12a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is tempting me on to territory on to which I dare not stray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is tempting me on to territory on to which I dare not stray—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—because another Government Department is responsible for that, as Opposition Members well know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " Department is responsible for that, as Opposition Members well know. [Interruption.] I am in touch with my colleagues at the Department of the Environment constantly to monitor the varying effects of the uniform business rate on small businesses. If hon. Members contact me with details of specific cases, I undertake to raise them with my colleagues in that Department to see what can best be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "dge as to how the system works. The truth is that 96 to 97 per cent. of workers are paid the statutory minimum or above, so the non-compliance rate is low. The crucial factor is that not only do inspectors target employers and premises to ensure that they home in on those that they suspect may be in breach of the regulations, but when they find them, they use methods of persuasion and information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "In September 1990 the level of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, in the north-west region was 232,300—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.443.8", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.443.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In fact, the Secretary of State for Education and Science backed me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In fact, the Secretary of State for Education and Science backed me. [Interruption.] We said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.8", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I now read to the right hon. Gentleman what he should have read before he came into the Chamber? He will find that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science said precisely the same as I did, and that I said precisely the same as he did. He will find it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.8", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". On 18 October in oral answers to questions, I said in reply to the right hon. Gentleman: In education we are attempting to increase choice—in city technology colleges, in grant-maintained schools and with open rolls. The right hon. Gentleman then asked me about vouchers, and I pointed out that vouchers are one, and only one, method of what we are already operating; the money follows the pupil. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.444.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Butler", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my right hon. Friend has had a chance to watch Sky Television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.477.6", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "We do not propose to restrict maternity leave, but when the Minister was at the Department of Employment he resisted any extension of that leave under the social charter or any other measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.477.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "to be citizens in a more attractive society. The Opposition amendment catches the flavour of that public concern and then makes the absurd proposition that a return to a Labour Administration will satisfy public expectations. In education, apparently, we and the public are asked to believe that the party that abolished, for example, direct grant schools is now committed to quality and achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "It is all very well for the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South-East (Mr. Turner) to laugh. He is a stranger to our debates on education. His ignorance about education is matched only by his ignorance about other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.497.7", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "e bottom 25 per cent. and the top 25 per cent. of settlements in the non-manual private sector. There is also provision, in the event of disagreement, for a reference back to a type of interim advisory committee. The new negotiating machinery is not \"son of Burnham\". It does not take us back to the appalling days when there was no agreement in the profession but only chaos. I should like to close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.497.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ntrate on deploring the erosion of national sovereignty, when it is becoming an irrelevance, or on redistributing national wealth, when the energy systems on which wealth creation depends have been shown to cause unacceptable damage to the planet as a whole wherever and whenever that energy is created by consuming fossil fuels or producing chlorofluorocarbons. Where does that leave our priorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Twinn", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman will have to contain himself. Head teachers will not want to return to the period when they could not control their budgets, when they had to ask county hall or city hall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": " a word about universities—I think that the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) mentioned them in passing—and hardly a word about education and training. I intend to spend most of my time dealing with further and higher education, with particular regard to Scotland. I make no apology for that. If Scotland gains its independence in Europe, we will make higher and further education a top priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": " regard to Scotland. I make no apology for that. If Scotland gains its independence in Europe, we will make higher and further education a top priority— [ Interruption.] The hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) may laugh, and I do not pretend that I would not have been sceptical about that some years ago. But I say to him, \"Watch Paisley, my boy, because that will wipe the smirk off your face.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.538.2", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "ry other major country except Japan, and we have achieved a record number of jobs—2 million more than in 1979. Of course, none of this means that we can rest on our laurels. We have secured a sharp increase in the proportion of our youngsters who go into further education or training at the age of 16, but we need to do better still. So we shall introduce a world first next April—training vouchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.538.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-13", "file": "debates1990-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "bfb569c1aeb45ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ceive the local support and advice they need as they get off the ground. The hon. Members for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) and for Sedgefield referred to the CBI's target. Both of them were sadly out of date. Last month, the CBI published its consultative proposals on targets. It expressed the hope that the Government would welcome this initiative. Within days, I had issued my strategic guidance for the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-13a.540.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.558.4", "colnum": "558", "heading": "SOUTHAMPTON RAPID TRANSIT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ss; That, in relation to the Bill, Standing 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 last Session.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.558.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that, as far as measurement is possible, that is the highest increase in the past 10,000 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "his speech. Why on earth is it difficult to forecast the underlying rate of inflation? I suggest that it is not impossible, that it is just a matter of discretion and that the Chancellor wants to keep vague the criteria that apply. He used to find the RPI uncomfortable and he thinks that it might he in his favour next year; so he wants to go by that and abandon his previous preferred alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.585.5", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I set out my views on those matters earlier, in the debate on the exchange rate mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.585.11", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " so wide, it would not be prudent to commit ourselves to an irrevocable exchange rate or to a single currency.\"—[ Official Report, 23 October 1990; Vol. 178, c. 273 .] We have made our views clear. The economic position into which this country has been led by the Government's economic policies is such that there would be a grave risk at this stage if we were linked to an irrevocable exchange rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.585.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.586.5", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is reduced to that sort of remark, which is both pathetic and inaccurate, we can well understand why he had such a short ministerial career, even in a Government headed by the Prime Minister. We are accustomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.586.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not clear what the Government's policy is. Is it the Government's policy to have a single currency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " I deduce that some members of the Government want a single currency and others do not. We have made it absolutely clear that we would like to see established a number of matters on economic and monetary union which we think are essential components of the type of economic unity within the EC that we want to see. One is a strong regional policy which helps to preserve economic and social cohesion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "re given a helping hand by the rest of the community. We shall fight for that vision within Britain and within the European Community, but we also know that Britain cannot achieve these ambitions, which we hold on behalf of all our people, without a strong economy. That is why we shall tackle the problem of rebuilding the British economy patiently, purposefully, determinedly, year in and year out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Mr. Baker) from Shakespeare's \"Henry V\". As I listened to the right hon. and learned Gentleman it was another, lesser-known poet, rejoicing in the name of John Gay, who sprang to my mind. John Gay was a master of burlesque. The right hon. and learned Gentleman may recall that he wrote: I know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please;\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "y and quantum of investment and reducing the return that it yields. 'That is what happened under the Labour Government in the 1960s and 1970s, yet Labour wants to try it again—no doubt, a crypto-policy. Labour's medium-term industrial strategy amounts to three things: savings—Labour will tax them; investment—Labour will distort it; the labour market—Labour will cripple it. All that is quite apart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is in no position to yell from a sedentary position. There is not even agreement on the Bench upon which he sits on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " fund and a parallel currency. They are practical and realistic and they will promote convergence and economic integration beyond stage 1. Most important, they will enable the 12 member states of the Community to move forward together. That is an important development. The fact that some European figures attack our proposals should not worry us. They do so because our proposals are gaining ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your advice about remarks made by the Leader of the Opposition during my right hon. Friend's speech. When my right hon. Friend was giving the House some statistics about the increase in business investment in the past few years and the relative success of the British economy compared with France and Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "Yesterday my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) included in his speech the fact that matters of substance were partially the reason for his resignation, else, he said, he would be the first Minister in history who has resigned because he was in full agreement with Government policy. I must lay claim to that title myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "igh investment, because wage costs are low and the machinery is not worth it. Therefore, that built-in multiplier explains why rich areas continue to prosper while poor ones find it hard to keep up. Hon. Members from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the north of England know what I mean about the difficulty of keeping economies which cannot progress at the same speed within a single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ifferent view of the way in which those problems are best resolved, that we are less conscious of them. I did not have to wait to become a Member of Parliament for a seat in the north to know about unemployment and poverty. I especially enjoyed the traditional turn from our resident cheeky chappie, the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith), who was on his usual cheeky form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " be hung round his neck for ever more. It may be quoted back at him on many occasions. There is no doubt that the economy is slowing down quite rapidly. That was my right hon. Friend the Chancellor's intention and he was quite right. The economy had expanded over a long period at a high rate of growth and had finished up by expanding too fast. That was the consequence of excessive monetary growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " I see that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is at it again. He cannot resist talking all the time. If only he said something, it would not be so bad, but he managed to talk today for about 45 minutes without saying a word. I wish that he would shut up for a minute now. One of the interesting aspects of the current slow-down, recession or whatever one wishes to call it, is that there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plymouth, Devonport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " debate on the Queen's Speech this year, I have heard two speeches which I thought were quite remarkable of their kind—another speech was quite remarkable because it was unkind, but that is another matter. The first speech was that of the right hon. Member who was the former leader of one half of the alliance—I do not wish to be objectionable, but I cannot remember his constituency for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman does not believe me, I can send him a copy of Professor Patrick Minford's report. He has costed the Opposition's proposals at £22 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "ion. As the higher rate taxpayer would also have his rate increased, that would produce a little extra revenue. If the Labour party does not want to do that, it could raise value added tax by 10 per cent., which would produce just over £20 billion. I am convinced that the general public are entitled to know how much all the glowing promises from various Opposition spokesmen will cost the taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "e which impressed me were the speeches of the mover and seconder of the Loyal Address. The right hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger) and the hon. Member for Richmond and Barnes (Mr. Hanley) charmed and amused the House with their wit and humour. Their speeches were excellent. The right hon. Member for Ayr talked of his predecessor, whom I may call Younger the Elder, as that was one of his ancestors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-14", "file": "debates1990-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "71a9dcd22217275b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.678.2", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Post Office (Burslem)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent,North)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent,North)", "preceding_text": "t award. That is good news for Stoke-on-Trent and for tourism and it has a great deal to do with this Adjournment debate about the proposed closure of Burslem post office. Burslem is the mother town of the Potteries, with the greatest concentration of historic buildings, and the only one of the six towns whose entire centre is a designated conservation area. Not everyone knows about the Potteries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-14a.678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I have made absolutely plain what the Act says. There is not the slightest doubt that the tribunal is precluded by the Act from considering matters that took place before its implementation. It is not for me to give details of the tribunal's work. It was established by Parliament as an independent body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Ask a question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Can I make a suggestion to the Minister? He should have a word with the Secretary of State for the Home Department over these problems, that is squatters. Could I suggest that he tell the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "In due course, there should be some discussion of these events, which are important, and, in due course, there should be a debate. I have been challenged about whether those hon. Members were invited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "In due course, there should be some discussion of these events, which are important, and, in due course, there should be a debate. I have been challenged about whether those hon. Members were invited— [Interruption.] My point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I expected a comment like that when the hon. Gentleman began his question. I have every confidence that my right hon. Friend will be Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which right hon. Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I expected a comment like that when the hon. Gentleman began his question. I have every confidence that my right hon. Friend will be Prime Minister— [Interruption.] —that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will be Prime Minister then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-15", "file": "debates1990-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "406839343ab5d381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Fisheries and Aquaculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ple to represent catchers, merchants, processors and the whole of the diverse industry. With the best will in the world, we cannot represent every geographical interest. I note what my hon. Friend said about East Anglia. If we find an occasion on which I can give satisfaction, of course, I shall seek to do so. The hon. Member for Western Isles (Mr. Macdonald) made a thoughtful and sensible speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-15a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-16", "file": "debates1990-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "c332c7d11517d8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-16a.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Cox", "preceding_text": "d be.\" Unless the various boroughs follow an overall policy, development will be piecemeal, which causes enormous dangers for cyclists. Moreover, it stops many others who would start cycling from doing so. They fear that, although there are cycle lanes in one borough, they may not continue in another borough, so it is not worth the risk. The next issue that I wish to raise has not been touched on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-16a.846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.3.7", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "This is the usual harassment. I started with a supplementary question. The Government's proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.3.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Yes, but we think that the sample might have gone a bit astray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.14.6", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "Is not there a serious point here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.14.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.15.10", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Given how mean hon. Members are with regard to gratuities and tipping", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.15.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": " on the register—it has got me into trouble. Does the Leader of the House accept that when we declare our position as unpaid consultants, we are often accused locally of having our fingers in too many pies because we have been scrupulously honest in placing everything on the register? There are many Opposition Members who should be making entries, but are not. However, I shall not name them today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.19.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He should withdraw", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "One of the matters that the Select Committee on Members' Interests is considering is whether to define the requirements of the register more precisely, so that hon. Members' interpretation of the rules is more consistent. That might help to deal with some of the points that my hon. Friend raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman intended to make any specific accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.19.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman for intervening a second time. Does not he see the relevance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-19", "file": "debates1990-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "67bf5587d8efbe39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "n full of words and sympathy and that what the country needed was action. Opposition Members know little about my constituents' feelings. They have not been to their homes or spoken to the widows and children of the victims about their grief. It is easy to utter pious words of sympathy, but they are no comfort whatever to those who have suffered the IRA's vile and vicious attacks on the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-19a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "end agree that one of the likely reasons for the reduction in correspondence on this subject is that the contract is now a great deal more popular and more widely accepted, not only among GPs but among patients, than it was when it was first proposed? Is not one of the reasons for that that patients have more information about the services that are available to them than they have ever had before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.131.7", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the noise comes from the hon. Member's side of the House as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.131.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.132.8", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister please look again at the possibility of the establishment of a national centre for research into the abuse of children and sexual abuse, in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.132.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.136.6", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "terday We would hope to see east and central European countries join the Council of Europe. And in the slightly longer term we would also hope to see them join the European Community when they are ready and want to do so\". My hon. Friend is also right to talk about a wider, open Europe. As a former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, I believe that the lead that my right hon. Friend gave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.136.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord President of the Council aware that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) was outside Committee Room 12 this morning at 10 o'clock when he conducted a most authoritative exit poll of a certain contest? Among the first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That was a reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's support. The opposition to the schemes is nonsensical. Those who oppose electronic nagging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nagging?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's support. The opposition to the schemes is nonsensical. Those who oppose electronic nagging— [Laughter. ] I mean tagging—are the same people who are nagging me to try to keep people out of custody. Can one imagine anything more frivolous and ridiculous than the Opposition giggling and hallooing about electronic nagging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The Minister will not find the answer to my most important question set out there. I am happy to have the answer to my first question confirmed, because that means that he must now answer my second. I agree that the private institutions will have minimum standards. How does he justify their having minimum standards but not Her Majesty's prisons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again because I am trying to make a relatively short speech and I do not want to be dragged down a blind alley that has nothing to do with the important matter that we are considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": " essentially practical and take some pride in not having a principled approach, but, on practical grounds, I do not think that tagging has been demonstrated to work effectively. There is an important confusion that the Home Secretary did not altogether succeed in dispelling. Clause 3 deals with whether previous convictions should be taken into account when dealing with a sentence before the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.184.7", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "ir amount on Conservative Benches. Anticipating catching your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, and knowing of your experience on the stage, it reminds one of being the comic who comes on before the strippers at the Windmill. The Bill that we are considering is important—indeed, by common consent it is the most important of this Session—and it is entirely inappropriate to delay our further consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, As I have already explained, the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot continue with points of order that are irrelevant to the business before us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.186.7", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we can now proceed with the debate. I call Mr. Maclennan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "g such crimes. As I have said, the Bill is a good contribution to improving matters, but it does not go as far as I would like. I re-emphasise the important point that I hope that we shall get another opportunity to debate and to vote on capital punishment. Opposition Members may well say that it is a free vote, but they know and we know that they are whipped in to vote against capital punishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "punishment. It was taken up by my hon. Friends the Members for Congleton, for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) and for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Dicks), who made such an interesting speech. Thank heaven that my hon. Friend puts the R into robust in what he says. I think that my hon. and learned Friend and my three hon. Friends wish to see the return of capital punishment and all wish to debate the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.230.6", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "iend Lord Alexander in another place, who is the president of Justice. He might believe that a sentencing council would be good. Professor Ashworth has written two books on sentencing councils, which offer another scheme. However, if we want a sentencing council, we are drawn in the world of sentencing down the following route: if an advisory sentencing council does not work, it must be mandatory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.230.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.237.8", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Leader of the House is only too grateful to the Leader of the Opposition for tabling the one motion which can be guaranteed to unite the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.237.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "It is not normal to announce speakers during a business statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this must be the first time in parliamentary history that the Leader of the Opposition has tabled a censure motion not to wound or bring down the Prime Minister but to save her?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-20", "file": "debates1990-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b33967ec22e191f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "concerned that appalling word \"degressivity\". I made it clear in opening that the directive would not require automatic degressivity. Any change will be based on objective criteria after inquiry by consultants. The hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Clay) asked about the treatment of East German yards. Whether we like it or not, those yards are part of the European Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-20a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "It is almost impossible either to agree or disagree with the views expressed by a body which has failed to address any of the significant points of the debate on devolution. For example, does the convention believe that Scotland should continue to have a Secretary of State in the Cabinet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "It is almost impossible either to agree or disagree with the views expressed by a body which has failed to address any of the significant points of the debate on devolution. For example, does the convention believe that Scotland should continue to have a Secretary of State in the Cabinet? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Does it consider that the number of Members of Parliament should remain the same?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "r example, does the convention believe that Scotland should continue to have a Secretary of State in the Cabinet? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Does it consider that the number of Members of Parliament should remain the same? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Does it believe that it is possible for Scotland to continue to enjoy additional funding from the United Kingdom while it has power to raise taxation at home?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I voted for the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.286.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.291.4", "colnum": "291", "heading": "CSCE Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rity problems. Fourthly, we established a conflict prevention centre, which is intended to reduce the risk of conflict resulting from misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the intentions of others. It will also have the task of overseeing the measures agreed at the summit to strengthen confidence and security between nations in Europe. Fifthly, we decided to set up an office for free elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "CSCE Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "herefore join the Prime Minister in warmly welcoming the signature of the treaty on conventional forces in Europe and the charter of Paris for a new Europe. This is the time when it is right to pay particular tribute to former President Reagan, President Bush, President Gorbachev and all those who not only desired but helped to create opportunities for the historic progress that is now being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "CSCE Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ute to former President Reagan, President Bush, President Gorbachev and all those who not only desired but helped to create opportunities for the historic progress that is now being made. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Prime Minister.\"] And, as the Prime Minister said, it is time, too, to recognise the contribution made over the years by the people of Britain in achieving that objective. It is also time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "CSCE Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "istoric agreement, to which she set her hand yesterday in Paris, for the peace of Europe. Its only flaw is that it does not take account of the Baltic states; perhaps the right hon. Lady will comment on that aspect. Nevertheless, this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.294.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Statistics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": " for a long time. The scrutiny committee proposed a number of sectors where improvements were needed, or where further work was necessary, and made recommendations in three areas: first, to change the way in which macro-economic statistics are collected or compiled; secondly, to propose further work on statistical issues to identify improvements; and, thirdly, to create a statistical organization—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-21", "file": "debates1990-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "45537757288b4ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Statistics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "is obviously important. The business statistics office, the family expenditure survey and retail prices responsibilities were transferred to the Central Statistical Office, but it is not our intention to transfer any more. We do not think that a centralised service is the right way to proceed. It would be inefficient and expensive and it would not be as useful to Departments as the present system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-21a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.411.6", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "We are not having difficulties with the Anglo-Irish Agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government are to make available extra funds to environmental health officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that all the doctors share my view that the length of time that patients have to wait for hospital appointments is scandalous in the Bangor area, which has an enormous and increasing population? Is not it equally disgraceful that there is no casualty department in the Bangor hospital and that 18 surgical beds are to be closed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "The consultants, who are, after all, the people most concerned with referrals to the hospital, are in favour of the temporary closure of the ward. It was very underused and there was no acute care in the hospital after 5 pm. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that health care in his area is of the highest order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.416.7", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Over almost 16 months I have obtained great value from the discussions that I have had with the Irish Government through the Anglo-Irish Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.416.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.417.8", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "preceding_text": "Yet another of my constituents has died as a result of an accident on the Larne-Belfast road. Will the Minister assure me that he recognises the importance of Larne harbour to the Northern Ireland economy, to those passengers who use that port for access to the mainland, and will he ensure that the Larne-Belfast route—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.417.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "What my hon. Friend refers to is a standard part of our agenda whenever the conference meets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend considered that the voice of a great former Prime Minister could be extremely influential on great issues of state such as our future role in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Eastbourne?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ty in every political test—and will go on doing so—from the beginning of last year, in the south Wales by-elections of Pontypridd and Vale of Glamorgan, through the 1989 local elections, through the European elections, through the Mid-Staffordshire by-election, through this year's local elections and through the Bootle and Bradford by-elections. Next week, in Paisley, the results will be the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ope. I am delighted to see how much progress is being made, with the active involvement of Governments of the east and west. As for Trident, the hon. Gentleman will be familiar with our programme—to ensure that, by every conceivable means, comprehensive nuclear arms reduction and withdrawal are achieved. Of course, for that purpose, the effective use of our armament will absolutely come into play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to last year's Queen's Speech, in which I tried to intervene on the right hon. Gentleman. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.442.8", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Has the right hon. Gentleman missed a page in his speech? I clearly heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.442.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.442.10", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": ". Our people know that that is the best means of ensuring that Britain does not go on falling further behind the other major economies of the EC. In 11 years, the Government have never seriously tried to build the productive economy, and they will never do it under any leader. Under no leader can they resolve the fundamental conflicts inside the Conservative party about Britain's future in the EC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.442.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "y warmly embraced closer monetary co-operation in the EC as inevitable and desirable. We have further said, as the hon. Gentleman would know if he had listened to the debates of recent weeks, that in the process of movement it will be essential to achieve three objectives. One is to ensure that there is in that Community, in that development of greater cohesion, in that integration, in that union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e have further said, as the hon. Gentleman would know if he had listened to the debates of recent weeks, that in the process of movement it will be essential to achieve three objectives. One is to ensure that there is in that Community, in that development of greater cohesion, in that integration, in that union— [Interruption.] Conservative Members do not like it because they do not have a policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "There will have to be firm policies for the convergence of economic performance across the Community, firm policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "There will have to be firm policies for the convergence of economic performance across the Community, firm policies— [Interruption.] If Conservative Members will not listen to this, it is no wonder that they go unprepared into the intergovernmental conference chamber. Secondly, we must ensure that there is a growth orientation because the alternative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman will know, there is no yes or no answer now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is aware that I detest every single one of her domestic policies, and I have never hidden that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "However, it is always a greater pleasure to tackle a political heavyweight opponent than a lightweight Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at is how they would like to run—or is it ruin?—this country. Every time that we have stood up and fought for Britain and British interests, Labour Front Bench spokesmen have carped, criticised and moaned. On the central issues of Europe's future, they will not tell us where they stand. Do they want a single currency? The right hon. Gentleman does not even know what it means, so how can he know? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "No. She is going to be the governor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "or Nuclear Disarmament of which the right hon. Gentleman is still a member. It is this Government who kept the nuclear weapons which ensured that we could never be blackmailed or threatened. When Brezhnev deployed the SS20s, Britain deployed the cruise missiles and was the first to do so. And all these things were done in the teeth of the opposition of the hon. Gentlemen opposite—and their ladies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I offer my right hon. Friend one measurement of the immense international respect and affection that she enjoys as a result of her policies of peace through strength? An opinion poll published on the west coast of America last month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister's pre-eminent achievement, which is not welcome to Labour Members, and the one for which she will be remembered, is the democratisation of the trade union movement. In 1979 we debated whether Britain would be run by the trade unions or the elected Government of the day—it is hard to remember that now. The Prime Minister, to her credit, answered that challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "Will you keep quiet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.456.7", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The motion is not one of no confidence in the Prime Minister—we do not need one because Conservative Members have kindly provided us with one in duplicate. It is, however, a motion of no confidence in the Government. The fundamental reason why we shall vote for this motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.456.7", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brilliant!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "!\"] Oh yes. Given that the Labour party has followed, three weeks late, what we did, we shall naturally vote for the motion. The reason is simple: the Government are now terminally divided. They are divided on all the key issues that confront Britain. The losers are not the right hon. Gentlemen who are candidates for the leadership of the Conservative party—one will win and no doubt two will lose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "is policy—he has stated it publicly—is not to change the Prime Minister's policy but to argue it better. We would simply bring the problem back to the House. We would remain left behind, isolated and on the outer ring of a two-speed Europe. My party is not divided on the issue of Europe as the Conservative and Labour parties are divided. We are not confused on it. We know precisely where we stand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "get their way in Cabinet. We should go further in paying tribute to my right hon. Friend. We should remember her remarkable loyalty and generosity of spirit to people who were ill or unfortunate. We should remember the time that she took to look after people who had suffered misfortune, her support for colleagues when they were in trouble or going through a rough patch, and her ability to forgive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": " world wars, would ever have been elected to their high office in peacetime. The historians among us know why and it is no part of my purpose to go into the details. In the past decade my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has steered the United Kingdom from a state of relative decline—there is no argument about that—at the bottom of the European league to where we are today near the top. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman gave way last, he admitted that he had made a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.471.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " \"Newsnight\", in the press and in editorials. The House is the place which decides what happens and it is where the debate should take place. I am glad that the Prime Minister spoke, although on several occasions this morning I thought that she would not. It was in this House, if not in the Chamber, that the coup de grace took place. I am sorry that there are not many Conservative Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": " in which the Prime Minister failed to win a first ballot victory; and finally yesterday, the coup de grace, a palace coup by the majority of the Cabinet against the Prime Minister—this was the sequence of events. I knew something was up last night when I heard two members of the Cabinet, ostensibly the Prime Minister's loyalist supporters, openly discussing in the No Lobby how best to remove her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cirencester and Tewkesbury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "t denounced the 150 people who turned out a Prime Minister elected by 3 million. The hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) was \"disgusted\" and \"horrified\" and spoke of \"political suicide\". That was just on one programme. In this debate, the right hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow), the chairman of the 1922 Committee, said that the anger will be very slow to fade. The right hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "serve to win until it gets itself together. He is right in every detail: it will not get its act together, it will not deserve to win and it will not win. It will not win because it is bound together only by hope of office and dislike of the Labour party. Great political parties must have something in which they want to believe, rather than the hope of their members hanging on to individual seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.506.6", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I want to come back later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.506.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.506.6", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I want to come back later— [Laughter.] because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.506.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. The hon. Member for Sparkbrook gave way about as many times as I have. In their hearts, Opposition Members dislike, distrust and sometimes despise the free enterprise economy for which my hon. Friends and I stand. In that, too, they have been wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No, I have said that I shall riot give way again. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook also referred to Europe. No one who looks at the facts can be in any doubt that the Conservative party is the party that is united on Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why has she gone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "be at an all-time high—3·75 million new jobs since 1983—and we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Community. We have introduced the toughest controls on industrial pollution anywhere in Europe, and have put in place the biggest ever investment programme in water quality. We are keeping our defences strong, and that has helped to bring about the collapse of communism.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Europe, and have put in place the biggest ever investment programme in water quality. We are keeping our defences strong, and that has helped to bring about the collapse of communism.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why has she gone?\"] It is this Government who have so changed the map of political ideas and attitudes in this country that the Labour party has had to abandon practically all of its previous baggage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-22", "file": "debates1990-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb14f97f84158461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "s strong, and that has helped to bring about the collapse of communism.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why has she gone?\"] It is this Government who have so changed the map of political ideas and attitudes in this country that the Labour party has had to abandon practically all of its previous baggage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] This is a party united on all these great issues and policies, as the Opposition are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-22a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-23", "file": "debates1990-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "478f027b309d7b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-23a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "r with the \"rebalancing\" which is a sort of Community code. I wish that we could have a group of people in the House who could prepare what I would call \"real English\" rather than \"Euro-English\" for some of these phrases. We get so used to using this language that we forget that the majority of people could not possibly understand what \"rebalancing\" is. In fact, it would even up the present level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-23a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-23", "file": "debates1990-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "478f027b309d7b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-23a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ears have now been allayed. Beef is safe, although I am not so sure about offal. There is a question mark over specified offals that are banned, and I hope that that ban will continue. The farmers in my area are suffering. The price for sheep is devastatingly low, and beef is another problem. It is interesting to note that the prices in the shops have not come down for either of those commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-23a.569.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.603.7", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about me?", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.603.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "iend understand that regional airports will not benefit from the opening up of transatlantic or any other services unless and until they are properly privatised? Will my hon. Friend give an undertaking that the local authorities will be made to divest themselves of ownership of those regional airports, so that the airports can expand and take advantage of the opening up of air travel in the 1990s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hawling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister admit that the choice of Upper Halling in west Kent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister admit that the choice of Upper Halling in west Kent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hawling.\"] However it is pronounced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.644.5", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "e in interventions in mine. If she ever gets the chance to make them in a connected form, I shall listen to them with proper interest. Fortunately, my right hon. Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disabled People will be the Minister who will reply in a connected form. Whether in a connected or in an unconnected form, I shall now move reasonable rapidly to bring my speech to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.644.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " great majority of those in work, the rates of SSP bear little or no relation to the amount that they actually receive when sick.\"—[ Official Report , 24 October 1990; Vol. 178, c. 349.] As the Opposition made clear repeatedly, the right hon. Gentleman was citing a 1988 survey, but in such a selective and grossly misleading manner that his defence of it was extremely deceitful and unworthy of him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "acher) is trying to work out the increase that that figure represents compared with the miserable performance of the Government in which he served as a Minister with responsibility for social security with such a lack of distinction, it amounts to about 41 per cent. in real terms, after taking account of inflation. That is the context in which we should view the Bill, but what is its contribution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised by the speeches of Conservative Members. The Bill is bent and it has been produced by a bent Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "ctories, that suffering goes on. People are sick and are getting injured because in many cases the employer could not care less; as long as he is getting his production and his profit, he does not care about the workers. The hon. Member for Northfield can grin—he sits on the management side. Conservative Members sit there—there are not many here at the moment—and they are all connected to Lloyd's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ople who are employed in this building. The Government are not meeting the quota. The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People ought to be ashamed of himself; he is not doing his flaming job. It is time that he came over to this side, or did not even come back to this place. He ought to let someone else get on with the job of looking after the disabled. We have got this leadership election", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.686.4", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.686.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-26", "file": "debates1990-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "696c6af4d0828836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.686.8", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ate to say tonight that he intends to withdraw the Bill. It is a complete waste of time. It will also be a complete waste of time to have the Committee stage on the Floor of the House. Let us get on with something that is really important—for example, the leadership campaign for the next Prime Minister. While I am at it, let me point out that we have a first-class leader and I am right behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-26a.686.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Nottingham\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that when commenting on the withdrawal of support for a proposed city technology college in the Prime Minister's borough of Barnet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that when commenting on the withdrawal of support for a proposed city technology college in the Prime Minister's borough of Barnet—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Nottingham\".]—Sir Cyril Taylor, the chairman of the CTC trust, said: It is madness to go on spending money on the original type of college\"— the original concept of the CTC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "Now, Sir. Seventy per cent. of three and four-year-olds attend nursery education in the Wakefield local education authority area. Indeed, 150,000 more children throughout the country now receive nursery education, compared with 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.735.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.735.7", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That has nothing to do with the question on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.735.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.737.9", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.737.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "If this is to be the last occasion on which my right hon. Friend answers questions from the Dispatch Box, may I express the appreciation of Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, I really rather thought that they were keeping the poll—the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.738.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "t felt by millions in this country, and thousands of millions outside, that my right hon. Friend is not to continue in her high office? Is she aware of their acknowledgement of her unrivalled service in turning back the tide of socialism, ending the brutal tyranny of the militants in the trade unions and re-establishing Britain as a great power? Finally, may I ask my right hon. Friend to reflect——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.738.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.739.8", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mrs. Rosie Barnes.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.739.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.740.14", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister find it at all nauseating and hypocritical to be——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.740.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. it is not a point of order at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.751.3", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ns, and might even improve by comparison with them. Perhaps those of my right hon. and hon. Friends who are more closely allied with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor than I am at this time in the leadership contest, and who are present in the Chamber, know otherwise—but I do not believe that he has committed a Government under his leadership to a specific review of teachers' pay and conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.753.9", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Speaking as one who received the Houghton award of 34 per cent. in 1974, I think that the House should remember that there was 27 per cent. inflation a year later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.753.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.758.5", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "en's education. Thirdly, we believe that the Government have no clear strategy for dealing with the serious and increasing problems of teacher shortages, the difficulty of recruitment and retention and the problems of low morale. The Secretary of State spoke of \"sanctimonious humbug\". Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen some fine examples of sanctimonious humbug among Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.758.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " opt-out arrangements. Most of us had hopes that the end of the Thatcher era would lead to an end to the paranoia which has unfortunately characterised much of the Government's approach to local authorities and trade unions. Sad to say, looking at the Bill, the chance of that habit of the past II years being changed seems slim. The United Kingdom is a very large country with a lot of people in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Because it could lead to a further loss of teachers—children have to be taught by someone. The opting-out system is destroying that school. Given the Secretary of State's responsibility for the education of those children, he should have reserve powers over what may happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": " support by the last Labour Government because our county would not go down the comprehensive route. When there is talk about \"evil women\"—I deprecate such talk in public life—the person who should stand at the Bar to apologise to my hon. Friends and to me is the right hon. Shirley Williams, for the great damage that she did to our schools when she was Secretary of State for Education and Science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "s is clearly the right thing to do … National bargaining has a number of drawbacks. It enhances the importance of the teachers' unions, whose concern for the well-being of the children is, to put it charitably, well concealed … It is one of many forms of central control that British schools would be better off without\". The Daily Telegraph , which is a well-known paper of the centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": " provisions, and the imposition of one system; it also means the abolition of the assisted places scheme. I served as a Back Bencher on the Committee that considered the Bill that introduced that scheme, and the introduction of city technology colleges was my idea. I can truly tell my constituents that the Labour party would do all the things I have mentioned because there is an amity of interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " which aim to protect citizens from the abuse of power. The Government will give the Secretary of State the right arbitrarily to abuse power and to breach an international law that the Government have already signed, by passing the Bill. I do not think that any Conservative Members realise that. I bet that no Conservative Member has the ILO report on the Bill, which is fundamental, or has read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Not again, please. God bless you, your honour, you are very kind. Conservative Members do not understand what they are doing with our education system, which has been built up during the best part of 150 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "time limit, quite properly, will be set upon the negotations and in the event of no agreement being reached by the end of the time limit, something similar to the existing independent advisory committee will come into play and the Government will receive recommendations from that body. I have made it clear in the House over a number of years that teaching is an important and honourable profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": " the supply, and that is particularly so in certain areas. The figures have been given already, but it is fairly extraordinary that the Government, who claim economic credibility, cannot apparently accept that simple point. It is extraordinary to listen to Conservative Members debate that subject. They argue that the teacher shortage does not result from pay being too low, but it is also the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "eacher said: I have a good many years left to give to education, but my enthusiasm for teaching cannot go on indefinitely\". Another wrote: Morale in my school is at an all-time low and deteriorating. Four teachers wrote to me about the problems of morale in their schools, and subsequent to writing to me, two have withdrawn from the profession. They have acted on the problems that they highlighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "s that. There is a north-south divide, which means that teachers in the north are, in real terms, enjoying much better living standards than those in the south. That can only aggravate the problem in the south, and cause significant localised shortages in the near term, unless the Bill is passed. Certain individuals have suggested that teachers' salaries should be paid centrally, by the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": " an area could be enticed into the rich opted-out school, leaving others with the problems of replacing them. That is a device to fool people into thinking that grant-maintained means better when it does not, but we are not fooled—parents will not be fooled, and nor will teachers. The rich will be much richer while the rest will suffer. The intake to teacher training courses is at an all-time low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "The Government Whip is right. He should not have said that. No doubt he will be writing a letter of apology later. He was right to say that the opt-out procedure will add to costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-27", "file": "debates1990-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7504601200ceac2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not accept the logic of his own position. He says that teachers ought to have more classroom experience and then, for the umpteenth time, he rejects a scheme that is based entirely on classroom experience. The Opposition have had a great deal to say about resources. We ought, therefore, to look at the facts. During the past 10 years, funding per pupil has risen by —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-27a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question 7.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall answer Questions 2 and 6 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.854.7", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I apologise for my lack of voice, which I am sure will be welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.854.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.855.6", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I hope to make a statement after Question Time on that issue, but I agree with the thrust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.855.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "May I welcome the right hon. Gentleman back to the Dispatch Box. The number of votes cast for him yesterday was a reflection not on him, but on the intelligence and discernment—or lack of them—of his right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.856.6", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.856.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "The Minister has the well-deserved reputation of being one of the most Machiavellian Members of the House. He may be able to deceive half the Cabinet about his true voting intentions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "lations first with Iran and now with Syria is that restoration should bring closer the release of our hostages now held in Beirut. I note the right hon. Gentleman's specific suggestion to my right hon. Friend the new Prime Minister. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman supports the Security Council resolution. Other things being equal, I shall go to New York to take part in the debate tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I called three of the hon. Members who are now rising at Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "s my belief that the intention to erode sick pay provisions by stealth is the whole explanation for the Bill. We know that when the Secretary of State says that the effect will be neutral this year, it will not be neutral next year or the year after, unless the right hon. Gentleman can give us the assurance that the £250 million reimbursement to employers will increase steadily as the years go by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am glad to confirm that I have signified giving the Queen's Consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "an, although it appears rural. A good two thirds of my electorate reside in towns. However, we have many of the problems that confront rural areas more severely. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will know, we have experienced one particular problem recently. I pay tribute to him for his quick help and speedy action following the proposal to close the Laura Ashley factory at Leeswood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-28", "file": "debates1990-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1db23bbdfd39cdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Products (Advertising)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will be seeking to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-28a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1009.9", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The policies of this Government are to make sure that subsidies will continue to be paid on the basis of production, where they are production subsidies, and that other subsidies shall increasingly be paid for environmental purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1009.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1009.9", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "s Government are to make sure that subsidies will continue to be paid on the basis of production, where they are production subsidies, and that other subsidies shall increasingly be paid for environmental purposes. [Interruption.] We are determined to make sure that British farmers get a fair share of those subsidies and that they are not distorted so as to help other countries disproportionately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1009.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his appointment as Britain's Prime Minister? The whole nation will wish him success in the difficult task ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In recent years, in all aspects of life in this country, women have been taking a higher profile: in the law, in commerce, in the civil service, in industry and in politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In recent years, in all aspects of life in this country, women have been taking a higher profile: in the law, in commerce, in the civil service, in industry and in politics— [Interruption.] —and that will continue. As those women would wish it to be, they will reach the top on merit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of course policies can be hypocritical, not people; the hon. Gentleman is quite right. However, the purpose of business questions is to ask the Leader of the House whether he will consider making time available next week for a debate or for a statement. It is not the purpose of business questions to make speeches that might be made if that debate were granted. It takes up a lot of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Development Board for Rural Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "e development board's work. Over the years, there have been positive critics of the board looking at supporting an economic, development strategy and at aspects of the strategy which might he improved. Those critics have stressed that the overdevelopment of Newtown and the growth town strategy has sometimes resulted in the appearance of overdevelopment in some areas and underdevelopment in others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Development Board for Rural Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "he board and we shall have an opportunity to do so again fairly soon when the board will be visiting the House and giving us a presentation. However, I should be happy to have the Welsh Office view. It is important to emphasise the entrepreneurial and commercial activity of the board, but the social profile is also an important part of integrated rural development and we want it to be maintained.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-11-29", "file": "debates1990-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2ac9d54dd9138d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Development Board for Rural Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "on to provide alternative jobs. As for the current state of Welsh Office and development board crafts policies, had I not been participating in this debate, I would have joined a delegation to the Secretary of State on that very issue. However, I thought that it would be appropriate to be here instead, just in case Members on the Labour Front Bench tried to get at me again when my back was turned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-11-29a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "e—that everyone should pay something towards the cost of the local services that they use. As to the future, the hon. Gentleman will know that Labour's proposal is to return to the unjust, inequitable domestic rating system. If he wants to bandy quotations with me, I am quite willing to enter into a contest. The Leader of the Opposition, describing local rates, said: The most unjust of all taxes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Against the background of my own personal concern for the coal industry in south Wales and as somebody who has been underground at Betws—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "On the first point about deep coal mining, having been underground several times in south Wales, I know the geological problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.9.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the wide-ranging ministerial expertise that she brings to her current portfolio and on the shining example of intellectual rigour and first-class work that she gives us all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.18.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Iraq (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is it a point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Iraq (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Garrett (Walsend)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Garrett (Walsend)", "preceding_text": "I must declare two interests. First, I am a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and, secondly, since 1968, I have advised the Machine Tool Technologies Association. Many members of my union worked on the machines that are now in Iraq and they would deeply resent any imputation that they were guilty of helping Iraq to protect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Iraq (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "lication went to a Cabinet sub-committee and was declined in case the engines could be put to military use? Is that not a clear example of the Government abiding by the regulations? Bearing in mind what the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Garrett) has said, it will come as a great surprise to the House that the Liberal Democrat and Labour parties are attacking the machine tools industry in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Iraq (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I did not hear the Minister claim sub judice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Iraq (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": " personal interest is unworthy of them? Right from the word go, the Labour case has been that this will not satisfy readers of The Sunday Times. Nothing will satisfy The Sunday Times short of seeing blood on the sword. This House needs to state clearly that we do not believe that any member of Her Majesty's Government, Labour or Conservative, would ever sell the people down the river. I would not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Iraq (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could clarify the point about the sub judice rule. I did not at any time refer to anything being sub judice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have allowed a wide debate. I thought that I had been the object of some reproach for allowing too wide a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "25 per cent. That is a formidable statistic which underlines the point that neither Conservative nor Labour Members have been able to grasp in recent years: local government expenditure remains uncontrolled and out of control. I believe that I was a former Member of this House, Dick Crossman, who said on the steps of one of our great town halls that the party was over in local government spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am sure. I made a point of checking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "We all know that the Bill is about the Lambeth loophole, but I welcome any debate on capping, which we in Calderdale lived through last year, despite setting the fourth lowest poll tax in the country. Nobody could have called £297 excessive. Unless we make cuts of £9 million, we shall be in the same position this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " me here. The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well why the disabled have lost their grants. It was because his crass, horrible and cruel friends in Derbyshire cut their grants. That was the first thing they did. The county authority has taken on 8,000 additional staff since 1981 and is still charging local families exactly the same price for school meals as it charged in 1981. We now have 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "ttingham, South on his contribution and am glad that he, like me, has no sympathy for the \"won't pay\" brigade. His constituents are fortunate to have someone like him to represent their interests in the House. The hon. Member for Brightside was kind enough to give me warning of his speech in a press release issued this morning, in which he described the Bill as \"gobbledygook, a lawyer's parasite\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Caravans (Standard Community Charge and Rating) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "As this Bill applies to Scotland, I should like to say a few words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-03", "file": "debates1990-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "747890e1bca77d1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Caravans (Standard Community Charge and Rating) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "should like to say a few words— [Interruption.] I assure Conservative Members that it will be only a few words. In the Scottish newspapers yesterday, there was considerable coverage of what may have been an inspired leak from the new Secretary of State for the Environment that his preference was for the abolition of the poll tax and a return to a rating system based upon the sale value of a house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-03a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.157.14", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The cuts are being framed not around market forces but around the minimal requirement to ensure that this country is adequately defended against our enemies. The question of an arms compensation fund or conversion agency, or whatever Labour Members call it from time to time, is a hoary attempt by the Labour party to introduce interventionism and Government subsidy. What you are asking for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.157.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "ance factories operates between 7 am and 5 pm, and if a low-flying aeroplane overshot one of the national parks and crashed into any of those royal ordnance factories in Great Britain those factories would be without a telephone service? Does the Secretary of State appreciate how serious this is? The royal ordnance factory in my constituency has one of the most pathetic telephone exchange systems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister finally gets round to going to Henley and perhaps having a rubber chicken dinner with his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, will he tell the voters of Henley why he has managed to offend the Welsh, the blacks and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "National Health Service Trusts", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "announcing my decisions on a further 111 expressions of interest that hospitals and other units have submitted for becoming NHS trusts on 1 April 1992. A full list of all my decisions is in the Vote Office and the Library. The House will appreciate from the number of applications that it is not practicable to read them all out, or to give detailed descriptions of the units included in each trust.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "National Health Service Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I shall reword it in case you, Mr. Speaker, throw me out, as you have before. I withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "National Health Service Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "There are arguments on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.183.8", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have said that I shall take the points of order at the usual time. I must ask the hon. Members to resume their seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.183.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "e extensive review of the poll tax that the right hon. Gentleman claims will take place, will he recognise that with a system of local income tax there would not have been a non-payment problem because the Inland Revenue would have ensured that the tax was paid? Will he give an assurance that, when the poll tax is abolished, it will apply to Scotland a year ahead of England and Wales? In addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": " assure the hon. Gentleman that this statement is my statement, and that I made the final decisions—although, of course, much of the work was done during the period in office of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport. No direct implications for the community charge arise from the statement, but I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that the Thatcher era has not finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "l be alleviated primarily through the operation of the market. That is the Government's belief. In some respects I am pleased to see the Financial Secretary nodding his head, because it makes it crystal clear that the Government have not changed their spots one iota as a result of recent changes. They believe that economic inequalities will be realistically redressed only through market operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Private Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to have been called so early in the debate, although I suppose that it reflects the great concern that the Chair, like the Government and the Opposition, has had about the way in which the private Bills that we are debating have come before the House. I shall not rehearse again the variety of arguments that have been adduced in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Private Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": " presentation of a public Bill. Ministers will come to the House having been fully briefed by the Department of Transport, and they will be able to argue their case properly. With the Clyde Port Authority Bill, we did not have those advantages. We had a private Bill sponsored by the hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart), who has shown the extent of his interest in the Bill by his absence tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-04", "file": "debates1990-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8fcdd1f5185c2748", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Overseas Government Debts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "at way, £90 billion would be spent on servicing debts. It is an unreasonable burden for those countries to carry. If we were supporting a £90 billion debt-servicing arrangement, there would be a revolution. There would be gross political instability and violence in our streets. Governments would shake, be removed, replaced, and removed time and again as a result of the difficult social conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-04a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.287.11", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "preceding_text": "hicles traded annually are classed as unroadworthy because they have not qualified for an MOT certificate. Bearing in mind what the Minister has said and as trading standards officers now have powers to inspect vehicles under the trade descriptions provisions and in respect of credit arrangements, will the Minister be giving trading standards officers further powers to inspect vehicles for safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.287.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman takes a close interest in these matters. Indeed, he is leading a delegation to see me this afternoon. We are anxious to help Harland and Wolff in every way we can. It would be unwise for me to speculate on the outcome of negotiations that are still proceeding on the automatic degressivity of shipbuilding aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.296.7", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "All that is needed to bring about a peaceful resolution of the crisis is for Saddam Hussein to obey the United Nations resolutions and to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.296.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.297.6", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.297.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.313.7", "colnum": "313", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order in the House for an hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.313.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "nty about what the revenue support grant should be and what further changes might be made in the poll tax make proper budgeting impossible and imposes an intolerable burden on local authority treasuries. Every day of continued confusion accelerates and exacerbates the already serious problems of collection that are crippling administrations in so many parts of the country. There is only one thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "eplores the fact that despite several unsatisfactory attempts, the Labour Party has failed to come forward with any clear or workable proposals of its own.\". My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has described the Government's review of the community charge which he has invited me to lead as very thorough, very constructive and very fundamental. It is time to raise the whole tone of this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "There is a certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "There is a certain—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or No?\"] There is a certain quaintness about the fact that the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) has not been able to answer any questions in three years, but he thinks that I will give him a yes or no answer in three days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " I should like to take this matter beyond the narrow bounds of party political conflict. The country wishes us to try to identify a stable and just basis for the future development of local government and the provision of local services. I should like to explore with the Opposition parties the extent to which we can establish common principles for the future role and direction of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "sis for the future development of local government and the provision of local services. I should like to explore with the Opposition parties the extent to which we can establish common principles for the future role and direction of local government. [Interruption.] The country will not have lost sight of the fact that, when we offer to discuss these matters, all we get is baying and divisiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "There is now a range of co-operation in the network of enterprise agencies giving advice and support to small companies. The Groundwork Trust is using the enthusiasms of the voluntary sector, the enterprise world and local authorities to clean the rural fringe in many of our older towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.322.10", "colnum": "322", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "is place must be collected. There can be no dining a la carte with the law of the land. I want to say just a brief word to Opposition Members who hold to the constitutional novelty that they are the arbiters of what is legal and what is not, and particularly that they are justified in refusing to pay. I cannot abide the concept that many on low incomes from limited savings in their twilight years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.322.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "the value of people's homes and their incomes. I know that there are exceptions and problems such as widows living alone, but there is a considerable correlation. The research said: The old domestic rating system, which included rebates to the poor, was closely related to ability to pay, despite claims to the contrary. As colleagues know, the cost of assessing and collecting the tax is much lower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "t denying any buoyancy to the local authorities is not ultimately in anybody's interest. The Secretary of State and his predecessors have used extravagant Labour councils as their excuse for justifying their changes, but I can advise them only that the way to deal with the problem is to ensure that local councils are democratically and fairly elected. If proportional representation or some system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " reasons why it was introduced. In the beginning, people in certain areas, including London, felt that everybody who was voting should pay at least something towards what they were voting for. There is no morality in voting to spend other people's money. Revolutions were made on the grounds of \"no taxation without representation\", but we had \"representation without taxation.\" We all remember that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "whether we go for something else entirely. I have always believed that if one can amend something to make it work, that is better than digging up the plant and starting over again. The principle of the community charge is good. I do not believe that anybody with any income at all should vote without paying something towards the services for which they are voting. To do so is political immorality.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We told the Government that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " we discriminate, we shall find pensioners moving backwards and forwards like yo-yos. Thirdly, in large families with more than four or six members, the community charge for the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh member should be reduced to 50 per cent., 25 per cent., and so on. At present, the community charge in London forces young people out of their families and increases accommodation problems.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "th appearances related to the poll tax. We are told that nothing can go wrong with the system. We are assured that everything is checked and double-checked before summonses are issued or reminders to pay are sent out. Why is it that in Coventry a 17-month-old baby was summonsed? That happened to a 21-month-old baby in Battersea. In Coventry, summonses were sent to several people who were deceased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ople living in towns, where a considerable number of services are provided. I am immensely pleased that the Government are willing to undertake an overall review of the approach to the financing of local government. Anyone with a reasonable approach must know that to make any massive changes will require a period of consultation and then a parliamentary year to deal with the necessary legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " of caring attitude that I believe our new Prime Minister wishes to embody in the structure of his Government. There should be some provision for relief for the ordinary community charge payer while the review and any necessary legislation are undertaken. I hope that any new system will have the agreement of all parties. The Liberal Democrats appear willing—although they have now left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "tances—the geographical nature of the country and the density of the population—there is no workable and acceptable system of local government taxation. In support of that proposition, I urge my right hon. Friend to bear in mind the fundamentals, and I remind the House of the figures. All the turmoil which we and the Opposition Front Bench have plunged ourselves into, is due to a form of taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "llion and income tax, which is about £55 billion. That point is important. If one asks the man in the street how he would like to pay for Government services, including local government—through the community charge, a property tax, the rates or on a pay-as-you-earn and pay-as-you-spend basis—I have no doubt that the vast majority would say that they wanted to pay as they earned, and as they spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "I am glad that all the options are open. However, I am urging that we consider the option of transferring all revenue-raising power to central Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": " of the Conservative Members who voted against the community charge on Second and Third Reading. I did so because, although I acknowledged that there were unfairnesses in the old domestic rating system which needed to be put right, I feared that the community charge would simply replace the old unfairnesses with new and more serious ones. I am very much afraid that my fears have been proved right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": "t pay, won't pay\" school. That is totally contemptible. I t is contemptible, too, for other Opposition Members to indicate agreement with the hon. Gentleman's views. Those who do that must face the consequence that because they are not paying, their less well-to-do constituents will have to pay more. Someone has to stump up the difference, and it is the ordinary community charge payer who does so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is learning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": "a was on offer. We need to establish better accountability. The third principle is that the new system must be seen to be fair. In my view, that involves linking the tax more effectively to people's ability to pay and ending the unfair anomaly whereby, if a wife gives up employment to stay at home and look after the children, she and her husband have to pay two community charges out of one income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "and. Lest there should be any doubt about that, I refer the Minister of State to the various meetings that Ministers have had with the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities. The poll tax in Scotland is collapsing and the process will not wait for a two-year review. Once it gets out that Ministers intend not to ameliorate the poll tax but to abolish it in all but name, it will collapse apace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "abour party. It is against the background of those statements that we must set the position of the Leader of the Opposition, who made his views plain in January 1988, telling people that to disobey the law would be \"futile illegality\". The right hon. Gentleman expressed his views in ringing tones. I told the right hon. Gentleman that I intended to refer to him, so I make no apology for my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": " from income support—59,000 applications to obtain £1·85 a week from single people and 2·90 from married couples and 59,000 expressions of a forced illegality visited on the poorer sections of the population. In his remarks last week, the Leader of the Opposition offered them sympathy. Will his sympathy cards be wrapped up inside sheriff warrants sent out by Labour regional councils?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.366.5", "colnum": "366", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) is not a lawyer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "I did that. The door was broken down illegally. What will the hon. Gentleman say, as a lawyer, if somebody goes to him in those circumstances? Will he tell that person to obey the law?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "ant, but we have not got it right yet. We have a chance to look at the system again—we have a new Prime Minister and Secretary of State, both of whom have pledged that they will get it right and said that it is sensible to consult widely. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made some specific appeals and suggestions this afternoon. I have suggested how one of the problems might be tackled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "ghout the country, but on average, authorities have received a 4 per cent. increase in funds for economic regeneration and planning and for the environment. Sheffield has received a 9 per cent. cut, which will have a major long-term effect on the regeneration of the city. My hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens, North went into great detail about social services; I shall give only two statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "leagues have expressed reservations about banding the charge, but it is the most sensible way forward and could be achieved without increasing bureaucracy too much. On 15 May, I made a speech in an Adjournment debate on this very subject. I put forward a concrete proposal as to how we could band the community charge. Time is short, so I will not go into all the details of how my system would work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "ble way forward and could be achieved without increasing bureaucracy too much. On 15 May, I made a speech in an Adjournment debate on this very subject. I put forward a concrete proposal as to how we could band the community charge. Time is short, so I will not go into all the details of how my system would work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—but I ask my hon. Friends to read my Adjournment debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "If Government Members do not turn back, they will be heading for political oblivion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "y little statesmen and philosophers and divines. There is no shame in the Government making changes, or developing their policies. The difference between us and the Opposition is that we remain true to our basic principles, but are prepared to change when necessary, compared with the Opposition who are ready to throw off all their most heartfelt principles in an opportunistic attempt to win power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "tate for Scotland will tell us whether he is in favour of a referendum every time a council's spending exceeds a certain limit. Perhaps he will tell us whether he is in favour of banding, which he has condemned so strongly in the past, or whether he is even prepared to consider it. One fact that emerges from the confusion in this debate is that the Labour party alone has a coherent defined policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.387.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.392.4", "colnum": "392", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give him a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Well, I cannot imagine that my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist) would disagree with what I have just said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.392.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.392.5", "colnum": "392", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Well, I cannot imagine that my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist) would disagree with what I have just said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give him a chance.\"] Let me make it clear——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.392.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Ian Lang)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Ian Lang)", "preceding_text": "is welcome in the House, and we look forward to hearing more from him in future. I also thank the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) for his welcome to me. Thereafter, however, his speech degenerated into his usual fast-talking and frenetic exposition which on this occasion, I suspect, betrayed the air of a man who knows that his party has only just saved its skin in two by-elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": "ties on both sides of the House have long sought to make local government accountable. Tony Crosland tried to do that 25 years ago, and this Government have tried it too. Are not 2,934,000 people employed by local government—one in nine of the working population? Whatever else the community charge has done, it has at long last made those people accountable to the people who paid for theirservices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.395.11", "colnum": "395", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Gentleman must have misheard me—we rule nothing in and we rule nothing out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.395.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-05", "file": "debates1990-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8388e11414c49bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "cils? From the regulations, it appears that the whole process will be in the hands of the health board. We know already of Grampian health board's decision to hear only one voice, and that it has ignored the local community's proposal that more voices are required properly to represent the views of consumers. Over and above that, the regulations have an ideological bent that should not be ignored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-05a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The balancing item is where the figures cannot be reconciled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Is not one of the most pernicious barriers—the trade barrier—equally damaging to the rich and to the poor? Does my hon. Friend agree that even if we get a 30 per cent. cut in food subsidies under the GATT round, every family in Britain will pay more in increased food prices as a result of trade barriers than they pay in the poll tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.439.6", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "preceding_text": "It is delightful to see my hon. Friend at the Dispatch Box today in that capacity. She is there because of her ability and not because of her gender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.439.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.447.10", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Michael Lord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.447.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "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 (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": " population issues in the developing world, on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. MONDAY 17 DECEMBER—Proceedings in Committee on the Criminal Justice Bill on new clauses relating to capital punishment. The House will wish to know that, subject to the progress of business, I now propose that the House should rise for the Christmas Adjournment on Thursday 20 December until Monday 14 January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? Who for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Now that the Leader of the House has made a statement about Members of Parliament having a three-week holiday, what is he going to do and when will he make a statement about staff in the Refreshment Department in the Houses of Parliament, who are being called upon to work on Christmas Eve and on New Year's Eve, at single-time payments of £3·50 per hour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.467.12", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I believe that there will be an opportunity to debate these matters tomorrow, so I hope that the hon. Gentleman will be here to make his points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.467.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.470.6", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Gulf Hostages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but I want to remind him that there will be a debate on this subject next Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.470.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.475.5", "colnum": "475", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ng way. I wish to add a word to our continental partners about recent events in this country. My right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) represented this country at 31 European summits, and not many among those present at Rome next week will be able to remember any other Prime Minister speaking for Britain. My right hon. Friend had her own manner of dealing with Community issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.475.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "be no attempt at the second summit in Rome at the end of next week to pre-empt that conference by laying down what it should or should not decide before it has even met. We have been anxious to avoid a repetition of what occurred at the first Rome summit in October in relation to economic and monetary union. I was reasonably encouraged by the discussions that we had in the Foreign Affairs Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "ge it was to serve for so long in the Government of my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher). I am particularly pleased to have been able to play a small part in taking through Parliament the Electricity Bill, which resulted yesterday in an estimated 6 million people applying for shares. That is a huge success by any standards and a shining example for other European countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "ber for Guildford, the hon. Member for Newham, South and others on both sides of the House. We shall be proposing ways in which the House and its Members can become directly involved in the European Community on behalf of their constituents. The role of the European Parliament can be pivotal to scrutiny and control of the Commission, not in passing new laws but in monitoring Community expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-06", "file": "debates1990-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d5585050fad93e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.549.5", "colnum": "549", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way to the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-06a.549.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Political Developments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "I shall shortly draw my remarks to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Political Developments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ny attributes. She was perfectly equipped as a party politician because she had a great deal of low cunning—not enough to allow her to survive, but she had a lot of grim determination and resoluteness. In terms of intellectual and theoretical ability in politics, however, she had but little of that—which is one reason why in the end so many other European leaders were able to run rings around her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Political Developments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "nt wonder why, when there is an economic upturn, foreign engineering products and manufactured goods are sucked in. That is inevitable. Who would have thought it possible—given that the Government came to power with a huge international trade surplus—that by 1983 Britain. the workshop of the world, would turn around to such an extent that we now have a deficit of £16 billion in manufactured trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Political Developments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "f course there are splits in the Tory party over Europe, but that has nothing to do with the reason why she left. Did she leave because of the breakdown of Cabinet Government? There is not the slightest doubt that there was a breakdown in Cabinet Government—we have more than enough evidence of that—but that was not the reason why she left. She left because she was being beaten by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.625.5", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Political Developments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I do not have time to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.625.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Tom Clarke, Mr. James Couchman, Mr. Jerry Hayes, Mr. David Hinchliffe, Alice Mahon, Sir David Price, Mr. Andrew Rowe, Mr. Roger Sims, the Reverend Martin Smyth, Mr. Nicholas Winterton and Audrey Wise be members of the Health Committee.— [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.633.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-07", "file": "debates1990-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c2b8bcbef0dc35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Andrew F. Bennett, Mr. John Browne, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, Mr. Stephen Day, Mr. Frank Field, Mr. Clifford Forsythe, Mr. Robert G. Hughes (Harrow, West), Mr. Ian McCartney and Mr. Patrick Nicholls be members of the Social Security Committee.— [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-07a.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Severe Weather", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "esponsibilities of local authorities and others, one conclusion was that the prime responsibility for handling certain disasters should remain at local level, where resources and expertise are to be found and where mutual aid arrangements exist, for example, between neighbouring emergency services. I was in touch with various colleagues yesterday to determine whether extra help had to be provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Severe Weather", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Robert Wareing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Severe Weather", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I shall draw the hon. Gentleman's comments to the attention of police officers and of the local authorities concerned. A substantial number of snowploughs are available. I recall that about 280 are available for work on the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.664.3", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Severe Weather", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "f motorway. About £4·2 million has been provided in the 1990–91 budget for a continuing programme to renew the fleet of winter maintenance vehicles. My hon. Friend also asked about auxiliary power supplies to water pumping stations. Some of those stations are extremely remote and they tend to have auxiliary generators, but in order to be used, they usually require someone to turn up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Severe Weather", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "preceding_text": "s well aware that the whole of Nottinghamshire was without electricity for 24 hours and that the north of the county was without it for 48 hours—even now some villages are without electricity. I join my right hon. Friend in thanking the emergency services, especially the East Midlands electricity board workers who, while we were freezing in our homes, were freezing on the job in arctic conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Uruguay Round)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"CAP?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "To respond to the hon. Gentleman's last question, if there were no successful outcome to the round —I hope very much that there will be—the CAP would terminate automatically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Uruguay Round)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "textiles in outlawing piracy of designs, and so on. That will come into effect before the full phasing out of the multi-fibre arrangement. There should be increased access to overseas markets through tariff reductions and the removal of non-tariff barriers. There should be an improved safeguard mechanism, and other rules and disciplines will come into effect well before the phasing out of the MFA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "ntire length of the train under the tunnel—that is a safety requirement. Therefore, they must pass through the portion of the train that will split at appropriate stations north of London. Also, one must make sure that signalling on British Rail is not affected by the new technology on a train. That is by no means certain at the moment. British Rail will seek to make as rapid progress as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-10", "file": "debates1990-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b89d9dd78f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The President of the Board of Trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": " the arguments —that if the tunnel was to serve the national interest, early and intelligent decisions would have to be made to ensure that the industrial areas of the north of England were properly served. Yet we have suffered years of appalling and stupid parliamentary procedures, which may have been relevant at the time when a Foreign Secretary was run over by a train early in the 19th century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-10a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time today to read the recently published report of the Association of London Authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.813.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.813.13", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said something like that about each privatisation. Every privatisation has been a success. Is the right hon. Gentleman proposing to renationalise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.813.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.813.14", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I will, as Prime Minister after the next general election—do not worry about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.813.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "National Health Service Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"There will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "many hon. Members will recognise as a serious issue. Closing the discussion on last week's statement, you Mr. Speaker, said: I am sure that there will be future occasions on this important matter.\"—[ Official Report , 4 December 1990; Vol. 182, c. 175 and 181.] I think that the whole House would agree—certainly the Opposition would—that there should be future occasions for us to debate the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.819.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "May I just conclude the point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ur party, called for a Security Council resolution, and one was in due course passed. On an air blockade, the Government at first said that article 51 was sufficient authority and justification. I, on behalf of the Labour party, called for a Security Council resolution, and one was in due course passed. I know that the House will accept that I do not cite those examples in any way to score points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I can give only a personal opinion. If war occurred, the Israelis would be in overnight. One question about a war is this: if the British, Americans and Israelis use atomic weapons when they find how difficult it is, we shall have chemical and biological weapons thrown from Iraq, and it will go on piling up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the time limit prevents me from extending the courtesy to the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": " may be used in the conflict are far worse than those used in the second world war, with the possible exception of those used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The weapons are horrific and I am certain that there will be many casualties in a war such as this. The debate could be entitled, \"The Rape of Kuwait\". Like most rapes, it cannot be repaired, but compensation can be exacted from those responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "he Gulf crisis can we hope for the third-world countries to make anything of themselves in terms of economic viability. The conduct of the west during the crisis has been very good. I sincerely hope that there will not be an armed conflict. However, if it comes to that, I am certain that our officers and generals, with their military expertise, in conjunction with our allies and the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "The Gulf", "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": "ke any steps, but it might be necessary to call limited numbers up, under the Reserve Forces Act 1980, which would provide employment protection for any volunteers—the House will understand the importance of this. I shall seek to maintain the voluntary basis, but I shall also seek to ensure that volunteers have employment protection. I hope that the House will think that that approach is sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.914.8", "colnum": "914", "heading": "PART III OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The motion seeks the approval of the House to the amendment by Order in Council to schedule 1 of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.914.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "PART III OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, an assembly. When he was elected and out of a job I said to him, \"I hope that you will shove a lock on every Common Market gravy train that you can find, Bob. That is your job.\" Off he went, and he set up the socialist campaign group in the Common Market. That was not easy but he managed to recruit a few friends and did a good job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-11", "file": "debates1990-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5978b3c05676a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "PART III OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " the Common Market. I have an idea that Jenkins was not up to that. He was busy supping all the claret he could find in the Common Market. There were no wine lakes when he was there. Let us suppose that somebody stuck up there in the Common Market said, \"I have read this document and I do not think that I am disqualified. I think that I will go back there when there is a vacancy, any old vacancy.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-11a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.933.13", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buckley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buckley", "preceding_text": "capping high-spending Conservative councils which are levying a rate well beyond that levied by some Labour councils that have already been capped? Will he also consider the consequences of poll tax-capping on the police and fire services? I understand that if the capping system is upheld the number of police personnel in West Yorkshire will be reduced by 500 by 1992. Does the Minister appreciate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.933.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.934.13", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. If the Secretary of State groups all these questions together, he distorts the pattern of interests represented on the Order Paper. That will mean that we have a much shorter time in which to deal with these questions than we would if proper supplementaries were asked in respect of each question. I ask you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.934.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that many things are said across the Floor of the Chamber with which hon. Gentlemen disagree, but he must not use words like that. That is not the way we carry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not another one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Adley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I have not misbehaved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.951.6", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not my function to have a quiet word in anybody's ear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.951.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.955.4", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": ". More recently, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer has been forced to recognise reality a little more. I understand that he said in evidence to the Select Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service: Business is pretty rough for people at the moment. He went on to claim that the recession would be \"shallow and short-lived.\" The right hon. Gentleman may become closely associated with those words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.955.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I cannot congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his sense of relevance, because we are discussing unemployment and recession. However, he totally misrepresents my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I cannot congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his sense of relevance, because we are discussing unemployment and recession. However, he totally misrepresents my hon. Friend. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If I wasted my time seeking to correct the misapprehensions of Conservative Members, the debate would get nowhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "nowledge of the motor industry, I must tell him that I simply do not recognise the picture that he is painting. Does he recognise the sustained and continuing investment taking place even now in our motor manufacturing industry? Does he recognise the investment in that industry from Japan, Germany, America, France and every other country that knows that Britain is the logical place to manufacture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "Does he recognise the sustained and continuing investment taking place even now in our motor manufacturing industry? Does he recognise the investment in that industry from Japan, Germany, America, France and every other country that knows that Britain is the logical place to manufacture— [Interruption.] Does he recognise that our balance of payments deficit is being remedied by the motor industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "preceding_text": " continuing investment taking place even now in our motor manufacturing industry? Does he recognise the investment in that industry from Japan, Germany, America, France and every other country that knows that Britain is the logical place to manufacture— [Interruption.] Does he recognise that our balance of payments deficit is being remedied by the motor industry— [Interruption.] Does he recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "Not surprisingly, the right hon. Gentleman illustrates only too clearly that he does not understand one word about the exchange rate mechanism. He says that he accepts the discipline of the ERM, but at the same time he seeks to find a way out of the discipline that he himself urges upon us.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.965.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "hat the right hon. and learned Gentleman does either. The rest of the world is abandoning credit controls, but, as always with the right hon. and learned Gentleman, if he can find a phrase he thinks that he has a substitute for a policy. The right hon. and learned Gentleman spent a large part of his speech talking about recession. It is clear that the economy is now experiencing a marked slowdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "cellor—to mix my metaphors somewhat oddly—as an ex-Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry, has found some of his dead ducks coming home to roost. He is now finding that what he helped to kill while in the Department of Trade and Industry is coming back to haunt him, particularly the industry that he destroyed. The country must mourn the fact that what we have lost is our one opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not speak on this subject with the same expertise as the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East. I have enormous admiration for him, but not on economic matters. But I should be quite happy to defer to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East should he wish to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the point that I am about to make. Large businesses used to be the principal employers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.991.5", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We had a Labour Government then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "lism of management in British industry. That is partly due to investment in the universities in the 1960s. The fact that that investment resulted in economic fruition only in the 1980s, when managers in their late 30s and early 40s were starting to take over companies and run them much more professionally, is an indication of how long it takes for changes in education and training to feed through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.991.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": " have received £80 billion in North sea oil revenues and many billions more from the proceeds of privatisation, but they have wasted almost all of that in private tax cuts in lining the pockets of the already rich. The Chancellor used one of his memorable phrases to describe the process—he called it the equal right to be unequal. That is exactly what the Government have been relentlessly pursuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "My point is that that is a recent development. Until recently the Japanese spent far less on R and D, but now that Japan is the leading economy it spends more on R and D—for there is less technology to buy in the world market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1044.7", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "Time and again, we waited for the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East and the hon. Member for Derby, South to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1044.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Part-time Workers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That was an inordinately long intervention. The Government survey is nonsense. Those 94 per cent. of women do not seek part-time work: they work part-time because in many cases child care facilities are not available to enable them to work longer hours. The hon. Gentleman has little experience of these matters. I invite him to come and talk to many women—my wife is an example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Part-time Workers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "crimination against women in the workplace because of the discriminatory nature of legislation. It is important to contrast the position in Britain with that in other countries. The Minister made great play with the position elsewhere and mentioned that there is a higher proportion of people in part-time work in the Netherlands and in Denmark than there is in Britain. They have greater regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-12", "file": "debates1990-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a043aea171063229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Part-time Workers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "it introduced provisions that are much tighter than those contained in the directives. Between 1983 and 1988—a period that the Government often use as a basis for jobs growth—the increase of part-time work in Britain was about 26 per cent., but in France it was 36·6 per cent. Despite all the onerous regulations on part-time work in France, there was a much greater increase than in Britain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-12a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "As I said, the Government have no such intention. All the possible ways of raising revenue for the BBC, including maintaining the licence fee, will undoubtedly be considered when the charter comes up for renewal. I agree, however, with the hon. Gentleman's implication that many people consider the licence fee good value for money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1098.6", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I certainly remember that match. It so concerned the former Home Secretary, my noble and learned Friend Lord Waddington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1098.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1107.7", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In view of the hon. Gentleman's remarks, he may be interested to know that my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning will announce within the next few days a substantial number of new bed spaces in hostels and long-term housing in central London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1107.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1112.4", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "On the second point, I doubt whether I would want to give a weekly progress report, because I have already said that I think it unlikely that progress will be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Briefly\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": " about who will pay for them. Following the sinking of the Antares, the issues raised in those questions are extremely urgent and a specific debate would give Lis the opportunity to discuss them further. I realise that the Department of Transport and the Ministry of Defence have prime responsibility for such matters, but the Minister has a general concern about the fishing industry and its safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "That is not a technical, conservation measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "No, I must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-13", "file": "debates1990-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "be38bfe6d6bc3cdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I have done precisely what the hon. Gentleman urges. I know that the information has been made available to officials and Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-13a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-14", "file": "debates1990-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0eed9487ab22127e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-14a.1297.4", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Tom Clarke, Mr. James Couchman. Mr. Jerry Hayes, Mr. David Hinchliffe, Alice Mahon, Sir David Price, Mr. Andrew Rowe, Mr. Roger Sims, the Reverend Martin Smyth, Mr. Nicholas Winterton and Audery Wise be members of the Health Committee— [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-14a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-14", "file": "debates1990-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0eed9487ab22127e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-14a.1297.8", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Andrew F. Bennett, Mr. John Browne, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, Mr. Stephen Day, Mr. Frank Field, Mr. Clifford Forsythe, Mr. Robert G. Hughes (Harrow, West), Mr. Ian McCartney and Mr. Patrick Nicholls be members of the Social Security Committee.— [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-14a.1297.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I should also like to voice my support for new clause 3, standing in the name of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence). Some have questioned why the House should debate this issue for the second time in this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "In reply to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.37.7", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " Members have received a letter from the federation. In recent weeks, I have spoken to many police officers and I have found that younger officers in particular are not in favour of the death penalty. I do not believe, however, that that in any way reduces the strength of the Police Federation's view. There are differing opinions among chief officers and the Association of Chief Political Officers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.37.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "t think that Lockerbie was relevant, I am not sure that he was right to treat it in the same way. I want to deal with the specific point of the killing of policemen and prison officers, as best I can, item by item. Almost everyone, including the hon. and learned Member for Burton, accepts that capital punishment is appropriate only for a limited number of murders in a limited number of categories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "No, not at all. The right hon. Gentleman came closer in his speech to appreciating the value of my new clause. The point of the new clause is that if, following a death sentence for any offence there is some reasonable argument why the death penalty should not be carried out, in that particular case, the Court of Appeal would say, \"Not death, life imprisonment.\" It is not a matter of categories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "s about a person and the circumstances are ruled out as inadmissable. From my reading, I cannot remember whether what I am about to say applied to Timothy Evans, who has been found to have suffered one of the miscarriages of justice. It was nobody's fault that Christie, whom everybody believed to be an honourable person, turned out to be a mass murderer. But Timothy Evans would not have hanged if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "That is all the more reason why the Court of Appeal in considering the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "orical issues to explain why there was relative peace in the south of Ireland rather than in the north. We do not pay nearly enough attention to Northern Ireland in the House because most of us know little about it. When we talk about crime and punishment we do so in terms of England, Wales and Scotland. I regret that the hon. and learned Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence) is no longer in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Secretary concluded his speech on a depressing and negative note, because the rest of his speech was entirely in accordance with the views of most Home Secretaries since 1965 and reflected his careful consideration of whether the settled mind of Parliament should be shaken by new factors. In this matter, Parliament's mind is settled, and there is no case for continual reconsideration of the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I know of the hon. Gentleman's close relationship with the Police Federation. Does he agree that we should also judge something in which the police have expressed interest—what our European partners do? As the hon. Gentleman knows, all our European partners have given up capital punishment. He knows that the sign of liberation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.98.2", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "n Great Britain and Northern Ireland comes from the IRA. My straightforward plea and heartfelt conviction is nothing other than that IRA murderers should hang. What about the Guildford Four? Every Member of Parliament and everyone who addresses the subject must come to terms with that. Let us keep the matter in perspective. There is no compelling evidence that the Guildford Four would have hanged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.98.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Gilroy Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gilroy Bevan", "preceding_text": "s not act as a deterrent and that miscarriages of justice cannot be rectified. This last point is likely to weigh heavily on MPs … But the man in the street clearly remains unconvinced. Unfortunately for public opinion, MPs are not. My views and those of my constituents are crystal clear. Britain has rejected a policy that has been successful in other areas, the philosophy of the deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-17", "file": "debates1990-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d42cc78cbf3ff87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "p by the hon. Member who asked, \"Who are we to ignore our constituents?\" We must never confuse disagreeing with ignoring. There is a great difference. I do not ignore my constituents, I just profoundly disagree with them. What do we owe our constituents? We owe them not only our enthusiasm and hard work but our integrity. If we were to listen to some constituents, we would be listening to the mob.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-17a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.138.6", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ve an important part to play. The general practitioner's contract has meant that the specialties that many women doctors traditionally took up are particularly popular. We are watching the way in which women doctors are used. For the first time they can be employed as part-time principals, but they have expressed concern about the way in which they are likely to be treated by some male principals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.138.6", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ay in which women doctors are used. For the first time they can be employed as part-time principals, but they have expressed concern about the way in which they are likely to be treated by some male principals— [Interruption.] I have regular meetings with the organisations representing women doctors to ensure that we do not need to issue further guidance and that their skills are being fully used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "In view of the standard of some of their speeches, will my hon. Friend provide speech therapy for the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.150.13", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady cannot ask about the royal prerogative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.150.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "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 to the reply that I gave some moments ago.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The whole House knows that we do not bring the royal family into our discussions here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "Setting aside the argument that shops should obey the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.152.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.152.9", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Obey the law.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The present law on Sunday trading is widely felt to be unsatisfactory, as my hon. Friend made clear. We tried to reform the law, but on that occasion our proposals did not find favour with the House. I can well understand the impatience of hon. Members about the state of the Sunday trading law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.152.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1990-12-18", "file": "debates1990-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "7ad75a591bd182f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.264.4", "colnum": "264", "heading": "CENSUS (CONFIDENTIALITY) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed. That, in respect of the Census (Confidentiality) Bill [Lords], notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time.— [Mr. Patnick.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-18a.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.277.6", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "Strathclyde has had to make major cuts in its budget because of the poll tax and because it cannot collect the money. That has repercussions for communities such as mine in which unemployment is severe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.277.7", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "man mainly aimed his criticism—two Benches behind him, not at the Government. Of course, if the hon. Gentleman wants to see me about any of his constituency problems that are my direct responsibility, I shall be happy to see him. As for non-payment, more than 90 per cent. of budgeted revenue for 1989–90 has been collected. Excluding Strathclyde and Lothian, the figure rises to 95 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.277.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "I expect to receive the final report of the Scottish Development Agency study by the end of March, when I would hope to make public as much as possible of that report, subject only to considerations of commercial confidentiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.281.5", "colnum": "281", "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 his reply and I welcome him to the Dispatch Box. Does he agree that the representations received from the constitutional convention are flawed in that they do not address the situation affecting the Barnet formula for funding, or the number of Members of Parliament representing Scottish constituencies, and do not deal with the West Lothian question at all? Can he also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not comment on newspaper reports —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Arts Funding (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "at he will not mind my saying that I saw him in Glasgow at the new concert hall two weeks ago. Glasgow has been a magnificent example of successful arts programmes throughout the year. There has been a great revival in that city. A new concert hall has been built, and there have been more than 3,000 artistic performances in Glasgow this year. To talk in such dire and critical terms is unrealistic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ute unity, it is time for the grubby Davids and Denises to come out and to search their scrips for their pebbles. I am delighted to see that there is a growing sense of realism about these affairs. An excellent speech was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Mr. Spicer), who called in question the desirability of the exchange rate mechanism if we are to be in this Lubyanka.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "abinet Ministers in their chauffeur-driven cars coming from only a few yards away to vote to deny the elderly free or concessionary television licences. It is argued that two thirds of pensioners—the statistics bear out the argument—live either in poverty or near it, yet the Government were not willing to give me any support. Far from it, they voted down my Bill. Much needs to be done, including —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "ho must go up poles and repair the wires in biting winds. They are employed by the great national utilities, but they did not make the investment decisions that caused the problems in the first place. It is salutary to note how, under this Government, our great national utilities have suffered from a lack of investment. It is even more disgraceful that they have been sold off at knock down prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Hospital Funding", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "atres. We tell more fairy stories and have more excitement every day. We can almost inevitably expect a little panto from Her Majesty's Government. It usually has about as much relation to reality as Jack and the Beanstalk. They usually tell us how extremely lucky we are to have a national health service funded to a greater and greater degree by a benificent, kind, committed and caring Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1990-12-19", "file": "debates1990-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "08b85625d5240ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Volunteer Forces (Pay and Compensation)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Kenneth Carlisle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Kenneth Carlisle)", "preceding_text": " their civilian earnings and their military pay which their employers do not make up voluntarily. The figure of 20 per cent. was designed to protect the great majority of members from any financial loss as a result of being called up, without going so far as to give an entirely open-ended commitment. But, as I have already said, in exceptional cases we are prepared to consider a higher supplement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1990-12-19a.419.0"}