{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-14", "file": "debates1991-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e38e910b454ed07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-14a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Severn Bridges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I shall consider the Minister's remarks, which were detailed. However, it was useful and helpful information. It might have been helpful if we had had an opportunity to absorb it earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-14a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-14", "file": "debates1991-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e38e910b454ed07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-14a.672.5", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman is right in only one respect—that he has to put up with it. The Bill is in five parts, but I shall not take the House through all of them in any detail. Hon. Members may be grateful for that, but of course on Second Reading I may be forced to speak at some length. Part I deals with the preliminaries and gives details of the phrases used in the Bill. Part II details the works involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-14a.672.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-14", "file": "debates1991-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e38e910b454ed07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-14a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "ong contracts from both those power giants. They are committed to the existing contracts until March 1993, and they will negotiate other contracts after March 1993 as long as British Coal produces coal at competitive rates. The way that British Coal is going at the moment, it has every chance of securing those contracts. Its performance is outstanding and I think that it is even surprising itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-14a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "tant that funding should be available to universities through the Universities Funding Council so that they can support projects initiated in universities and, in particular, so that they can support the work of promising young scientists who are developing their scientific abilities and experience but who may not yet be at the point where they are able to make a claim on research council funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In view of the brutality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give them time to work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "are among the most sweeping sanctions ever agreed by the United Nations. They have interrupted 90 per cent. of Iraq's foreign trade and have caused widespread dislocation of its economy. What is the real test of the sanctions? It is not just whether they cause economic misery in Iraq. The real test is whether they bring about Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait. So far, they have failed to achieve that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The liberation of Kuwait is an important principle. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, other important principles are at stake in this dispute and in a few moments I will deal with them at some length. If the right hon. Gentleman will permit me, I shall return to the point about the time taken for sanctions to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " would show as much concern for the blood in Kuwait City in the past few months. Throughout my visits I found a rock-solid determination to make Saddam Hussein withdraw. Among our allies there was no talk of compromise, no talk of concessions, no suggestion that the United Nations' deadline should be extended and no inclination whatsoever to weaken or back down in the face of Iraq's intransigence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.740.8", "colnum": "740", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The resolve of our Arab allies to see the United Nations resolutions implemented remains unshaken and unshakeable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.740.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.741.6", "colnum": "741", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, my hon. Friends and I demanded a vote on whether we go to war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.741.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.742.5", "colnum": "742", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.742.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out the historic and current truth that our support for the United Nations has been consistent. It is a matter of some pride to me that, thanks to the efforts of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), commitment to the United Nations appears in the constitution of the party that I lead. I am glad of that. I also consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "tial political instability. That is why 15 January should not be regarded as the date of ultimatum. It is the reason why the climate in the Arabian desert and the proximity of Ramadan, although very important, should not be allowed to be the sole factors determining the course of events. It is the reason why all efforts short of war should be exploited for as long as possible before force is used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "k upon Iraq. On the point made by the Leader of the Opposition about the character of President Saddam Hussein and the possibilities after the affair is settled one way or the other, one can only deal with the President himself if one invades and captures Iraq, and one can only deal with the weapons which he possesses, or any developments towards atomic weapons, if one invades and takes over Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.751.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.753.4", "colnum": "753", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "preceding_text": "srael is hardly likely to be conducive to making concessions at any such conference if it is clear that the conference has been called over the duress of trying to prevent a war. Even those who would like to see a conference and a resolution of the middle east problems should pin no faith or hope on calling for a date for such a conference now. For that reason, there can be and must be no linkage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "th President Kennedy's solution to the Cuban missile crisis, as on all such great occasions in history, the objective was to allow President Khrushchev to save face. President Kennedy did that and so avoided a third world war, which was right. Everybody knew at the time that sanctions could not possibly be effective in four to five months. But all the signs are that they are bound to be effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "s and the rest of Europe? Those issues must also be taken into account because they are desperately serious. We should continue with sanctions and do all that we can to ensure that they are successful in obtaining the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait. Ultimately, the world may come to believe that force is necessary. We must then be fully aware of all the consequences of using force. But until then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.754.7", "colnum": "754", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " wholly unlikely that Saddam Hussein can possibly develop his nuclear weapons. What about our forces in the Gulf? In the words of the American commander, \"If it is a question of death or sunbathing in the sun, I would rather go sunbathing in the sun.\" Our forces are quite capable of coping. What is unforgivable is to say that we must go to war because we are impatient. If we as a country did that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.754.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This answer should command a large fee. Briefly, I said to him, \"The United Nations' resolution states that you must withdraw from Kuwait, and you must do so. If you withdraw from Kuwait, there is nothing left for the British and Americans to do but to go home.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.755.4", "colnum": "755", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "When I rose to speak on 6 September following the speech of the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ere all those options to be put. One has only to hear Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen on the subject of sanctions to realise that, if an amendment calling for sanctions to be given more time had been tabled, there would have been a vote heavy in favour of it. That brings me to a point that must be mentioned: there is nobody left in the House who was serving in the House during the last world war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that point when I come to the end of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman must take on board the fact that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "n a better and further chance, but if that view is rejected we have to be consistent. We must accept that such action will have been taken in accordance with a resolution for which we pressed long and hard, a resolution which is now United Nations policy embodied in that resolution. That is why I remind the House of our long-stated view that sanctions should be persisted with over the longer haul—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "s not helped forward this policy, and he has not helped forward the peace processes—he has hindered it and held them up. As the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) made clear, Saddam Hussein did not invade Kuwait to help the Palestinians; he invaded Kuwait to help himself. It is absurd to argue that one can end one occupation by imposing another. I should just tell the House that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-15", "file": "debates1991-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae20b9ee765e6799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon), who asked me to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-15a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Lithuania", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "These cases, of course, vary in their particulars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Lithuania", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State ask the President of Lithuania and its Government to cool it and to continue negotiations with President Gorbachev and the Soviet Union? While not condoning the killing of unarmed civilians, the Secretary of State will recognise that even the British Army has killed unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Lithuania", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": "While not condoning the killing of unarmed civilians, the Secretary of State will recognise that even the British Army has killed unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland— [Interruption.] —and that every day the Israeli Government are killing unarmed civilians, mainly boys and girls, on the west bank and in the Gaza strip, without any opposition from Conservative Members. Will the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ntleman asked three separate questions. I shall deal with two of the three. As he offered me a multiple choice question, that is not an unreasonable attempt. We have had ample evidence of what happens when competitive tendering is introduced. We get dirtier hospitals and patients are more poorly fed. We are not prepared to accept that in a public service. I make a prediction to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.874.5", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "If it is necessary for the resources of private hospitals to be bought with the money available, it is up to the regions to do so. I have told the health authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.874.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is right that there will be great pressure on burns units if fighting occurs. I am assured by the NHS management executive that it can handle the situation. We have put contingency plans in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.886.9", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": ", Lord knows, there are enough militants in COHSE. To say in the motion that the public are against self-governing trusts is quite wrong. They are strongly in favour of hospitals becoming local entities again and they love the idea of hospitals choosing what they want to do and perhaps having a matron again if they so wish. That pleases many people, but the Labour party does not wish to know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.886.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ut bed closures. The hon. Member for Edgbaston went on to defend the Government's position as she saw it, and criticised the figures in the motion and the arguments behind them. The hon. Member for Edgbaston criticised the Labour party's motion, because it specified a figure of 4,000 beds lost. She told us that the true figure was 3,500, as if that was a vindication of the Government's position. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "What is the hon. Gentleman talking about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will contain himself, I shall do my best to explain, later in my speech, why I believe privatisation has been a great success. The Opposition long claimed that it could not be done and that the sale would have to be abandoned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": " The nearest comparison with electricity shares must be the water company shares. We find that 34p of the premium was due entirely to the movement in the stock market at that time. The market moved during a period of nearly three weeks. When this transaction took place there was a degree of uncertainty about the war in the Gulf and the market moved. The decision that we made at the time was right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "d. However, that does not make his assertion any the less wrong. The generators have markedly different characteristics and a different position in the market from the 12 regional electricity companies. In those circumstances, we are selling only 60 per cent. now, for precisely the reason that the hon. Gentleman was arguing for—to maximise the return to the taxpayer. Surely he should welcome that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-16", "file": "debates1991-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac7301bf74368357", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "uption.] The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras is too quick to comment and too slow to listen. The point of my remark was to show the radically different nature of the generating companies from the regional electricity companies. What we did for the regional electricity companies was right for them and what we are doing for the generators is right for them. We are correct in both judgments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-16a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.968.5", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "May I place on record the House's congratulations to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.968.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is clearly right about large islands, although the Greek islands would be a close analogy. I have already agreed that practical co-operation in the economic sphere is going forward well. Whether that will have a read-across into the political sphere only time can tell. There is not an automatic read-across.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "tional school closures and extra resources will be made available to the education and library boards. On the capital aspects of education reform, the hon. Gentleman will know that we have made available an extra £135 million over and above already record levels of expenditure on education and that a sizeable proportion of that sum is being devoted, over a period, to precisely that which he seeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.971.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister agree that one of the significant achievements of General Powell has been to ensure that this is not just an American dispute with the Iraqi Government—he has also involved the Arab Governments? Should we not all like to pay tribute to the Saudi Arabian Government and the Kuwait Government in exile for agreeing to their aircraft flying into Iraq, in marked distinction to the French?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept the praise of Conservative Members for the way in which he has handled the situation so far? Will he also accept that considerable congratulations should be given to the Leader of the Opposition and to the leader of the SDP both of whom have unified behind the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "e left us no other course. We have no quarrel with the people of Iraq. We hope very much for a speedy end to hostilities. That will come about when Saddam Hussein withdraws totally and unconditionally from Kuwait. Our military action will continue until he comes to his senses and does so. Most of all, our thoughts go to the men and women of our forces and their families who wait anxiously at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister referred to aims and said that there would be an end to military operations when Saddam Hussein withdraws from Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": " does not believe that Iraq has a nuclear capability and despite the assumption made by some of us yesterday that that was so, there are persistent press reports today that Iraq does have a nuclear capacity. It would obviously be disastrous if nuclear weapons were to be used in the middle east, so will the Prime Minister state categorically that under no circumstances would we use nuclear weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.982.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.983.9", "colnum": "983", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that at a news conference this morning a member of the democratic Iraqi opposition, in emotional tones, talked about the extra suffering that his people would now have to go through, and he blamed the United States for inflicting that suffering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.983.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": " bring a speedy end to the conflict—not just to defeat Saddam Hussein in Kuwait but to bring about peace and justice in the middle east? I am extremely disappointed that the Prime Minister's war aims seem to be so limited. We do not think that there will be a satisfactory end to the conflict if it merely ends in the removal of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. May I further ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in order to keep Israel out of the war, which would have broken up the Arab aspects of the alliance, the United States gave a commitment to Israel that it would not agree to a peace conference which could have discussed the Palestinian issue and others and could have avoided the war? Is it not clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.995.5", "colnum": "995", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"UN war\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "As this American-led war continues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.995.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "ur Members, 13 of whom intend to attend the funeral in Neath. Would it be possible to change the time of Welsh Questions, following which there is a serious debate? Could Welsh Questions be transferred to another day next week, or could some other arrangement be made, since not only Labour Members but the Minister of State and Tory Members representing Welsh constituencies will attend the funeral?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr.Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "ple in sheltered housing schemes and affecting churches, for example —why did he reject the abolition of the 20 per cent. minimum collection, which the Audit Commission has backed within the past few days? We shall continue to try to persuade the Secretary of State that a local income tax would be much fairer. Will he now admit, however, that the misery of income tax—I mean the misery of poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is not there something radically wrong when on 12 successive occasions Ministers have had to come to the House of Commons to announce major changes to the poll tax? Is not there something wrong when the two constituencies that I represent, wholly or in part—Bolsover and North-East Derbyshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State calm himself a little? For those of us who have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-17", "file": "debates1991-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf98bf120b5abcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I do not have time to go into the hon. Gentleman's point now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-17a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-18", "file": "debates1991-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a31766e865f66f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Israel (Iraqi Attack)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": "May I join the Secretary of State in condemning the unprovoked attack on Israel? Is not it absolutely tragic that it has taken deadly Scud missiles to demonstrate the linkage that many blinkered western politicians refused to recognise at an earlier stage when a diplomatic solution was still a possibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-18", "file": "debates1991-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a31766e865f66f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Israel (Iraqi Attack)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "We have argued that point during the last few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-18", "file": "debates1991-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a31766e865f66f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Children and Young Persons (Protection Against Tobacco) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "Before the statement, I was about to give some figures in answer to the allegation that smoking among children under the age of 16 was increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1123.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-18", "file": "debates1991-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a31766e865f66f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": " Speaker. At some stage, may we be given some advice on the procedure at 2.30 pm on a Friday? I had a minute or two —I am not complaining about that as I was 15th in the private Member's ballot—but it is unfortunate that when a Whip, carrying out his duty, shouts \"Object\" it means, in effect, that I do not have the opportunity to advance a case for my Bill. Surely a procedure could be considered —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-18a.1165.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ised with you privately, concerning the handling of this Gulf war by the House of Commons. It is a matter of great concern, not least because of our anxiety in respect of the troops and their families. We have had three debates on the Adjournment without substance. Today, we are having a debate without choice. As I understand the situation, the Government intend to accept the Opposition amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ndment— [Interruption.] That is a fact. They will accept it. The overwhelming majority of hon. Members support the military action that is being taken, as do both Front Benches. But a substantial minority do not take that view—57 hon. Members went into the Lobby to vote against war and, even if the opinion poll in The Sunday Times is right, 20 per cent., or 8 million people, do not support the war", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no knowledge of whether amendments have been accepted or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": ". It is our duty to give them our firm backing, and that we do. The Prime Minister has been right, both today and on previous occasions, to add his voice to those warning that this war is not likely to be a war of weeks, and that the Iraqi forces are very large, well equipped and, in many respects, well protected and dug in. No one is more aware of all that than our forces engaged in the fighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ikely to be a war of weeks, and that the Iraqi forces are very large, well equipped and, in many respects, well protected and dug in. No one is more aware of all that than our forces engaged in the fighting. [Interruption.] That knowledge makes their courage all the clearer—as, indeed, does the way in which they scrupulously make every effort to avoid civilian casualties and damage to holy places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "I rise with some trepidation because I never pretend that I am an expert on foreign affairs, nor have I ever professed to be an expert on defence affairs. In fact, I know very little about the middle east, so I suppose that I am speaking very much as the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "I rise with some trepidation because I never pretend that I am an expert on foreign affairs, nor have I ever professed to be an expert on defence affairs. In fact, I know very little about the middle east, so I suppose that I am speaking very much as the— [Interruption.] It might make a refreshing change to hear from somebody who does not pretend to be an expert.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "tant factor about the war is that it is the United Nations war. It is not a war between Iraq and the United States and Britain. For the first time since 1948, a unified United Nations—the family of nations—is standing up against an international bully and saying, \"You cannot take over a sovereign state and be allowed to get away with it\". We must take that sovereign state back and re-establish it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "rious. I take seriously the criticisms that were made, and we shall do our best to improve. I express my gratitude to my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate (Mr. Banks) for what he said about the work of the people of the Ministry of Defence. It is very easy to write up the present conflict in terms of the brave boys in the front line and a lot of dundering bureaucrats in the Ministry of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "he Health Committee: 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. As the amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) is beyond the scope of the two motions, I have not selected it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "I am the Chairman of the Committee of Selection. I am not in the Whips Office and I have no control over the attendance of hon. Members. I should have thought that the absence of Conservative Members from Scotland was proof that none of them was willing to serve on that Select Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.118.6", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I shall bear the hon. Gentleman's point in mind, but this must not be a debate about the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs; it must be a debate about the matters on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.118.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.118.7", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "Although we all knew the reason behind the two Committees' not being set up, I thought that I should in all fairness try to explain. I may have been misunderstood, in which case I merely wish to say that we reported to the House some two years ago that we could not set up the Committee in a way that would obtain the acceptance of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Price", "preceding_text": "Three of our inquiries were greatly helped by visiting Scotland: the first was on acquired immune deficiency syndrome; the second was on mental health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "There cannot be any hon. Member who does not believe that there ought to be a Select Committee to deal with health matters, and one to deal with matters relating to social security. However, we should be cutting off our noses to spite our faces if, because there is not a Scottish Grand Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Scottish Select Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "There cannot be any hon. Member who does not believe that there ought to be a Select Committee to deal with health matters, and one to deal with matters relating to social security. However, we should be cutting off our noses to spite our faces if, because there is not a Scottish Grand Committee— [Interruption.] It would be odd if, because there is not a Scottish Social Services Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Select Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "o longer exist. I think that I should be going a very long way towards having the wishes of the House fulfilled if I could persuade the Leader of the House to say yet again that he will look into the matter and discuss it with the parties to see whether a solution might be found. The arguments against the appointment of the two Committees are based upon a desire to have a Scottish Grand Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "elevant, because we are talking about an existing Select Committee being divided into two Select Committees. When we discussed the future of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs I suggested to the Government, as I suggest to the Leader of the House tonight, that, with 13 Members, it was too big. During a public sitting, every Member of Parliament wanted to speak because the press were present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-21", "file": "debates1991-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a75a455b3192d3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "I might have protected the Secretary of State for Scotland because, like me, he was speaking for the future of Scotland and Scottish interests. Sometimes, Tory Secretaries of State for Scotland are the best supporters of Labour party policy that we can get in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-21a.134.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "be heartened by the almost unanimous vote in the House last night? Does he further agree that it is sad that it could not be a unanimous vote as 34 Opposition Members could not find it in their hearts to vote in support of our forces? Is it not interesting that they are exactly the same people who will not pay their community charge, and is it not a fact that they do not respect international law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.155.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oilfields (Kuwait)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Before 9 o'clock, Mr. Speaker, I gave you notice that I wished to raise under Standing Order No. 20, the subject of the detonation and ignition by Iraq of the oilfields in Kuwait. In answer to the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel), the Prime Minister said that he would make information public. May I put it to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Can you waive formalities to ensure that a delegation from the Iraqi National Assembly may visit this place? It wants to send members here to meet us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "ar, it makes sense if we speak about peace and about negotiation rather than confrontation. It makes sense to the people outside and to the people that I represent; perhaps it does not make sense on the Government Benches. Clearly something has to be done, hopefully, to resolve the horrible conflict. The National Assembly of Iraq has a political and moral right to send members here to speak to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Road Traffic (Random Breath Testing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "en discussing drink driving and random breath testing is Sweden, where 40 per cent. of those caught above the legal limit have no licence. In this country, that figure is 20 per cent. Therefore, the level of habitual drink drivers—those who continue to drink and drive even after they have been disqualified—is running at twice the level in Sweden that it is here. That, together with other evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export and Investment Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Caerphilly may be interested to know that my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock and Burntwood (Mr. Howarth) had had the courtesy to tell me that he hoped to try to catch your eye during the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and that he intended to declare his interest if he were called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export and Investment Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to speak at the time when, as they say, the going gets tough and the tough go and have their dinner and leave those of us who are in thrall to the Whips to address the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export and Investment Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "preceding_text": " to denationalise ISG is that which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) set out. In an excellent speech—I am sorry that the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan), who is looking slightly quizzical, did not hear it, because it was first class —my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) suggested that the acid test was extremely simple. One had to ask oneself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export and Investment Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "that the motivation behind the exercise has all along been a desire on the Government's part to ensure that the ECGD was placed in the best position to meet exporters' needs after 1992. The truth about the alleged lack of interest is that some parts of the press, particularly The Guardian, have speculated and got it badly wrong. The fact is that serious interest has been and continues to be shown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export and Investment Guarantees Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I still have some points to make, so I must continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We have had enough of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "European Standing Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "nd Port Glasgow (Dr. Godman) that members of the two Committees would be selected ad hoc. I surmised that he meant Members in the Tea Room who could not get out of the door before being pounced on and having their name added to the list. I assume that the selections that are made through the usual channels, in sophisticated conversations and consultations, are more scientific and subtle than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-22", "file": "debates1991-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1c1f8e3ec1c53431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "European Standing Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "intrigued to know how the Government came to their conclusion that two Committees were enough. I hope that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House will say whether there must be 13 people on the Committees or whether, instead, there could be three Committees of eight, nine or even seven, especially as the quorum is only three, presumably the Minister, the Opposition spokesman and A. N. Other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-22a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the lacuna in the present law, in that the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 does not cover real property. We know this and intend to take action. We also intend to take action on the Estate Agents Act 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "gh level of services that local authorities were supposed to provide—I knew less then and I was more naive about the massive incompetence in some of the geographical areas—when I went to the GLC to do a job for the computer industry. You are highly computer-literate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so you will know that it is crucial that different forms of machinery and different forms of software interlock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rs are meant to be done under the tenancy agreement. In future, if tenancy agreements are changed, such repairs will not be done, even though tenants are entitled to them under the housing law. They will have to pay £4 extra to get into the position that they should have been in had the job been done in the first place. I am going to a meeting tonight—I guess that hundreds of people will be there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "l believed that it was about to be disbanded. That is life after death indeed. It suggests that there may be movements and murmurings, which we suspected existed, to show that the lady who departed No. 10 just a few weeks before Christmas lies in the shadows after all, waiting, watching and encouraging. That is a sign that things are on the move. Of course, what is not on the move is the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ed and not to offer a blanket approach to problems. I approve of that because if public funds are not targeted they will not provide good value. Housing benefit has been deliberately targeted at those whose income, wherever it comes from, is below a certain standard. That benefit, which is taxpayers' money, has risen to more than £380 million in the past year and is for council house tenants only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " their property, thus reducing vandalism and increasing in the community the feeling that the property is theirs and that they can take steps to protect it. I am astonished that some Opposition Members cannot see the benefit of that. The rent-to-buy scheme, which is still in its early stages but doing well, deals with that. I shall now deal with those who are in need of houses for whatever reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "entleman should not underestimate the significance of the assistance that Glasgow district council can provide. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) referred to someone buying a flat in a council house block of four and asked whether that person would be eligible for an improvement grant. That may be at the discretion of the local authority depending, on how recently the house was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.423.4", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I address my remarks to my colleagues. Are we not sick of statistics being bandied year after year? Ministers attempt to deceive the public by talking of vast amounts of capital allocation which we know have already been spent. They do not talk about the real figures that matter. How long must people languish in houses that are totally unfit to live in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.423.4", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "sters attempt to deceive the public by talking of vast amounts of capital allocation which we know have already been spent. They do not talk about the real figures that matter. How long must people languish in houses that are totally unfit to live in? [Interruption.] We want to know for how long our constituents will have to live in deplorable housing conditions. We have had the tenants' campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-23", "file": "debates1991-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "57b2f364e921f4f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "The Press (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "report and the Government have said that, if self-regulation does not work, it should be replaced by a statutory tribunal, with statutory powers, implementing a statutory code of practice. I should like to share with the House my experience of how these new arrangements are working. Members will be aware that Patricia Chapman, the editor of the News of the World, is a member of the new commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-23a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-24", "file": "debates1991-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6789f2955bc8d767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.453.9", "colnum": "453", "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 hon. Gentleman for giving me advance notice of the supplementary question that he intended to ask. No one wants a ground war in the Gulf—no one at all—and it can be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.453.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-24", "file": "debates1991-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6789f2955bc8d767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.456.6", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "preceding_text": "the hope that my right hon. Friend will shortly be able to visit the city of York, may I ask him to use this opportunity to praise employee share schemes, particularly those in denationalised companies such as British Telecom and British Rail Engineering? Will he give a warning to the people of York that in the unlikely event of there ever being a Labour Government, they would take away the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.456.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-24", "file": "debates1991-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6789f2955bc8d767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.456.7", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In York?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell the House what prospects he sees for an early reduction in interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-24", "file": "debates1991-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6789f2955bc8d767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that that follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-24", "file": "debates1991-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6789f2955bc8d767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "though it would be reasonable to examine it further to see whether it would have any value as a transitional mechanism. We know that it is not the end of the road, although I suspect that many Conservative Members— certainly those who lend allegiance to the Bruges group —would like to see it at the end of the road. They do not want it to succeed, as the president of the Bruges group has indicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-24a.498.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-28", "file": "debates1991-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "17049d8406f3a050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.648.5", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his remarks. Will he convey the views that have been expressed this afternoon to the chairman of the Arts Council and tell him that there would be widespread disappointment not only in the Principality but throughout this country if this excellent company had to close? We all expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.648.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-28", "file": "debates1991-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "17049d8406f3a050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "preceding_text": "I am aware that many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-28", "file": "debates1991-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "17049d8406f3a050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "preceding_text": "I am aware that many hon. Members wanted to speak and for that reason I do not intend to give way. It is important that the Minister has an opportunity to reply to the many points that have been made. Has the private legislation going through Parliament been made redundant since the Government announced their intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-28", "file": "debates1991-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "17049d8406f3a050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.743.7", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "preceding_text": "nnounced their intention to find time this Session to introduce this enabling legislation. During the debate, we have heard that there are serious anomalies. The point was made with particular reference to the Clyde Port Authority Bill. The passage of private legislation to date has been a severe abuse of parliamentary procedure and of Finance Bill Committee procedure, and a waste of public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.743.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-28", "file": "debates1991-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "17049d8406f3a050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.748.4", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": " for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace), and my hon. Friends the Members for Poole (Mr. Ward) and for Dover, about the anxieties felt by certain ports. We appreciate the importance of considering the ports individually and we shall take part in consultations before any decisions are made. I was pleased to hear from the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland that his party would be supporting the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-28a.748.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister, are you aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.801.5", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not correct. Disabled people qualify for the transitional relief scheme and for the new community charge reduction scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.801.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "l standard spending—that is, the amount that it would be appropriate for local authorities in aggregate to spend—of 19 per cent. to £39 billion. When viewed in isolation, that is a considerable increase. When set in the context of the substantial growth in local government spending over the past decade, it gives the lie to the suggestion that local government is being forced to make damaging cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "atters of fact. It is a very expensive privilege to live in a Labour-controlled local authority area. Most privileges entail something in terms of value for money but it is highly questionable whether one receives additional value for money in respect of the large extra costs of living in a Labour-controlled local authority area. But, at this late stage, I do not wish to make controversial points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "on. Member's argument, and I think that it was a bogus point. The increase of £3 billion is a large figure by any definition, and the 12·8 per cent. increase is substantially in excess of current rates of inflation, plus—as hon. Members know—there is no need for the payment of safety nets in the forthcoming year, so most authorities have done significantly better than the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good idea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "s expenditure. Both trends are in operation at the moment. Some local authorities are particularly mean; I happen to think that Wandsworth is now one of them. It is achieving large savings in the poll tax as a result of relatively small percentage cuts in expenditure. But if a council wants to improve services, the cost to the poll tax payer becomes very heavy. I want to return to Lambeth council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "s force establishment. In other words, the Home Office sees a need to add to the number of police officers in Warwickshire, but the all-powerful SSA disagrees. That seems to be a case of the Department of the Environment knowing more about operational police requirements than the Home Office. I am delighted to see my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Home Office, take his place on the beat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "to spend? I shall ask him once again whether he can give an assurance that it will not add to the general level of taxation or the level of income tax. Is the answer yes or no? If he cannot answer it now, perhaps he will do so in his reply. The reality is that the Labour party is shy of linking one with the other, whereas we recognise that any spending commitment has a taxation commitment as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.858.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.906.11", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Local Government Finance(Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.906.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-29", "file": "debates1991-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "17d6c76ba8ccab49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Local Government Finance(Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " wish that other Labour Members had been as numerate as the hon. Member for Rhondda (Mr. Rogers) in their contributions to the debate. During the past two years Labour Members have adopted two approaches to local government finance. Out of office, year after year they have always said that the rate support grant is inadequate and underfunded. But in office the story is different. If one goes back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-29a.909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "ave oil. We have had oil resources for so long, but, unbelievably, revenue from it has gone into the pockets of people who are represented by Conservative Members. I am not saying that that is done corruptly but that it is wrong and that that revenue is being misused. What about Labour's position? We want an alternative to the Government's policies, but it is like sin—what do you put in its place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "t share to decrease. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State alluded to that. So progress has indeed been made. I am also disappointed that no Opposition Member mentioned that in the United Kingdom we have some of the strongest and best companies on the globe. If I were a manager or a worker in any of those companies I should have taken great offence at the rubbish I heard from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "osition's political case, which is all that we heard from Opposition Members today. Their case was not based on sense or fact because not one of them could mobilise a bit of sense or fact between them. Another fact that was entirely missing from the scenario given by the Opposition was that the standard of competence of management is so much higher following the past 10 years of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "n was that the standard of competence of management is so much higher following the past 10 years of Government policy. [Interruption.] Opposition Members may harass, but that does not change the fact. Management is now far more competent than ever before. That was reflected in the Lonrho statement to shareholders which appeared again in The Times—one of my favourite newspapers—of 25 January 1991.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": " hurting is that the Government do not seem to have the same feel for manufacturing industry as they have for the City. We have time to correct that attitude. We have a Budget coming which we can make a Budget for industry. At heart, no manufacturer seriously wants a Labour Government. Manufacturers do not want devaluation or inconsistencies in policies; they do not want the disasters of the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Famine (Sub-Saharan Africa)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t of Sir Davids in these debates— I understand the point that you make but let me tell you as a professional journalist that, at a time like this, the public are interested solely in the major event. There would be no interest in other crisis areas at this time. So I would not be interested in commissioning or publishing a piece such as you suggest. I am sorry. Yours sincerely, Sir David English\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Famine (Sub-Saharan Africa)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cynon Valley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding more recent remarks, this has been an excellent debate. I should like to thank the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel) for his generous thanks to the Opposition for choosing this subject. Special credit must go to my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1029.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Social Services (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the House wants to divide, it will divide. I sense the mood of the House that it is not for its convenience that the orders be taken together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1041.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Social Services (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that further information. It just so happens that the Minister's figures do not invalidate my criticism that the home help service has been dramatically and drastically reduced over the past few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Social Services (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "This is a sad evening for me and a sad day for democracy and for the health services in Northern Ireland. We have before us a draft order which is specialised, complicated and detailed. We have 90 minutes in which to debate it. In opening the debate, the Minister took just over a quarter of that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1055.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-30", "file": "debates1991-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e36d32205094e38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Northern Ireland Social Services (Consequential Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right. Is not it sad that eastern European countries could give the Minister a lesson on how democracy should work in Northern Ireland? He is lagging behind those who in the past he would have criticised. There is more democracy perhaps almost anywhere else in the world than in Northern Ireland. This facade of Orders in Council only serves to show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-30a.1078.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for the excellent news about savings going up. Does he agree that probably the best way to reduce inflationary pressures and interest rates is to encourage further spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1095.9", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "We listened with much interest to what the Chancellor said about the savings ratio. In giving evidence to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee, Sir Jack Hibbert, director of the Central Statistical Office, said that the savings ratio is subject to quite a wide margin of error and that small differences from quarter to quarter should not be regarded as significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1095.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1095.9", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "differences from quarter to quarter should not be regarded as significant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that savings are an important indicator of the economy? If he wants evidence of the Government's disastrous stewardship of the economy, he should consider the statistics on savings as a percentage of gross domestic product in the past 10 years which have halved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1095.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman listened to what I said. We built on the experience of the United States authorities, which tried a free trial and found that it led only to greater congestion and fewer people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware re that some of the young Scottish soldiers are writing home to their mums and families asking for supplies such as talcum powder, boiled sweets, boots, gloves and toothpaste?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ything. The Americans tried it. The system broke down and the congestion was appalling. The Americans found that it was fairer for people to make a contribution, which helped to ensure that the maximum number of people could make calls. This is not Glasgow. It is not a matter of linking up to the golf course in St. Andrews. This is out in the desert, in forward positions. There is huge congestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I can add to what I have already said. I have made it clear that we sought every way at the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1167.8", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is trying to mislead the House in his attempt to persuade right hon. and hon. Members that the city council has given some form of guarantee that there will be no public sector funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1167.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1182.6", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "edings despite the thousands of words that he has expended during those interventions. I might give way to the hon. Gentleman in the next few minutes if he is nice to me, but at the moment I am dealing with the eloquent speech made by the hon. Member for Romsey and Waterside, who pointed out that, like other similar towns and cities throughout the country, Southampton has a severe traffic problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I was reluctant to give way to the hon. Gentleman, and no doubt you can see why, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman's intervention was interminably long and predictably inaccurate. The Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill will involve public money because the busier the port becomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-01-31", "file": "debates1991-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8edec842d3a41fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1193.4", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I am belatedly grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I am listening to him with great care, as his arguments are always well marshalled and his cogent thoughts always benefit the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-01-31a.1193.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-01", "file": "debates1991-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "27032cc4a4fa258d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1254.5", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "National Health Service (Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to prove fault. For example, 1,500 babies a year are born with cerebral palsy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-01", "file": "debates1991-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "27032cc4a4fa258d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "National Health Service (Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a reformer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ary position and occasionally I must be allowed to strike back. There is a consensus in the House that cases should be dealt with by the courts more quickly and in a fairer way. However, there is the danger of litigiousness and a horror of the sort of cases that arise in America. The hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) is bound to be in favour of this revolutionary change, on principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-01", "file": "debates1991-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "27032cc4a4fa258d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "National Health Service (Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "That is not the case", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-01", "file": "debates1991-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "27032cc4a4fa258d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "National Health Service (Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "hether they wish to go to the board or to court. They could make a contractual agreement to choose the path of no-fault compensation or go to the courts. If the Secretary of State believes that the scheme would not work, why did he not offer to set up an example? We have had no such suggestions. All we have had is, \"No, let us chuck the whole thing out.\" The Secretary of State said as a criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1275.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-01", "file": "debates1991-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "27032cc4a4fa258d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1292.20", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That it be an Instruction to Standing Committee B that it have power to amend the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill so as to make, in relation to the whole of the United Kingdom, provision for and in connection with the exercise of investigation powers by persons other than constables.— [Mr. Nicholas Baker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-01a.1292.19"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-04", "file": "debates1991-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "16de9ca28e5a56ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "Sometimes I wonder whether the hon. Lady lives in the real world. I should be happy to see the United Nations money spent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-04", "file": "debates1991-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "16de9ca28e5a56ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Family Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": " we need the Government to introduce them. I know that somebody, probably the Minister, will say that we cannot adopt the directive on maternity and allow the European standard on maternity provision because it would cost too much. However, my information is that it is estimated that only 1 per cent. of female workers in Europe are pregnant at any one time, so it would hardly be a costly exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-04", "file": "debates1991-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "16de9ca28e5a56ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Family Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "y a number of Departments to deal with children's problems. Together, those two Ministries should ensure that all our policies bear in mind the fact that the family is the responsibility not only of itself but of everyone else, and that Government must play its part. It is, I suppose, a pity—from his point of view—that the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South will not be here after the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-04", "file": "debates1991-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "16de9ca28e5a56ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Mining Subsidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "working things out with the Coal Board was not six years, but 12. But what happened? MacGregor was appointed chairman of the board, and he stopped that allowance straight away. There was fairness in Nottinghamshire, but that man from America—fancy appointing an American to run an industry in this country when we had people, including one in the House of Lords, who would have done a marvellous job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-04a.124.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-05", "file": "debates1991-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7825aba9324d28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.175.7", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Domestic Lettings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it should not be repeated. The purpose of speaking against a Bill is to raise objections, not to support a Bill that has been put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.175.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-05", "file": "debates1991-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7825aba9324d28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have acknowledged persistently and repeatedly that there is a balance of £100 million—a tiny fraction though that is—of labour costs as a whole and that, therefore, not everybody can be gainers. However, the points of concern that have been mentioned by hon. Members and that have come in profusion from other quarters as well are being addressed in particular to the position of small businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-05", "file": "debates1991-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7825aba9324d28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " No one wants the Bill, but fear of its impact is widespread. The Government's tabled response does not meet the case. The best course would be withdrawal of the Bill. The Forum of Private Business said: The timing of the SSP Bill could hardly be worse for the small business community because of the current recession. The Government clearly does not understand small businesses —or does not care. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.194.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-05", "file": "debates1991-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7825aba9324d28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Namibia Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "out of sympathy. The interventions of the hon. Member for Luton, North were entirely in character—unpleasant in the extreme. I do not want to mar this happy debate by making remarks of a partisan or party political nature because the Minister for Overseas Development, who is sitting on the Government Front Bench, is also a good and firm friend of Namibia, and I well remember a night some time ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-05a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "man's point for the whole of Fife. I can confirm that no decision has been made to close Rosyth or, for that matter, any other naval base. The Government fully recognise the implications that any such closure would have for the economy. Those implications would be fully considered and examined by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, along with colleagues before any such decision was taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.271.9", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "As one who has given blood as part of the appeal by the blood transfusion service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.271.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I start by congratulating my hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my hon. Friend and all his colleagues on the excellent opinion poll in yesterday's newspapers which showed that the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.278.7", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "On the last point, the hon. Member cannot have read the recent Scottish opinion poll, which put the Conservative vote at 30 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.278.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the convention fails to meet its own criteria? One is that the new assembly should be accountable, and it fails that test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the convention fails to meet its own criteria? One is that the new assembly should be accountable, and it fails that test. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Does my hon. Friend further agree that the failure to address the Goshen-Barnett formula and also the number of Members of Parliament required to represent Scotland in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the information, but it is not legitimate to raise this matter since it was not the hon. Member's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.282.8", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In the first quarter of 1990, output was some 11 per cent. higher than in 1979, and some 6 per cent. higher than the previous peak. My hon. Friend is right to point to the record of the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.282.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.286.6", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did get the point. The hon. Gentleman will know that there was a debate on this matter before Christmas and it was agreed that there should be an experiment on printing the first 40 questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.286.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": ". The right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield made a thoughtful contribution to the debate, emphasising qualifications. He had an excellent idea and set radical and ambitious targets in November 1989. The new Minister of State, the hon. Member for Enfield, North (Mr. Eggar), said in a press release that the Fowler targets were to be abandoned. More recently there has been another slight about-turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In what way is it wrong?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does well to read the brief that he has been provided with by Conservative central office, but as is often the case with those briefs, it is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right. Only half of the British Library will be built, thanks to the penny-pinching of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for giving way so that I can confirm entirely what he has said. I am a member of the Select Committee on Education and Science and went on the visit to Heidelberg, Geneva and Grenoble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I was not saying that. Obviously the hon. Gentleman has not been listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State can confirm this, but I do not believe that when Ministers made their decisions about the science base they had any idea that a potential consequence of setting the science budget at the level they did was the potential closure of the Daresbury nuclear research facility. If it was, and the Secretary of State knew that the SERC would make these decisions, he had better say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "of setting the science budget at the level they did was the potential closure of the Daresbury nuclear research facility. If it was, and the Secretary of State knew that the SERC would make these decisions, he had better say so. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) asked me a question, and I am giving him the answer. Obviously there will always be more bids than resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t up to date that I have—show that 15 per cent. of the relevant age group of young people had higher education qualifications in science. In France and in West Germany, only 12 per cent. had them. The figure for Italy is 5 per cent. We are up with the United States, at 11 to 15 per cent., depending on how the comparison is made, and with Japan at 10 to 15 per cent. So we are producing the numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-06", "file": "debates1991-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "876bcdaec397bc09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Science Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "scheme, we are producing fewer science teachers. We may be producing many science graduates, but the Secretary of State should visit Lloyd's, the stock exchange, accountancy firms or the non-scientific parts of the Civil Service, the tax inspectorate or the factory inspectorate. He will find plenty of people with science degrees there because those jobs pay better than teaching science in schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-06a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-07", "file": "debates1991-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bc9697fb9d4ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-07a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It is the right to buy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If a scheme falls within the concession, it is foolish of the council to sell one of the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-07a.403.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-07", "file": "debates1991-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bc9697fb9d4ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-07a.417.9", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Terrorist Incident (Whitehall)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There is conjecture, and stories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-07a.417.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-07", "file": "debates1991-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bc9697fb9d4ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-07a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "e person is preposterous and the height of absurdity. If anything, a carer should receive more money and a medal for looking after more than one person. I do not understand the Government's thinking; it is absolutely inane. It is ludicrous to penalise the carer because one of the disabled people whom she is looking after receives a lower level of care component. The Government are splitting hairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-07a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-08", "file": "debates1991-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f7601b3deaebf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-08a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Safety Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": ", I wonder whether, even if someone had written to the safety officer pointing out that people were working overtime and that not enough men were dealing with the signals, any action would have been taken. We can imagine the sort of answer that a Minister would have given: \"British Rail is doing all it can to recruit more staff.\" We know the sort of jargon in which Whitehall couches these answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-08a.526.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-11", "file": "debates1991-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8eee64375c4ed4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-11a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " is of interest to the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mrs. Michie). There are increasing stocks of barnacle and whitefront geese, but we never seem to find long-term answers to the problems. There were lengthy debates in the other place about red deer. The Deer (Scotland) Act 1959 and the one that I put through the House in 1982 deal with that subject. We must strengthen the Red Deer Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-11a.647.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-11", "file": "debates1991-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8eee64375c4ed4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-11a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": ", and this change is a torpedo amidships. My hon. Friend the Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) who knows a lot about these matters and the legislation pertaining to them, is nodding his head in agreement. The changes to the Bill will make any new nature conservation work in Scotland subject to a veto by local landed interests. Do the Government deny that? I do not think that they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-11a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-11", "file": "debates1991-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8eee64375c4ed4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-11a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"South-East.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "sion for Scotland—not least because I do not think that many people knew the difference between them anyway. The amalgamation will clarify the issue, and, I hope, draw together the various strands of policy about management of the countryside. I do not know whether I shall be fortunate enough to be a member of the Standing Committee; no doubt the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-11a.687.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being uncharacteristically fatuous", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.732.7", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "Despite my right hon. Friend and I both having left state schols at 16 and therefore, perhaps being poor educational advertisements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.732.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.745.8", "colnum": "745", "heading": "British Technology Group Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No. The vice-chancellors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.745.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "British Technology Group Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "h are now to be handed over to the private sector on a plate, commemorative or other. Who supports the Bill? The document makes it absolutely clear that the Bill has engendered the hostility of the Government's business managers. It states clearly that the Bill is proceeding against the natural inclination of the party managers The document continues: Against this background, trenchant criticism\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "British Technology Group Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"Come on.\"] I am quoting from a document commissioned by the British Technology Group, which says: Against this background, trenchant criticism may weaken the business managers' resolve to press ahead with any great speed … the business managers' priorities in all this are a quiet time with no banana skins and a light programme to allow Tory MPs plenty of time in their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "British Technology Group Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "tely, and, collects votes at elections. It does not put money into the businesses that are worthy of investments on their own merits. We have learnt during the 40 years since the second world war that all Governments have been bad owners and we do not want to return to that. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East should consider the amazing transformation in the fortunes and fame of such companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.763.3", "colnum": "763", "heading": "British Technology Group Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I think that the Government will release whatever information that they receive, provided that it is not confidential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.763.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "British Technology Group Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friends may be surprised to learn that the NEB is still alive. It has been in long hibernation, no doubt awaiting the arrival of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East to awaken it. He will not. The Bill kills it off. The powers of the NEB which remain on the statute book are frightening. It can borrow up to £750 million, it can form companies, it can buy shares and it can make acquisitions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "British Railways (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "It may be for the convenience of the House if I remind hon. Members that the Bill received an unopposed Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-12", "file": "debates1991-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "14da3d58636131e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "erican-dominated. My hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow referred to leaked documents that reveal the extent to which, before 15 January, Perez de Cuellar and the United Nations were marginalised and manipulated. It is very important to recall that, as my hon. Friend has mentioned, it was hours after the attack on Iraq had taken place that the United Nations Secretary-General was informed of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-12a.821.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.848.9", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e so chummy with Syria and Iran, for example, what is wrong with Afghanistan? To my knowledge, Dr. Najib's Government are not associated with terrorism—certainly, they are a revolutionary Government—but I wonder why there is not one British representative in Kabul. Could it just be that the Tory Government can never forget that the Afghan trade union movement backed the miners during the struggle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.848.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "B52 Bombers (Bristol Channel)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speller", "preceding_text": " emergency would not arise. Will my hon. Friend confirm that the bombs will not be armed, whether the planes are going to, or coming back from, the Gulf? Is my hon. Friend aware that the coastguard at Ilfracombe was not aware of the points that he has made today and the fishermen and those involved in coastal shipping ask how they are supposed to get out of the way if large chunks descend on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "have been those with strong currencies. For the British economy to be competitive, we must set ourselves free of the devaluation culture. Prosperity, competitiveness and lower interest rates all depend on getting inflation down to the level of our main competitors. Nothing else will do. We cannot allow ourselves to be blown off course now that a low inflation objective is firmly within our sights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "dious repetition. What happened under the Labour Government seems unbelievable and it seems to have happened so long ago, but the point about the comparisons is that the Labour party seems determined to repeat the mistakes made by the last Labour Government. In the last two public spending rounds, the Government have agreed huge increases in spending on roads. This year our priority has been rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "t all those. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has no policy. The Labour party is hollow. When we knock Labour Members, all that we ever get is an echo—an echo of the past. If Labour Members have anything to say on policy, all that we hear is a little bit more intervention, more spending, a few credit controls and, of course, a little more inflation. It was all well summed up in Marxism Today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman rightly says, I should not expect to interrupt him in the course of his answer—I am not optimistic about him ever giving an answer. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman rightly says, I should not expect to interrupt him in the course of his answer—I am not optimistic about him ever giving an answer. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said that— [interruption.] The right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.870.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.871.4", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman is unsure of the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit), let me repeat it. He was making the point that, when interest rates were 7·5 per cent. in 1988, the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) was still calling for further reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.871.5", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Because at that time there was a danger, following the collapse in the world stock markets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "My constituents in the south-east are particularly interested in Labour party policy on this. At this time last year the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) said: What we are promising is an increase for pensioners and an increase in child benefit. Everything else that is regarded as a desirable aim\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.874.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No; I have given way a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.9", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I have ever heard a question such as that from any Minister since I came to the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.13", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary appears to be resisting my hon. Friend's blandishments. He is wise to do so. One thing that the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.13", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " policies? They may be brighter for some, but they are pretty dim for most of my constituents and for the constituents of most hon. Members. A year later, we know all about the pain, but what about the gain? Is that put off for yet another year? Will we have the gain if we are patient, with everything coming right as the economic cycle reasserts itself and the country goes into economic recovery?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.876.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "itish economy a massive black eye. The question facing the House is what the Government should do to get the country out of the mire in which they have dropped us. A package of measures is required; the first is to reduce interest rates. Everyone welcomes the half per cent. reduction announced today, but that is only a modest beginning. There is no doubt that interest rates will need to come down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "st a 1 per cent. interest rate reduction has already been largely discounted by the markets, as shown by the fact that sterling strengthened against the deutschmark on the foreign markets today. Secondly, given that we have joined the ERM, it would be wrong to devalue unilaterally—that would send all the wrong signals. However, there is a stronger case for a deutschmark revaluation within the ERM—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": " It would be a mistake to rush precipitately into the narrow bands of ERM. We must bring inflation well down before doing so. If we move too quickly, realignment may be forced upon us. That would bring inflationary pressures, because imports would cost more. We should stay on course. We will ride out the recession. The United Kingdom economy is in much better shape than it has been for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": " do not welcome the current recession. It is a great tragedy, but it is the Government's fault; they must accept full responsibility for it. The tragedy is that they have failed to learn the lessons of the recession of the early 1980s. They have failed to recognise the need for investment in industry and for investment in training and education with a view to the provision of a skilled work force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "ty measures, but took it back from the public sector obligations—with effects that have become increasingly clear, and about which the House has been complaining for the past few days. Public sector housing starts at 14,000 are down 65,000 on the beginning of the decade, and the number of housing association starts has also fallen. Meanwhile, homeless households numbered more than 132,000 by 1989—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "on constantly talk Britain down. The debate has provided us with the opportunity to consider the Government's plans and to have another look at the extent to which the Labour party is prepared to lift the veil on their proposals. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) seems somewhat resentful, when not embarrassed, about being called to account for Labour party policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "l thinness of Labour's own prescription for dealing with the crisis … Labour has no painless solution, and depends on showing British industry's supply-side problems as the most effective … means of ending inflation. Well, I for one don't believe it. And what's more, I don't think the British people will believe it either. Writing in the same paper just two days ago, Mr. Will Hutton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Because, as my hon. Friend will know and welcome, we are making progress on inflation, so it is not necessary to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "y of money—all that does is push up the price of the money that is available. It is utterly naive to expect any pain-free answers to the problems of the inflation rate and excessive demand in imposing credit controls that will move in exactly the opposite direction. Are we to look back nostalgically to the days of the 1970s, when people were queuing up for mortgages as a result of credit controls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " because he thinks that they are a way of dealing with demand—I do not believe they are—and he says that he does not want to go back to the 1970s, when mortgages were limited: he wants to exempt them altogether. But how can credit controls bear down on private borrowing, when 85 per cent. of private borrowing is done in the form of mortgages? So the dead cat is a dead parrot, and it will not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who? Point to them\". Memories appear to be very short. They campaigned not to register and not to pay—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " in Scotland to non-collection of the tax. Anyone who believes that any taxation, or local authority charges, that Members of Parliament and councillors have told people not to pay, will not run into administrative difficulties, is not living in the real world. The hon. Member for Garscadden has to bear in mind that his party and people sitting beside him on the Front Bench, campaigned not to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.957.8", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am giving as much evidence as the hon. Member for Garscadden gave. In such a short debate, I cannot be expected to do other than emulate the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.957.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I have given way enough. The problem faced by Opposition Members is that they are living with the results of two separate campaigns. One campaign was the legal campaign by the Scottish nationalists. At one end of my constituency, even the Perth and Kinross district SNP provost did not support that, whereas it was supported at the other end of my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbain", "preceding_text": "—they never stop whingeing about hardship. That tax is a formidable hardship for every person in Scotland, and let us not forget it. Who is praising those who are increasing the burden by a third? Opposition Members are praising them. There are those who say that local authorities are wonderful. Nevertheless, whatever services they give, local authorities are a burden on the back of every citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-13", "file": "debates1991-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "e99e4a193bba9c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Once or twice in my life, I have faced up to reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-13a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that today's problems of homelessness have been caused, first, by the way in which the private rented sector has been regulated almost out of existence and, secondly, by the incompetence of many local authorities, mainly Labour controlled, which have more than 100,000 vacant council houses up and down the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "That this House condemns the barbaric slaughter of innocent men, women and children in Baghdad, which was caused by bombing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": "In view of early-day motion 468, may we have from next week more regular ministerial statements if necessary daily, about the conduct of the Gulf war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, who cares so deeply about her people in Scotland. As I have told her many times, I refer to her as \"Miss Scotland\". I hope that the Secretary of State will take note of what she has just said. We need the part-time farmers and crofters in many parts of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "at the Government have offered in their recent consultation paper—that agricultural holdings should be subject only to negotiation in the free market—is unrealistic? Bearing in mind the inequality of bargaining power between a young applicant for a tenancy and an experienced land agent, does he agree that a free market in tenancies is likely to wreck the strength of the agricultural rented sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": " During their 12 years in office, the Government have signally failed to provide the necessary encouragement for an industry which surely deserves better. Therefore, they are failing not only the farmers, but the consumers and rural community of which farmers form the backbone. I shall give a little bit of advice and a little history lesson to the Minister. I do not think that he was here in 1973—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends will make it clear in agricultural constituencies throughout the country that it is the Liberal Democrats' official policy to accept the inevitability of Mr. MacSharry's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman support a move to ask the Government to abandon the CAP and return to national Governments the right of support?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": " went down to the west country weeks before milk quotas were introduced urging farmers in the west country to adopt the solution of producing more and more. So we share our part of the blame for that. There is uncertainty, and lack of confidence and of a sense of a clear way ahead—and we tax the Government with all those things. The Minister provided us with a sort of low-grade entertainment show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1050.2", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "ctions to the MacSharry proposals—for it would have that effect on a whole category of farmers. I admire the struggle of the hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) in trying to decide what parts of the MacSharry proposals he liked or disliked. But he said that he was trying, and we all like triers. We are all reasonable people on these Benches, and we have never abused Mr. MacSharry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1050.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-14", "file": "debates1991-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "09fe1f60c71ddcab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "hermen in that position might know that they were approaching the start of their statutory tie-up period and that, unless they got back to a registered port in time, they would face a fine of £50,000 for breach of the reglations. Under such economic pressure it will be inevitable that, instead of riding out the storm, which would be the sensible thing to do, some people will make a dash for port —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-14a.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-15", "file": "debates1991-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "a226d3c91bad1bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-15a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": " that I am not particularly eager to see fox hunting abolished by law. I have an entirely different approach. I recognise that the landscape of Britain was formed in the interests of both agriculture and field sports. Hedges, ponds and small woods were all put there to assist shooting. I have made numerous efforts in the past decade to protect hedgerows but the Government have always blocked them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-15a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-15", "file": "debates1991-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "a226d3c91bad1bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-15a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "o not understand why the hon. Member for Newport, East (Mr. Hughes), who has said that he is concerned to hear opposing views, has been absent from the Chamber on almost every occasion when one of my hon. Friends who shares my views has spoken. If that is the way in which he intends to engage in dialogue in an attempt to reach a compromise, such a compromise will be extremely difficult to achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-15a.1149.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-18", "file": "debates1991-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "0030afa0b714d1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ndal that the Government are having to kowtow to the Americans before they open their mouth? The moment that President Bush said that it was a cruel hoax, the Prime Minister of Britain said that it was a sham—following in Bush's footsteps from beginning to end. The slaughter is continuing and the Americans are running the war. The United Nations has been left far behind without any consideration.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-18", "file": "debates1991-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "0030afa0b714d1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maintenance Enforcement Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "est at the conclusion of his speech. I believe that the Bill does not go far enough—although it may be extended in the Child Support Bill. In many cases the fathers are not named and in some cases they are not known. In my constituency, in some cases the father is not known until the child is born and the colour of its skin is revealed. That perhaps gives some hint about the extent of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-18", "file": "debates1991-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "0030afa0b714d1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maintenance Enforcement Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "en I heard that the reciprocal arrangements with the EEC are not working very well. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) is not in his place. He talked about family life and said that it was of paramount importance. Although we would all agree with that, I submit that the Government's taxation policy is also a major factor causing the break-up of marriages and of family life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-18", "file": "debates1991-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "0030afa0b714d1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maintenance Enforcement Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "gh we would all agree with that, I submit that the Government's taxation policy is also a major factor causing the break-up of marriages and of family life— [ Interruption.] I am sorry, I see that the hon. Gentleman is here, albeit in a different seat. The gap between the better-off and the less well-off is unquestionably growing in this country. Such pressures can cause the break-up of marriages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-18", "file": "debates1991-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "0030afa0b714d1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the Minister's one and only contribution to the debate, I thought that he would at least inform the House about the wider public expenditure consequences of the Bill. The Minister bothered to write to individual Members, including me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-18", "file": "debates1991-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "0030afa0b714d1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Heseltini.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "uare when three or four years ago they were paying only £2. He said that that was a sign of increased prosperity. If that is so, why does not the private sector pay? Why should the public sector make a huge contribution to inflating land values, prices and rents in docklands? The Minister is an arch Thatcherite and, until the hon. Member for Cardiff, Central was sacked, I thought that he was, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-18a.92.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "While we all roundly condemn terrorism, especially the terrorist acts recently in London, does the Minister agree that there is an argument for withdrawing, especially British troops, from the Province—as there is an argument for withdrawing Scottish troops from the Gull—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.147.9", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister comment on the recent statement by the hon. Member for Harlow (Mr. Hayes) that unless substantial funds are made available to the NHS before the end of the financial year, elderly people and people from other groups might die? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with that statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.147.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e to conclusions about so complex a matter in so short a time. We have made significant progress in a wide range of detailed examinations into function, structure and finance. We have now reached a point where we are able to begin to decide those options with which we may not wish to proceed. As I said recently to the House, I hoped that by April, I should be able to narrow the focus of attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "tages—that it's futile to think that we can achieve all that is necessary overnight. However, when the hon. Gentleman comes to the House, he assumes that the Government can do precisely what he said could not be done. It is entrancing to note the speed with which the hon. Member for Dagenham has moved his position. I remind him of what he said about a year ago, when he was involved in this review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "y for being prepared to talk to me, when he was frightened that his proposals would be put through the computer and that the facts might emerge. So now we know that at least the Liberals have a policy in which they have confidence, that the Scottish Nationalists and Welsh Nationalists have policies in which they have confidence, but that the Labour party has a policy in which it has no confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": "During Prime Minister's Question Time, I asked a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.162.7", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.162.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "Committee the Government and the Liberal Democrats both had something to put forward. Now it is only the Liberal Democrats. The Labour party failed to come up with any alternative during those long debates. Again, the Labour party's inability to play the role of an Opposition and to provide an alternative, not simply to oppose, was exposed for all to see. It has shown that in today's debate again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "below £300 hits those who cannot go into the marketplace to buy alternative provision. That is what it is all about. Far from bringing relief to those in greatest need through extending the rebate system, far from ensuring that we fund services and prevent cuts, the community charge reduction scheme is a simple mechanism to bribe the electorate and to try to save Tory seats such as Ribble Valley.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.206.7", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to face his electorate one day. May I remind him of what he said to his electorate in 1987: Interest rates, vital to every home-owner and every family in business—we have brought them down…Let's continue to keep inflation down. That was just before the Government doubled it, and doubled it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.206.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ompanies of Britain? A bigger, better, and more efficient burial service for companies. Trust Government Ministers to find the only part of their budget that deals with the demise of companies and increase it, while denying funds for everything else. The Secretary of State is like a clergyman presiding over a crumbling congregation, no longer officiating at baptisms or marriages, only at funerals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will hear shortly of some measures that I am introducing, which have been announced today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Of course we do; of course. There is no question, having entered the exchange rate mechanism, of not sticking by the disciplines of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong either way, because the figure is on page 12 of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "t for incentives—would increase public spending. Have they been cleared by the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett)? In the hon. Gentleman's view, should those policies be implemented today or must they wait until resources allow? The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East has been keen to intervene. Can he give us the answer to any one of those questions? I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "s debate, a Minister and the Front-Bench spokesman of the Labour party cooking the books as they spoke. An exchange that occurred earlier about the technology transfer budget should be revealing to the great British public. The Conservative party says that when something goes down, it has gone up, whereas the Labour party says that when something goes up, it has gone down, and they are both wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-19", "file": "debates1991-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "11753a3ff62d63ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": " few days I came across a case in the north-west of a young disabled woman who was offered a job so long as she agreed to work the first six weeks without wages. At the end of the six weeks this young blind girl would be taken on at the princely sum of about £2 an hour for a 45-hour week, and she would have to help provide the special adaption for the equipment that she would use. That is reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-19a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.262.7", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Given the outstanding record of the DTI in the past few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.262.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": " a professional and conscientious police officer who always gave of his best. He was a former soldier who worked on bomb disposal in Ulster and in Germany. Only a month before his death, he and his wife, Gillian, had adopted a child. I take this opportunity to pay my respects to the memory of a fine officer, and I am sure that the House will join me in expressing our deepest sympathy to his widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Uxbridge could have told the House, there are several ways in which that can be done. For example, we could recruit more officers and double the police force—assuming that, in the conditions of today, young men and particularly young married men would wish to join the service. We could increase the number of police officers, or if that proved difficult, we could arm the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " people going to prison is to have a mandatory sentence so that people know that if they are found guilty of shoplifting, of robbing someone's house or of assault, mandatory sentences will be applied. Judges could be given special powers to depart from such sentences if they thought that there were particular circumstances relevant to that case. If we tried it, we might succeed in deterring crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "heless, I have doubts about the new clause. I do not like minimum sentences. They reduce the discretion of the courts, and all who practise in or know anything about the courts realise that human life spans an enormous width and that there are many degrees of blameworthiness. My hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale told us of his experience with an intoxicated reveller who attacked him in his foyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I shall refer to that matter in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "criticism—I do not mean from Opposition Members, although it may include some of them—that our judiciary is middle-class white. It is my experience that, if anything, middle-class intellectuals are so careful of not being thought to be biased or not allowing themselves to be biased in any way against blacks, browns or any under-privileged group in our society that they have a propensity to reduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving me an opportunity to clarify the point. I was saying that, in our society, discrimination has to be deliberate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "There are two reasons why the hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong, but I begin by declaring an interest. Some of my best friends are judges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "board is considering what can be done about magistrates in terms of racial awareness. I do not see why that should not be extended to the judiciary. I do not believe that the judges would feel that their dignity was at stake. If a judge felt that, and felt that he could never be guilty of falling into such traps, he would be saying that he was more perfect than the vast majority of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-20", "file": "debates1991-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2391c2cd13f26270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "e under licence for the rest of his or her life. It is not the normal theory of the constitution that individuals should be at the mercy of the Executive for the rest of their lives. It would require a strong case to inflict that on anyone, and that that should happen, irrespective of the nature of the offence and whether the public needs to be protected and whether the offence is likely to recur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-20a.372.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend gives rather disappointing figures. Will he try to galvanise the famers of Esher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "preceding_text": "even the Gulf War.] The motion refers to the costs and rewards of the Gulf war. With regard to the rewards, the Government have shown their commitment and have produced a 32-page document which lists 168 companies. The restoration of Kuwait is broken down into six sections. The Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and teams of senior business men have visited Kuwait and have discussed the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.442.12", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that my hon. Friend has received more letters on any subject than on the Badgers Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.442.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "Well, may we have a debate to discuss this matter? Despite previous promises, and despite an extra grant from the Department of Transport for road improvements, under the Liberals, Gloucestershire county council will still not meet its commitment for the construction of the Lydney bypass, an important road in the Forest of Dean. Will my right hon. Friend arrange for a debate to discuss the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Stokes", "preceding_text": "deals of chivalry, honour, courage and service to the Queen to which some other professions in this country could well look. The only thing that dismays me is that the support for our forces, which is widely felt throughout the country, is not entirely shared by some sections of the news media which have now become so terrifyingly and overwhelmingly important. If the news media are not controlled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I cannot give way as time is short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "ment, there will inevitably he another war in the middle east in the next 10 years. I remind the House that there have been wars in the middle east in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and now there is a war in 1991. If there is no decent settlement following the war, there will be yet another war. The background to this conflict and the major cause of the disaster is United States policy in the middle east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.469.7", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "cuting that war because that was convenient to America as Iran was seen as the major threat to American interests at that time. Although our own country officially stopped supplying arms to Iraq following the beginning of that war—a million people died in a war that the west, especially the United States, helped to feed—we allowed the superguns to get into Iraq. That story has not been fully told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.469.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "means\", many countries would not vote for a resolution which contained the words \"including force\"—so the phrase \"all necessary means\" was used so that America could later interpret it to mean force. At the same time, the section of the resolution dealing with the restoration of international peace and security in the area was slipped in deliberately to allow room for manoeuvre in interpreting it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "force\"—so the phrase \"all necessary means\" was used so that America could later interpret it to mean force. At the same time, the section of the resolution dealing with the restoration of international peace and security in the area was slipped in deliberately to allow room for manoeuvre in interpreting it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says?\"] The researchers who did the work for the Brian Walden programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "Nor is Bush a wimp because, let us not forget, he was in charge of the CIA. We must also ask who gave the order for the invasion of Panama and Grenada and who arranged for the funding of the Contras and the killing of the Nicaraguans. Bush did all of that. Our Prime Minister has not been in his present office for long, but in the streets of Scotland he is known as the butcher of 10 Downing street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "for its killing. I do not want to be any part of that killing. I get worried when the Minister casually says, \"We fear that we shall have to open up the hospitals that have been closed.\" We are told that 7,500 beds will be needed in Scotland and that 500 beds a day will be needed for casualties as a result of hostilities thousands of miles away. This is a capitalist war, not a war about principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "f the Bill had come to pass, and who has come here tonight specifically to demonstrate to everyone in the Chamber his willingness to vote for this Bill. I am delighted to see among those present the hon. Member for Bolsover, even though he was not present for the Southampton Rapid Transit Bill. This system will be much less obtrusive than the old tramway system and the wires are much less obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I have absolutely no interest in the west midlands economy or its transport system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.505.5", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "fter the hon. Gentleman had moved the carry-over motion on 22 October, he admitted that he had received the benefit of an overseas visit at the expense of Centro. I emphasise that that matter arose in an intervention only because the hon. Gentleman challenged me. I pointed out that I paid my own fare to Grenoble. I asked him who had paid his fare and he blurted out that it had been paid by Centro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.505.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I shall give way later. The hon. Gentleman has interrupted quite often and it was he who complained about the length of my speech. If this goes on I shall not have time to finish it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I invited my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, South to speak before me. I suspected that the hon. Member for Yardley would interrupt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.525.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ade much of the sensitive instruments. I care, perhaps more than he does, about the sensitivity of ordinary people. Centro has prevented ordinary people, residents and people whose only investment is in their homes, from explaining their arguments to the Select Committee. Centro knew that that would prevent me from putting a detailed case on my constituents' behalf to the House at this late stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.532.7", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " that there is no risk in transporting ballot boxes. There are wide variations in the list, and they cannot be explained by saying that constituencies are diverse. There must be another explanation; and if there is, it must be unusual and must relate to circumstances that arise at a particular time. The National Audit Office should look at individual expenses to make sure that they are reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.532.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-21", "file": "debates1991-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a851bd9dd329c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ation of the size, role and structure of the regular Army must also look at the contribution to be made by the Territorial Army. However, as we have made clear, the conflict in the Gulf has implications for the options work and it would be quite inappropriate to take final decisions on the size and shape of the Army's front-line forces or the reserves until the lessons of the conflict are clearer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-21a.546.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-22", "file": "debates1991-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "145f5ecd3e397e95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-22a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Courts (Research) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ledge of how television operates in this place. He realises that one particular camera over there, angled across the Chamber, captures him at his best, whereas here, beside me, the cameras are at the wrong angle and catch him full frontal. That is precisely what someone who wants to perform well on television will have in mind. The advocate may want to stand here on the other side of the red line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-22a.565.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that, whenever there is a conflict, many young Birmingham people are involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.667.5", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Prisons (Woolf Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman seeking to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.667.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Prisons (Woolf Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "It depends on which prison one goes to. A fortnight ago, I was in a prison that had completely new facilities in the education wing. We are investing heavily in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Prisons (Woolf Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "It depends on which prison one goes to. A fortnight ago, I was in a prison that had completely new facilities in the education wing. We are investing heavily in education— [Interruption.] The Opposition are in a dilemma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "parents with whom we are dealing are the ones for whom the professionals know the reality is different. I shall quote from a truly revolutionary, red source, The Times. The argument against the clause was summarised in a leading article on 10 November 1990—perhaps Conservative Members hold their breath—which stated: This is the kind of proposal that makes perfect sense to middle class ministers.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "son service as preposterous. I wonder how many of them will be talking about a convicts' co-operative. I wonder how many people, next time one of the millionaire fiddlers in the City of London is sent down for fraud, will ask whether he has gone into a private, five-star institution, perhaps financed by the Government under the business expansion scheme and thus offered at a 40 per cent. discount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-25", "file": "debates1991-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b27839c2bd66009d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Construction Industry Training Board", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "ooking in dealing with the needs of its industry and, in particular, skills. If that is so, and we should let industry, which knows best, carry out that role, why do the Government never listen to industry? The answer is that they have closed minds and political prejudices. Time is running out for the Government to tackle the skills crisis before a Labour Government return to do so more seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-25a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.788.10", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that, in Scotland, every time we hear an announcement that unemployment is rising we call it the Tory fiddlers' rally, because we do not believe the figures. Just last week, there were savage cuts in training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.788.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.788.10", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": " rising we call it the Tory fiddlers' rally, because we do not believe the figures. Just last week, there were savage cuts in training— [Interruption.] —so much so that it was like the new Secretary of State sending the bride to the wedding without her wedding dress. That is the extent of the problem that the Government have created. There is a lack of funding, to ensure that people can find jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.788.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "this morning Saddam Hussein reiterated his untrue claim that Kuwait was part of Iraq and threatened implicitly to return. He must know that meeting the Security Council resolutions is an essential step, and he must publicly and explicitly do so. I believe that we are now in a new situation with the beginning of the ground war. Our first concern has to be with the safety and security of our forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.791.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that, as the Prime Minister and others have said in the House, time and again, that, if Iraq withdrew from Kuwait, the war would end and, as an order to the Iraqi troops to withdraw has now been given, it is wrong to continue the brutal savagery of warfare on both sides——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.799.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.799.4", "colnum": "799", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "—including air raids on Baghdad this morning? Does he agree that millions of people in the world——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.799.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.804.5", "colnum": "804", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Soames.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.804.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.804.7", "colnum": "804", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not yet. This is a private notice question. There are 23 groups of amendments in the following Bill but, in view of the importance of the matter, I will allow three more questions from each side. I call first Mr. Soames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.804.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "I shall look into that. I have taken on trust the information that I have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "We might have one of the best accident rates in Europe, but we have the second worst accident rate when it comes to children on their way to school. Why do we not have a campaign to stop people killing children going to school? Hardly any of those drivers have been drinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.836.7", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "s' institute in Leicester before the by-election—they would do it again now—to tell them that the breathalyser was to be introduced. It cost us hundreds of votes. There was no question about it. The same is true in many of our constituencies today. We represent miners' institutes in rural areas and areas where there has been a lot of slum clearance, where working mens' clubs are trying to hang on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.836.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "There is much logic in what the hon. Gentleman says. It should be possible to work out a regime that is sensible and meets the obvious needs of people and goods, which is exactly what we are suggesting should be the priority and main consideration. That is the purpose of the amendment. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "This debate is largely about semantics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "Transport's consultations about the pilot scheme for the red route were completely inadequate. The idea for it germinated during consultation on the east London assessment study. At no stage in those discussions, or in proposals from Department of Transport officials, was the prospect of a red route mentioned for Archway, along Holloway road, Upper street and into City road. The only consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-26", "file": "debates1991-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3c12ca3a95ec22c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "to amendment No. 12, although I am sure that he has every intention of writing to me with his responses to those questions. Perhaps he will write to me with his response to this question also. Under what legal authority at present is a car that is parked on a Saturday afternoon on a single yellow line within, one must admit, a dotted red line along the red route in Upper street in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-26a.908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.978.6", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "For debate on Friday 15 March, I have selected the subject of the ecological consequences of the Gulf war and the actions that are being taken by Her Majesty's Government and members of the coalition to cope with oil slicks, Gulf oil fires, dysentery, typhoid and other related problems in Iraq, and with casualties on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.978.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.980.4", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The general implication was that there was considerable dissatisfaction. I listened to what the hon. Gentleman was saying. The truth is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.980.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "higher rate unchanged at £52·50 a week. At the same time, the earnings threshold between the two rates will increase from £125 to £185 per week, thus extending the coverage of the lower rate across the whole range of earnings for which employers pay lower rates of national insurance contributions. Those proposals will reduce public expenditure on SSP by about £100 million in 1991–92.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ghtly raised, and we have responded to it in the same way. It is customary in such debates for the Secretary of State to conclude by reminding the House of the huge amounts with which we are dealing. The increase in social security expenditure between this year and next, most of it arising from the uprating order, is nearly £5 billion, and it will take the total next year to well over £60 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " not impossible but extremely difficult to make use of them in the House. Whether taking incomes before or after housing costs is the fairest representation of the state of overall income is a genuine issue, but it is curious to hear the right hon. Gentleman make such a point on behalf of a Government, who have constantly said that we should ignore the cost of mortgages in the retail prices index—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that, whatever criticism Pensioners' Voice may or may not have about our record and commitment, it has only contempt for what the Conservative Government have done and the fact that married pensioners have lost some £23 a week and single pensioners between £13 and £14 a week as a result of the decision taken in 1980?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes), also from a sedentary position, asks how much it will cost. I shall gladly give him figures provided by his own Government. The pension rise will cost £2·3 billion, and the increase in child benefit will cost £0·75 billion. I make this commitment. Indeed, it is in the Labour party documents for all to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1022.5", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "uch higher level—£2·30 higher than it is under this Government, in which the hon. Gentleman served for many years. I must make it clear that, much as I would be pleased to make commitments about spending in other areas, the hon. Gentleman must know that no additional commitments can be undertaken until such are considered appropriate in the light of economic developments and economic growth", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1022.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1026.7", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister's attention been drawn to The Independent today where it says that there were 2,347 deaths during the latest spell of sub-zero temperatures.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1026.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did he know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "d British Ports will now be the happy bedfellow of National Power and PowerGen, because they are to take over 80 per cent. of the company that has been set up to equip and run operations at the port. That fact was never mentioned during the Committee's deliberations. Incidentally, it was never mentioned in the many debates on these matters in the House by the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend says, it never was. The port has been erected and extended purely and simply to allow foreign coal to be imported. That has been done on behalf of National Power, which, according to Mr. John Baker, is to import 50 per cent. of its coal after 1993. The Bill, however, will allow the building of two gas generating plants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very important point. The promoters of the Bill have made no reference to this matter. I assume that water would be discharged under pressure. Of course, I cannot be sure about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "So there we have it—fair enough. If the hon. Gentleman is saying that, if the Labour party wins the next general election, it will consider the legislation and all the arguments that we have deployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has said that at no time in his speech did he suggest what Labour's policy would be. I do not know what he is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has said that at no time in his speech did he suggest what Labour's policy would be. I do not know what he is saying—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I am simply saying that, if the hon. Gentleman is saying that there are no circumstances in which the Bill would be repealed once it is an Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Indeed. Opposition Members seem to be protesting tonight that they want to see the Bill on the statute book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. My hon. Friend is always angry when I speak the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "I shall heed your injunction, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-27", "file": "debates1991-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e987d44832009c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "preceding_text": "annot accept what they see as inadequate buildings and a cramped location but would prefer a brand new extension development to modern standards on a green field site. However, that would be at the expense of convenience and accessibility. In spite of those threats, Oldchurch hospital has prospered. As it is just past midnight, I can announce that it is 17 years ago today that I entered the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-27a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1114.10", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm the commitment of his Government to completing the dual carriageway A20 into Dover and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1114.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "preceding_text": " Further to that, I must ask the Prime Minister whether every precaution was taken on behalf of the British troops. I draw his attention to the fact that during the campaign in Grenada, each American soldier had a metal strip sewn on to his uniform and a similar metal strip was attached to each vehicle so that the individual and the vehicle could be identified through the infra-red ray gun sights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1124.5", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am speaking on behalf of constituents who have lost their son. It is about time that Conservative Members shut up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1124.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1124.8", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "The Gulf", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that, are British vehicles equipped with black boxes that send out a recognition signal to our aircraft, and if not, why not? Further to that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1124.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "nd make a great deal of money for the board of British Steel. They are continually increasing productivity. To sum up, anything that the company asks of my steel-working constituents, they deliver, but what have we had in return? An appalling decision, which I must protest about hearing in this honourable House. I repeat my question to the Secretary of State; when did he know about the job losses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "phy) at least say that if the Opposition were returned to government, they would retain the training and enterprise councils that the Government have set up. Let us hope that the Government will not allow the present training and enterprise councils to remain in office as the same composite bodies and with the same individuals. I predict that a Labour Government will be elected on 2 May this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-02-28", "file": "debates1991-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "474faa6c58638528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1211.5", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Sport in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ion for teacher training in physical education, although the Minister will have discovered that his Department has closed the last of our free-standing colleges of physical education. The House is aware that I am a fair man and I want to put on the record one success story for the Minister. He has at least convinced his boss to set up a register of playing fields. We must congratulate him on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-02-28a.1211.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brian Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " purpose. In 1983, Sir Leon Brittan, then Home Secretary, was explicit about this. I asked Sir Leon: Is he saying that it is right in a free society to detain innocent people without charge for the purpose of obtaining information from them? Sir Leon replied: It has been made clear … that that is a legitimate … use of the power.\"—[ Official Report. 24 October 1983; Vol. 47, c. 56.] —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Again, I urge the Home Secretary to listen to the final passage of my speech with as much calmness as he can muster, for he was uncharacteristically over eager in saying that I have made no suggestions. I am about to do that. I am about to offer to the Home Secretary five ideas. None of them is brand new, but few ideas are these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e financing of terrorism. Fourthly, we should consider the feasibility and desirability of setting up a national agency—a British intelligence bureau—to provide an effective countrywide response against terrorism. I should make it clear that we remain wholly committed to the principle of local police forces, but some threats can be dealt with only nationally. In our view, terrorism is one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y. On the basis of those five proposals I reiterate, and I shall continue to reiterate, my strong view that there is everything to be gained for the country in a demonstration of common purpose. I regret that the Home Secretary did not accept the offer today, but chose more and more as his speech went on to make the speech not of a Home Secretary but of a failed chairman of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "preceding_text": "I have not read the literary savagery to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but I shall look at it with some interest later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.63.4", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I am not frit, but I shall not give way. I want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.63.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend did not say that. He said that particular parts of Lord Colville's recommendations lead us to agree with Lord Colville that it is now irresistible that a new tribunal be set up to oversee those powers. If the independent arbiter who is brought in by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman will wait, I shall tell him. Last Tuesday, the Opposition made a serious proposal to introduce two measures that the British public want. We want an all-party approach to the defeat of terrorism, but also an effective approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "the Opposition made a serious proposal to introduce two measures that the British public want. We want an all-party approach to the defeat of terrorism, but also an effective approach—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] I shall not give way. The Opposition are offering to participate in all-party discussions. We shall come with a blank sheet of paper. We have no prejudices except those against terrorists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ed that he failed to understand the differences between the workings of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and the prevention of terrorism Act. I was not seeking to be rude to the right hon. Gentleman, but it surprised me that, after so many years as shadow Home Secretary, he still did not understand the fundamental difference. The speech of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made it queer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Census (Confidentiality) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "tant principle. I agree entirely with the hon. Member for Perry Barr that the 10-year series censuses in this country provide valuable information. Certainly, the information is valuable for the management of the health service. It is also valuable to the Opposition, because it enables them to support their prejudices with the occasional smattering of facts when they advance their case against us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-04", "file": "debates1991-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "27467762749cb524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Soviet Union and Eastern Europe", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "any other forms of Community help should take full account of developments in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. Tonight the House is debating matters that have considerable implications for us all—developments in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, and the way in which the European Community is responding and should respond to those events. First, I should like to put the debate in context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-04a.82.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-05", "file": "debates1991-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "41cf46d7eb8ac12f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Telecommunications Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that crucial decisions designed to determine the future of the telecommunications industry for an entire generation are being made after only two short months of hurried consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-05", "file": "debates1991-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "41cf46d7eb8ac12f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Telecommunications Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "BT made £2·8 billion profit last year and this year is making more than £10 million a day? Is it not an irony that the main long-term result of this policy, which is intended to increase competition, is the prospect of remorseless increases in the universal levy for almost every household? Is it not a disgrace that the Secretary of State's document clearly concedes that his rental proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.138.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-05", "file": "debates1991-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "41cf46d7eb8ac12f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Roads and Street Works Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "ware that this debate does not cover road maintenance repairs to the A2, which have caused us to suffer so regularly in the past year or so. However, it takes note of the need for a higher quality road network than we have at present. I appreciate that tolls are not always popular, at least in general terms, and tolls for crossings such as the Dartford tunnel hold up traffic and cause some delays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.193.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-05", "file": "debates1991-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "41cf46d7eb8ac12f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "inutes of the debate we shall not hear even from the Scottish Office Minister who has nominal responsibility for the fishing industry. Other matters aside, Scottish fishermen and everyone concerned with the Scottish fishing industry are fed up with that nominal Minister for the industry not being answerable to the House but being yet another stooge hired from an agency apparently run by Debrett's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-05", "file": "debates1991-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "41cf46d7eb8ac12f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "s in the previous debate the Minister of State gave away so many hostages to fortune that we should understand why he is not addressing us tonight. Tonight we got from the Parliamentary Secretary an arrogant performance. He thought it was a gross inconvenience, beyond anything that was reasonable, that he should be called back to the Dispatch Box to speak on the measure. He was utterly dismissive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-05a.252.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Employment Protection (Government Communications Headquarters)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": " the issue will go away and that, as it arose seven years ago, it is a dead issue could not be more wrong. We intend to keep the issue very much alive. We intend to ensure that people are reminded, as they are year after year by the demonstrations at Cheltenham, that in January 1984 a basic right of British citizens was taken away. I understand that no Conservative Member wants to oppose the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.286.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.288.7", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Employment Protection (Government Communications Headquarters)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.288.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": " The Bill seeks to take provisions from the ordinary law, to put them into emergency legislation and to make them apply to proscribed organisations and scheduled offences. The patchwork quilt approach has continued. It does not seem the right way to deal with the matter. I regard wealth or money which is obtained through violence or as a result of violent activity as nothing less than blood money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "New Clause 1A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsythe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsythe", "preceding_text": "e a case for introducing a single identification card to cover all those matters. I agree that perhaps such a measure should extend to the whole of the United Kingdom rather than apply only to Northern Ireland. Of course, such identification cards are very handy for elections in Northern Ireland. I wonder how the major parties would react if there were a close result in an election or by-election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "New Clause 1A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "If I am stopped and asked for identification—not in this place, because as an elected Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, I am supposed to be known to the security people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "New Clause 1A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "When I talked about travel I was not referring to travel within the Province. I suppose that I really ought not to reply to the hon. Gentleman's point, as it is really a matter for you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. However, as the point of order was really directed at me in the form of a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "New Clause 1A", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If that is so, why are hon. Members stopped by the security officers and the police and asked to produce identity cards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.335.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "New Clause 1A", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "will continue to progress. We believe that there is significant support for an identity card system, and we are encouraged that we are winning the argument on this matter. Consequently, I do not intend to press the motion to a Division but will seek to withdraw it, as I did in Committee. I am sorry if I have disappointed hon. Members who sought otherwise. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "New Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-06", "file": "debates1991-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a920cbb67a8b078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "our agreement, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall briefly respond to that intervention. I understand that there are two teacher training colleges, one which is essentially Catholic-influenced and the other which is Protestant-influenced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-06a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that I, for one, totally accept that while we were in military conflict with a notorious terrorist dictatorship it was necessary on national security grounds to take various actions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "hers and children who have been robbed of £2·30 per week by the Government's failure to link child benefit to inflation? Arising from the deceitful words in the Conservative manifesto, which said Child benefit will continue to be paid as now\", will the Prime Minister, first, answer a question— something he has not done so far today—and, secondly, will he tell the House, and mothers at home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.456.10", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "termined to defeat inflation and the Labour party when the general election comes? Does he approve of all of us on this side of the House paying our community charge, supporting the prevention of terrorism Act and supporting our troops in the Gulf? If so, is that not in stark contrast with that lot on the other side who are busy scheming to remove their leader and his deputy through supper clubs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.456.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "From a sedentary position, the Chairman of the Conservative party tells me not to worry. I suggest that right now he has more to worry about than I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "We could do without such clownish interventions. The hon. Gentleman should know that onshore workers have the right to join a trade union but are not obliged to do so. We agree with Lord Cullen that onshore safety measures should also apply offshore, and the right to trade union recognition and the involvement of trade unions in safety measures onshore and offshore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "at was a breakthrough; it was the first time that UKOOA had said that it was prepared to meet members of the executive as well as AEU-sponsored Members of Parliament. The letter concluded: I will telephone you upon your receipt of this letter. UKOOA never telephoned me; I am still waiting for the call. A letter from the AEU executive illustrates the brutality of what was happening in the oilfield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "hat call, I shall be only too pleased to meet UKOOA's representatives. Allegations of blacklisting have sometimes been denied. Hon. Members may be aware that the Select Committee on Employment undertook an inquiry into recruitment practices. We dealt with the employment of the disabled and minority groups and decided to have a look at the Economic League and at blacklisting. I have a letter here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "men could go inside it with bronze spades to clear it out. The spades were bronze because it was known that a metal spade would cause sparks and that a spark would probably cause an accident. To show that it was thought to be a safe procedure, the manager of the plant went in the vessel first. He cleared out some of the debris from the bottom of the vessel for an hour before any other man went in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Colin Moynihan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Colin Moynihan)", "preceding_text": "hold up the important process of the HSE taking over responsibility and implementing Lord Cullen's recommen-dations. We have put a great deal of time and effort into that, and to meet our April target would be a considerable achievement that should be recognised as such by hon. Memberss in all parts of the House. I promise hon. Member who have raised that issue that we could not have acted faster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.557.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "In the Cullen report there are three paragraphs which concentrate my attention virtually every day. One is 21.84, which has been quoted extensively today and which cites evidence and states that it admittedly came almost entirely from trade union witnesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-07", "file": "debates1991-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e1c106c1443da25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "llations manager. I reject the description of offshore installations managers given by the hon. Member for Dundee, West. It is critical for safety reasons that offshore installations managers be obeyed. After a while, Shell decided to rescind the ban on the employment of those individuals. No evidence was brought to our attention of a blacklist distributed to other companies by whichever operator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-07a.566.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.654.4", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "st end, particularly on Sundays? Last Sunday, not one policeman was to be seen, except those caught in the traffic jams, and when my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) asked some of them whether they were from the traffic department they said, \"Very definitely not, Sir.\" An irate constituent wrote to me telling me that he was caught for four hours trying to get home from Kent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.654.4", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "or Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) asked some of them whether they were from the traffic department they said, \"Very definitely not, Sir.\" An irate constituent wrote to me telling me that he was caught for four hours trying to get home from Kent. [Interruption.] I remind the Minister that the old Blackwall tunnel—now the northbound bore —carried two-way traffic, including buses, until the late 1950s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.659.6", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Have the Minister and his colleagues been working hard with the Department of the Environment to put pressure on the Treasury to ensure that gas-guzzling vehicles are more heavily taxed at the next Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.659.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.665.4", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ll be, local authorities will not be penalised for trying to keep museums and libraries open and will not suffer the draconian Government impositions that have been experienced by many boroughs such as the one which I represent? Libraries have been closed because of the local government taxation system that has been introduced by the right hon. Gentleman and the Government of which he is a member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Air Europe", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State accept that the collapse of Air Europe and its parent company, although due partly to the economic recession and to the Gulf crisis, has also been brought about by the Government's disastrous aviation policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Air Europe", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ssion and to the Gulf crisis, has also been brought about by the Government's disastrous aviation policies— [Interruption.] Well, is a boom. It has been brought about especially by the Government's new air traffic distribution rules, which will cause further chaos and decline in Britain's aviation industry. Does the Secretary of State agree that the collapse of Air Europe is likely to be followed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Air Europe", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " scheduled airlines are left with worthless tickets because of the bankruptcy of a particular company? Is it not a fact that the package tour side of Air Europe's parent company was protected by a compensation bond worth £62 million administered by the Tour Operators Study Group, which is a competitor of ILG? Will the Secretary of State examine the structure of the bonding system, bearing in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Transatlantic Air Routes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "in terms of the interests of British airlines. I am grateful not only to British Airways but to the other airlines that have adopted the same position. Of course the hon. Gentleman is right in saying that British Airways will see the matter purely in terms of the impact on the company itself; but I believe that, even when seen in that perspective, the agreement presents exciting new opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Transatlantic Air Routes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's premise, although not his conclusion, is indeed correct—that the Americans on this occasion were the demanders. It was therefore appropriate for the United States Secretary for Transport, who enjoys the name of Mr. Sam Skinner, to be persuaded of the need to make important concessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "so a further 800 staff face the axe. Whose fault is it that London Underground underspent for three years and, having got itself into a mess, now has to take draconian measures which will be hopeless at building up a proper management system for the long term? Is it the fault of the Secretary of State for Transport or, because this is a nationalised industry, is it the fault of Mr. Wilfred Newton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ther place, but who lost his job, said about Coleraine hospital—that it was a \"shambles\". Yet it has been suggested that it should be given a facelift. Both Ballymoney hospital, which was opened in 1841, and the Coleraine hospital, which is part of the same hospital area and was opened in 1861, were workhouses. They remain open as hospitals, with a lot of nissen huts around them. It is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "rty. The disabled should have the facilities they need. I have some cases with the Housing Executive in which a firm promise was made that, because of disablement, a downstairs toilet and downstairs bedroom accommoda-tion would be provided. The people were then told by the executive that it was short of money and that such facilities could not now he provided. The matter is now on the long finger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-11", "file": "debates1991-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d36efea5e437dcce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "te disposal is absolutely vital. The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea) said that farm incomes are low. The rural development programme has been based on an inter-departmental committee. We recognise that planning issues are extremely important, and I plan to have a meeting with my fellow Under-Secretary of State to discuss them. The other answers to his questions will be forthcoming", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-11a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "From his answer it is obvious that the Prime Minister has not made up his mind about making up his mind. Why does he not do the sensible thing, abolish the poll tax completely, which is what the whole of Britain wants and introduce a new system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.805.8", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the sea change in both the tone and substance of his European speech last night? If he does as he says—place Britain at the heart of Europe, play a constructive part in steps towards a single currency and encourage political and foreign policy integration—he can count on our united support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.805.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.808.8", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": " worked hard to promote friendship and understanding with the Germans and who recall their special efforts in our three attempts to enter the European Community, warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's efforts to establish a trusting and lasting relationship with the Germans in Europe? Does he recognise that the relationship between our two Parliaments which has involved a certain amount of tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.808.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compensation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I understand that argument, but it detracts to no small extent from the argument for criminal sanctions which, as put to me by the delegation to which I have just referred, was that a criminal sanction would act as a deterrent. I do not think that it would act as a deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compensation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "ere were equal provision of sites across the country, every local authority accepted its responsibility and the Government accepted their responsibility to help local authorities provide sites through funding, it would be easier to ensure that provision was evenly distributed across the country and gipsies could travel their own routes without being attracted only to districts that provided sites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compensation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Subject to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-12", "file": "debates1991-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "5603e3902c8a548f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.904.7", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "of Ireland Act 1914, and the Parliament Act 1949. It is that issue which is of supreme importance today. The principles on which the Parliament Acts are based have been debated at length. Unlike the Conservative party, the Labour party has consistently supported the supremacy of this House over the other place. The Conservative party has consistently ducked that issue. It was a Liberal Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-12a.904.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.935.10", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I shall give one straight away. This coming February, the demand reduction task force is visiting Belize and the British Virgin Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.935.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "GP Fund Holding Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ressure from budget holders tended to reduce the standard of treatment to what they could afford on a fixed budget? How can he hope to raise the quality of GP care by putting a cash limit on what GPs can spend? If the Secretary of State really wants value for money, will he come clean on the cost of this scheme? Will he confirm that each of these practices will cost £32,000 more in administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "GP Fund Holding Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "S needs is more nurses and more doctors. I invite the Secretary of State to comment on where his statement today leaves the patients of the other 10,000 general practices. May we have an assurance that there will be no double standards on the waiting list? What guarantee can the right hon. Gentleman give that budget holders will not be able to buy a fast track for their patients to jump the queue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "this school?\". A further reason for publishing in aggregate the examination results of each school is that we need to go back to the first purpose of education in our schools—academic and vocational education, literacy and numeracy. Schools may have different values and emphases. Some may place particular emphasis on music or art, but their first purpose must be academic and vocational education.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.960.7", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "This is relevant because we make the Standing Orders by which the House works and we make the standing orders by which Lambeth council works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.960.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.960.17", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I am not referring to Lambeth council, but to the fact that you, Mr. Speaker, are unable to hear the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Surbiton (Mr. Tracey) because of the noise from the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.960.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "We have just seen evidence, if further evidence were required, of how the poll tax issue has turned the Conservative party into an undisciplined rabble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I will gladly come to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "This is a Government who apparently pride themselves on their competence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.962.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "s genuine, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) has introduced into the debate a document that is being waved about by Opposition Members. If a document is to be introduced into a debate, should it not be made freely available to all hon. Members? Is it not correct that, if a document is introduced in the manner adopted by the hon. Gentleman, it must be described in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "No. Will the hon. Lady please resume her seat as I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.968.4", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.968.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "The Government have committed a crime —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have been a Member of the House for almost 21 years and I have never—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have been a Member of the House for almost 21 years and I have never— [Interruption] —and I shall be here longer. I have never witnessed such disgraceful scenes as I have seen today. We can accurately describe the behaviour on the Government Benches as that of a rabble. What is more important, there have been between 10 and a dozen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Households.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": ", from one end of it to another. It was materially helpful when the hon. Gentleman told us that the basis of Labour's proposals is to ensure that seven out of 10 people will be better off. I believe that was the basis of the hon. Gentleman's remarks. I do not want in any way to put words into his mouth, but I heard him say that seven out of 10 people would be better off under Labour's proposals. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is called rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "ion of the community charge by Labour authorities. I want to share with the House the fascination of the review that we are undertaking. The hon. Gentleman's one substantiation was that there would be a saving of £1·4 billion. Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the hon. Gentleman is able to introduce a system of local government finance that is so much more effectively collected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "omputer and hope that will deliver a solution. The hon. Member for Dagenham, who so extensively suggested that we have not worked out the details, may like to tell the House whether he knows the figures. If he does, will he tell us what they are? If he does not know the figures, how can he claim that seven out of 10 households will gain from his proposals? Does the hon. Gentlemen know the answers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "t an average charge of £235. In Labour authorities the charge is £501. In outer-London boroughs, the Conservatives have set a charge of £369, and Labour £447. If one takes all of London, the Conservatives are £343, Labour at £478. If we take metropolitan districts, the Conservatives are £368, the Labour party £431. If we take the shire districts, the Conservatives are £364, the Conservatives £447—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": ". It was very difficult to do so, but certainly not because I was interrupting him. His speech seemed to consist not of an explanation of what he will do to help my constituents who are struggling to pay the poll tax, or even an apology for all the stress that he has put them through. He bellowed at the top of his voice a series of meaningless figures that are of no consequence to my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment. If we panic now, we shall grab at something else that we have not thought through. Having said that, I am not about to make a defence of the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "we have considered expenditure and the point made by the hon. Member for Oldham, Central and Royton (Mr. Lamond) about whether 60 per cent. or 45 per cent. of local government income should come from the centre, until we have decided how we intend to divide up the money according to the need for or lack of resources in local areas. All that is part of the financial debate and all that has to come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "ble Valley spoke nothing less than the truth when he spoke of Lord Waddington's deep concern and affection for, and empathy with, his constituency. I had the pleasure of visiting Ribble Valley during the by-election. I can confess in the privacy of the House, that it was not unconnected with the fact that my wife and I had previously visited a small hotel in Slaidburn, which we thoroughly enjoyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1005.4", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "That was an interesting comment which we will recall before the general election. The hon. Gentleman suggests that people who are entitled to earnings-related benefit are yuppies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "As higher child benefit is a major way of helping more lone parents back into work, I am sure that Mrs. Sandra Cocking from Dewsbury, whose letter I have with me, would be extremely interested in the Secretary of State's answer. She stated: I am writing to you for information and help\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1018.4", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ry the figures—I queried the document produced by his right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands, East. Perhaps it is significant that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is not a signatory to the motion. The document appears to make sense only if the personal pensions incentive to which the hon. Gentleman has referred, giving perfectly accurate figures, is withdrawn restrospectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1018.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "oposal would do nothing for the least well-off families on income support. Will the increase in child benefit which the hon. Gentleman talks about be a gain to those on income support? The answer is that it will not. The document talks about a policy that will give most help to low-income families, but the lowest-income families, those who are on income support, are totally excluded from any gain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "I shall not criticise the hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham) for what he said. I like the hon. Gentleman. No doubt I shall buy him a large Scotch later to boost the Scotch whisky industry. What he said he meant from the heart. I do not think that it came from the head, because the Government have nothing to be ashamed of in their policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "tanding of the efforts that we put in to delivering a better service to those who need our help. He will know that, on 1 April, the new benefits agency will come into effect. It will be able to work within a set of clear, unambiguous, published and measurable targets to deliver a better service to those who need our help. I hope that he will avail himself of the opportunity to visit those offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1040.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-13", "file": "debates1991-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "490f3abe34920433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1991, which was laid before this House on 8th March, be approved. I shall be brief, but I must make a few introductory comments, as I have been requested to do so. The debate is about the European bank for reconstruction and development. I am delighted that the bank has chosen London as the location of its headquarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-13a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ians in Northern Ireland? However, to condemn is not enough; we need some sort of political initiative, which we hope will be taken soon and will be successful. In the meantime, do not the working-class communities in the Province deserve better? They deserve protection. I believe that the only way to achieve that—and this may be controversial—is to set up defence squads based on the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1090.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1090.5", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the security of civilians in Northern Ireland is remarkably good in the circumstances? Will he pay tribute, in that context, to the work of the RUC, the UDR and our armed forces who have operated under great burdens for many years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1093.7", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is absurd profiteering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to say that charges have risen sharply under Welsh Water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1093.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. It is indicative of the guilt of hon. Members that they do not want the record to be put straight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " Leader of the House? Will he ensure that we can have discussions through the usual channels next week? We are not prepared to tolerate such behaviour again, in the interests not only of fair debate, but of the good name of Parliament, about which his hon. Friends seem to care little. If he does not arrange these things, the Government may find that they have great difficulty because we shall use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Birmingham Six", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I have recognised the work of the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin). He wrote his book and he has campaigned hard. He has every right to feel proud that the convictions have been quashed today. On the right hon. Gentleman's particular point, considerable changes have been made as a result of PACE —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 6 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "m open prisons. Only two had found their way back again. It took a series of questions to obtain that information, and in the meantime, we had moved into 1991, so I was able to ask how many had escaped last year. I found that the figure of 682 for 1989, which had horrified me, was an achievement by the Home Office. The figure had hit a low. Last year, more than 1,100 escaped from the Home Office —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 6 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "l the criticisms you made.\" My hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay), is a reliable witness. He has stated this evening that he warned in Standing Committee—I was not there, but I am sure that his statement is accurate—what would happen if the Government went down the path they proposed. He said that it would be vastly expensive, grossly unfair and totally unworkable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "d that we would satisfy but not stimulate demand. A national lottery would lead to television publicity and other advertising. The hon. Member for Hyndburn would probably admit that there would be a need to stimulate demand. That would mean, however, a change of principle in our legislation. It strikes me that something funny is going on in the Conservative party, and I cannot make out what it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-14", "file": "debates1991-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "93f99eb74e76959d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1232.4", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "espite growing need for treatment, the number of patients being treated by the NHS is falling. There is evidence of falling activity rates in the NHS. Figures that I have for Camberwell, City, and Hackney and Riverside district health authorities show that the number of patients treated this year will be smaller than that treated last year. The same is true of the Oxford regional health authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-14a.1232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-15", "file": "debates1991-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b10a3b8d4d71e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-15a.1335.5", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "e. We have opened a Pandora's box without any clear idea of solutions. Yet, however we sleep-walked into war and however that war was conducted, particularly after it was clear that the Iraqi forces in Kuwait had become a rabble of looters on their way north, the necessary parliamentary inquest is more appropriate to a two or three-day mid-week debate than to a private Member's motion on a Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-15a.1335.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-15", "file": "debates1991-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b10a3b8d4d71e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-15a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "ere plastered across our newspapers over the past few weeks. No one can talk about environmental damage or damage to the atmosphere without coming to terms with the fact that the massacre on the Basra road will haunt the world, as my hon. Friend said, for many decades to come. A Conservative Member smirks. Perhaps it does not haunt him. No amount of washing of his hands will remove the black spot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-15a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-15", "file": "debates1991-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b10a3b8d4d71e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-15a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": " Kuwait city. A day or perhaps two days after the war, the Prime Minister gave me a courteous answer and has acted on the problem in the intervening days. I referred to the dangers of a new pogrom—a new Sabra and Shatilla-type massacre—occurring in Kuwait city. A couple of days after I raised that matter with the Prime Minister, Robert Fisk and other senior and eminent journalists in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-15a.1351.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.4.8", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman takes such a negative view of this important subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.4.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.4.8", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "e somewhere to the west of Cardiff, but there are competing claims from Swansea, Bridgend and elsewhere. We shall ensure that an announcement is made as soon as a proper decision can be reached, which will mean staffing with good consultants. The hon. Gentleman should also remember that the 1,200 operations to which he referred do not represent merely the total number of heart operations in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.4.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.4.8", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ntleman should also remember that the 1,200 operations to which he referred do not represent merely the total number of heart operations in Wales. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Rhondda (Mr. Rogers) should listen. His hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Mr. Wardell) has asked a serious question and I am giving a serious answer. The total number of operations will not be just the 1,200 in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.4.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "ice, which rapily expedited these matters, the Welsh Development Agency and Gwynedd county council for the role that they played. In particular I thank Arfon borough council, whose ability to attract inward investment was exemplary. Does the Secretary of State agree that for a leading American company to have chosen Gwynedd as its European base for this major project gives the lie to those who—say", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "g of the procedures. The Home Secretary said that it would be possible to see how views had changed in the intervening period. Everything that I have heard and read and thought since we last debated the matter here has convinced me even more that the reintroduction of this legislation is wrong. I deeply regret that the Government have reintroduced it in view of the divisions that I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If so, why did we not apply it? It was not applicable in this country, and it is this country's law with which we are now dealing. I strongly object to retroactive legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.42.7", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not everyone", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "gly to the Bill. During my time in Parliament, Opposition Members have always gone to the utmost lengths to protect the right of the individual. The Labour party has been renowned for that and has fought many battles, both public and individual, and is still doing so. Therefore, I find it difficult to understand why it is prepared to support a Bill such as this when we have not acted for 45 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.42.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I may or may not have missed one of the votes, but I voted deliberately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Sparkbrook. I owe the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook and the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central an answer to the points that they raised about Scottish legislation. I tread with some temerity into Scottish law, all the more so as I see the menacing shape of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn) behind me. I am no expert in Spanish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "everal interesting interventions. The opponents also include my hon. Friends the Members for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow), for Halesowen and Stourbridge (Sir J. Stokes), and my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross. Among their number is also my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Stanbrook), who has considerable expertise in extradition law to which we all pay tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Select Committees (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "It is a particularly poor device in view of the difficulties that the hon. Gentleman's party has created for one Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.127.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Select Committees (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I believe that this is relevant to the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.129.4", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Select Committees (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ottish seats in the Tory interest to serve on a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs. Their absence is a mark of considerable disrespect, because although I know that some of them were in the House this evening, none has come into the Chamber now either to listen to the debate or to put a point of view. It is also disappointing that no representative from the Scottish Office is on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.129.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Select Committees (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to deal with the Select Committe on Statutory Instruments, &c., for example, or any of the other Committees that I could discuss, which are not mentioned in the motion. I am entirely in your hands, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-18", "file": "debates1991-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "adf143e4ac3006de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Select Committees (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "eful service out of those Committees, it is not unreasonable to seek proper representation of Scottish Members on them. I refer to representation not only of the Liberal Democrats—as I am sure they would be the first to agree—but of all the other parties as well. I therefore take the view that we should support the general drive, thrust and intention of the motion. Perhaps I should leave it there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-18a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.147.7", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "n. Friend is right to draw attention to the success of the Damascus meeting and of the communiqué which recognised the role that could be played by Egyptian and Syrian forces as the nucleus for security in the area. We have certainly made clear our willingness to play our part and we are in close discussion with our allies and friends in the area to consider the most helpful way to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "We are looking at a wide range of defence real estate across the country. It is true that in south Dorset there are significant amounts of defence estate. We must consider that in common with everything else. I repeat that no decisions have yet been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.155.8", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That is why, when people came to see me about Rosyth, I assured them that we were considering all the naval bases and naval support across the board. That confirms what I have been saying to people who are worried about Rosyth. There is no singling out of Rosyth. We are considering naval support across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.155.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Prime Minister, who last year delivered a notable Budget for savers, and before that my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson). If I may make a personal observation, working for my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby was always stimulating and exciting, and I am extremely grateful for his encouragement over the years. My admiration and respect for him remain undimmed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.182.4", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "iciency of the poll tax, we find the Government backing off that which was, but less than a year ago, their flagship. There will, however, be less rejoicing over the fact that the right hon. Gentleman proposes to collect more in VAT; despite his protestations, that is not a fair way to collect additional taxation. By definition, the tax is regressive—for people on average incomes and low incomes.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "se will have heard my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announce in his Budget statement that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment would introduce legislation shortly to authorise payments of extra grants to local authorities and to ensure that community charge payers will reap the full benefit. I thought that it would be for the convenience of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must remind hon. Members that we are now in private business time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the narrow Bill in question will be designed specifically to ensure that Scottish community charge payers, among others, will get the benefits of the transfer from community charge to value added tax, which I recommended in my paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "se. He said: My right hon. Friend :the Secretary of State for the Environment will be announcing very soon the conclusions of our review of local government. The Bill is about the Chancellor's statement this afternoon that local taxes are being asked to bear too large a burden. It is about that one issue. I am beginning to think, from the way Opposition Members are reacting, that they are rattled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.220.7", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "In a business statement lasting a mere two or three minutes, the Leader of the House has demeaned both his office and himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.220.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not guillotined.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman's point of policy substance, but it is important to stress that what my right hon. Friend announced today was a change in financing arrangements, not a change in overall public expenditure. As for precedents, for the avoidance of all doubt I reiterate that the precedent to which I referred when I responded earlier was one of many cases of all stages of Bills being taken in one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "House of Commons (Accommodation)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " that we should not have to go through private Bill procedures which take years, which keep hon. Members in Committee for hours and days and months and years, and which end up subsidising the legal profession. My hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton), who is sitting on the Front Bench, chaired one private Bill Committee for two and a half years and grew grey in the service of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-19", "file": "debates1991-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7916c8421c6965c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "House of Commons (Accommodation)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "There is a benefit in working in such a cramped environment—the sense of comradeship and community. We are all battling against the same difficulties of volume in the modern world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-19a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.277.8", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "How many of these companies intend to undertake research and development in this country? Or are they building purely assembly plants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.277.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will the Minister do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I agree absolutely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.278.7", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "And put the Bill through all its stages in a day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.278.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.278.10", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) will be delighted with what my hon. Friend has said. However, may I draw my hon. Friend's attention to the Opposition's attitude in Standing Committee B this morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.278.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.282.8", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "some aspects of research and development, such as pre-competitive or collaborative research, particularly in small businesses, there is a role for the Government. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has taken a keen interest in such matters and introduced new schemes that are widely welcomed by industry. It will be good to end Question Time by quoting the Confederation of British Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.282.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Northern Ireland Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I understand the right hon. Gentleman's question. It would be inappropriate to prejudge the outcome of the tender competition to purchase power stations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.291.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Reserve Free Travel Scheme (London)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.299.8", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The prospects have been brighter for him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ecession. But exactly the same rose-tinted forecast was made by the then Chief Secretary, who is now the Chancellor. Concluding his speech in last year's Budget debate, he made this ringing declaration: Pain there may be, but gain there will also be. By this time next year, the prospects will be distinctly brighter. [ Official Report, 21 March 1990; Vol. 169, c. 1142.] Here we are, one year later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.299.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.299.8", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The prospects have been brighter for him.\"] They have been a little bit brighter for him. There were some ups and downs on the way, and I gather that there is a continuing argument between the right hon. Gentleman and his predecessor as Prime Minister as to what precisely was his role in these events. However, perhaps I should not inquire too closely into matters of private grief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.299.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.299.8", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) keeps a careful eye on all that is happening. I think that the hon. Gentleman is trying to take some of the heat off the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Come to think of it, he looks a bit like a lightning conductor. As one reads earlier debates, one finds that some feelings that have obviously been kept under tight control for a very long time are beginning to peep out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.299.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "preceding_text": "The answer to the nation's training needs is to be found in the TECs, which are going ahead very satisfactorily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether, before the right hon. and learned Gentleman hastily moves on from Labour's shadow Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "biggest single proposed item of expenditure in the shadow Budget was social security expenditure, to which I am about to come, and that the biggest single item of saving was the personal pensions incentive, to which I have referred. The right hon. and learned Gentleman made a number of points on child benefit. I should like his comments on a point that I have put to him and his right hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.305.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "s— [Interruption.] The proposal that the right hon. and learned Gentleman put in his shadow Budget is costed in such a way that I million families on income support, and with more than 2 million children, would have gained no benefit. The proposals that my right hon. Friend announced yesterday give full benefit to all parts of the population, including the poorest. The document that he published——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.306.6", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s I was endeavouring to say, there are other items, such as the change in mortgage tax relief, which the Opposition support and which have long been resisted by the Government. Imitation is, in many ways, the sincerest form of flattery and I suggest that for guidance and enlightenment the Conservative party would be well advised to read the Labour party's policy statements with care and attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.309.4", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So is yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " hon. Friends I am sure, for some years carrying out that task. It is certainly a difficult one. It is a real ordeal to have to respond immediately to a complex Budget. It is a difficult speech to bring off and it is the particular facility of the Leader of the Opposition to make it seem impossible. Let me make clear exactly what I mean. First, most of his speech had been typed up well beforehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.309.4", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": ". It is a difficult speech to bring off and it is the particular facility of the Leader of the Opposition to make it seem impossible. Let me make clear exactly what I mean. First, most of his speech had been typed up well beforehand. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So is yours.\"] If ever there was the wrong speech, by the wrong writer for the wrong occasion, that was it. It is a speech that we have already heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.309.4", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ible. Let me make clear exactly what I mean. First, most of his speech had been typed up well beforehand. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So is yours.\"] If ever there was the wrong speech, by the wrong writer for the wrong occasion, that was it. It is a speech that we have already heard— [ Laughter.] Opposition Members may wish to hide their discomfiture about the performance of the Leader of the Opposition, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Silence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ms to be studiously engaged in discussions with the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) to avoid the argument. If he wants to stand up and make it absolutely clear what he meant, I shall be happy to give way. Were the poorest quarter to be better off or not? Were the poorest quarter to have their income support varied on the right hon. and learned Gentleman's calculations or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "s to persist with the idea that £619 million will be saved, it will have to face the wrath of 4·3 million of its fellow citizens whose money will be taken back from them. If the removal of the rebate is not retrospective, however—if it is only for the future—the £619 million figure becomes £10 million, and knocks a hole in the heart of this so-called responsible document, the shadow budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.313.7", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Direct taxes are down. If the hon. Gentleman wants to talk about the average family—the man on a national average wage with a non-working wife—he must be aware that after five years of Labour government that man was one pound a week better off. After 12 years of Conservative Government he now has £58 more in his pocket. That is the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.313.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Unless the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East has already recorded the broadcast, he will have some time to rethink some of the points that have been made. In the time that remains I shall return to the central proposition in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is a better rate than commercial depreciation. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the record of the past 10 years is that there has been an upsurge of investment. It is better to look at the outcome of policies than at academic points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "suggests that we may have been wrong to change the system. Given that this is a Budget for business, what matters is not what the Opposition say—they have an interest in deriding what is said and done—but what is said by the business community. Rarely has the business community greeted a Budget with such a chorus of approval. Sir Brian Corby, the president of the Confederation of British Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "We shall see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abolish it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "d. Opposition Members are, as usual, facing all ways at once. On the one hand, they want higher investment and higher savings; on the other, they seem to be opposed to switching from a tax on income to a tax on spending. On the one hand, they shout from the steeples that the community charge hits the poor; on the other hand, when we reduce the community charge they tell us that too, hits the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": " much welcome that, but I am afraid that I would go further. Although I speak with the prejudice of a non-smoker, I believe that it is nonsense that we continue to include tobacco in the retail prices index. I hope that the House can reach a general agreement that the Government should re-examine the RPI and remove tobacco from it. Logically, I must add that alcohol should be similarly considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I do not mind the Parliamentary Private Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick), or anyone else saying that. Two single people living in a house get two personal allowances, but for a married couple the position is unchanged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I do not mind the Parliamentary Private Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick), or anyone else saying that. Two single people living in a house get two personal allowances, but for a married couple the position is unchanged. [Interruption.] Luckily my hon. Friend is not allowed to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": " but for a married couple the position is unchanged. [Interruption.] Luckily my hon. Friend is not allowed to speak. [Interruption.] Married couples had better get on and have a few children? Is that what I am told by my Government? I hope that that is not so. We have had that problem in respect of council accommodation and so on. One extremely good point that has not been mentioned is tax relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " suspects\": highly unusual suspects, in view of the Conservative party's composition and policy. We were told that our problems arose because \"we have an over-developed finance function, vis-a-vis the production function.\" We could have told him that. Indeed, the last time I saw that phrase used was in the New Left Review. The correspondent with the Financial Times felt obliged to point that out.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Paltry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " let me seize with both hands the opportunity to examine what we believe needs to be done. We have outlined it clearly enough, but I am only too happy to reiterate it. We believe that it is important that the Government should reverse the cuts that they have made in employment training and youth training. We are disappointed that all we had from them was the paltry £20 million-worth of allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-20", "file": "debates1991-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "ae7b97fc97fbf92e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " nutritious breakfast. To paraphrase my hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Haselhurst), he pleaded that we should be nice to manufacturing industry. I believe and hope that we are. Perhaps I can say something nice about one particular part of manufacturing industry which has been the subject of much comment—the car industry. The car industry did astonishingly well during the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-20a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has just said something rather interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was certainly sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was certainly sorry— [Interruption.] —that I was unable to make that particular visit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.397.6", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the toast in Scotland tonight will be to absent enemies—Thatcher and the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.397.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have no immediate plans to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "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": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement outlining progress on the review of local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " who obviously did not hear what I said, that we shall consult on the basis that the new local tax will be in place for the year beginning 1993. Let me return to the spirit with which we began this review a few months ago. The hon. Gentleman has criticised our proposals. I will make him an offer: I would be very happy to include his proposals in the consultative process that we are about to begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.407.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Labour party Members are leaving.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have a very heavy day ahead of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Again, I thank the hon. Lady. She was courteous in coming to talk to us and in giving her views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.411.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Having listened to the hon. Gentleman, I am even more convinced than I was before of the dangers of such a proposal. If the hon. Gentleman were in my position, perhaps he would pause before accepting the advice of a former councillor from Lambeth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.412.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Further Education", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks:", "preceding_text": "We still have six hours to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.438.9", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Further Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.438.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Further Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "se who work in the institutions themselves and serve on their governing bodies. That is the pattern that we are following. The hon. Gentleman says that we should not rush into it, but it is necessary to make an announcement and to outline the provisions that will come into effect from midnight tonight simply to ensure that certain local authorities do not start apostating. We have much experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "y's fair rates document. That document, entitled \"Fair Rates: Labour's Alternative to the Poll Tax\", is one of 67 different documents and statements from the Labour party that I have had the privilege of seeing in the past few years. It says: The existing rates registers will provide a quick and convenient means of getting rid of the poll tax. Fine. So what does the Labour party think about rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "of the poll tax. Fine. So what does the Labour party think about rates? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I will answer all the questions, but I want the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) to reflect on this. A news release issued by the Labour party's press and publicity department has fallen into my hands. On Saturday 20 September 1980, Neil Kinnock spoke at Pontllanfraith, Gwent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " party think about rates? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I will answer all the questions, but I want the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) to reflect on this. A news release issued by the Labour party's press and publicity department has fallen into my hands. On Saturday 20 September 1980, Neil Kinnock spoke at Pontllanfraith, Gwent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] The news release says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.4", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ader of the Opposition, who criticised my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment for increases in the most unjust of all taxes\". What tax does the right hon. Gentleman describe as the most unjust of all—\"Local rates\", the very system that the Labour party proposes to use, which take most from those who can afford least. Perhaps the Leader of the Opposition will eat his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "ust alter the system so that it will be possible to collect the tax without difficulty. The Secretary of State would be wise to reread what he said and, perhaps, make a further statement. The poll tax payers in the Garw valley are jubilant because they will not have to pay anything if they get a rebate of £140. The poll tax figure there is £137, so they wonder whether they will get a refund of £3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "llowance for the number of people in a household may be as little as 1 per cent. Whatever the percentage, will any weighting be allowed for each adult, depending on whether they are or are not earning money? In other words, will there be a zero rating in that situation? Many other questions will have to be answered, but I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will answer those at this stage. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "gainst a background where Wales—I pay tribute to the local authority officials involved—has achieved more or less the same collection rate as was achieved under the old rating system, I see no need to apologise. Indeed, there is need to praise local authorities in Wales for having achieved such a commendable result. The question of collection is for the local council, and the hon. Member for Ogwr—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Local Government Review (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "We are the last to tell the House about the proposals for ending the community charge because I am junior to the other Cabinet Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Local Government Review (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "give an assurance that the wider role of colleges in adult and continuing education will be respected? Throughout his statement, why did the Secretary of State extol the virtues of consultation but fail to mention consultation with FE colleges? Why has he gone headlong into introducing regulations at midnight tonight, with no consultation with FE colleges? Lastly, may I ask the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "as changed! We now see a reduced national budget allocated to TECs and scope for negotiation almost nil. The 30 per cent. cut on employment training budgets announced in January 1991 appears cynical when one looks at the way unemployment has increased within the previous two or three months. That is the evidence that the TECs and the TECs' chairmen are giving to the Select Committee on Employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-21", "file": "debates1991-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d2e519fed746fa1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "alise what we mean by the phase, \"taxation as a percentage of gross domestic product\", because VAT will increase from 15 to 17·5 per cent. Traders will put prices up and the excuse will be that VAT has risen. If the article in The Times reported the Chancellor of the Exchequer correctly, there is no prospect of taxation being brought down. The Conservative party is a party of high taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-21a.505.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.613.7", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call Mr. Secretary Lilley, I should say that a large number of right hon. and hon. Members wish to participate on the last day of the Budget debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.613.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have the figures produced by the OECD. The economic outlook produced in December 1990 shows industrial production in Italy rising by 0·6 per cent. in 1991 and that is a fact. It is also rising in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "is morning's edition of The Independent reported: A Cabinet minister close to the Prime Minister said that Mr. Major had to proceed carefully to avoid 'grisly old figures rising up from the snake-pit and biting him'. The Budget will certainly have bitterly disappointed those Conservative Members who had hoped that it might enable the Conservative party to match Labour as the party of low taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "le of Finchley, Chingford or Tewkesbury. Nor do they like the heresy of the Secretary of State for the Environment, who has decided to replace one tax with three—a property tax, a poll tax, and a poll tax surcharge operated through VAT. Surely to God there should be a maxim in politics that where one tax will do, why have three? The one tax that we want is Labour's alternative. If I had to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "e Government stop playing cat and mouse with people's jobs?\" That is what they are doing; they have brought down interest rates by half a per cent. and will probably bring them down by another half a per cent. before the local elections, just as they brought them down when we entered the ERM. They did so for political reasons that have nothing to do with the economy, and that is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "I accept that. Obviously, my hon. Friend has done much deep thinking. It is a pity that Ministers are not capable of such deep thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "I accept that. Obviously, my hon. Friend has done much deep thinking. It is a pity that Ministers are not capable of such deep thought. [Interruption.] I take a more political view than my hon. Friend. I have looked at the opinion polls, and I have noticed that the June election date has disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his bold and ingenious Budget and, in particular, on the dramatic reduction in the community charge that he has been able to achieve. I have never had any difficulty defending the principle of the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "e. I ask you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I remember when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He took us into the mess that we are in now. But when it got so bad, he ducked out of the job. He did not want it any longer. He blamed the problems on a little blip. Some blip that was! And what a mess we are in now. The Chancellor of the Exchequer can sit there—I have one or two things to say about him too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "hamber. In the Budget and at the Dispatch Box, we have heard it all before. Time has gone on and the Government have failed the nation time and again. I get the message loud and clear in my constituency about what people feel about what is in the Budget and how the ordinary working folk will be treated. I get around my constituency and talk to people in the pubs, clubs and elderly peoples' groups—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "l tax. It is a real fiddle to knock off £140. Back home, people will still have the poll tax. The Government have not got rid of the poll tax yet, although they say they will. God forbid that the Conservatives should win the election—I do not believe that they will. We shall win the next election and get rid of the poll tax, because we have said we will. We shall put something fairer in its place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " has to pay that, so the increase hits people on lower incomes. The hon. Member for Canterbury may well yawn—he will have plenty of time for yawning after the next election. I want to see a Labour Member for Canterbury. We shall be in Government so there will be some fair rations then. The Government talk about what they have done for the people. They have certainly done something for some people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "the Conservatives from the just consequences of their own folly. I notice that it was The Times which said that this was the nearest any British Government had come to handing out fivers on the street corner. On the basis of the cut in the poll tax figures, the Financial Times predicted that next year we shall see luncheon vouchers handed out in return for voting Conservative at the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "t levels. But we did not propose any changes to income support levels. That proposal related to the Government's Budget and concentrated on the minimum that we thought that they should provide. We were confident that the Government would not both reverse the cuts in the value of child benefit and increase the level of income support payments. We were right, because they were not prepared to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ation that they go to such lengths to seek to discredit us. This week, there has been a lot of talk about shot foxes. All that I can say is, \"Bang.\" Incidentally, the Government make a great deal of fuss about personal pensions—about the extent to which this 2 per cent. rebate is intended to encourage people; about how wrong it is not to offer choice; about how there should be extra encouragement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.693.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "It is no good the Prime Minister shaking his head—he was not here and he does not know what he is talking about. The figures that we gave for the increase in child benefit, not fed through to income support, the policy that we urged on the Government, were correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.702.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-25", "file": "debates1991-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bf5b0e154fa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about photocopiers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister said that he is willing to place a copy of his remarks in the Library. However, that means that they will be available only to one or two people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-25a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Youth training is, for the most part, far superior to the kind of training to which the hon. Gentleman referred. Youth training is not simply a question of time serving. It is increasingly a question of gaining qualifications, as my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State said when dealing with Question 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I do not have that information to hand, but I shall look into the matter and come back to the hon. Gentleman. This is an important issue, although it does not arise directly out of the question about compacts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.761.5", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.761.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.764.8", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister explain why, under the proposals of the Secretary of State for Education and Science, children in state schools will not be able to study history after 1970 whereas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.764.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.764.9", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Consulting.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister explain why, under the proposals of the Secretary of State for Education and Science, children in state schools will not be able to study history after 1970 whereas— [Interruption.] I know that the Government have been dithering about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.764.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Political Talks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Government's team, and may I express the hope that that does not in any way give them the right of veto over what Her Majesty's Government's representatives believe to be right in the interests of all the parties, north and south? Perhaps I might also add in passing that my right hon. Friend's achievement shows that consultation can, at times, be extremely worth while and productive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.771.4", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Political Talks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Of course I recognise that the shadow of a general election casts inself upon these events. It is on the whole unlikely—I choose my words carefully—that a general election might occur during the period of the talks themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.771.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ections deal with further messages from the Lords. The question that the Lords message is to be considered must be put without debate, and one hour will then be allowed for dealing with the message. This afternoon, I have to chair a meeting of the Services Committee that is to deal with a number of important issues affecting the House. I hope that the House will forgive me if I and my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "oungsters on the Tory Benches put together. I shall tell the hon. Gentleman what happened on that occasion. During a debate with the previous Leader of the House about the five guillotine motions that I introduced—I say this to the present Leader of the House—I said that, if the House would like a full debate on the five issues and the problems involved, or what mandate we had from the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " I shall tell the hon. Gentleman what happened on that occasion. During a debate with the previous Leader of the House about the five guillotine motions that I introduced—I say this to the present Leader of the House—I said that, if the House would like a full debate on the five issues and the problems involved, or what mandate we had from the electorate— [Interruption.] All were in our manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "er Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Hunt, Mr. Secretary Lang, Mr. Michael Portillo and Mr. Robert Key. The list does not include the Leader of the House, or the name of the person in whose interests the Bill has been introduced—the chairman of the Conservative party, the right hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Patten), who has not put his name to the Bill. The right hon. Member for Heseltine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "r on that occasion. It would be most improper for us to proceed with the Bill without it having a proper name. We cannot get the figures right because, as the Secretary of State for the Environment has shown, the Government do not have the foggiest idea about the figures. Let us see whether we can get the name right. I have a few suggestions, such as the \"Heseltine Horror\". What about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ut it having a proper name. We cannot get the figures right because, as the Secretary of State for the Environment has shown, the Government do not have the foggiest idea about the figures. Let us see whether we can get the name right. I have a few suggestions, such as the \"Heseltine Horror\". What about that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] No, it is not very good. What about the \"Major Mite\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "nch of the community charge, that problem would have been overcome easily. We all accept that the community charge is bureaucratic, but with a successful launch, its benefits would have outweighed the disadvantages. The key was a successful launch, but that did not happen, and that is why we are where we are now. My right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) was a remarkable person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "gh. The simple answer is that his right hon. and hon. Friends are not prepared to debate how the money should be used or how the poll tax could be altered, or to introduce a Bill that, rather than tinkering with the poll tax, would abolish it. Such a Bill could have sped through the House. I am one of the lucky few. My poll tax in London will be abolished from 1 April because I live in Wandsworth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.821.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A luminary?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.847.3", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": " items that take them into the higher bands of expenditure. It is worth remembering that people have to spend £13,500 a year before the additional 2·5 per cent. would affect their expenditure. I certainly agree with my hon. Friend that tourists will contribute more. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State introduced the Bill with his usual intellectual rigour, clarity of expression and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.847.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "t. It will not finish now. If the Chancellor can cancel £870 million of corporation tax in a full year by reducing the tax from 35 per cent. to 33 per cent. and backdating the cut to 1 April last year, we can demand that poll tax payers who went into debt to pay to pay their poll tax should get the same alleviation from this year's bills as the Tories are prepared to give off next year's hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "Presumably the hon. Gentleman does not take the view that paying general taxation is sufficient, because that was rejected with contempt during the debates on the poll tax. Is he distressed by the fact that apparently we are now committed under the Government's new scheme to a household bill which will mean that there will be no legal liability for anyone but the householder?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "Before Opposition Members start giggling like schoolgirls, they should listen, because they may learn something. As the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) correctly said, there will be a single bill. But as far as the plan has been announced—it is only the skeleton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend must resolve is whether we take account of numbers and how that is to be done. We must state as clearly and quickly as possible that to take account, in broad terms, of the number of people who live in a house does not involve a twin-tax system. Whatever the Opposition may tell the public—that the Government intend to impose a poll tax on top of a property tax—we are not doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "s. I finish by returning to a theme of my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould). The situation in Scotland parallels the one to which he referred in connection with the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine). Over a considerable period, the Secretary of State for Scotland has taken a stringent approach to local government finance. We have had a ruthless series of cuts—a withdrawal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": " Second Reading; secondly, the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) said that he wishes the proportion in future to be about 20 per cent. That implies a slightly higher level of local taxation funding than is brought about by the Bill, but for the moment I shall let that pass; let us say that we are in the same ball park. Again it appears that there is no matter of principle between the two sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": " know about future taxation, given what the Chancellor has done with VAT. As has also been said repeatedly this evening, people in receipt of income support will benefit very little from the £140 rebate, but will pay much more VAT on what they buy. They will receive 54p a week from this giveaway, which in practical terms is no more than a bribe to enable the Conservatives to win the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Former.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " with them about all the various options that they are outlining. I say to them, \"You're too late. We told you what was wrong. You had the opportunity to amend the provisions, and you never learn from your mistakes.\" There is one thing on which I take issue with some of my hon. Friends. It is the description of the poll tax as the \"flagship\". The late Prime Minister certainly described it as such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " those in the second group because they are dishonest. Accordingly, both are worthy of our contempt. Some Conservative Members are now saying that they were always against the poll tax but did not resign from the Cabinet at that time because it was such a key issue. The poll tax was born in blind panic. In 1985, the Tories—rightly, in our view—revalued properties for domestic and commercial rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "People are entitled to change their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I know that that is the policy of the hon. Member for Cathcart. He has confirmed it on many occasions. There are many possible formulae for single-tier authorities. I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-26", "file": "debates1991-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "da0f1b7b59cb3ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. We shall wait to see whether calamity arrives. The Bill is about the present system, and 1991–92. I ask the House to reject the amendments and send, not the Opposition's message to the people, but a different message—that the Bill is generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-26a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Empty Homes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "e many and it is not always easy to attach blame. Experience seems to confirm that marital breakdown and family break-up are the largest factors behind the increase in homeless applications to public sector housing bodies. It is easy to understand why. A married couple with two young children drift apart; automatically, one housing unit becomes two. The party with the children, usually the mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Empty Homes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": ". Specific grants have recently been made to local authorities and housing associations, particularly in London and the south-east. The Government also believe that the ending of ring fencing in housing revenue accounts and the introduction of performance indicators will improve the accountability of managements. However, I do not believe that those measures, good though they are, are good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Empty Homes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "which is necessary to identify what is empty and why. Thirdly, the Bill proposes a mixture of penalties and incentives in relation to private property. On incentives, it is possible that some further changes in the tax regime would make private renting more attractive. I believe that it is possible for housing associations to do more on management to deal with some of the difficulties and hassles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise for delaying the House, but for weeks past—or days past—we have had promises from Opposition spokesmen that this no confidence debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.8", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask you for some clarification? It has certainly been clear from all that we have heard from the Labour party recently and, indeed, in a radio discussion in which I participated with the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.8", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "larification? It has certainly been clear from all that we have heard from the Labour party recently and, indeed, in a radio discussion in which I participated with the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) this morning— [Interruption.] I am coming to the point of order. The hon. Member for Copeland made it clear that the purpose of the debate this afternoon was to discuss a range of policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.962.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "For 12 years we have been telling, together with many others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "For 12 years, together with many others, we have been telling the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " that it should not have been making the cuts that it has made in central Government funding for essential services. Conservative councillors have been telling them the same. Last Tuesday, there was a deathbed repentance, and the Government reversed the policy of 12 years and started to make a provision. The answer to the question, \"How much extra tax will we have to charge?\" is, \"Nothing at all.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "onfidence of this House in the Government. That is always their right and, in line with the conventions of the House, we shall always make time. What this debate will prove beyond all doubt is not lack of confidence in this Government but the Opposition's lack of competence—a lack of competence that even extended to putting down their motion, which they got wrong. I believe that the whole country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said that he did not agree with the motion on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s censure motion wrong to meet what he wished to debate, we have no opportunity to debate the record of the Government as a whole. We can debate local government of course, and many aspects of the Government of course, but we cannot debate other matters that the Opposition would not wish to debate, like defence and matters of that sort on which their policies are highly inadequate. The reality is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " are highly inadequate. The reality is— [Interruption.] I wonder whether those who may be watching the debate will note how the Opposition are behaving and how little they like what they hear. I shall come in detail to local government reform, but in the week in which the House approved the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget by 110 votes, I shall start with the appropriate aspects of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If Opposition Members had been listening rather than shouting, they would have heard me refer to the appropriate aspects of the Budget. As its centrepiece, my right hon. Friend reduced the burden of local taxation dramatically, with £140 off the headline community charge right across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er for Dagenham said? If they do, will they raise everyone's bills by more than one third as well? Will the hon. Gentleman or the Leader of the Opposition tell us? Do they know? Can local taxpayers look forward to local bills one third higher under a Labour Government than under us, irrespective of the levels of local spending? That is what the hon. Gentleman said. I am willing to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed my question. My second question is how would they raise the money. Do they want to pay for lower local taxes which they want and we want by raising central taxes other than value added tax? In his Budget response, the Leader of the Opposition was indignant that the VAT proposals applied to children's sweets. Today's third question is, which party put VAT on children's sweets in the first place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be reassured to know that, for the moment, we have no plans to change the system in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " why has he not shared them with the House? Will he publish them? If his plans are in such a state of grace, will he lay those calculations in the Library so that we may all examine them? Surely the independent researchers, having carried out the calculations, will have given them to the Labour party Where is this document? How many of the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends have actually seen it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " is extremely interesting. No Opposition Member has seen the document—not even the hon. Member for Dagenham, who told us about it. I do not for a moment think that the hon. Member for Dagenham would mislead anyone, so I ask him in a perfectly straightforward fashion, so that the doubts of everyone may be put at rest, whether he will put that document in the House of Commons Library this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "en the document—not even the hon. Member for Dagenham, who told us about it. I do not for a moment think that the hon. Member for Dagenham would mislead anyone, so I ask him in a perfectly straightforward fashion, so that the doubts of everyone may be put at rest, whether he will put that document in the House of Commons Library this afternoon. [Interruption.] I am willing to give way for a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.973.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.974.8", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Labour councils.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " has brought the financing of local government into disrepute. The story has been the same across the country—money wasted, services neglected, and the concerns of local people ignored. Which are the councils with the largest number of empty properties? Labour councils. Which councils do not collect arrears to fund the rates fund? Labour councils. Which councils produce the worst education system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.974.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ending by local Labour councils. The Budget strategy is central to our aims for local government, not only in a switch from local to central taxation but in our determination to get inflation down and keep it down. That is as important for local government and local government taxpayers as it is for central Government. Inflation has now been falling for four successive months. The next six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is very simple. At the beginning of the debate, you pointed out that the motion on the Order Paper was quite narrow and related specifically to the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the rubbish properly at local level. The motion of no confidence should be directed at the Labour party—no confidence in a party which will always be divided when it comes to standing up for Britain, no confidence in a party which would never accept the responsibilities that go with government. The House can have that confidence in the Conservative party today, tomorrow and for many years to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "I am moved to put a question to the right hon. Gentleman because of the interventions from a sedentary position in front of him. I recall at a university of Bristol meeting, when I was a student there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks me a detailed question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "n an attack on the Prime Minister? He said: Does he want the floor tax or the roof tax, the bed-and-breakfast tax or the bedroom tax, the capital value tax or the extension tax? Does he want one tax or two?\"—[ Official Report, 12 March 1991; Vol.187, c. 803.] The two parties simply indulge in banter and argue between themselves. They both say one thing one day and do exactly the opposite the next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Coward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.983.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "You and I know each other well, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and you know that I would not wish to cast a slur on any right hon. or hon. Gentleman. However, when we are having a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If they like to go on voting Labour and paying those enormous rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "fficulty in voting for the Government. Although they are wrong about the property tax, this is a good and able Government. I suspect that their curse will be the property tax. Shrewsbury has a long Tory tradition. This year, on 29 June, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Disraeli's election as Member of Parliament for the town in 1841. I accept that the standard of Member has declined somewhat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "we know why. None has taken place since. It is because of the consequences on the market value of housing and the poundage of the rates in a high inflationary period. Tonnage and poundage was a happy little tax in its day, but rateage without poundage is not too easy to tax either. We are discussing a motion of no confidence, yet there are not many Labour Members present on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "period. Tonnage and poundage was a happy little tax in its day, but rateage without poundage is not too easy to tax either. We are discussing a motion of no confidence, yet there are not many Labour Members present on the Opposition Benches. [Interruption.] This is supposed to be the big setpiece debate before we go on our Easter holidays, yet there does not seem to be much support for the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Consult the electorate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "#x003F; They are all Labour local authorities. It does not matter which aspect of local government one considers—the areas of failure are all Labour-controlled areas. Year after year, they are being found out. The Prime Minister has rumbled them and the structure he now proposes is right. If there is to be consultation, who are we to complain? Consultation is a good thing and it takes time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "1–1992, which the Secretary of State concedes cannot be reproduced next year. My first question to the Secretary of State is how many poll tax payers will have their bills reduced by £140 as a result of last week's announcement? The first impression—it was certainly the Government's fraudulent intentionx2014;was that every poll tax payer would benefit by £140. That is clearly not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e change his mind? Neither of those questions is unimportant, for they show that we have a Prime Minister who cannot remain constant to an idea for more than a few weeks at a time. This afternoon the Prime Minister made no attmept to answer my right hon. Friend's question, so I address mine to the Secretary of State, not least because he and the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERs:\"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "into the secret at that stage, and said: There has been no change this afternoon. Later, after two months of \"sophisticating\", nothing had changed. The right hon. Member for Islwyn was able to say in September: What we are contemplating may involve a tax based on the value of a property supplemented by a small … local income tax. Enter the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), centre stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the question that I did answer. When I answer the right hon. Gentleman's questions, he does not understand the answer that I give him. The fact is that the Opposition have been flushed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "t pay\" has become the party of \"won't say\". It is not simply a question of the Opposition not being prepared to answer basic questions about the cost of their proposals. The issue that the Opposition must face up to is the level to which they have brought so many Labour-controlled authorities. At least let us be clear about this: the Opposition are not going to win this vote of confidence tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1048.5", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Confidence in Her Majesty's Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "eputy leader, John Harrison, is out. The chief whip, Julian Lewis, is out. Greg Tucker, Mrs. Twelves's partner, is out. I leave it to my right hon. and hon. Friends to interpret that for themselves; whatever he happens to be, he is out on his ear. As all those great luminaries of the Labour establishment get the chop, they have given a new political significance to the meaning of the Lambeth walk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1048.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "British Nationality", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "voidable delay in determining it. Waiting times, currently 36 months for naturalisation applications, are—as I and the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central said—far too long, but the underlying situation has been steadily improving. All the huge overhang of 1987 cases, and most of the 1988 cases, have now been started and we can expect that most of them will be determined within the next few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Timeshare Promotion Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": " volume of unsolicited mail and their disappointment at later not receiving the prizes to which they believed that they were entitled when they opened the envelopes. When I and my good wife received letters from America a few weeks ago, we opened them and were greeted with the glad tidings that we had both won cars. The company which sent us the news is a marketing organisation based in Sheffield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Timeshare Promotion Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "were gold star winners and that we had both won cars. Naturally we were excited. During our animated conversation, my wife decided that she would have a white car and I decided to choose a blue car. After making a telephone call and determining that the good news was indeed correct, I thought that I would be cautious and put pen to paper. I received an interesting reply from the marketing company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-03-27", "file": "debates1991-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b3bb6cd19fe40b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Timeshare Promotion Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "d photographic evidence has been submitted to the Office of Fair Trading and Advertising Standards Authority. I am sure that, put in their position, you would not want to be hounded by countless calls from doubting members of the public as to the authenticity of the claims. What a lot of codswallop, dishonest in the extreme. Judging by the letter, the company is not even ashamed of its activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-03-27a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "used as the benchmark. Taking Europe as a whole, that produced the result that 50 million people were poor. Had 40 per cent. been used as the benchmark—there was no specially good reason for taking 50 rather than 40 per cent.—the result would have been halved to 26 million. The figures are worth only as much as the interpretation placed on them and the interpretation is ridiculous. One last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The Minister said that it is \"neither sensible nor practicable\" to make arrangements that are, in general, no worse in terms of both scope and cost than those available to persons carrying on business in other OECD countries. What an admission of failure that is. I note that during his speech few Conservative Members were present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "n which I congratulate the Scottish Office Education Department. But we have said consistently that in the Scottish educational tradition—we believe in devolution and we practise what we preach—it is not sensible to enforce on a system that does not deem it necessary and on parents who do not want it a rigid national testing system, with all the bitterness and difficulties that will arise from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "an's conviction that parents should be excluded from curricular and professional matters, which he argued forcibly during the passage of the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988? Has he now changed his position? The hon. Gentleman argued in Committee and sought to persuade me to make the School Boards (Scotland) Act off limits for parents, as far as curricular and professional matters were concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have given way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman. I have given way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] If the hon. Gentleman allows me to make some progress I shall give way to him. The reason why the test materials are good is that they have been written by practising teachers in Scottish schools. The evidence is that they are enjoyed by the children. Where no fuss of a political nature has been made, the tests have been carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "between some of the activities that have been going on in some education authorities and parental reluctance to become involved in the tests. The words and actions of some teachers, head teachers and even education authority personnel in recent weeks have been nothing short of scandalous: My child is dragged out each morning and asked where his withdrawal slip is—you're the only one not handed in\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " not been able to emerge as they should have done, we should look carefully at the system. The tests have been accepted as being of quality, so the argument seems to be about their application. It is interesting that the Labour party south of the border seems to agree with national testing, but that the Labour party north of the border does not. I happen to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will allow me to finish. I am talking about schools in my constituency -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.128.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-04-15", "file": "debates1991-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "19d5f843a204cd44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-15a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.151.6", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker. I would never quote directly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I think I hear the hon. Gentleman repudiating his own words, which it is right that he should do. He threatened managers' contracts. The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but he knows that he said that. It was reported at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. We do not expect regional health authorities to submit formal proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. We do not expect regional health authorities to submit formal proposals— [Interruption.] —for amalgamation of health authorities unless extensive local consultations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "s that they have offered to the House on the reasons for the delay. It is well known that the Government are so short of business that we had an extra week's holiday at Christmas and a further week at Easter. Despite that, the Leader of the House has three times blamed a shortage of parliamentary time for the delay in bringing the Bill to the House, as has the Secretary of State in a letter to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "s been happening in recent years. Today, the Treasury is more short term in its thinking than is any organisation in the City. The hon. Gentleman should take the trouble to read some of the remarks of the chief executive of BTG. Two years ago, on the orders of the Treasury, it had to pay dividends amounting to £8·6 million, despite the fact that its after-tax profit was £5·2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Edward Leigh)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Edward Leigh)", "preceding_text": " I know that some of my hon. Friends were not able to be members of that Committee. In Committee I sought, during some lengthy debates, to give reassurances on the very subject dealt with in the new clause. I shall give similar reassurances today, but I hope that I shall give them in language which, while carefully chosen, reassures my hon. Friends even more than they have been reassured hitherto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "er, these important matters must be dealt with. I listened carefully to your ruling that the House has resolved to consider the Bill. We do not dispute that, but the matter in issue is that when the House decided to consider the Bill it was not aware that the Secretary of State for Wales was about to involve himself, in a direct ministerial capacity, in trying to influence the passage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "copies of the correspondence—that there was an invitation, a corrupt invitation in my view, from the promoters of the Bill to influence Members by offering them and their wives free accommodation and meals in Cardiff, as a measure for promoting the Bill. I would not have raised this except that a Conservative Member told me that he was influenced by this. I would not betray a private conversation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "early love the rivers of the industrial valleys of south Wales to resemble those in the area represented by the hon. Member for Ceredigion and Pembroke, North (Mr. Howells), which are some of the most marvellous rivers in Wales. I do not see why the rivers of industrial south Wales cannot resemble those rivers. This is of direct bearing to the new clauses that we are discussing because if Cardiff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.''", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "Indeed. That is the point that I have been trying to make. I shall end my speech here—I know that everyone will be massively relieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "will cause major problems. Our rivers are grossly polluted. They obviously contain high levels of nitrates and phosphates and a great deal of organic material from sewers or in the form of sheep that fall into the rivers, dogs that are killed and thrown in or horses that are washed down river. Those are by no means rare occurrences in our valley communities. All that matter will end up in the bay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " city of Cardiff, but I have to say that it is one of the dirtiest cities that I have ever visited. The streets of Cardiff are unclean. However, the suggestion is that after the lagoon is constructed an efficient cleaning system will miraculously appear that will pick up all the detritus. Rather than Cardiff city employees doing the scavenging, it is far more likely that rats and gulls will do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " What we do know, however, is that if one comes into casual contact with them, one is likely to suffer sickness and diarrhoea and all the other ailments that we have described and that if one's dog or stock go near the water, they will die. We may not know the precise mechanisms involved but we certainly know that the toxins can create the most difficult problems. The debate that we have just had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "ls are found in the Taff and the Ely. Nitrates and phosphates would be trapped behind the proposed barrage, creating an ideal environment for eutrophication. My hon. Friend the Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) asked for figures and was told that it is up to the Bill's sponsors to produce them. My hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd spoke about 3 million cu m of rubbish in the Ferry road tip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " want to make. Some hon. Members have been present since the start of this business. The Bill is of much concern to our constituents. We wish to debate it and listen to other points of view. Will you look at the rabble on the Conservative Benches? They are engaged in a deliberate campaign against my hon. Friend the Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Williams) of barracking or trying to disrupt his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ates and phosphates from water. Water can be denitrified by the use of bacteria, but that cannot be done on a large scale. Ion exchange methods can be used to replace the nitrates by chlorides. Precipitation methods using ferric sulphate can deal with phosphates, but it is very expensive. I have a quote which shows how expensive it is. It was from the former Secretary of State for the Environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The former Secretary of State for the Environment, now the chairman of the Conservative party, estimated last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I was a little surprised that my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth was trying to gag me on this important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making extremely cheap political points. He knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about his letter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In response to what the hon. Member for Caerphilly said about my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales, I advise the hon. Gentleman that my right hon. Friend was not whipping the Bill. It is not his job to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "May I assure my hon. Friend that I have been here all night, largely because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "that. We accept the sincere motives of others on the Bill and I wish that they would accept that we have similarly sincere motives. The valleys communities have put a lot into development in the Cardiff area. The hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth referred to the airport. I remember the history of the airport perhaps as well as the hon. Gentleman does. The reason why the airport took off —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to confirm that that is indeed the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-16", "file": "debates1991-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9478a6a48aaed7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I said that they will be fully participating members of the group. There is no question about that. My exact words were that the Scottish Office and Scottish Legal Aid Board were participating fully in the group on questions of equal application to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-16a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friends the Members for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) and for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) will be in the Government, not only next week but next year and the year after and the year after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So will you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman recognises, I hope, that he will have to await the consultation paper on the future structure of the new system of local government finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman recognises, I hope, that he will have to await the consultation paper on the future structure of the new system of local government finance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So will you.\"] I should point out that collection levels are very variable. To take an example at random —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman recognises, I hope, that he will have to await the consultation paper on the future structure of the new system of local government finance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So will you.\"] I should point out that collection levels are very variable. To take an example at random —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] It is from Eastwood district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Kurds (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "tutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals. Of course, the meeting of European Community Ministers on Monday with the participation of the United Kingdom supported trying Saddam Hussein for war crimes. Since it is impossible to deal with one aspect of the middle east crisis without considering other actions and developments in the crisis, will the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "7 November 1990; Vol. 181, c. 743.] One of those candidates was the man who won the Tory party leadership. Does the Secretary of State also acknowledge that day after day in Committee his Minister of State and Under-Secretary expressed their commitment to the Bill and their desire to see it on the statute book? If that was the agreed position of the Government 16 weeks ago, what has changed since?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a ditherer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I must admit that, while I sat here listening carefully as the hon. Gentleman waffled on in a state of rather confused indignation, I was waiting to hear whether he would announce that he was in favour of the review body to be established for teachers or against it. He gave no suggestion from beginning to end as to his opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "In addition to the shocking statement made by the Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "nderstand where they are. Will they reconsider this matter? Conservative Members are laughing and guffawing at free negotiation, which is one of the fundamental rights of negotiation, one of the rights that is the difference between tyranny and democracy. They must be ignorant of what that means to do such a thing because it is bound to cause the opposite. Therefore, I ask the Minister once again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "In the face of such appalling ignorance it is difficult to ask my fundamental question. My question is one of many questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The review body is being set up on the same basis as other review bodies, that those to whom they apply, in this case teachers, will not take strike action over pay, terms and conditions. That does not need to be in the Bill. If teachers accept the advice of the Labour party and insist on the right to take strike action over pay, we shall need to review the remit of the interim advisory committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Teachers' (Review Body)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "achers accept the advice of the Labour party and insist on the right to take strike action over pay, we shall need to review the remit of the interim advisory committee. [Interruption.] Labour Front-Bench spokesmen will make a serious mistake if they advise teachers on such action. It would be a serious misjudgment to try to get teachers to support the right to strike and turn down a review body —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Health Service and Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " but Richmond terrace. I think that we can begin this debate by chalking up another accurate prediction. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is now bringing his customary tact and delicacy to the nation's classrooms. No doubt if he is ever asked about those two years in Richmond terrace he already has an answer handy: \"I was never registered at that address: I stayed with a lady across the road.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Health Service and Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Yes. Only yesterday my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Health Service and Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "Members, I could relate many cases that have been put to me by constituents. I am sure that Conservative Members must receive complaints from their constituents. The other day, a constituent who came to see me was worried that his wife had been waiting for a hip operation for 14 years. She had been transferred from Pontefract to St. James's hospital—that marvellous hospital in Leeds—two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Health Service and Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " else has to voice them. The Government must have made decisions about the transfer of the social security budget from income support to local authorities so that those authorities can assess the best means of operating the care plans and mixing public, private and voluntary care as required by the individual. Decisions must have been made about the transfer of mega-billions of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Health Service and Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "e health service Rot tweiler but without the teeth. Labour's leader—rightly—will not let his Front Bench off the leash yet. The shadow Health Secretary has been muzzled by his own leader and he and his colleagues have been forbidden to make pledges of increased funding to the health service. They can only stand on the sidelines and shout as we deliver the increased resources—£32 billion this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I can understand why the hon. Gentleman is puzzled, because he is flatly wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-17", "file": "debates1991-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd2c5726e7bce8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.526.5", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "provement in central Government grant so that average bills would be lower by about £140 per household. In that calculation, we have compared like with like, headline bill with headline bill. No one has seriously or effectively challenged our arithmetic. Quite the reverse, because the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and others have confirmed that our arithmetic is impeccable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-17a.526.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.562.5", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has made another significant intervention from a sedentary position. Hon. Members have always wondered what made him so malicious and malign—we now realise that he has a deep-seated problem. My hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.562.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.564.6", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "Why, with the United Kingdom lagging behind the rest of the European Community on child benefit —fourth, fifth or seventh depending on the age and number of children—do the Government continue to dither on whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.564.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.567.7", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The people of Scotland also know that across the United Kingdom there are substantially more jobs now than there were in 1979, that the rate of unemployment in this country is below the European average and that in the past year we have had more jobs than we have had for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.567.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Safe Havens (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "t would be the case. Why, therefore, did the right hon. Gentleman's Department, at the cessation of hostilities, arrange for thousands of pounds worth of medical equipment, including saline drips and hypodermic syringes, to be systematically destroyed in Saudi Arabia? Why did his Department refuse the request by the Saudi authorities for those medical supplies and undertake an orgy of destruction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Safe Havens (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "aving crews that are constantly in current operational flying capability, and that the helicopter crews gain much of that experience from search and rescue work in the United Kingdom? Will he accept from me that his choice of the Marine commandos is welcome in Tayside and that 45 Commando, which has its home in Angus, is very popular? As a member of the mess for many years, I recognise the skill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.582.6", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Safe Havens (Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I appreciate my hon. Friend's close connection with a number of units. I wonder whether we can find a unit with which he is not connected, but that might be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.582.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not selected the amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Thanet, South (Mr. Aitken) and his hon. Friends, but the matters covered in it may be referred to in the course of the debate. As I said earlier, a large number of right hon. and hon. Members want to participate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman should be kind enough to listen to my speech before showing his ignorance of our policy, which he has never been present to listen to or argue about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " union and a single currency, he tabled alternative proposals which changed the area of the debate. There is no principle to say that it cannot be done, so why does the Minister refuse to publish his proposals on CAP reform? Other organisations have followed the Labour party's example of publishing alternative sets of ideas—organisations as diverse as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I shall do so if the hon. Gentleman will give me two minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-18", "file": "debates1991-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "739e2b30f5521fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ined why it is so inefficient. Our farmers and consumers get a raw deal and we end up subsidising the food of consumers in other countries that are our industrial competitors. The Labour party believes that we should grasp the opportunity to begin a process of breaking the link between production and subsidy. The market should be the means by which farmers primarily obtain their production income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-18a.616.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.762.6", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that, as well as the plight of Chelmsford to Liverpool Street commuters, he should consider the plight of commuters in London generally? It has been revealed today that London is the most expensive commuter city in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.762.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Iraqi Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) anticipated at one stage during her long question, I shall have to write to her with some of the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Iraqi Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " this afternoon she has made no reference to that matter? Is she aware that, until pressure can be brought on Israel to release the hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners held in the appalling conditions of the prison camp at Khiam, and until Sheik Obeid is released, after his criminal abduction by Israeli forces, there can be no progress on the question of the release of western hostages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Mining (Subsidence) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Just a minute—I am on my feet. The hon. Gentleman will ask a question if I say he can, because Mr. Deputy Speaker gave me the Floor. Constituents come to my surgery who are totally illiterate. They cannot help that—they were born like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "at they will put matters to rights when returned to power\". That is absolutely right. They may be jumping in on our legislative programme today. The hon. Member for Sherwood smiles. He will smile, because I also have here a letter from one of his hon. Friends who spoke on Second Reading. Unfortunately, he was not with us today. He also wrote to the right hon. Member for Hertsmere on 27 April 1989—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it steady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "No, I am not raising the flag. A fair amount of pressure concerned with mining subsidence has been lifted from the shoulders of hon. Members. The Bill is a step in the right direction. I want to pay the Minister a compliment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-22", "file": "debates1991-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "33a1777bcd782612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.871.6", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "hing about the problem. Before him was our noble Friend Lord Taylor, who passed on last week. I have been to the other place and listened to some of his contributions on the mining industry, especially about mining subsidence, and about how people suffered in his day. He left this place in 1966 to go down yonder. The problem has been going on for a long while. At long last, something has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-22a.871.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A quango.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "entum of their existing policies to enable decision-making and responsibility to be more directly in the hands of the people. Fifthly, the present structures of local government do not win universal favour with local people, who have their own ideas about what sort of structure would best reflect local loyalties and communities. We therefore propose to establish a body to draw up recommendations——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.903.0", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "ntil at least 1993 and until well beyond that date, according to the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors? Is not the Secretary of State telling us in other words not that the poll tax will go but that it will stay? Why did not the Government take up our offer of co-operation on a short Bill, the Poll Tax (Abolition) Bill, which would ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ates, which were described by the Leader of the Opposition as the \"most unjust\" of all taxes, I found it mind-blowing. The hon. Gentleman suggests that the issue of capital values has been invented. In fact, it came from the valuation officers. They are the people who would be involved with any revaluation of any sort, whether under the hon. Gentleman's proposals or under ours. The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The whole House heard the Secretary of State for the Environment say that he has announced a consultation document, and I have no doubt that we shall have plenty of opportunity to discuss it between now and June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Chancellor said that we intended to preserve the new balance broadly struck between what was raised locally and financed centrally. I do not expect there to be a significant number of appeals—although, of course, the procedures will provide for appeals—because we shall be talking about a banding system, and I do not think that many people will wish to query the bands in which they find themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "While agreeing with my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.908.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Local Government Review (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State, when deciding the terms of reference for the reconstruction of local government, including the financing of services, take into consideration the fact that the standard spending assessment has worked unfairly against some authorities? Will he consider whether there should be equalisation in the future? On the tax itself——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.913.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "s. Today, it was educational to hear the hon. Member for Dagenham attacking a proposal based on seven bands, having already accepted the nature of our proposal. The hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside then said that the Government were merely returning to the rates. We are doing no such thing. The Labour party proposes to return to the rates, or rather, to something called a graduated rateable value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "sted, we should return quickly to a register based on 1973 valuations. The spectacle that the Labour party offers, with its idea of a Poll Tax (Abolition) Bill, is that we should return immediately to the rates. I remind the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that, in Gwent, where a contest is looming for a parliamentary seat, the Leader of the Opposition spoke about rates. He was in Pontllanfraith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "x (Abolition) Bill, is that we should return immediately to the rates. I remind the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that, in Gwent, where a contest is looming for a parliamentary seat, the Leader of the Opposition spoke about rates. He was in Pontllanfraith—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"]. I am merely using the pronunciation used by the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock). He described all rates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Local Government Review (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Despite the hon. Gentleman's attempt to move from the Prime Minister to myself the \"dithering\" appellation, which failed as much with the Prime Minister as it will with me, I am not persuaded by the case that has been put to me on an assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott (Kingston-upon-Hull, East)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Comrade?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott (Kingston-upon-Hull, East)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman did not quite understand the intent of what my comrade the Member for Stoke-on-Trent (Ms. Walley) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is a scare, because my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) has mentioned one already. When I was in Northern Ireland, I talked to the people at Warren Point; they are in the same situation as Felixstowe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "If there is to be a change of powers and responsibilities, the fear among yachtsmen and other pleasure boat users is that there could be a serious loss of facilities. We must rid ourselves of the misconception that all people who sail boats are rich, because that is not the case. Boating is one cif the most popular sports in Britain. It is enjoyed by millions of people and millions of boat owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "e activities of trust ports. Sale objectives will be agreed between the port and the appropriate Minister before the privatisation process gets under way. The Bill provides for a period of consultation. If the Royal Yachting Association, for which the hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Hull, West (Mr. Randall) spoke, has representations to make, it will want to put them forward at the appropriate time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1008.6", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "on would not be ruled out if they wished. Basically, that is the general intention of the Bill: that the smaller ports should not be forced down the road if they do not so wish, but that, if they do so wish, the procedure should be simplified and they should be able to do it. On that occasion the then Secretary of State for Transport mentioned a figure of £ 10 million as the cut-off, or threshold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1008.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-23", "file": "debates1991-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ff429dbb2e2da31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "preceding_text": " the 50 per cent. levy that they had in the Bill originally is that it will act as a disincentive for the port of Great Yarmouth to go down the path towards privatisation that the Government would surely wish to encourage, and which I have been doing my utmost to persuade the authority and the port users to do. There is no way that I am going back to Yarmouth tonight if the amendment goes through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-23a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary raise with all the European Foreign Ministers the present position in Iraq, the continuing uprising for democracy and, in my view, the disgraceful attitude of the west in failing to support that objective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does the Foreign Secretary agree that one perfect area in which to seek agreement and to execute joint action would be Antarctica? Is it not therefore a matter of great regret that Britain is now the only European country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1078.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1083.6", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "South Africa this summer is a welcome step. It is a recognition by Her Majesty's Government of the encouraging progress that we have seen in South Africa. As my hon. Friend will be aware, Mr. Nelson Mandela will meet my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon. I agree with my hon. Friend: some Opposition Members had the opportunity to meet President de Klerk during his visit to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1083.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1092.8", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Atomic Weapons Establishment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The Minister says, \"Name one,\" by golly. We shall be embarking upon the single-service debate shortly. Every procurement problem that we have faced has involved overruns in time and costs. The Minister knows that he is hopeless at doing his job, but he is a military historian. He is not like his right hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine), the Secretary of State for the Environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1092.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Atomic Weapons Establishment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "We specifically asked on many occasions the Government to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Atomic Weapons Establishment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You gave that information yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "The A91 building has not even been commissioned yet. There is no tritium in the A91 facility. The hon. Gentleman must get his facts right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Atomic Weapons Establishment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "to be about five years after the Labour party suggested it. Like his safe haven policy it is a little late—plagiarism yet again. We do not mind him copying our policies—that is why we advocate them—but an arms register is a step along the path of non-proliferation and we applaud it. We are glad that Conservative Members have come over to our way of thinking. Why not extend the idea to Aldermaston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-24", "file": "debates1991-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af1ab6565e2774eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1175.0", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Licences", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ctions that are placed on the tenderers for those contracts make it plain that it is the intention of the BBC that nothing shall change whatever, except that the cost of the productions shall increase because former BBC employees will be doing that production with an added fee. That was not the intention of placing a requirement on the BBC to contract out some of its work to independent producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-24a.1175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the amount of grant should be based on the level of crime in a particular area? He will know that Leicestershire has the highest crime rate in the country. Therefore, does he consider it necessary to increase the amount of money payable under the schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, notwithstanding the statements that she has made so far, there is still deep concern about the mess that the Government are in over the Shops Act 1950?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1205.7", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Lady to the reply that I gave some moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Did not the Prime Minister notice the comments of the Governor of the Bank of England on the subject of the recession's origins? He said that, while Britain is in recession, Japan and Germany undeniably are not and our other EC partners\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "d occur. Such scaremongering is unacceptable. I agree that nuclear dumping is an emotional issue. The word \"dumping\" is not strictly correct, but it has now become standard. The thought of nuclear dumping anywhere in the United Kingdom, or anywhere in the world, brings an immediate reaction. I agreed with my right hon. Friend that there should not be dumping in Mullwharchar. That was 11 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1287.5", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "very long time tonight. We shall be delighted to get into a debate about the stewardship of land in the highlands and islands and about his right to hold so much land there. If he wants to have a debate, let him come to the Dispatch Box. Many hon. Members would say that lie has no such right and that he is an impediment to the lives of, and a parasite upon, the people of the highlands and islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-25", "file": "debates1991-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd25b1f157481f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1287.11", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not make accusations of that kind. I do not give a damn whether this may be thought to be extraneous to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-25a.1287.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-26", "file": "debates1991-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c39e6cc4c01a18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep going\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "ter in the Bill. There is no doubt that it is no good going to all the expense of introducing safeguards for the packaging and labelling of the radioactive materials and the placarding of the vehicles if there are no strict controls over those who can drive the vehicles. That matter should be considered. I want to make progress as I know that there is another important Bill before the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-26", "file": "debates1991-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c39e6cc4c01a18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1357.6", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "aise issues concerning nuclear power and public safety questions arising from the use and transportation of nuclear materials? Where are all those with CND badges? Where are all those who have opposed everything that has been done in respect of nuclear power for the past 50 years? Clearly they lack the staying power to come to the House on a Friday or the intellecutal power to understand the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-26", "file": "debates1991-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c39e6cc4c01a18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "ed attacks from the Opposition Front Bench. The Opposition seem obsessed with putting the Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill on the statute book. I would bet a few pennies to a pound that that is not in line with what the Labour party conference would want them to do. However, Opposition Members are not standing in front of their party conference, and nor will they be doing so for a while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-26", "file": "debates1991-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c39e6cc4c01a18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "That is quite a threat. To some extent, it is a threat to free speech. Unless I strayed way out of order, I should find it difficult to accept a ruling from the Chair which forced me to sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-26", "file": "debates1991-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c39e6cc4c01a18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Labour Members do not seek to out-debate or to use an intellectual argument", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-26", "file": "debates1991-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c39e6cc4c01a18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1366.6", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "e the vehicles? Without that knowledge, there is something missing. That does not mean that the Bill is wrong—it is not. It is a good Bill, but it is weak and needs attention. It cannot and should not be allowed to rest as it stands. I shall not vote against it or urge my colleagues to do so. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Bridlington intends to call a Division at the end of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-26a.1366.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "perfectly prepared to say that it has achieved. We have discussed the Coopers and Lybrand reports before in the House. It is true that Coopers and Lybrand stated that a minority of the trusts had no financial problems at all. My judgment was that the new managements that we were seeking were far more likely to solve the underlying problems than the old systems that had created those very problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.23.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House knows that I have an obligation to protect the business of the House. This is a private notice question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "as had a big percentage increase in its earnings.\" It is fourth in the table. Doctors and nurses are well ahead. The missing third are schoolteachers, who have not done as badly over the past 10 years as many of them or as some of the public sometimes believe. The rest of the public service comes nowhere—going down the table below. I believe that that reflects the respect that university teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is right about that, and I shall return to it in more detail. However, I can tell him something else that would make state education more attractive—if he did not come out with the sort of ludicrous statements that are quoted in Woman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.53.4", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "rventions. I want to get to the end of my speech. The Secretary of State referred to industrial action. He said that the Labour party has already supported every strike by public sector workers. He must know that that is a calumny. If we are to have a serious debate about how to raise the professionalism and self-esteem of teachers, he must know that that is untrue. There have been many occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.53.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.53.4", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You supported that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " Labour party has already supported every strike by public sector workers. He must know that that is a calumny. If we are to have a serious debate about how to raise the professionalism and self-esteem of teachers, he must know that that is untrue. There have been many occasions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"]—I shall name one: the NUT conference at Easter took the decision to threaten strike action.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.53.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "t have that nonsense. If the right hon. Gentleman prefers that nonsense, he is welcome to it. A glaring omission from the debate has been the fact that, in the past few years, teachers have had neither a review body nor any pre-negotiation. Their negotiating rights were taken away. I oppose the Bill, and I hope that Labour Members will oppose it. I have faith that they will, but when negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " free negotiation of conditions of service. They came into being after Tolpuddle, and they exist today for the same reason. Unions that support the pay review body have expressed profound reservations. My hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn quoted from a document issued by the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association. It says: Second Reading: Monday 29th April 1991\", which I believe is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.62.6", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Burnham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady really want me to tell her? There is a table: employers sit on one side and union representatives sit on the other. They talk to each other and put forward arguments. Sometimes it changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.62.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.62.12", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "That was not so much an inquiry as an attempt to help me along. I agree with all that my hon. Friend has said. We are dealing with a serious issue. I want not a review body but a right to free negotiation such as that held by every teacher body in all democratic nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.62.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.62.12", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "orking people by splitting them—such as the ambulance men and nurses—and by attacking them—as it is still doing—and by imposing the poll tax, and now the son of poll tax, and by attacking our health service. Let me make it clear once again that the Conservatives voted against the health service. I do not want to pursue that idea, but the Conservatives said that we should not have a health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.62.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Madel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Madel", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sorry to detain you, but we have just heard a rather long speech. Do you agree that there may be a case for imposing the 10-minute rule between now and 9 o'clock to allow more of us to speak?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": ". He paused for thought and then said that he hoped that his party did too; the Bill needed opposing. His touching and rather plaintive expression of hope that the Labour party would oppose the Bill clearly showed that he—like the majority of my right hon. and hon. Friends—had been left in the dark by the contortions, the uncertainties and the evasions of the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": " Members ought to be equally delighted. Why are they not? They think that the AUT is in favour of a professional pay body. I am not sure that it is. We all know Labour Members' connections with the NUT. The Labour party and the National Union of Teachers have been hand in glove for decades. The hon. Member for Durham, North-West (Ms. Armstrong) is paid by the NUT. She will be slightly embarrassed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": ", as did my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mrs. Heal) who made the good point that many teachers work in circumstances that are far from convenient or conducive to good quality education. She referred, for example, to crumbling schools. It is a scandal that about £4,000 million-worth of repairs and new build necessary are necessary to bring the quality of our schools up to standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.107.7", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State's tactic when he is asked a question is to reply with a question. That is what he did earlier. No one can accuse the Secretary of State of consistency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.107.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Curriculum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "of my deletions are: Explore how people vary in their views about the value and enjoyment of environments. There is no reference to where or to what kind of environment. The other example reads: Collect, present and interpret data as part of an inquiry. That does not even specify \"as part of a geographical inquiry\". All that sort of stuff was taken out of an overloaded order largely to tidy it up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Curriculum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nineteen seventy-three\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Surely that phrase \"about 20 years ago\" exposes the problem. Such people as Professor Keith Robbins and Lord Blake have pointed this out to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. Let us take our entry into the Common Market, which happened, I believe, in January 1972—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-29", "file": "debates1991-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f218a704019cce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Curriculum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": " and, after he had got the project written and it was there in academic form, he asked me, \"Could you introduce me to some of the people about whom I have been reading?\" Some of them were Members of the House. We talked to George Strauss and John Parker. Then my son asked, \"You couldn't get Manny Shinwell, could you?' In fear and trembling, I wrote to Manny Shinwell, who was then in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-29a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.164.12", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": " the industrial black country, launching an industry which over the years offered employment to millions? Since over the past 12 months the numbers employed in manufacturing industry have fallen by 178,000, does the Prime Minister wish to remember our industrial history, or does he agree with his Secretary of State for Education and Science that history is unnecessary and perhaps better forgotten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.164.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As we approach an election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Abolition of Political Honours", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I now realise, Mr. Speaker, that this might be a touchy subject. I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to abolish political honours; and for connected purposes. Some argue that the honours system should be abolished altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Abolition of Political Honours", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ivil servants and senior military officers as a matter of course, accompanying their not insubstantial pay and rations, are not worthy of being described as honours. Thus, the next recommendation in my Bill would be to exclude all civil servants and military personnel from receiving routine honours. The next category of people who should normally be precluded from receiving honours are politicans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Abolition of Political Honours", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Abolition of Political Honours", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I give way to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I shall finish this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "As we have no such proposal, I do not propose to dwell on that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "I well understand the difference between earned income and unearned income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.192.6", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "wth in 1991. What is especially worrying is that, apart from that forecast of decline in investment in the Red Book—10 per cent., which is bad enough—the results so far, taking the year from the first half of 1990 to the first half of 1991, are greater than the Red Book forecast, at more than 12 per cent. That brings me to today's survey results from the CBI, to which the Chief Secretary referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.192.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": " reached the turning point or that we have turned the corner. All this language about turning the corner makes me think that what is at the back of the Chancellor's mind is the Noel Coward song which states: There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky., And it's no good whining About a silver lining For we know from experience that they won't roll by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "Westminster or his dustman. Despite the exemptions and the zero ratings, according to the Government's own publication, VAT hits the poor harder than the rich. In economic jargon, VAT is less regressive than the late unlamented poll tax, but to say that VAT hits the poor less is like saying that being in prison is less inconvenient than being hanged. It is a regressive tax if one considers income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I believe that capital gains tax is too high; my hon. Friend the Member for East Lindsey (Sir P. Tapsell) made that point most strongly. One of the big distortions in capital gains tax is the fact that one's house is almost uniquely free of capital gains tax. In removing that relief, which I am not advocating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "But the Minister then said that that was only an estimate. There has been no real attempt to ascertain the actual cost. I suggest that £200 million is a more realistic figure than the one that the Minister has given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-04-30", "file": "debates1991-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "efd6f60a588e8960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.283.4", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "f Wales—simply in order to keep alive a poll tax register that will have to linger on for another two or three years. It is a national disgrace for the people of Wales. It costs £5·5 million to administer the poll tax in the capital city of Wales—£26 for each charge payer. The administrative cost of sending out many of the poll tax bills is far greater than the cost of the bills themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-04-30a.283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-01", "file": "debates1991-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8a1af1202bc98a7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "Having created separate Post Office Parcels and Counters companies, and with the current reorganisation of the Royal Mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.304.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-01", "file": "debates1991-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8a1af1202bc98a7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.304.7", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman to our exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.304.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-01", "file": "debates1991-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8a1af1202bc98a7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the hon. Gentleman's brain is as large as his body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-01", "file": "debates1991-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8a1af1202bc98a7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks about the policies of the Department of Trade and Industry. They were recently set out by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on the question of helping manufacturing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-01", "file": "debates1991-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8a1af1202bc98a7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "National Enterprise (Reconstruction) Board", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment. I have in my hand a copy of the daily edition of Hansard. The price is £6. I confess that I was not aware of the price of Hansard. Members of Parliament go to the Vote Office and get it at no charge, and probably send copies to constituents who ask for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-01a.359.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-05-02", "file": "debates1991-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5de75daff989fa89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I will take this one. A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, Mr. Speaker. How can the Minister mislead the House today by saying——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-02", "file": "debates1991-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5de75daff989fa89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.438.16", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "on have already provided one of their Supply days for such a debate, so there can be no criticism of our determination to have the matter on the agenda—not least so that we can debate the implications of the formation of trusts and opt-out hospitals and question Ministers about why, for example, Ministers in the Welsh Office are writing letters to hospitals pressurising them to opt out of the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.438.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-05-02", "file": "debates1991-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5de75daff989fa89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ir fellow service men and women in the RAF, and, I believe, to the nation as a whole. Thankfully, the cost of the operation in terms of lives lost was small, but that cannot lessen the loss for the families of the five airmen who were killed on operational missions. Those families, I know, have the deepest sympathy of the whole House as they seek to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-02", "file": "debates1991-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5de75daff989fa89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "uote may appear to affect this debate should not be dispelled, because the importance of the issues before us is such that many topics need to be emphasised and underlined and they should be the subject of contributions from more than one Member of the House. I add my tribute to the men of the Royal Air Force of all ranks who served, in all capacities, in the course of the hostilities in the Gulf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-02a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-03", "file": "debates1991-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d288da868574254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-03a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Misdescriptions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "cle which, when I have given it back, has not only many extra mod cons, and a great deal of extra paint and chrome work, but a new engine. My hon. Friend is delighted with the progress of the Bill. He had hoped to be with us this morning, but, unfortunately, he is not yet well enough. We expect that he will join us next week, and we all send him our best wishes for a permanent and speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-03a.534.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-03", "file": "debates1991-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d288da868574254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-03a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Misdescriptions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "s the Members for Coventry, South-West (Mr. Butcher) and for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) on introducing the Bill. It is important because the purchase or sale of a house is such a major event in the lives of our constituents and people throughout Britain. It is right that the law should enforce the same standards of honour and honesty in advertising by estate agents as apply to any other advertising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-03a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-03", "file": "debates1991-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d288da868574254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-03a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ing themselves on the need for a temporary restriction. Indeed, the New Roads and Street Works Bill going through Parliament will reinforce those duties and provide added incentives for the speedy completion of works by public utilities. It is possible that I have got that slightly wrong and that the Bill has already been enacted. Undoubtedly, my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to inform me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-03a.580.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.617.5", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "I promise my hon. Friend that, according to the boundaries mentioned in an earlier question, we shall keep the position under review. The Government are always reviewing the options open to them in the labour market, but we have no plans to introduce a temporary work scheme", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.617.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.622.11", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "quote, for the precise words and their source to be provided by Hansard. In this case, the name of the correct source was put into the record, but I am entirely happy for the original words to be reinstated. The magazine from which I quoted was GP Magazine but similar sentiments to those that I quoted, endorsing the reforms, have been expressed in the British Medical Journal, published by the BMA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.622.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Official Report", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your statement, Mr. Speaker. Of course we accept in good faith the explanation given by the Editor of Hansard. I am quite sure that everybody is clear that no blame attaches to the Editor or his staff for what occurred. However, the fact remains that, although the Prime Minister's staff do not read the court circular, and apparently do not read the British Medical Journal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Official Report", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "he explanation given by the Editor of Hansard. I am quite sure that everybody is clear that no blame attaches to the Editor or his staff for what occurred. However, the fact remains that, although the Prime Minister's staff do not read the court circular, and apparently do not read the British Medical Journal —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] It is certainly not as cheap as fiddling the record in Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.625.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Bangladesh (Cyclone Disaster)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "I beg 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 Bangladesh cyclone disaster.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Bangladesh (Cyclone Disaster)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "that early estimate of the dead has already been proved to be wrong. More than 125,000 casualties are now reported and there are serious estimates that the total could rise to over 200,000 before the count is over. But even that is not the end of it. Villages throughout the coastal areas are still cut off, most of them without food or drinking water, and the first reports of cholera are coming in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.626.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I asked the hon. Member for Copeland to rephrase his remark, and I thought that he had done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I asked the hon. Member for Copeland to rephrase his remark, and I thought that he had done so—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am quite certain that the hon. Gentleman would not wish to accuse anyone, least of all the Prime Minister, of fiddling. If he would like to make that clear, we can get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thought that he had done so—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am quite certain that the hon. Gentleman would not wish to accuse anyone, least of all the Prime Minister, of fiddling. If he would like to make that clear, we can get on—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Order. I ask hon. Members to restrain themselves; this is very bad behaviour. I shall repeat what I have just said to the hon. Member for Copeland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I did not accuse the Prime Minister of fiddling Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "Would you, Mr. Speaker, agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.647.4", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I have told the right hon. Gentleman that I shall give way to him when I have fully answered the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury. That is the way that I have always dealt with matters in Committee and I hope that it finds favour with other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "There has been a dramatic increase in a whole range of activities. Even with the urgent prioritisation that we have undertaken, there has been an increase in public expenditure. We fund our expenditure; we do not rely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.657.4", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member is untruthful as well as extremely unpleasant. He is also inaccurate. If he were to check the record, he would find that the Chief Secretary and the Chancellor conceded that our calculations were correct. This is the third occasion during a brief speech in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-07", "file": "debates1991-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d92d58879f203d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " such trusts in existence. If he does, the suspicions that we have harboured about tax avoidance will be shown to have been well founded. If there is another explanation, I look forward to hearing it. That brings me to the mystery of what we shall probably end up calling, \"The Mystery of the Missing Decimal Point\". The Sunday Times article referred to billions of pounds, or at least to £1 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-07a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-08", "file": "debates1991-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "4335cac913839fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "In view of the obvious gaps in the information that is being fed to the Minister about the number of starts in homes for sale, I shall help him. I do not know whether he is aware that, earlier this week, the Building Employers Confederation conducted a state-of-trade inquiry into that subject. Its conclusion was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-08", "file": "debates1991-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "4335cac913839fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Bangladesh (Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why only yesterday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I have already said that the important thing is to get the aid that the Bangladeshi Government can use to its destination as quickly as possible. That was why, yesterday, I made an approach to the Thai Government, knowing that the Bangladeshi Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-08", "file": "debates1991-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "4335cac913839fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Bangladesh (Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Ross) made a plea on behalf of Bangladeshi farmers. I should like to make a similar plea on behalf of the fishermen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-08", "file": "debates1991-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "4335cac913839fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Bangladesh (Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "To correct the hon. Gentleman, there are nine officials and their support staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-08", "file": "debates1991-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "4335cac913839fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Asylum Seekers and Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "tters is good. We deplore the Governments and systems of government in many countries and, since the demise of the much-maligned great British Empire, most countries probaby fall into that category. Under the inspiring and determined leadership of my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher), this country became a place to which people from all over the world wished to beat a path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-08", "file": "debates1991-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "4335cac913839fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Asylum Seekers and Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "commodate those who have found affliction and oppression abroad. There is deep resentment in my constituency about a story which appeared last week about an Asian family with seven children who arrived here knowing just one word of English—house. They were instantly housed ahead of people, taxpayers, who had been on the housing list for many years. Labour's policy is to encourage such immigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-08a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-09", "file": "debates1991-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4e45ad29bf5fd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As the poll tax has been a big mistake, why should people be hounded and imprisoned in England? Why should they suffer because the Government got it wrong? People outside think that something has to give—that there should be an amnesty. The Government should understand the position of the 16 individuals in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-09", "file": "debates1991-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4e45ad29bf5fd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.824.4", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Those 16 people are in prison because they did not pay the poll tax. We know that the Prime Minister claims to want a classless society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-09", "file": "debates1991-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4e45ad29bf5fd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.833.5", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "If the Government are so confident of their case on taxation and benefits, why can we not have a debate on that as early as possible, in which we shall be able to show that a large majority of the people of this country are now paying more in taxation—in both direct and indirect taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.833.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-09", "file": "debates1991-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4e45ad29bf5fd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "alise that the Department of the Environment already has powers passed by the House to introduce a dog registration scheme which will enable those potentially brutal and vicious dogs to be registered and traced and the owners to be given guidance and advice and any potential visitors warned about the dangers? The Bradford Telegraph and Argus and the Yorkshire Post have carried a number of stories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-09", "file": "debates1991-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4e45ad29bf5fd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend should remind my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Smith) that a company car is often an essential tool of business. If we tax everything that looks like a perk—any article that might have a feel of luxury about it that we take home—where do we stop? We must consider the principle involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-09a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-10", "file": "debates1991-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5af68b42573a0e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-10a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "uction or disturbance of a badger in a sett. For some reason, the unavoidable entry of a dog into a sett or the unavoidable destruction of a sett will in no circumstances be permitted. Obviously, those behind this Bill regard the offences of entering a terrier into a sett or of the destruction of a sett as so heinous that no defence may be permitted. That is unfair, and also probably wrong in law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-10a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-10", "file": "debates1991-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5af68b42573a0e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-10a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "at no defence may be permitted. That is unfair, and also probably wrong in law. [Interruption.] The Bill creates serious offences with heavy penalties. For the sake of equity, proper and even-handed defences must be allowed—I am sure that the promoter of the Bill agrees with that. Amendment No. 5 alters the defence in clause 2(2) so that it is available for all offences of interfering with a sett—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-10a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-10", "file": "debates1991-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5af68b42573a0e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-10a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Contractors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "As an Opposition Front-Bench spokesman, I have listened carefully to what the National Farmers Union and my local farmers have said about the problem of predation. We have made it clear that there can be localised problems and that they can often be dealt with efficiently and effectively by contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-10a.922.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Powell", "preceding_text": "r two. For the first time, I had to think about such matters, and I found that there were big gaps. Although all hon. Members have had a background in industry or professions such as teaching, we all have a narrow background—it could not be otherwise. I came to the House having spent 15 years at the criminal bar among crime and criminals. I always say that some of my best friends are bank robbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unroadworthy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " of the Government's policy, but we hope that it will not last much longer. It will certainly cease when the Prime Minister calls a general election. The Government should do something about such factory closures. What could they do? First, they could encourage firms to start to buy buses. Secondly, some of the buses that are already on the road should be inspected. Many of them are road-unworthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": "nt list of working peers—all Conservative Members will welcome his return to Parliament—said: Public opinion in favour of devolution cannot be ignored. We cannot ignore the debate that is taking place in Scotland and we have got to take part in it. Mr. Struan Stevenson, one of our liveliest parliamentary candidates north of the border and prospective candidate and next Member for Edinburgh, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "t from knowing the policies of all three parties and how they propose to fund those policies. We say unequivocally that we need to spend more on public services and we are sufficiently realistic to say also that, if necessary, we shall raise taxation to pay for that. We are in no doubt about that. A penny on the pound would go to education. That will release extra resources for the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " the pound would go to education. That will release extra resources for the health service. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] Yes, an increase in taxation from 25p to 26p in the pound would provide extra money which would be devoted entirely to education and training. Therefore, it will not be necessary to redirect existing money to education because extra education spending would be funded from new income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Home Office that more can be done and that we expect more of them. My hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Mr. Mitchell) said that the Labour party's economics were those of Arthur Daley, and that analogy stands up. However, it is well known in the Labour party but less well known in the Conservative party that they are not the economics of Arthur Daley but rather those of \"Only Fools and Horses\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "s. The current Prime Minister has had 167 days and, according to my calculation, he will have to keep going until at least 25 June to avoid earning the title. If he wants to beat Sir Alec, he will have to keep going for a year, and he will just about beat Sir Anthony Eden if he goes on until February 1992. Sooner or later, we shall all know what the Prime Minister has decided. It is crystal clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "ure is £38 billion, but John Humphrys rounded it up. Is that what it's about, John Smith? The right hon. and learned Gentleman replied: What Neil Kinnock did was to use as an example the fact that if you get 2·5 per cent., which is about the trend rate of growth of the British economy, that's what you get in extra public expenditure. That was a perfectly simple and perfectly clear example\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "East Coast Main Line (Safety) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "d my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Waller) that when people die unnecessarily on the railways, the House should be concerned and the relevant Members should be present at debates such as this. The House understands why the hon. Member for Don Valley feels so strongly about safety and retaining access from one side of the railway line to the other. The hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr. Dixon)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.119.6", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Coal Industry (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "When did he go down a pit? If we had a crack in the floor, he would fall into it and we would lose him. I ask you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the Minister in a pit. All that he was bothered about was boxing, football, rugby, rowing. He got a Cambridge blue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.119.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-13", "file": "debates1991-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "264c05e05e90bfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.120.9", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Coal Industry (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "om where it should go. That is why we are saying what we are today. Bruce Milian is right to hold it up while this lot is on the Treasury Bench. I hope that the young Minister will let the Treasury know in no uncertain terms what we feel about this. That money should not be touched. It should be allowed to go to the mining communities for the purpose it was meant for. I shall finish on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-13a.120.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "What is clear is that we have revolutionised the amount of information that is available about the way in which the health service is managed. We shall not make public the report from Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.148.9", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Even the Prime Minister must know that the \"medical people\", as he refers to them, whenever they have voted, have voted by majorities in excess of 80 per cent. against opt-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.148.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.150.11", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "n view of the withdrawal of the Valiant Churchill class of nuclear submarines due to dangerous defects in their nuclear reactors, would it not be prudent for the Prime Minister to withdraw all Polaris nuclear submarines, which have identical defects in their nuclear reactors? At the same time, he could cancel the Trident programme and announce that his Government are supporting the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.150.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "nion power in hospitals would be necessary, and all would be magic. Since then, an extra £6 billion has been injected into the NHS. Is he aware that, if he continues to ignore the need to reform the NHS, no progress will ever be made? I am increasingly coming to the view that the hon. Gentleman is interested only in orchestrating events to take advantage of vulnerable people who depend on the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have the advantage over the hon. Gentleman, because I heard my right hon. Friend make his speech, and very well received it was, too. I know that my right hon. Friend said no such thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "e Labour party was last in office. Nevertheless, he has proposed a simple challenge. There is something called the Laffer curve, and I suspect that the last Laffer will be that of the Conservative Government. Quite simply, we have reduced taxes, as opposed to the plans of the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook), who intends to increase them. In 1979, the top 5 per cent. of taxpayers were paying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.160.5", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " emptiness of the rhetoric that the Government wrapped around the reforms to Lothian health board, which has just dropped from its stationery and logos the term \"Putting Patients First\". That logo was dropped from all publications by the Lothian health board last week because, as its manager revealingly said on Sunday, management figures are sick of having the phrase used as a stick to beat them\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, especially in view of the pressure of time. He should not give too much weight to what the candidates in Monmouth say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I shall make a deal with the hon. Gentleman. I shall offer to concede that, as in any multi-million pound business—the NHS is a multi-billion pound business—there are always opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": ". Labour will scrap this market in health care and bring back into the local health service hospitals such as Alderhey which have gone it alone as trading enterprises. We will restore the NHS as a public service, as we have done before. Before the Secretary of State tries his hand again at a historical novel and distorts the record of the last Labour Government, I shall tell him about that record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I accept that the right hon. Gentleman genuinely did not seek to deceive the House, and really believed in what he said. Knowing the problem that there might be in convincing him of the reality, I have brought with me the relevant edition of Hansard. It—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.165.7", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "On Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.165.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "On the point about scaring people, the way that the Labour party has been behaving over the past few months is reprehensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.179.3", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to learn some history, he should go back further still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.179.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Every word that I am saying is true, provable and relevant to the debate. I shall not take lessons from the hon. Gentleman, who has not been in the House for more than five minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.188.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-14", "file": "debates1991-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f354d033984c9dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "as many speakers as possible to contribute to the debate. I have taken more than six interventions already. Britain has led the international efforts to find a long-term solution to the crisis. It was our Prime Minister who willed the creation of safe havens in northern Iraq. From the beginning, British troops have been involved in the establishment of those havens. There is still much to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-14a.218.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "ed spending in priority areas, while at the same time rooting out inefficiency and getting better value for money, thus keeping public expenditure under firm control. There is a marked contrast between our policies and those of the Opposition, who resist and resent value-for-money concepts in the public service and set out their stall with reckless promises to spend more on just about everything —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ties on public expenditure and taxation, it is always worth consulting the book before looking into the crystal ball. The book shows clear differences between this Government's achievements in the 1980s and those of the Labour Government in the 1970s. Because of the eight years of continuous growth at more than 3 per cent. which our policies made possible, we were able to raise public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.291.2", "colnum": "291", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "rnment. There has been a 30,000 net inflow under the Conservative Government, and that has led to a greater contribution to income tax from the higher rate payers. There is also ample scope for business investment. To listen to the Labour party, one would think that its record on that was something to be proud of and that the Conservative party's record was something of which we should be ashamed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "reasury has indeed been burning the midnight oil. If it were burnt a little more in Transport house, some of the errots that have disfigured the Labour party's figures would not exist. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East comes out with more dodgy figures than a weight-watchers' convention. At constant 1985 prices, business investment—I shall get to this point by hook or by crook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "dous increase in investment from that prevailing in the late 1970s. I should also mention our achievements in investment in infrastructure. In 1990–91, total public sector spending on asset creation is expected to be about £30 billion. Under this Government, public sector investment has risen in real terms—I hate having to return to this point, but respect for the truth compels me to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "today's money, allowing for inflation, that provides for significant growth in real terms. Everything is set out in the Red Book, including assumptions for growth, inflation and the PSBR. One thing is clear. Labour cannot magic extra public spending painlessly out of growth dividends. Of course there will be growth. The record shows that there is more likely to be growth under us than under Labour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The nurse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "er of the Opposition does—it has two simple choices: either it has to put up taxes to pay for it or it has to find the money by allowing the PSBR to stay up, and even go up. If Labour does that, it will go back to the bad old days of the 1970s; the bill would have to be paid, and taxes would have to rise. We already know that the chap on £20,000 a year—the deputy head teacher, the police sergeant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "se issues has been exposed. The Opposition Treasury Front Bench team have been on the prawn cocktail circuit in the City reassuring people: \"Labour doesn't mean it; we are frightfully responsible these (lays.\" But all Labour's spending spokesmen have been going around the country spewing out to every interested group that wants to know any number of spending commitments.I only have time for three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Sun.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "bour doesn't mean it; we are frightfully responsible these (lays.\" But all Labour's spending spokesmen have been going around the country spewing out to every interested group that wants to know any number of spending commitments.I only have time for three—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"] There will be time for more. Something that must have frightened the Labour party more than anything was a headline in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "rby, South thinks the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East meant by \"overriding responsibility\". Just so that people should not be tempted to joke about the matter, I should explain that we are not talking about billions of pounds; that pledge would involve tens of billions of pounds. We are not messing around with little numbers here. We must get on, and I certainly want to finish my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "in connection with the by-election campaign. Mr. Rawnsley writes: If much of what Mr. Evans says is gobsmacking, Mr. Edwards\"— who is, of course, the Labour candidate— — appears to have been gobstoppered. You get the impression that he would not go to the lavatory before checking with Neil Kinnock for permission. The House should bear in mind the fact that Mr. Rawnsley was writing in The Guardian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Not a lot—the hon. Lady is absolutely right. To the aficionados of the renationalisation of water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Derby, South.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. and learned Friend concludes, I should perhaps tell him that, the other day, I had the pleasure, with my friend the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell), of interviewing the hon. Member for Derbyshire, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Lady has just told the House that her hon. Friends are canvassing in Monmouth. Is it not a fact that they are paid to be in the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.303.5", "colnum": "303", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Only Conservative Members could make a mystery out of that. I assure the hon. Gentleman that I shall deal with that point, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.303.5", "colnum": "303", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Only Conservative Members could make a mystery out of that. I assure the hon. Gentleman that I shall deal with that point, too. [Interruption.] If I were a Conservative Member, I would not laugh quite so heartily. I am prepared to answer those questions when I reach the logical point in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where and when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " We have stated without equivocation the tax changes that we propose, of which the principal measures are the increase in the top rate of tax to 50p in the pound, not at the threshold where the present top rate applies, although even that affects about only 6 per cent. of the population, but on a slice of income well above the band at which the top rate applies—in practice at a minimum of £27,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Budget. The right hon. and learned Gentleman replied: In all the questions asked by shadow spokesmen over many years that one beats all records for stupidity. One matter that Chancellors of the Exchequor like, properly, to reserve to their Budget statement is the level at which Income tax will be fixed\". [ Official Report, 7 June 1990; Vol. 173, c. 784.] He also referred to bands, rates and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I do not see any hon. Member who usually makes a serious contribution to these debates. They only want to make silly points, so I do not propose to give way to them. The Labour party has made it clear many times that the top rate of tax will be charged at 50p in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "s contribution to these debates. They only want to make silly points, so I do not propose to give way to them. The Labour party has made it clear many times that the top rate of tax will be charged at 50p in the pound. [Interruption.] Conservative Members should want this on the record. It will be charged at 50p in the pound at a level of income well above the present rate at which 40p is charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the police?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) is showing his ignorance. The top rate of tax cannot apply now to incomes below £27,000, and he is saying £25,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.9", "colnum": "305", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to make extravagant spending commitments. I return to the point that I was about to make about the balance between our spending proposals and our overall approach to public spending. The Government's problem —it is a serious problem and I understand it—is that they find it impossible to attack what we are saying, which is straightforward and sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.305.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "If we are to be the first Labour Government not to do so, we shall be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I shall come to what happens to growth in a few minutes, if the hon. Gentleman will allow me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "en went through the farce of their claims that one obtains growth sometimes, but not under Labour Governments. Indeed, the point that the hon. Member for Hampshire, North-West (Sir D. Mitchell) has just made ties in with that. He implied, as the Minister did, that because Labour Governments have sometimes raised taxes, they do not achieve growth. I have here the figures for gross domestic product—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "the farce of their claims that one obtains growth sometimes, but not under Labour Governments. Indeed, the point that the hon. Member for Hampshire, North-West (Sir D. Mitchell) has just made ties in with that. He implied, as the Minister did, that because Labour Governments have sometimes raised taxes, they do not achieve growth. I have here the figures for gross domestic product— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.308.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is our policy and we are prepared to stand by it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "never will be true—unless the Government stay in power for longer and we have a recession every year. In a normal year, there is growth. With 2·5 per cent. growth, on a moderate estimate, there can be £20 billion for spending. If there is less growth, there is less money; if there is more growth there is more money. We can get more revenues, therefore, without raising the basic rate of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "preceding_text": "k of their clerical staff, but not to themselves. The presentation of statistical indicators reaches a somewhat eccentric peak in the report of the Welsh Office, which is one of the best of the departmental reports. There is a section on \"Indicators of a Healthy Lifestyle,\" between 1985–88, which records the percentages of the Welsh population using semi—skimmed milk and eating fruit daily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "public expenditure cuts in the national health service meant in Renfrewshire? Waiting lists are growing daily. Thousands upon thousands of people are desperate for not only operations but consultations to find out what is the matter with their health. Recently a friend of mine was suffering from a terrible pain. It took all kinds of meetings before it was discovered that he had a spot on his lung.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ublic sector—central and local government, nationalised industries and the health service—work more efficiently so that the money supplied by the citizens as the taxpayer is translated into ever better services for the citizen as the user of them. The Prime Minister has initiated the most radical overhaul ever of the public sector, applying private sector market disciplines right across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "three years vindicate all the comments that we made four years ago in the Standing Committee. Grant-maintained schools have introduced into our education system a planning paralysis that bedevils attempts to rid the system of wasteful and expensive surplus places. It is a contradiction in the managerial position adopted by Ministers in the Department of Education and Science that, on the one hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "ned schools. There is no sign of the financial neutrality that was talked about in the Standing Committee. This is a further indication of the fact that the word of education Ministers and their predecessors has little real value. On revenue, for instance, we see that the special purpose grant for development has been increased by 50 per cent. between 1990–91 and the current financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "That is the true face of the Labour party. It ignores the democratically expressed wishes of the parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "r of Dudley believes that the LEA is privileged and that only the LEA is capable of delivering good education to the nation's children. I have news for both that chief education officer and for Opposition Members: grant-maintained schools are here to stay because parents want them. If the Labour party, which has made so much of ballots in other connections, intends to ignore the wishes of parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "d, who said that he was more than happy to accept it. As a result of a quirk in the law that applies to the provision of school meals, the school has been prevented from servicing the local junior school, which is on the same site. That is stupid. Now school meals are to be bussed in from another school miles away. That is absolutely barmy. In some ways I see it as a disservice to my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": ". We are talking about a David and Goliath syndrome. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) ventured on to extremely dangerous ground when he talked about electoral turnout. The education authority for the constituency of the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) is Lancashire county council. At the last election, the turnout in the hon. Gentleman's constituency was 38.2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-15", "file": "debates1991-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e3eedbe0a490b8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Blackburn does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": ") ventured on to extremely dangerous ground when he talked about electoral turnout. The education authority for the constituency of the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) is Lancashire county council. At the last election, the turnout in the hon. Gentleman's constituency was 38.2 per cent. [Interruption.] Yes, the last council election. In this country, it is councils that run education policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-15a.396.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "As I understand the rules of the House, if the hon. Lady wishes to table a question to me about these fascinating and important matters, I shall provide her with a detailed and specific answer. However, as this question is about something completely different, I shall decline to do so. The hon. Lady mentioned the overall tax burden now compared with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman fails to disclose that any fall in investment represents a fall from the dramatically higher level —indeed, the historically high level —of the past few years. The right hon. and learned Gentleman shakes his head, but I gave him the figures yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "ures prove conclusively that the Conservative party has one economic policy only—that of mass unemployment? Is it true that the Government intend to introduce some form of compulsory work scheme to reduce the numbers of jobless people in this country, or will he be following the example of his predecessor by adding to the 30 or so fiddles in the calculation of the number of unemployed? Or will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.422.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being very cheap and wholly inaccurate. There is no question of a two-tier health service. The hon. Gentleman may find what was said recently by a doctor on \"Newsnight\" interesting. He said: I don't accept that there'll be any priority given —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "or on \"Newsnight\" interesting. He said: I don't accept that there'll be any priority given — [Interruption.] I know that right hon. and hon. Members do not like listening to alternative views, but it would do them good to do so occasionally. The doctor said: I don't accept that there'll be any priority given in where the patients are treated at all. My enthusiasm for GP fund-holding is based on ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The despicable Hanson Corporation—will that do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "On the question of a national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "d surveyors' fees. In addition, £15,000 was paid for the value of accommodation works provided by the Department of Transport. In other words, under the system which is so much admired by some of my hon. Friends, the farmer concerned would have received £48,000 plus £12,000—a total of £60,000. Under the system already in operation in this country, the farmer concerned received a total of £176,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "eded by the home loss payment. That is why hon. Members have welcomed the principle of extending that payment. We may say that it does not go far enough, but broadly, the extra £15,000 is warmly welcomed. Exactly the same principle should be applied to small businesses and farmers. I suspect that this is not one of those evenings when my hon. Friends would wish to press this matter to a Division —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman had not made those comments about the contrast between what the traveller will see when he reaches the British Rail side, because, like many others, he is totally underestimating the amount of investment that has gone into providing a high-speed link which, from 1993, will take travellers from Waterloo terminal through to Paris in three hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-16", "file": "debates1991-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "265b76d10cacd7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I happened to come through the constituency of the hon. Member for Wealden (Sir G. Johnson Smith) yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-16a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-17", "file": "debates1991-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "93458bcbc0d541d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "o so would not perfect our democracy, even if that were possible. It so happens that, by experience and general practice under our constitution, we have evolved a system whereby the head of state is automatically created. The head of state is non-political and does not interfere in party politics. The head of state is subject to the golden rule—as Dicey described it—of the supremacy of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-17", "file": "debates1991-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "93458bcbc0d541d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": " automatically created. The head of state is non-political and does not interfere in party politics. The head of state is subject to the golden rule—as Dicey described it—of the supremacy of Parliament. [Interruption.] One of the worst things about this place is the party game which often obsesses us when we should be discussing more serious matters. I hope that hon. Members, especially the Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-17", "file": "debates1991-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "93458bcbc0d541d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman will be away from here soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "preceding_text": "le. I insert those general remarks into our extremely good discussion. I must tell the right hon. Members for Brent, North (Sir R. Boyson) and for Chesterfield that it is always nice to have one's prejudices and views confirmed. Their speeches confirmed me in my opinion that the quicker Scotland is independent and people like me are away from here altogether, the better it will be for our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-17", "file": "debates1991-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "93458bcbc0d541d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.589.6", "colnum": "589", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "That is for you to decide, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I urge you to use your channels of communication and to consider whether it would be appropriate, after the experiences of the electors of Monmouth last night, when they were \"trash-krieged\" by the Labour party in connection with a document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.589.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-17", "file": "debates1991-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "93458bcbc0d541d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for warmly welcoming the news on inflation. Would he equally welcome an opportunity for the appropriate Opposition correction to be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-17a.590.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-20", "file": "debates1991-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9694d8000abe37f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Further and Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Despite all the public relations hype surrounding the publication of these White Papers, close examination of the statements will show that the Government are running out of ideas as quickly as they are running out of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-20", "file": "debates1991-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9694d8000abe37f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.661.4", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "Another lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.661.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-05-20", "file": "debates1991-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9694d8000abe37f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "Another lie. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-20", "file": "debates1991-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9694d8000abe37f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-20", "file": "debates1991-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9694d8000abe37f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Even if there may be a free meal in the future, I have not had one there so far. Perhaps, as in the American legal system, one has to win the case before one gets the free meal. I shall have to try harder. Certainly I should be happy to have a free meal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-20", "file": "debates1991-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9694d8000abe37f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " of accessibility and visibility to the public, that would be a more logical site. It is more logical to put underground station entrances on the corner of two main roads rather than just round the corner, so that they cannot be seen from both directions. The site has become controversial because it is the local underground entrance for Guy's hospital. Perhaps it is a question of opting in or out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-20a.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "the remarks from the Carlton club that the Government's nursery commitment—or lack of it—is damaging, potentially vote-losing and must be corrected? Will the Minister be honest with the House about the figures which as the Carlton club says are both false and misleading? The Government claim that Britain is doing well in comparison with other European countries, but we are doing appallingly badly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.766.7", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I welcome the White Paper that the Secretary of State announced yesterday. However, it was belated and it is a great pity that it has taken 12 years to take some action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.766.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.772.4", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Uncharacterisitically, the hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense. As I said earlier in response to the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Miss Hoey), the Government have demonstrated that we are committed to sport in a variety of areas. Only a month or two ago, I was able to find a further £1 million for extra coaching, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor announced a foundation for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.772.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.773.6", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " initiatives have emanated. Is the Minister still in training? When will he be ready to take the field? There are many issues on which we need his advice, such as the place of team games and swimming in the school curriculum, which was discounted by the Secretary of State, and the publication of the report on youth policy on sport, for which we have been waiting three years. Most important of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.776.5", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tement tomorrow, I hope that his support will hold good. It is a matter that the whole country will be keen to see brought to a conclusion at an early stage. On the subject of the health reforms, the right hon. Gentleman is aware, for he has clearly heard what has been said by many people in the health service in recent days, that he was wrong about health care outside the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.776.6", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "What we are hearing, Mr. Speaker, is the hysteria of defeat. The Prime Minister does not appear to understand his own legislation. The trusts are not owned by the national health service. They can buy and sell, hire and fire and make contract deals without regard to the national health service. They are not part of a national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.776.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the health service reforms are already working well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "May I take the Prime Minister's mind back to his meetings with Ulster Unionist leaders last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.778.8", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that since the polytechnics were given control of their own affairs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.778.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "My constituents in Basildon—indeed, people throughout the country—would be grateful if my right hon. Friend confirmed that the Government, in their spending plans, are able to distinguish between overriding priorities, key priorities, top priorities and urgent priorities. Opposition Members certainly cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Labour party. Labour's campaign co-ordinator has said that education is a first priority; the overseas aid spokesman has said that aid is a top priority; the shadow Chancellor has said that manufacturing industry is a key priority; and just this morning it happened again. Asked for Labour's plan about \"Son of the GLC\", the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) said, \"It's a first-term commitment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. With the greatest respect, I must stop the hon. Gentleman here. He intimated to me that he wanted to refer to a matter which first arose at Question Time last Tuesday—a week ago. I hope that he will not mind my reminding him that I replied that we could not allow points of order in connection with something that had happened a week before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.781.8", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has heard me say, and the whole House knows, that I cannot be held responsible for answers to questions. This is not a matter of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.781.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.781.11", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that the House will always support the occupant of the Chair in this matter. Replies to questions are not a matter for the Chair and points of order in connection with them waste a great deal of time. We have enormous pressures today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.781.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. Surely it cannot be acceptable for Ministers to refuse to take questions about what is happening in opted-out hospitals, which, we are assured, are still in the national health service. Are we really to accept the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Let us have one, please; I think that that is enough for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.783.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reactionary!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman seeking to oppose the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We thought that you had finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "I am giving way to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.836.8", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " and so on—in authorities such as the hon. Lady's. To show that we are in no way mistreating Stoke-on-Trent, I remind the hon. Lady that in a number of programmes Stoke-on-Trent does extremely well. For example, its housing investment programme allocation was £17·7 million last year, and a further £14·5 million this year. So there are ways in which Stoke-on-Trent does extremely well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.836.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "and is substantially flawed, as is shown by the experience of a large number of authorities such as Greenwich. I notice that the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Holt) was anxious to suggest one or two other instances for consideration. Some authorities, such as Basildon and Bristol, found themselves capped because of the arbitrary nature of the criteria, even though they did not exceed their SSAs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Shelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Shelton", "preceding_text": "at the Government have come to the rescue of my constituents. The community charge first announced for this year by Lambeth was £590 a head. The £140-a-head from central Government funds reduced that figure to £450 a head. The capping order, which I shall support tonight, brings the figure down to about £420 a head. That is still outrageously high—as far as I know it is the highest in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Shelton", "preceding_text": "pect that they will become even worse. I do not know whether it is due to present or past inefficiency and incompetence, but the result has been a debt burden of tens of millions of pounds. It can be estimated at between £40 million and £120 million, depending upon which way it is calculated. Certainly it is so large because of uncollected rates, uncollected rents and uncollected community charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "n are on income support, and about 25 per cent. of primary school children need special care and attention. The hon. Member for Streatham will confirm that that is the figure given by teachers in our primary schools. The quality of our life has therefore suffered considerably already, yet we have to put up with this order as well. For some years, the Government have regarded Lambeth as rebellious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-21", "file": "debates1991-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "0103383b29300037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "rent financial year with no financial reserves and a false budget from which this year's calculations have been made. The Tory leader knew that the authority could not run at a modest level of services, let alone a generous level, at the figure at which he had set the poll tax without using the financial reserves, so the level of the authority's spending is last year's budget minus those reserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-21a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.913.10", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "on it. Is the Government's policy the one that we know that the right hon. Gentleman favours, signing up for EMU and the single currency; or is it the policy of Sir Leon Brittan, which would side-track us on a double-track approach; or is it the policy of the early-day motion, which everyone knows that Downing street has stirred up and is the Prime Minister's position? Which of the three policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.913.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.920.5", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "After speaking on 20 March to a meeting of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, on lines which set out Government policy, Mr. Gore-Booth answered questions. A report on this appeared just the other day. Some of his answers gave personal views, not Government policy, as he made clear at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.922.10", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Hara", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Hara", "preceding_text": " relations with the west? The Gulf war has drawn attention to other United Nations resolutions, which have not been so enthusiastically pursued. There is increasing recognition by politicians on both sides of the divide in Cyprus that there must be a peaceful solution. Will the Minister therefore send the Government's congratulations to President Georghios Vassiliou who, in this weekend' elections", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.922.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that while Burma may have moved away from the world headlines, Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest and is banned from leading her party and taking part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "capping would be an act of centralisation which the nation could well do without? What has changed since May of last year when the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) said that? Can we be told when this Bill, the most centralising and the most ignominious control of local government ever introduced, is to be published? When will the Bill be in the Vote Office? As the Leader of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.930.7", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.930.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "The fact is, Mr. Speaker, that you will not allow this side of the House to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give back the silver.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Did the Leader of the House see the excellent publicity and does he know of the great public interest in the launch of the Labour party's proposal to set up a Greater London authority to act as a strategic authority for London? I have a copy here if he would like to see it. In view of the fact that he has not announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.933.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "ath in a mine and it is a constant reminder of the days when deaths occurred in the mines every week and sometimes every day, especially in Wales. I pay tribute to all those who burrowed with hands, picks and shovels to reach Mr. Jones but who found, after 22 hours, that they had worked in vain. This is yet another reminder that safety in our mines must always be a top priority for any Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House find time after the recess to allow the Government to repudiate the disgraceful behaviour of the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) who has been parading her pro-apartheid views around South Africa, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "tised as having an aggressive temperament, and in the past they have been responsible for vicious attacks. One was responsible for an attack on two police officers only yesterday. Finally, the Home Secretary knows that virtually all authorities on the care and control of dogs insist that protection and prohibition cannot work successfully without the introduction of a national registration scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "As a former breeder and show judge of great Danes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I had not appreciated that my hon. Friend was a big breeder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.1029.7", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I do not want any sarcasm from Selly Oak, either. The hon. Gentleman will get awkward in a minute or two, and we will have to deal with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.1029.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ember for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) on a bicycle. If he had been on a bicycle, that rottweiler probably would not have attacked him. I was sorry for the hon. Gentleman when it happened, but at the same time I agreed with my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) when he wanted to know if the dog was all right. I have said my piece. I hope that the Treasury Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-22", "file": "debates1991-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "90877105ce808ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "dom of Parliament. If he has a family, a person of 50 is at the most expensive time of his life. He may still be paying off a mortgage or have kids at school and, even if they are not at fee-paying schools, we all know what children cost. He does not pay for a holiday just for Mutt and Jeff; he has to pay for four or five people. To lose one's seat at a time of such expenses is no laughing matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-22a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-05-23", "file": "debates1991-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "eb0820ea07087d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-23a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ue the case for the British Olympic Association to be released from corporation tax. Unless he does that, the British Olympic Association will be hampered to the extent of £1·5 million. The Minister must tell the House that he will vigorously pursue the Secretary of State for the Environment and persuade him to provide urgently needed direct Government money to boost the Manchester-led bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-05-23a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.16.13", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " one of the high spots of the London season? It is certainly one of the lesser injuries that we can inflict upon our constituents. Given the appalling weather at present and the tight-fistedness of many hon. Members, it is clear that a cream tea is not one of the pleasures that many constituents can enjoy. Could not we have a boat moored off the Thames on which refreshments are provided? It would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.16.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Lady on her change of status, but commiserate with her on asking a question about the Governor of the Bank of England on this, of all days. She should add to her comments the cost to the Governor of the Bank of England, or anyone else who sets aside, of looking after that land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Whales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "nets, I made it clear that, in the negotiations within the European Community that will take place in July, we shall be considering motions that, if agreed, would make the nets illegal. The United Kingdom will be supporting those changes and will be seeking to ensure that the carrying of such nets will be illegal, so as to ensure that we protect waters that the European Community does not control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ith the powers in England. The hon. Gentleman asked me about the position that arises out of the 1966 legislation. However, the capping provisions were introduced under this Government some 20 years later. So it is not realistic to think that the Labour Government in 1966 ever sought to constrain Scottish local authorities under the type of legislative controls that we are discussing. If they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ahead with that, because, if we do not, how shall we get the tax ready for its introduction in 1993? Surely both sides of the House want lower bills for constituents. The council tax seems to have been a satisfactory way out of the problem. The Secretary of State and the Minister of State deserve the highest credit for the way in which they have managed to defuse this issue in the past few months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "alia to do? We are considering the collection of about £800 million by means of a massive process of banding, valuation, revaluation, assessment and appeals, which would run in harmony with the poll tax registration. It is completely unnecessary. Why do I think that it is unnecessary? I shall repeat comments that I have made before, because they do not seem to be getting through to the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.95.4", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "byshire, Nottinghamshire and other such councils is not the Government's action on capping but cruel, stupid and short-sighted administration at county headquarters. I am convinced that, before the end of this financial year, members of Derbyshire county council will be disqualified from public office—and good riddance, too. This debate not only concerns Derbyshire but is of national significance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.95.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "That was an incredible intervention, when we bear in mind that Strathclyde council faces major cuts and will have to decide how to cope with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.120.3", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " 10 pm on any evening; but I cannot let the money resolution go by without commenting on the fact that we are about to embark on expenditure in excess of £250 million. The Government often chide the Labour party on the ground that, whenever there is a problem, it throws money at it; yet every time the Government introduce proposals on local government finance, it costs the rest of us a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "appen. The Opposition are protecting taxpayers against this lavish, spendthrift Government, who have already hurled £6 billion at this horrendously absurd poll tax in a vain attempt to rescue it. The Government are asking for what they regard as a trivial amount, but £250 million is a very important item of expenditure. If it were applied to Bradford, it could solve some of its education problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "o the bait. So that we do not have to go through all this in the Committee of the whole House, may I say unequivocally that we have made it clear on innumerable occasions to every Labour party member and elected representative that we expect them to pay the poll tax. We have made that clear in our resolutions and in our conference statements. We do not yet, however, live in a totalitarian society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-03", "file": "debates1991-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d4eebeda992456b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "When I next have the pleasure of meeting Joan Twelves, I shall discuss the Labour party's lack of totalitarianism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-03a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "May I make it absolutely clear to the Secretary of State for Defence that the Trident programme is an integral and important part of Labour party defence policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I welcome what my hon. Friend says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ed totally to ignore the interests of our NATO allies and to drive ahead without conducting proper discussions on the NATO strategy. Before I take criticism from the hon. Gentleman, who should be ashamed of his defence policy because it will leave this country naked as his party has voted overwhelmingly for huge reductions in defence expenditure, I should simply say that NATO agreed that strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.146.9", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "he Government have any plans to release that report, which could be the subject of legal action once it is produced? Does he know that the mother of that 17-year-old boy was visited this weekend by her son's colleagues who were present when the accident involving the Americans took place? Those boys told the parents that the officers had instructed that they must not discuss this matter with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.146.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.150.6", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose — [Interruption] I will wait for a little silence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.150.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hood—no, Mr. John Garrett—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.151.9", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " is nonsense; the engineers and electricians recognise that Labour's policy is nonsense; and the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) has said that himself in the past. Even the Sunday People, which is hardly a Conservative news sheet, stated in its editorial: Labour's plan for a national minimum wage is not the answer. It would only cause more unemployment and deny jobs to those who need them\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.151.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Strategy for Health", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "on staff whom we employ in the NHS, but on real commitment by the public. Following the consultation period, which will last until the end of October, we shall publish a White Paper setting out a definitive statement of strategy. It will set out what we will do to meet the targets. We hope to receive a wide range of suggestions about how different fields of activity can contribute to the strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Strategy for Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "It is a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Strategy for Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that my hon. Friend takes a particular view of any proposals that might be made for the reorganisation of Papworth, and I note his advocacy yet again. The performance of Opposition Members today has been shoddy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "o ensure that the main features of the new system are plainly set out in the Bill and are open to full debate at this stage. On the other, it is also obviously sensible not to burden the Bill itself with detailed, technical or procedural matters—not least because of the need to retain flexibility to adjust the detail in the light of practical experience once the new scheme has come into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "pport agencies throughout the United Kingdom, not just in London. My right hon. Friend will, however, be aware of the disappointment that I feel about the announcement of the siting of the agencies, and the fact that there will not be one in Wolverhampton. Will he take this opportunity to put the record straight? I know that he has tried his very best: he has telephoned me late at night many times", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "question is yes. The Bill takes account of the measure to which he referred. I am at a somewhat greater disadvantage on the second part of the hon. Member's question. The right course for me to take is to say that my hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack), the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security, who will reply at the end of the debate, will seek to deal with the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-04", "file": "debates1991-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "93fadf1377a50358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "e will be an election between now and the full implementation of the Bill—certainly before the Child Support Agency is set up and running—there will be a significant number of changes. We do not believe in a punitive social policy, but we believe in incentives—not only for people who are well off, which is fair enough, but for those members of society who are less well endowed and less privileged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-04a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "We keep that matter under constant review, especially with regard to the East German issue, which I shall take up, as my hon. Friend asks. It is important for us that British manufactured cars of Japanese marques are given free access throughout the Community. We are absolutely adamant that they shall have free circulation throughout the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that we are all impressed by trade associations and their abilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.266.5", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ll certainly ask the Director General of Fair Trading to investigate any anti-competitive practices in which I have received evidence that the banks are indulging, whether the evidence results from the inquiries of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer or otherwise. I have received no evidence and no evidence has been submitted by the hon. Gentleman to me or to the Director General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance about whether in the debate that we are to have on London it will be in order to highlight the fact that the education policies of Lambeth have so affected education that the official Labour party spokesman is transferring his child to a Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.285.6", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "clude the editors of The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard and the European Commissioner for the Environment. They all agree that the quality of life in our capital city has declined alarmingly. A staggering 46 per cent. of Londoners would like to leave the city in which they live. Only the most purblind of Governments would seek to dismiss that judgment and vote of no confidence by Londoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.285.6", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ionally been its greatest strength are being put needlessly at risk. The City's role as Europe's pre-eminent financial centre is increasingly being challenged by other cities, notably Frankfurt. London's attempts to fight back are hardly helped by transport and traffic systems that are grinding to a halt. Journeys to the City from the major airports take two or three times longer than they should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "Does not the experience of the LDDC show the appalling failure of the Government and their lack of planning policy? The docklands district is suffering because there is no proper road and rail infrastructure into it. Do not the Government have a Singapore mentality towards docklands, in that they ignore the surrounding districts, turning them into a sort of third world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have drawn the hon. Gentleman to his feet. Those watching the debate at home will welcome the opportunity to be reminded about the government of London that we have shaken off, which is amply represented by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to follow the hon. Member for Streatham (Sir W. Shelton). As one of the three Members for Lambeth present, I am sure that he would like me to mention that, today, all three Lambeth Members had a productive meeting with the new leader of Lambeth council and the new chair of education. What Lambeth now needs most is to be taken out of the headlines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "t afford such a strategic facility that will be used by people from throughout London and the country. Who will replace the ice rink in the London borough of Richmond when it closes in 1992? Who is thinking about such problems now? Ultimately, because there is no overall authority to consider them, each borough is interested only in what happens in its little patch. In the London borough of Epsom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ty of Londoners will welcome the new Greater London authority. I share the disappointment expressed by the right hon. Member for Brent, North that our document does not mention the possibility of a directly elected London mayor, which is an idea whose time has come. It captures the imagination of Londoners, and I for one will continue to campaign for the proposal to be put to the House for debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": " past. But I want to take this opportunity to talk about what they have done right in the past. I think it was the Minister who asked what anybody who came into the debate this afternoon might think. Anyone who came into the debate this afternoon and looked at London Conservative Members would see that, without exception, they are middle-aged, grey-faced and grey-suited men. London Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "London Labour Members—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"]—three quarters of London Labour Members were here at the beginning of the debate—represent London in all its variety. The London Labour party may have its faults, but that is because London has its faults. The London Labour party may be a difficult and turbulent party, but since mediaeval times, London has been a difficult and turbulent city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Labour authorities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "l that we are doing is telling the truth about what is happening in London. Nothing could do more harm to London than a recitation of the facts. No words of mine could compare with the bad impression that foreign visitors may get when they come here occasionally, or the bad impression that Londoners get every day from the evidence of their own eyes: the unswept streets and the uncollected rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "eople should wish to sleep and have to sleep in the streets of the capital. Members on both sides of the House share that view. That is why the Department of the Environment has initiated a major programme of £180 million over two years. It is also why, over the past two years, the Department of Health has instituted a major programme of housing, both temporary and permanent, for the mentally ill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "nt., so extra capacity is needed. The Government have approved two new underground railway lines and are planning a third. We have a 15-year programme involving the Jubilee line, which will cost over £1 billion, the east-west crossrail and the safeguarding of the Chelsea-Hackney route. That is a creditable programme for the extension of the London underground, which will cost more than £3 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.331.6", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "In the same way that bus services in the provinces are provided where the social routes in the provinces are subsidised. My local county council subsidises bus routes, and that applies to the councils in the constituencies of all my hon. Friends. That will continue. The authority responsible for bus transportation in London will continue to sponsor socially necessary bus routes and services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.331.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Training and the Unemployed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman said that I asked about the reality of training and enterprise councils.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Training and the Unemployed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "For six months, the Government have consistently denied that there is any such underfunding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Training and the Unemployed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "o make regarding your staff. I am sincerely sorry that they will be redundant. I wish there was something that I could do to prevent it, but I am afraid that our hands are tied. That is what is actually happening. Another minute has found its way into our posession. It is a letter from the Department of Employment to a training provider in London—to the Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Training and the Unemployed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "mployment and deny jobs to those who most need them\". The stupidity of the Labour party is that it confuses, low-paid jobs with low-income households, but 62 per cent. of those whose pay is in the lowest tenth of earnings are in the richer half of the population. That is why the sensible way of helping those on low incomes is to pay family credit, which is targeted on those in low-paid employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-05", "file": "debates1991-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "d2cebe376b670594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.354.6", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Training and the Unemployed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It was brilliant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "rning. The only difficulty is that, every time the hon. Gentleman gets up to promise more money, the shadow Chief Secretary slaps him down and says he cannot have it. My hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Mr. Oppenheim) referred earlier to the shadow Chief Secretary's appearance on \"On the Record\". I am sure that all who had the privilege of witnessing that will long treasure the experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-05a.354.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.390.4", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Whatever the numbers, clearly those people are political prisoners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.390.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "s on to the victims. Of course there is an element of carelessness among the public and we want people to be more security conscious, but we have had 12 years of astounding rises in crime. The Government cannot shirk the responsibility for that or for underfunding crime prevention initiatives. Why do the Government not once in a while back the police instead of stopping the police doing their job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.402.4", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister join me in sending best wishes to Prince William for a complete recovery —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is aware of the tremendous support among Conservative Members for his views on economic and monetary union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.403.8", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Small businesses which used to have arrangements to pay 3 per cent. above base rate on their overdraft facilities are now paying as much as 17 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.403.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time today to read about the dreadful events taking place in Labour-controlled Hackney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time today to read about the dreadful events taking place in Labour-controlled Hackney— [Interruption.] —where council officials have been racketeering on the backs of the homeless and illegally renting out properties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Adams", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that my hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen wrote to him putting that question yet again? He is still awaiting a reply. Will the Prime Minister answer today, because the question deserves a serious answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have seen that report and it shares the views of the Government, the Fabian Society and many others. A minimum wage would have devastating effects for people. It would encourage others to seek to raise the general level of wages. It would raise inflation and unemployment, and a National Institute estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.6", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "West Germany has in no sense in recent years had many of the attendant difficulties created by trade unions and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.8", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, there is now a stack of people, the Fabian Society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.406.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.411.9", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Edinburgh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I know that several Scottish Grand Committee meetings are coming forward in the immediate future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.411.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend provide an early opportunity to debate the minimum import price into the European Community of raspberries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "eason, they are cutting out the county orchestra. They are cutting staff numbers. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Labur party in Derbyshire is freezing school meal prices at their 1981 level. If it were to go back on that daft decision, it would be able to afford most of the cuts that it is making in its music provision and in staffing levels. Warwickshire is increasing its spending on education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I might be a new Member, but I am not that new or green. We would need to see the nature of that independence and the wording before we gave assurances —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Education and Science (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Education and Science (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "preceding_text": "pleasure to join in the debate with the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), even when he is standing in for the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor). I hope that the hon. Member for Truro has had an enjoyable wedding, even if it was his brother's. The hon. Member for Durham, North-West (Ms. Armstrong) was less than charitable to my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I understand that we are still dealing with amendment No. 9. This is an historic occasion. I do not believe that I have ever before moved an amendment which the Government have accepted in spirit even if they did not want to include it in the Bill. I therefore claim an important victory for the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": " hon. and hon. Friends on the issue of whether they support the Bill. I certainly hope that they will make their position clear towards the end of this debate and that they will support the Government. I welcome this Bill. It is markedly different from the original version presented to the House some months ago. Given the Prime Minister's commitment to education, this Bill is a major step forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.454.7", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "rs and people throughout the country trust the present Secretary of State for Education and Science? My answer would be no. Those in the health service did not trust him, the teachers do not trust him, and I certainly do not. When we debated the Education Reform Act 1988, we were told to trust the then Secretary of State for Education and Science, the right hon. Member for Mole Valley (Mr. Baker)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.454.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "etary of State that he is much trusted in education. We in the profession appreciate the stand that he has taken to achieve this legislation, which will profit teachers as they have not been helped for many years. The hon. Member for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg) said, almost with pride, that 1 million days were lost through teacher strikes, but that is to the shame of teachers, not their credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "n welcoming the legislation. We are not surprised, but sorry, that the National Union of Teachers has not come on side—and I believe that it will rue the day. Members of the NUT up and down the country will welcome the legislation when they see the pay review body in action and begin to profit from it, as they will. I think that they will press the NUT to change its view and it will have to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-06", "file": "debates1991-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "47e1fd821a095d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Kurdish People", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "te. She has chosen an opportune moment to talk about this subject. When I returned from the Iran-Iraq border in April and told the House what conditions were like at that time, I did not think that I would be talking about the plight of the Kurds again some two months later. I thought that the message would have got across to the Government by then and that, instead of depending on the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-06a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.505.10", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Would this not make an interesting contribution to the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.505.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "of state ownership. In Cuba, they are selling housing. In other words, in countries in every continent, under Governments of every complexion, privatisation is now the watchword. It is happening almost everywhere but, sadly, not quite everywhere. I think particularly of three redoubts of reaction, three bastions of the old dogmas. There is no commitment to privatisation in North Korea, Albania or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ation at every stage, and the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East now has the whole morning before him to set out his stall. He has had all week in which to consult his hon. Friends so that he can array their pledges before the House in sparkling order for scrutiny. He may also wish to answer a few questions. For example, is clause 4 still an integral part of the Labour party's constitution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ch it has been open and honest. It has said that it will take water back into public control. How would it go about it? In its document, \"Meet the Challenge, Make the Change\" it said: There would be no question of paying other than a fair market price for any equity or other ownership rights we wish to acquire\". What is meant by \"a fair market price\"? The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I can easily answer that question. It means that the national grid would be repurchased. We have no intention of expropriating anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.518.8", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The best way to answer that is to say that we would not want to pay too much, but we would not pay too little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.518.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.522.4", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I did not say that the extra 2 per cent. stake in British Telecom would be the sort of priority that the hon. Gentleman seems to imply. I went out of my way to say something different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.522.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.529.2", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e not lining up to follow Britain's example. I believe that the only two EC states whose telecommunications networks are in the private sector are Greece and Spain. Another issue that has aroused a considerable amount of public interest and comment in respect of the Government's privatisation programme is the way in which the salaries of top executives are adjusted immediately after privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.529.2", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "r income by contracting out paybed facilities to private firms … Even more adventurously, hospital builders such as Tarmac Construction suggest that they could build and operate entire hospitals more efficiently and more cheaply than the public sector. That would speed up operations, would it not? We would see blokes from Tarmac coming in with chainsaws and hammers to sort out the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.538.6", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "If that is not the Labour party's view, why has it criticised British Telecom for reducing its work force? Why does it always raise the spectre of denationalisation leading to job cuts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.538.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "nalised days were the days when the company was not allowed to order the aeroplanes it needed. It was not even allowed to choose the aircraft it wanted, but it was expected to run an airline. No wonder it was rated somewhere down on a level with some of the east European airlines in passenger estimation. It was treated as though it was an east European airline by an east European-style Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "One is almost embarrassed by the number of examples one could cite of the success of denationalised industries. Against that fact, we have only the carping and idiotic criticism of Labour Members to the effect that there is something wicked about making profits, even when the consumer is being far better served.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "ors of the British Steel Corporation and United Steel. Therefore, I have had considerable experience. However, unlike right hon. and hon. Members who also worked in the nationalised industry, I was not a high flier. Obviously, I worked on the shop floor and in research. There was considerable trauma in going from the private to the public sector. I will not allow hon. Members to mislead the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "I cannot allow a further intervention because it would be extremely discourteous to my hon. Friends, who have been here throughout the morning, and because Opposition Members, too, wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "still places it in the top 10 European countries. However, its system failed for three main reasons, the first of which was the huge arms race on which it embarked to try to keep pace with the United States. All that useless production meant that the money was not available for economic development. In the main—this is another, perhaps good, reason for failure—the Soviet Union was not imperialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-07", "file": "debates1991-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc1bdd1014de6fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Nationalisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of public bodies such as local authorities throughout the country. I expect all Tory Members to be in favour of local authorities, as they have not privatised them yet and I have not heard them talk about doing so. As for the Japanese plant, which the hon. Gentleman supports and I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-07a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "But still the redundancies rain down on Wales because of the Government's serious economic errors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS' \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that there should be no more haemorrhaging of funds for the arts from London to the regions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Skinner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.600.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.600.7", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.600.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "First, I want to say how sorry I am to have shouted at you, Mr. Speaker, in the middle of Question Time. However, 1 am sure that you understand the strength of the feelings of Welsh Opposition Members. We have only 40 minutes of Welsh questions each month and we do not have the discretion to run over by four minutes, as happened in this instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.601.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Dickens?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will recall that during Arts questions you called eight Members to speak about Greater London arts funding seven of whom were from London. Those of us who were also bobbing up and down at the time trying to catch your eye to explain that arts exist in the regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "preceding_text": "ing seven of whom were from London. Those of us who were also bobbing up and down at the time trying to catch your eye to explain that arts exist in the regions— [Interruption.] —have not complained about that in points of order. However, we observe that hon. Members on the Liberal Benches, who get a disproportionate opportunity to take part, leave the Chamber as soon as they have recorded a view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.604.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "preceding_text": "lt of vicious attacks and urging us in Parliament to act with proper haste, Mr. Speaker. Only this week, the local paper in Croydon carried an article setting out details of an especially vicious attack, and said that the Government should act with speed. There is undoubtedly public concern, and that means that we should legislate quickly. Opposition Members ought to support the guillotine motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes. So sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "preceding_text": "cle setting out details of an especially vicious attack, and said that the Government should act with speed. There is undoubtedly public concern, and that means that we should legislate quickly. Opposition Members ought to support the guillotine motion—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"] If Opposition Members supported the guillotine motion, there would be no vote, and the matter would be dealt with quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "preceding_text": ". The time that has been made available to debate it is entirely adequate—we have the better part of 10 to 12 hours' debate on a Bill of only eight clauses, and that is enough. In my years in the House I have often listened to speeches of 20, 30, 40 or 50 minutes which could easily have been finished in three, four or five minutes. If one has something sensible to say, one can say it very quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " were 13 guillotines. In that quarter of a century—when the greatest social revolution of this century, the inception of the welfare state, occurred—we had a total of 22 guillotines. Under my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath), between 1970 and 1974, there were eight guillotines, and under Lords Wilson and Callaghan, between 1974 and 1979, there were 21 guillotines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "I sense that the feeling of the House is to move to a decision on the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ere was a necessity to licence the animal if it remained in her possession. Knowing of the necessity to licence it, she would have renewed the licence or transferred her name to it. She would then at least have been told of the dangers of keeping the dog and might well have been persuaded to have it put down. I repeat that, despite his dismissal of the registration scheme, with explicit reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "During my lifetime, I have been bitten eight times by dogs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Government Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon, West (Miss Nicholson) and the House will forgive me if I do not comment on all that has been said, but I lack the time to do so. Opposition Members tried to castigate us for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "hree Alsatians attacked her in the driveway of a private house. She suffered other bites to the head, arms and legs, and underwent emergency surgery. Under the Bill, such an incident would not be caught under the definition of public places. In my constituency, there are several families whose lives, children and cats are terrorised by a rottweiler living down the road which constantly leaps over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": " incident would not be caught under the definition of public places. In my constituency, there are several families whose lives, children and cats are terrorised by a rottweiler living down the road which constantly leaps over— [Laughter.] That is no laughing matter. It leaps over the garden fence and as recently as last weekend, a cat had to be attended by a veterinarian and there was an £80 bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "preceding_text": "Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy) need not worry about Staffordshire bull terriers. I shall refer to clause 4 in a moment. The hon. Gentleman is wrong about the date of the introduction of the Bill allowing puppies to be bred. As from 31 July, when the legislation will be on the statute book, it will be an offence for dogs to have puppies, and such puppies will be caught by all clauses of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "When I opposed the timetable motion, I made it clear that I supported the overall objectives of the Bill but that I very much deplored the way in which it was being rushed through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "When I opposed the timetable motion, I made it clear that I supported the overall objectives of the Bill but that I very much deplored the way in which it was being rushed through the House. [Interruption.] It appears that we are in the midst of a convention of small order waiters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "n contradicted. It is recognised now, but it was not in 1983, that they are an affront to society and that something must be done about them. We are talking almost exclusively about the problem of dangerous dogs, and one dangerous breed in particular. It would be better to focus on the Bill, which seeks precisely to tackle the problem, and not to be distracted by the diversion of dog registration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "With a register, it would be possible for wardens fairly quickly to identify those whose dogs were not registered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must have misheard me. I said that compliance was just below 50 per cent. in Northern Ireland and that in the Republic it was 30 per cent. The hon. Gentleman would expect Northern Ireland to be more law-abiding in this matter than the Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.726.7", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "uest of the RSPCA, put that at £60 million. The right hon. Gentleman did not answer my question. Is the scheme to be self-financing or is it to be subsidised? Until he answers, how can we know what the level of fee will be? He is going to the country with a scheme that is uncosted. He is trying to persuade people that it is likely to cost a few pounds, when in fact it is likely to cost £10 or £20—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.726.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You would, wouldn't you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "I think that the situation is rather different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.730.6", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "ther such organisations have fought hard for the issue to be raised, not merely in the House but throughout the country. If we do not take this step forward tonight, the subject will be back. I am sure that the Bill will get through the Lords and that we shall be debating it again in a month or so. I have been a Member of Parliament for only two years and no issue has been discussed more than dogs", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.730.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-10", "file": "debates1991-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e51edf54eea891c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.746.6", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Dangerous Dogs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "hould explain to the Minister immediately that this is very much a probing amendment. Like other hon. Members, we have received representations from the Rottweiler Society, and we have listened carefully to what has been said. None the less, some of our constituents do not immediately understand how the Government can single out pit bull terriers for treatment as a special category when there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-10a.746.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. It is true that every Labour Government has left behind higher unemployment than when they took office. My hon. Friend's comments about the fall in unemployment in Portsmouth since the last general election apply across the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is it not apparent from today's events and yesterday's events that what we are seeing is not Britain at the heart of Europe but deep division at the heart of the Conservative party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.783.9", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there are some creatures who, when removed from their settled natural habitat, can turn dangerously unpredictable in their behaviour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.783.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.783.11", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "Since allowing them to wander freely abroad has caused some difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.783.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er decisions are made may have a profound effect on our trade and well-being. I have set out often enough to the House that the economic case for monetary union has not been made, that we cannot accept the imposition of a single currency and that any proposed changes to the treaty of Rome—a move to a single currency—would require a separate decision by the United Kingdom Government and Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I accept that, Mr. Speaker, so to paraphrase the reply that I received, he confirms that the tabling of questions about NHS trusts is entirely in order and that there has been no question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for pointing that out. Following those points of order, I received a letter from a constituent saying that it was disgraceful that questions about NHS trusts could not be tabled and answered in the House. In other words, Opposition Members successfully communicated to people outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is old hat, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.793.7", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "lgence of the Committee, I should like to add the thanks of my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Michie) and of all elected Sheffield Members to the thanks offered to Helen Sharman by the Prime Minister earlier this afternoon for her presence in the House. All of us from Sheffield and across Britain wish her well and congratulate her on her tremendous feat on behalf of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I think that the Conservative chairman of the ADC knows what he is talking about, given his experience of dealing not only with the Government but with the electorate in the area that he represents and in which he lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ill be obliged progressively to come down towards they so that we can deliver the council tax at figures that people will regard as reasonable and fair. The Labour party differs with us in the extreme on this matter. It has made a great deal of its own figures—miscalculated figures, I might say. It stands to reason that if we seek to collect the same amount of money from the same number of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Would the hon. Gentleman like a villa?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I do not often speak French because, as the Minister says, my accent leaves something to be desired. Unlike some people, I do not spend enough time perfecting it in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": " am slightly worried about the position of Rutland district council—and, as my hon. Friend the Minister knows, so is the council. I do not think that there will be any problem provided that the authority keeps within its SSA, as indeed, it has done ever since the introduction of the system. I fear, however, that in such a small authority a tiny amount of spending could be enough to exceed the SSA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " Community the revenue that backs it up to provide for the debt charges and, in some cases, the running costs of projects approved for EC aid is counted for capping purposes. The authority is forced to cut its normal mainstream budget in order to accept our money back from our European partners. A dafter position one could never expect to come across. Without capping, the position would not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " the position would not arise. [Interruption] I hear that the Whip is doing his bit again going round the houses drawing up his little lists. Perhaps he would draw up the list of authorities that have been denied help by the rules that currently apply. Perhaps he would whip in some of his colleagues so that they can hear about the way in which their people—not their local authorities—are affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.846.5", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the quorum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e than to maintain services at existing levels—is excessive, and force the authority to reduce its poll tax—or, if by some freak, the Government win the next general election, its council tax—and bring cuts in its services. The people whose services are cut at the whim of the Secretary of State are the same people who elected the local authority on the basis that it would provide certain services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.846.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "rts with a built-in disadvantage because of the discriminatory distribution of central Government grant. Lothian regional council has tried to make the best of a difficult job by setting a modest budget—£10 per head lower than the average for Scottish regions, and £19 a head less than Dumfries and Galloway regional council, which covers the area represented by the Secretary of State for Scotland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": " system will involve less accountability. The hon. Members for Gordon, for Motherwell, North (Dr. Reid) and for Dundee, East (Mr. McAllion)—I gather that I am always welcome in Dundee—mentioned trust. Let me confirm that the Secretary of State will make a declaratory statement in the autumn about capping criteria, well ahead of local authorities' setting their budgets. One criticism has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "The Minister must know that when he talks about October and November, there is a suspicion that he may be putting the decision off further and further because the Government are 6 per cent. behind in the opinion polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.872.6", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-11", "file": "debates1991-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "26f999fd4bae3993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.872.6", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] As I was saying before I was interrupted, until the hon. Member for Dumfries walked in at about 9·50 pm not one Scottish Back-Bench Tory debated the issues involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-11a.872.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for Neasden!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.894.5", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Will the consultation with local authorities on the setting up of the commission mean that local authorities will be properly consulted for their views? Bearing in mind the mess that the Government have made of the local economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.894.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I was pleased to receive the Audit Commission's endorsement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "e party and present Home Secretary described it in glowing terms as the hammer of capital value rates\". He said that it would hit tenants as well as home owners. Instead of people benefiting from an increase in the value of their properties, they would be heavily penalised. My source for this information is the well known and reliable newspaper, the Daily Mail, in its edition of 19 September 1989—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "is as the chip shop factor. Unfortunately, he misunderstood what I meant. He thought that I was having a go at chip shop owners, and he predicted that they would come down in force to put their point of view as part of the consultation process which ends this Friday. I did not mean what he thought. I meant that a person who lives next door to a chip shop and next door to a disco on the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "that. But that is not all. As I said, memories are not that short. People will remember the incomprehensibility of how the system worked—a system based on notional rental values. However ingenious the valuers might be, to base an entire system of local government finance on private sector rental values when only 2 or 3 per cent. of the housing stock is in the private rented sector is sheer lunacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "racter in children's games, and there was an interesting theme to be developed. I shall confine my remarks to the proper matter for the debate, which is the role of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in the valuation system in Scotland. I am considerably interested in that, and I took the trouble this morning—I will not say that I did a great deal of research—to discover who the commissioners are", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Bellotti", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What would she pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Bellotti", "preceding_text": "taxation. Moreover, the council tax would do nothing for the widow in a terraced house, bought by the family 30 years ago in Southwark; the house may be valued at £90,000, but her income is about £8,000. Even after the single discount, that person would have to pay £372 a year. Under a local income tax system, she would be very much better off. The only important figure would be her £8,000 income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "ried that the proposals will not be in place by 1 April 1993, but that it will be 1 April 1994. The Labour party has urged that we should return to the old rating system, a system which the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) said was an irrational, inefficient, highly resented form of taxation\". It is strange that the Labour party should take that view and complain about speed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "es change quite dramatically, sometimes because of market forces and sometimes for other reasons. In a street near to where I live there is a Georgian house which, until a few years ago, was renowned across Scotland, if not across the United Kingdom, as a house of ill repute. There were queues outside its door every time the US navy put into port. A few years ago, its owner died and it was closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " than £1 million. Had the proposed council tax been in force 10 or 15 years ago, that house would have been valued on a once-and-for-all basis, as would have been the house of ill repute. That cannot be right. What appeal mechanism will there be? Many people may feel aggrieved if their houses are so valued that, by just £1, they find themselves in a higher band. Valuation is a hit-and-miss affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.1001.5", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "orities for any reasonable additional costs that they incur as a result of the exercise. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central asked about relative changes. We shall return to that point in the context of the Bill after the consultation period has ended. The phrase used by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden about protection rackets may find its way into the public domain in surprising areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.1001.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-12", "file": "debates1991-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "78f70e2012ee9451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "ility and we all know that that is untrue. The clauses would ensure that, under the new council tax, accountability will be seen to work in some way. They would leave the decision of which services to cut with the local authorities, but would ensure that local residents know what the Government intend when they cap an authority and force it to cut expenditure. I do not wish to prolong this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-12a.1008.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that in the course of the past five or six Parliaments, there has been at least one initiative by Labour and by Conservatives when they have been in government? All of them have failed yet, surprisingly, throughout the whole of those 20-odd years, nearly every single opinion poll and survey has shown that the British people want to see the troops out of Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "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 should stop using the unemployed as political pawns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In the six months since the right hon. Gentleman became Prime Minister, unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1036.9", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "v reaffirming his commitment to political and economic reform. I am pleased to be able to say that, after consulting the leaders of the other countries in the Group of Seven, I today invited President Gorbachev to London for discussions with the Group of Seven immediately following the London summit. I also invited him to stay on at the end of the London summit for bilateral discussions. I regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1036.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall telling us on Tuesday that he would speak his mind in future? Will he speak his mind today and tell us plainly, when his right hon. Friend the Member for Tewkesbury says that the Prime Minister is opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " know that there has been an increase in employment since 1983, and that unemployment is 21 per cent. lower than it was at the time of the last general election. If he is concerned about levels of unemployment and the unemployed, I hope that he will consider dissociating himself from Labour policies, especially that of a national minimum wage, which would undoubtedly greatly increase unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1050.4", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "May we have an early debate on the shortage of playing facilities for young children? Is the Leader of the House aware that a petition will be launched in Leicester tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "lieve that a minimum wage is not only socially just, but makes for economic efficiency. I quote the words of Sir Winston Churchill, when he introduced the first minimum wage proposals into this House in 1908 and said that he wanted to end a situation where the good employer was undercut by the bad and the bad employer undercut by the worst. That is precisely what our minimum wage proposal will do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That was an interesting statement. The right hon. Gentleman now seeks to tell us that it was a \"mistake\" and not \"mistakes\" that were made during the period he was at the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That was an interesting statement. The right hon. Gentleman now seeks to tell us that it was a \"mistake\" and not \"mistakes\" that were made during the period he was at the Treasury. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Of course we supported the reduction in interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Labour's policies would raise inflation, deepen recession, and increase unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "g rate of inflation, about which the hon. Lady is asking, is also heading downwards, as yesterday's producer prices index of 6 per cent. confirms. What is more, both the Confederation of British Industry and the journal of the Bank of England think that that index is too pessimistic about our success in reducing the underlying rate of inflation, because many firms seem to report their list prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " index of 6 per cent. confirms. What is more, both the Confederation of British Industry and the journal of the Bank of England think that that index is too pessimistic about our success in reducing the underlying rate of inflation, because many firms seem to report their list prices— [Interruption.] —without taking into full account the discounts that they are giving, as they are requested to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "industry during their adult lives. If I am wrong, I shall happily give way to any of the Opposition Front-Bench team who want to tell the House of their experience, which will enable them to improve, as the shadow Chancellor said, the efficiency and productivity of industry through intervention. Can any of them tell us what experience they have gained in industry which will enable them to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "cond half of last year, 27,000 houses were repossessed by the building societies. That means that 27,000 people—both young and old—have lost their homes during the so-called \"economic miracle\". I turn now to the figures for Government assistance to industry in the north to show the House what the Government have done for the north. The figures show why there are not many Tory Members in the north—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": ". We have already established the Bridge programme. We have been recruiting experts from the private sector into the Department's insurance division because we believe that such interchange is most useful and that there are things to learn both ways. I was sorry to hear of the job losses in Crewe, Paisley North, Wolverhampton and Blyth Valley and of the pain that the downturn in demand has caused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "red with our targeted sensible regional grants, about which we heard earlier in a statement on Barrow and Furness. The hon. Gentleman said that the important point was that the Opposition would tell British Steel what to do. In other words, they would replace the successes generated by the management and employees over the past 10 years with the disasters of the 1970s and interventionist policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-13", "file": "debates1991-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79bf7cea5b9c7222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e believe any of his other predictions when he has such a bad forecasting record? On 22 March 1990, the deceptive misuse of statistics and forecasts by the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East took a decisive turn for the worse. That was just possible, despite the previous record. He said that we had a deficit in invisibles, but in 1990 we recorded a surplus of mere than £4,000 million in invisibles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-13a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-14", "file": "debates1991-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "12547e5277883e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-14a.1168.4", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Taxation Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "hat were typical. It stated: Inheritance tax now takes a substantial toll even from quite modest estates—if you own your own house it is unlikely that your heirs will escape. However, since bequests to charities are exempt from tax, the question you might wish to ask is whether you would prefer merely to enrich the Exchequer or help give a home.\" The Exchequer is seen as a malign, imperial figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-14a.1168.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-14", "file": "debates1991-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "12547e5277883e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-14a.1222.17", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION PROVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 28 June.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-14a.1222.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-14", "file": "debates1991-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "12547e5277883e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-14a.1222.20", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN ACT 1973 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 21 June.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-14a.1222.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-17", "file": "debates1991-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "21906e5aa29666a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Local Government (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "the first term of a Labour Government—if one were elected—would a Labour Government proceed to establish elected regional governments in England and, in parallel, a Welsh assembly in Cardiff. They would regionalise Wales and regulate it to the same status as any region in England. Secondly, the hon., Gentleman wanted the consultations to be more genuine than the consultations over the council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-17", "file": "debates1991-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "21906e5aa29666a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Local Government (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "I have long believed in the principle of unitary authorities and I welcome that part of the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-17", "file": "debates1991-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "21906e5aa29666a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Local Government (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "As one of the civil servants at the Welsh Office who, in 1972, wasted a dreary 12 months of his life assisting the then Conservative Secretary of State with the present unpopular two-tier structure for local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-17", "file": "debates1991-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "21906e5aa29666a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "e Minister nodded in response to an earlier question. I have been told that there will be a free vote tonight. If so, it will be a free vote on a three-line Whip. I am not sure of the distinction. I understand that there is a three-line Whip on hon. Members to turn up, but that they will then be free to vote as they see fit—unless, presumably, they are members of the Government, as the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-17", "file": "debates1991-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "21906e5aa29666a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Craig and Bentley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "o into active service overseas. Recommendations are made in the report—although clearly they do not form part of our proceedings this evening. Nevertheless, problems could arise. There have been a number of relevant cases—particularly one famous case in civilian life. I cannot remember the names of the two young gentlemen involved, but one of them was certainly below the minimum age for execution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-17a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " refer to bathing, caring for the terminally ill at home and the application of medication. That work is now being placed on local authority social service departments and on the home care service. Will the Minister explain why those tasks have been transferred from the district health authorities to the social services departments, if not for budgetary reasons? What will be the full consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buckley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buckley", "preceding_text": " he further realise that those who work in the NHS consider that the job losses that are occurring as a result of the introduction of hospital trusts will have a direct bearing on patient care to the detriment of the service? Does the right hon. Gentleman consider all that to have been a satisfactory outcome of the implementation of the Government's hospital trust policy? Does he further consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.136.7", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should beware of such naive comparisons. The Netherlands, for example, includes nursing homes in its health figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.136.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Ten-minute Bill motion. Mr. John Hughes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.147.8", "colnum": "147", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will you bear it in mind that when you hear complaints from Tory Members about a Labour Member who has been held up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.147.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.148.12", "colnum": "148", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here is the hon. Member!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "sented on two occasions, and it seems reasonable to expect that, on a third occasion, it will indeed be presented. My point of order to you, Mr. Speaker, arises under the heading \"Varieties of Expenditure\" at page 177 of \"Erskine May\", which states: the existence of the Social Security Fund cannot be used by private Members as a means of evading the basic rule that a net charge cannot be imposed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.148.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has shot himself in the foot by using the phrase, \"If leave is given to bring in the Bill\". We have not heard what the hon. Member in question wishes to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I have given way once to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I have given way enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.162.6", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "eople. She must allow other hon. Members to rebut some of the assertions that she freely made. Anglian Water has a £4 billion investment programme under way. North West Water is investing £4·3 billion, while in Thames investment is not far below £4 billion. Progress is being made everywhere in enhancing water standards and in building structures such as a new ring main circuit round London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "he industry. The hon. Lady ought to be careful about keeping on jumping to her feet to complain about profits, because every time she does that Conservative Members will simply ask her, \"If the water industry is not to be funded from its profits or by its customers, from where is it to be funded?\" Once again, I ask the hon. Lady to explain to the House what a future Labour Government intend to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has still failed to explain how the Labour party will fund future investment in the water industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": ", the record is plain: the average for the Labour years was £1,254 million but for the Tory years up to privatisation it was £922 million. The graph went down between 1974 and 1979 and continued to go down until 1986, when it began to increase but still did not reach the spending of the previous Labour Government. Those straightforward facts are obtained not from us but from an independent source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.205.5", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Knapman) doing over there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ies that two stations will be built—one per company. In fact, we are talking about six apiece. The Bill should be amended so that line 13 refers to \"stations\" if the provision is to comply with the rest of the Bill. From our point of view, however, it would be better if another amendment removing the words \"gas turbine\" were tabled, thus leaving a reference only to \"stations\". Then the Bill would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "r the Committee to agree the preamble. That is what \"Erskine May\" says. The preamble must have been agreed before the Committee considered any of the Bill's clauses. My hon. Friend has raised a fundamental point. I cannot see how anyone can infer from the grammar in the preamble that the Bill permits the building of more than two gas turbine power stations—one each for National Power and PowerGen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "uncil to see whether things could be ironed out. Has that happened? The hon. Members who cried \"Object\" to the Bill are not here tonight. Not only local Members, but hon. Members who objected are not here tonight. Will the hon. Member for Rother Valley tell us whether his view has been cleared with Humberside county council which, despite being Labour controlled, has no objection to these matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.213.5", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "The Bill was promoted two years ago. The only reason why the Bill is needed is that the provisions of the Humber Conservancy Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": " on record as wanting to achieve that aim by 2000. However, we are here presented with two power stations that will be so environmentally friendly that there will be no enormous lorries making coal deliveries to the site; no mounds of ash building up around the plant; and no great sulphur emissions into the atmosphere. If Opposition Members want me to go on the attack, I will throw my notes away —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.223.6", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "r improvement and updating. The lessons learned have been passed on to other project teams. The PowerGen green site tombstone is also now in place and landscaping work undertaken towards the end of last year is now beginning to look most attractive. The final landscaping scheme to be implemented, once construction is complete, has been approved, in principle, by the local Glanford borough council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patchett", "preceding_text": "I am taking insurance. The hon. Member for Stroud challenged Opposition Members to declare what interest they had in or contact with Killingholme. I tried to clarify the matter and explained that, as a Member of Parliament, I was worried that private Bill procedures had been misused by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.228.6", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patchett", "preceding_text": " a lot. If I may, I shall finish my point. As you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it has always been my policy to be brief and to the point. Constant interruptions have prolonged my remarks. That makes me suspect that there will be no champagne suppers tonight, so Conservative Members have come to have some fun in the Chamber. I do not find this matter funny. I am trying to get on with a serious debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.231.4", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That does not entitle him or anyone else to misbehave in a manner that distracts the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "preceding_text": "he Humber. When I last visited the Humber—indeed, whenever I have visited the Humber—I have never thought it an especially attractive piece of water. The waters of the Humber hardly sparkle. The laying of pipes in or under the estuary may improve its rather dismal look and may even improve the various varieties of wildlife which flourish in and around the Humber estuary. There will be some effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-18", "file": "debates1991-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1beb7d1f895b73b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "le are inaccurate in their description of any land, or in their statement or description of the ownership or occupation of any land\". In such circumstances, the company may apply for a correction. The promoters have paid for this country's greatest expertise, but they are asking to be excused if they are wrong. How terribly nice. I find that unbelievable and deplorable, but it is part of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-18a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t set of circumstances from Scotland. The hon. Gentleman is perhaps the second most major and influential figure in the Labour party in the west of Scotland. It is a close-run thing between him and the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar). I was therefore interested to see the comments of the hon. Member for Hillhead in The Sun on 7 June on the sacking of Mr. Jimmy Allison when he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.285.6", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "cue_text": "Interruption) —to reduce the amount of salmon that they are taking. My right hon. Friend will be further aware— (Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that there should be many more salmon in Scottish waters as a result of the lifting of nets in the estuaries of many Scottish rivers. My right hon. Friend will be aware also that a deal should be done with the Faroese and Greenlanders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Rail still plans to run night passenger services and freight services from the day that the tunnel opens. With regard to access before 1994, overnight through services are still planned to start when the tunnel opens. Before then the east and west coast main line routes will have services into Waterloo., so that passengers have a convenient interchange for the inter-capital train service. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.299.4", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Unemployed People", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": " is work experience. Is the Secretary of State aware that I thought that the payment of £10 on top of benefit when peopole were on employment training was miserable, and that forcing people to work for £10 on top of benefit is to use the unemployed to pull down wages even further? The Government's great success is the massive growth of low pay in our economy. A national minimum wage is the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Unemployed People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "think that the hon. Gentleman is confusing the facts. I did not refer to 6,000 places. Next year, 60,000 people will be helped by employment action, and 250,000 people, in addition to the 650,000 we help now, will be helped by these measures. The precise level at which people on the scheme will be paid will depend on the level of benefit to which they are entitled, as I made clear in my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compensation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "It is amazing to think that, using the same argument, the hon. Gentleman would vote against a tree preservation order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-19", "file": "debates1991-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "60cc561ef8659e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compensation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "hority has to do what it can. In Stokeford, near Ivybridge, the education authority had to provide eight temporary classrooms to house the overflow from the eight permanent ones already built. In the whole of Devon, there are 1,456 temporary classrooms housing some 30 per cent. of the total school population. Seventy per cent. of primary and secondary schools have one or more temporary classrooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-19a.411.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-20", "file": "debates1991-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d8a6d1a66ee970fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ort prices have risen. When market prices rise it is possible not to increase support prices. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman presses this matter, the farmers of Britain will know that if there were a Labour Government they could expect a slashing attack on their incomes, a destruction of the farming industry, because the Opposition do not even care about agriculture enough to understand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-20", "file": "debates1991-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d8a6d1a66ee970fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "Of course, we shall pay attention to the interests of the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.453.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-20", "file": "debates1991-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d8a6d1a66ee970fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.459.7", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spund, spund, spund.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give a pledge to the House that he and his Government will never increase funding for various aspects of Government by plundering the wage packet of the British working man and woman? Will he further compare his Government's spending— [Interruptioni] —spending policies with those alluded to by the Opposition, whose policies of spend, spend, spend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.459.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-20", "file": "debates1991-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d8a6d1a66ee970fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.467.4", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "If the Leader of the House will not have a debate, will he ensure that the appropriate Minister comes to the House to make a statement on the state's conduct during the miners' strike, and the collusion that took place between the Government, the judiciary and Mrs. Thatcher's private army, the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-20", "file": "debates1991-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d8a6d1a66ee970fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, the debate on Monday is in the name of the Liberal Democrats. I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-20a.469.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Chieftain Tank Replacement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ld like to single him out as one of the most energetic and tireless advocates in helping us to reach the right decision. Yes, it is perfectly true that many Labour Members are quick to complain about cancellations and redundancies in the defence sphere, when they think that they can protest with impunity, but when they hear of substantial defence orders they tend to stay away or avoid the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " court to use the argument of constitutional oddity in the operation of the poll tax. Unfortunately, it was so long before the case was brought before the court that we moved into the new financial year. I was then not subject—as I could have been —to the criticism that other people would then pay poll tax moneys on my behalf. I was in a genuine dilemma about the problem of electoral registration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I paid the money to prevent that from happening. However, some people face that situation, through no fault of their own. Masses of people simply found themselves in great difficulty. Reasonable estimates were made for nort-east Derbyshire about the number of people who would be able to pay. One hundred and two per cent.—the highest in the area—have paid. North-east Derbyshire is a decent, honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And a head tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ved successfully from a poll tax to a local income tax—and it mentions the country that has done so. I hope that I do not cause my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office any difficulties by saying that, when the Liberal Democrats draw attention to the fact that Papua New Guinea has made the transition successfully, I do not find that to be the most persuasive authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Faceless?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Our document, \"Fair Rates\", states exactly how we would approach the financing of local government. The Labour party has also made it clear that we believe that choice belongs with the electorate. If there is to be capping, that should be the electorate's choice. It should not be imposed by faceless Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.634.4", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It is his debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "What income could be realised in rent if the 31,000 houses owned by the Government were let? What income would that put in the Government's coffers? I accept that the Minister wishes to speak in the debate, but his hon. Friend the Member for Stroud took the best part of an hour to move the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.634.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.657.18", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.657.17"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-21", "file": "debates1991-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "35ad363024a54904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.657.27", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-21a.657.26"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.669.7", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is hypothetical. I call the hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Haynes). I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the hon. Gentleman's constituency at the weekend, so I will hear him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.701.4", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "ght's fish and chips\", because he refused to join industrial action he was sent to a leper colony, a local form of Siberia. When the law found in his favour, the council sent in the bulldozers to demolish the Harthill greenhouses so that men could not return to work there. The council subsequently told its employees to go home because it could not protect them from the intimidation which followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.701.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We voted for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "conomy. I was fascinated, as the whole House will have been, to hear the hon. Member for Mossley Hill refer to the docks. Of course they are better. Why are they better? It is because the dock labour scheme has gone, as my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman) pointed out. I do not remember the Liberals of Merseyside arguing that we should get rid of the dock labour scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not been mentioned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": ". It will not fool anyone listening to the debate today, any more than it will fool the country at large. The great argument behind which the hon. Member for Mossley Hill hid—I have not the slightest doubt that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman will also seek to draw it to the attention of the House—is couched in the magic language of cuts. All the way through the 1980s, we heard that language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Margaret and Ted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "consider those schemes seriously, because they are a response to our initiatives. They are designed to help the citizens of Liverpool and to restore its morale. We are confident that they are capable of succeeding, because we proved throughout the 1980s—with earlier experiments—that that was possible. The Labour party's problem is historic: it is actually two separate parties, and always has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Sheffield?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ad. On what amounts to a tragic afternoon for Liverpool, the right hon. Gentleman has joined the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) in a knocking job—not lifting the morale of Liverpool or praising those who are tackling the real issues and problems, but engaging in a sordid and petty debate in which scoring points is much more important than putting the people of Liverpool first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Hill (Mr. Alton) in a knocking job—not lifting the morale of Liverpool or praising those who are tackling the real issues and problems, but engaging in a sordid and petty debate in which scoring points is much more important than putting the people of Liverpool first. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Sheffield?\"] This is an own goal for the Liberals. It is a tragic afternoon for the people of Sheffield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I hope that any right hon. or hon. Member who contributes to the debate, either from a sedentary position or while standing in their place, will address themselves accurately and with some understanding to the issues confronting Liverpool. The crisis faced by Liverpool is unprecedented in any major British or European urban area. Over the past 50 years, Liverpool has lost over half its population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " for life have applied under Conservative, Labour and Liberal authorities, and it is wrong that that was assumed to be right for the local people. I want to take the House back to the 1970s, and to the last time that the then Labour Government had the opportunity directly to help Liverpool city council. In 1975, Liverpool's rate support grant was increased by a staggering £21 million, the biggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " through till June, there was just a chance that the Secretary of State would give way again, provide resources and back off rate capping in 1985. We were wrong. The Secretary of State did not give way again. The miners' dispute collapsed. Liverpool city council was left under Militant's directon throughout the autumn of 1985. At that point, the Labour party nationally took a hand and intervened.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "es and back off rate capping in 1985. We were wrong. The Secretary of State did not give way again. The miners' dispute collapsed. Liverpool city council was left under Militant's directon throughout the autumn of 1985. At that point, the Labour party nationally took a hand and intervened.— [Interruption.] A Conservative Member shouts, \"Which you opposed.\" I shall return to that point in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": "I sat here throughout the introductory contributions. Despite provocation, I did not seek to intervene with questions to those who are not the protectors, but the assailants of Liverpool—the Captain Mainwarings, the ratbag Dad's Army on the Opposition Benches and the Conservative Members, whom we know and love.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "much of Labour being in control in Liverpool. Between 1974 and 1983, those people, in tandem with the Tories, were running the city, even though they did not have overall numerical control. There is no mistake about that. Today, the Liberals are crying out about the state of the streets and about the cleansing service. I shall deal in detail later with why the cleansing service is in such a state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Democratic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "I do not believe in being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "mistic about the future because of the Government's economic policies. We can hear them mumbling because it is getting through to them. They understand that I know what they are about and which class interests they represent. I represent my class proudly, standing up to defend workers and the city of Liverpool. We have defended it against all corners. We fear none of you—you have done all you can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "tion of insulting you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Investment is at an all-time low. Conservatives tell us that we should be pricing ourselves into jobs, but the very people who are dictating to us what we should be doing are getting 50 per cent., 60 per cent. or 70 per cent. increases in their wages and yet they tell us that we are pricing ourselves out of jobs. Our Front Bench had better be listening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": ". of the wealth. We shall not solve the problems of Liverpool in this bear garden or through the Liberals and Tories, but through a Labour Government implementing socialist policies with the same enthusiasm as the Prime Minister and his predecessor have represented their class, the money fellows in the City, the Saunderses and all those who are screwing my class. We shall never forgive you for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "through the Liberals and Tories, but through a Labour Government implementing socialist policies with the same enthusiasm as the Prime Minister and his predecessor have represented their class, the money fellows in the City, the Saunderses and all those who are screwing my class. We shall never forgive you for it. [Interruption.] Not your class, Madam Deputy Speaker—you are on our side, I believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.724.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall not do what I would normally do, Madam Deputy Speaker, and show the hon. Gentleman the courtesy of giving way to him, because he would not do that to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall not do what I would normally do, Madam Deputy Speaker, and show the hon. Gentleman the courtesy of giving way to him, because he would not do that to me. [Interruption.] He can call names, but he cannot give way—and neither shall I. It is four years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.736.4", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Smith", "preceding_text": "proach. If the Archbishop and the bishops and the people of the country are as concerned about the city as I believe they are, they should know that the average person in Liverpool is a good, decent, honest hard-working person, who is fed up to the back teeth. If parliamentary conventions did not preclude it, Iwould tell the House what was said to me when I knocked on the door of a house in Walton", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.736.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "London Underground Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " and the Second Reading debate is that today we have been talking about transport, whereas on Second Reading we spent most of our time talking about Parliament square and the parliamentary buildings. Clearly, the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mr. Thorne) was right to say that those problems have been dealt with because no hon. Member has sought to argue today that our heritage is being destroyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "which to go about things. It is not how British Governments normally went about things. Does the Minister not understand the enormity of his bad manners? He sits there silently. The truth is that he did not understand the brief. He read out the brief, but who thinks that he understood much of it? He gabbled through it. That is preposterous. I am sorry to say that we will go on long into the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "a measure which many conservationists fear could wreck Britain's system of nature protection enshrined in the 10-year-old Wildlife and Countryside Act. Many of us care about that. Like the hon. Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro), I spent 100 hours in Committee on the Act. Much thought and care went into the Act and we do not want to see it wrecked. The Daily Telegraph is saying that it is wrecked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Maidstone (Miss Widdecombe) would be better in her bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "If Deputy Speakers can appear rapidly from nowhere, can Speakers appear rapidly from nowhere —or at least rapidly from upstairs? It would be a very good plan if Mr. Speaker were to acquaint himself with the fiasco with which the House of Commons is now faced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "bout the second. However, bluntly, it is a matter not of scientific opinion but of general landowners' interests. I do not dismiss the landowners' interest as of no consequence, but, whatever else it is, it is not just the guts of scientific opinion as such. I hope that the hon. Member for Tayside, North is not getting into too much trouble for having intervened because he made an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "t will cause many battles over SSSI designation and land use to be reopened. Will the Minister explain how planners and developers will know whether a site is sensitive to development or change in use if the SSSI label is removed? That is an important question—how will planners and developers now whether a site is sensitive to development or change in use if the SSSI label is removed? Designation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.827.7", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have told the hon. Gentleman that I will take his point of order as soon as the Division is complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.827.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hat off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. What is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-24", "file": "debates1991-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4d4329985a39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Heritage (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where's Cryer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-24a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.849.3", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Northumberland education authority has accrued a repair bill of £10 billion during the lifetime of this Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.856.7", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am delighted by that not unexpected news—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.856.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.857.8", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister accept that if the hope, now I am happy to say, widely entertained, of a new way forward between Ireland and England is to be realised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.857.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Vagrancy (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Hargreaves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Hargreaves", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal sections 3 and 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824. The history of the Vagrancy Act is a lengthy one. The mischief at which the Act was aimed was not begging per se but vagrancy as a way of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "simply because they believe that the mandatory sentence is inappropriate and should not be applied. Why, really, do the Government wish to pursue their irrational and deeply damaging course? My suspicion, which is fuelled by Lord Waddington's speech which everyone who heard it will know left their Lordships absolutely aghast, is that the Government resist change because of what they believe to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Law Lords?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "eader of the House decides to carry the idea forward will depend on the views expressed by hon. Members, so I hope that they will convey their views to the Leader of the House. I sincerely support the view taken by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. I understand the arguments put by the Shadow Home Secretary, but they seem to be out of touch with the feeling of people in most constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "eone who has heard submissions on behalf of the offender and has seen whatever evidence can properly be submitted on his behalf. It is far preferable for that assessment to be made by the judge who has heard all the evidence in the trial. I do not believe that it would be acceptable to the public for such an assessment to be made by a politician or an official who has never even seen the offender—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "preceding_text": "That is too lateral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on, give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sherman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sherman", "preceding_text": "t psychiatric scheme, surely that would be an acceptable solution to any problem. Successful experiments have already been undertaken in a number of courts in London and Peterborough. We believe that the psychiatric scheme should be spread to other courts as resources allow. If the Government accept the amendment, we believe that that would act as an incentive for the introduction of such schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I will start with the \"Home and Away\" part of the Minister's remarks, rather than with the \"Neighbours\" bit of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "her than reduce juvenile crime by placing an additional burden on many families who were already under pressure. Amendment No. 74 was a welcome modification of a quite unworkable proposal. Through amendment (a), we are saying that the new version of the clause would require courts to give reasons if they did not bind over parents. Although an improvement on the original proposals, that will still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Clause 86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "planation of that. That was not the only thing that was wrong with the new policy. The £1 was clawed back from widows and the poorest families on income support so that those who needed it most received nothing. So much for a Government who have spent the last three years obsessively proclaiming the merits of targeting. They gave the child benefit increase to the rich and denied it to the poorest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Clause 86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " is the last \"finally\". What changes, if any, will this make to the Secretary of State's statutory duty —placed upon him in section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986—to review all the factors and circumstances relating to child benefit, before he decides whether to increase it? Is there a change in that? If not, it would be good if we were told that that was the case. Finally, for the third time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-25", "file": "debates1991-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6ad437333e2fec5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Clause 86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "two-child family. If we use 1985 as the base, child benefit would now have to be £10 per week to maintain its value. We have a Government who can waste billions of pounds trying to prop up the poll tax. I am glad that my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) is in his place. The Government have also wasted billions of pounds encouraging people to opt for private pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-25a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I agree with what the hon. Gentleman has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "egal experience, will know that we are talking about a judgment of the European Court of Justice which I cannot determine and which I cannot invite Parliament to overrule by an Act of Parliament. It is too early to speculate along the lines that the hon. and learned Gentleman invites me to consider. Equally, the effects on British industry will vary very much from scheme to scheme. The worst case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Abolition of Deer Hunting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "25 miles. During that time, in the name of sport, and sport which is supported by some Members of Parliament who are here today, the animal is driven to exhaustion and fear. At that point, it is supposed to be dispatched with the aid of a gun in a humane manner. Many of the animals are not. They may escape to face death from their injuries and the mental stress that they suffered during the chase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1012.5", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. The gap in democratic control does not apply to the Council of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1012.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend will allow me to get on a bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "appier with his feet off the ground. Both at home and abroad, this is characteristic, and rather endearing. The Liberal Democrats love phrases, but they do not pause to examine what those phrases mean—federalism, a united states of Europe, a common defence policy. \"Those phrases sound jolly—let's go for them,\" the right hon. Gentleman says. He sounds energetic, lovely and lively when he says them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Today?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had better wait and see what I have to say about federalism. That will come a little later in my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "at he felt in the comments reported by The Daily Telegraph. That tension has also been revealed in the list that the Foreign Secretary published of the videos that he has been buying recently for the Foreign Office. They include \"The Dreaded Appraisal\", \"Stress\", \"This is Going to Hurt Me More Than it Hurts You\", \"Decisions, Decisions\" and \"Oh What the Hell (parts 1 and 2)\". Only a few months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "the Foreign Office. They include \"The Dreaded Appraisal\", \"Stress\", \"This is Going to Hurt Me More Than it Hurts You\", \"Decisions, Decisions\" and \"Oh What the Hell (parts 1 and 2)\". Only a few months ago— [Interruption.] I realise that things may be different for the Prime Minister who, according to the Daily Mail, watches video nasties featuring the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.6", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should wait a little longer and he will then receive an answer to his question. The right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup is unequivocal on the subject of the European Community. In the Daily Mail last week, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.6", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about Europe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nchley was at odds with the Prime Minister. However, the right hon. Member for Finchley also supports the Prime Minister, although she expresses it in unusual terms. She says of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary in the interview with David Frost to be broadcast tonight that \"suddenly they're fighting staunchly\". She sounds a little surprised, but she supports the present Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.6", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ster, although she expresses it in unusual terms. She says of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary in the interview with David Frost to be broadcast tonight that \"suddenly they're fighting staunchly\". She sounds a little surprised, but she supports the present Prime Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about Europe.\"]. I am talking about the right hon. Member for Finchley and her views on Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1018.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Finchley said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister said. That acceptance of a single currency by the Prime Minister has very wide implications. The Chancellor has made that clear. Last year, he said: History does not provide many examples of a currency union without political union. That was when he was addressing the Bruges Group. At that time the Chancellor was warning that a single currency meant acceptance of political union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1022.5", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "When we get to the Back Benchers—if we get to the Back Benchers—no doubt we shall hear that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1022.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1022.9", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "If the Government Chief Whip had not made arrangements to stop a civilised debate taking place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1022.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1022.16", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "If Conservative Members had remained silent, I should have come to those matters about 20 minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1022.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ton (Mr. Kaufman) started his speech by making it clear that his party would vote against the Government tonight. He gave no justification for that course of action. He and his hon. Friends know full well that the hand of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister would be greatly strengthened in Luxembourg if he had a really good vote behind him when he goes there on Friday. I hope that many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": ", I was the Prime Minister who enabled the channel tunnel to get going, so I do believe in having more to do with Europe —our people do not want to see a massive extension of the powers of Brussels into every corner of national life even if it is dressed up as a step-by-step approach—a kind of federal Europe achieved by stealth. I fully support the firm stand that my right hon. Friends have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The second point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ecretary and my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister have taken against any commitment to a federal Europe. I would hope that most people in the House were against a federal Europe; otherwise, what is the point of people standing as candidates at the next election—to come back here and propose to hand over all their powers as representatives of constituents to another Parliament? The second point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Our sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Our sovereignty— [Interruption.] I gave way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.6", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1029.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "re, any difficulties in the monetary or economic system have to go either to increased inflation or to increased recession and increased unemployment. The 6 per cent. swing gives us some latitude, but I believe that joining the exchange rate mechanism gave us all we needed for stiffening against inflation, and I do not believe that it is necessary or desirable to go any further into stages 2 or 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1031.3", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I shall not spend a long time on the speech made by the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) because I suspect that other hon. Members will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1031.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1031.5", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ndependent in home affairs, combine for national or general purposes\". That is exactly what we seek to do—to combine for certain purposes. The Foreign Secretary attacked my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown)—perhaps attack is a little strong. He tapped him with a paper napkin and said that my right hon. Friend was guilty of deploying line phrases. I have never noticed it myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1031.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not colonies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary infinitely more difficult than they would otherwise be. All the signs are that, certainly across the Community and to a considerable extent in this country, people are not as worried about federalism as apparently we are in the House. We gave federalism to Canada, Australia, Nigeria, India and a large number of colonies which wanted their independence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about Germany?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "airn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston) appears to, that a federal superstate is an answer to the problems of nationalism in the modern world, such a belief flies in the face not only of history but of recent experience. On that matter I find myself unwillingly agreeing with the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher)—it was the only thing in the right hon. Lady's speech with which I did agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " hanged man. All of us like the Prime Minister and it is difficult to be rude about him—I have not yet attempted it—but I must confess that he reminds me of one of the most notable characters in current folklore—Charlie Brown in \"Peanuts\". You may remember, Mr. Speaker, because I am sure that you are an avid follower of \"Peanuts\", that Charlie Brown was once approached by Lucy—a bossy little girl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) is, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I shall make progress with my speech. It would be impossible to wind up the debate without mentioning the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ber of the European Parliament, but in the name of the chairman of the Conservative party and the Prime Minister. When we hear so much noise about the word federal and what it means and how important it is to the British Government, we must bear that carefully in mind. In a week of desperate, demeaning and pleading visits around European leaders, the Prime Minister has claimed a so-called triumph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I know that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1088.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "European Standing Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House long with my opening remarks. This is a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "European Standing Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "t are really being decided in Europe. However, Back-Bench members of those Committees can flex a little muscle in offering up viewpoints to the Executive at a point in the timetable when it might just make a difference. To me that is marvellous. We should try to preserve those powers. It is so rare for any Government, of any colour, to empower Back Benchers, and it is very welcome when it happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-26", "file": "debates1991-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7707560357949517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "European Standing Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": "I am a member of European Standing Committee B and am finding its work of considerable interest. The Committee is an interesting innovation. Some important points have been made. It was suggested a moment ago that the eyes and ears of Europe are on our Committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-26a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Will the Chief Secretary answer the question that my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) asked? If Tory policy is to cut taxes —we are told, by 5p in the pound—how will it be paid for? Does it mean that universities will close, schools will close", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Will the Chief Secretary answer the question that my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) asked? If Tory policy is to cut taxes —we are told, by 5p in the pound—how will it be paid for? Does it mean that universities will close, schools will close [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"], health centres will close [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"], hospitals will close", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.3", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "When Labour has control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.5", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "All the hon. Gentleman needs is a puff of green smoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.9", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will shut up and stop saying, \"Where will the money come from?\", I will tell him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1120.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister read the reports published earlier this week from Shelter and the Council of Mortgage Lenders, stating that repossessions are at a record high, that hundreds of thousands of families are in deep mortgage arrears and that, in the words of the council's director, Worse is yet to come\"? The Prime Minister's policies are hitting every class of people and every corner of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1131.8", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "t the Government have been taking to improve the lot of women? The steps that we have taken include flexible working hours, more flexible nursery arrangements and better tax arrangements. Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the Government continue to acknowledge the great contribution that women make to this country, not least by increasing women's representation in the honours list —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1131.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "We will check with the Official Report tomorrow. The point is clear and I shall repeat it once more and leave it there. If an order is placed by the Conservative Government before a general election occurs, a Labour Cabinet will reserve the right to look at the contract before cancellation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "We would deploy the Trident boats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "itment from our Government—it is the centrepiece of the Government's strategy for the Navy in its anti-submarine protection role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in the North sea and the north Atlantic. The type 23 frigate, which is designed around the EH101 helicopter, has only about 50 per cent. of its operational capacity without it. But the first type 23 frigate, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": " for naval personnel as they travelled around the world, increasingly in recent years naval personnel have chosen instead to buy their own houses. To put it very crudely, the Royal Navy lives in south Hampshire—and rightly so, as in most cases personnel know that they will be based in the Gosport-Portsmouth area rather than anywhere else because that is where the major training establishments are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "ies department about requirements. Considerable anxiety was expressed during the debate about the future of the bases. That is understandable. It is generally recognised that a smaller Navy leads to a smaller support area. That is self-evident. Therefore, we are considering the future of all our naval bases and other establishments. I have to advise the House that no decisions have yet been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-06-27", "file": "debates1991-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6daec76e27438ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "t a smaller Navy leads to a smaller support area. That is self-evident. Therefore, we are considering the future of all our naval bases and other establishments. I have to advise the House that no decisions have yet been taken. [Interruption.] We shall consider carefully all the arguments before coming to any decisions. I recognise that uncertainty is undesirable and we wish to bring it to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-06-27a.1228.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-01", "file": "debates1991-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5316a24415f64a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-01a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": ", his right hon. Friends the present and previous Prime Ministers thanked the Labour party and the House for the solidarity that had been shown to our armed forces during the Gulf conflict. The Minister made a pathetic attempt to pick up a few votes. A policy decision has been taken in the Conservative party to attack the Labour party on defence. That is fine; we are happy to justify our position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-01a.112.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "As for the forecasts of recovery from the world recession, can the right hon. Gentleman tell us which other major industrial country has had a zero-minus-growth rate this year— [Interruption.] Under the policies of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Asylum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ration regulations should not be allowed to enter the country. No sensible person could disagree with that intention—not least because the interests of the ethnic minorities in Britain are damaged by such conduct. However, does the Home Secretary agree that it is equally important to ensure that genuine asylum seekers are not denied entry because of the obsession with keeping out bogus applicants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Asylum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman may be interested to know that other countries are also experiencing such applications. In my talks with fellow Ministers in Germany and Holland, I have discovered that both countries have experienced multiple applications. Both use photographs and fingerprinting, and other countries, too, now use those techniques. Perhaps unintentionally, the right hon. Gentleman cast a slur on UKIAS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Asylum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "preceding_text": "It is clear that the Government are intent on using the numbers game, both in immigration matters and for refugee and asylum seekers, to create a racist backlash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.181.5", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has a fair point. Hon. Members should be treated equally with members of the press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. French", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. French", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Minister to consider the principle carefully because it has great merits. Other examples of ingenious housing initiatives can be drawn from international experience. One such example is rather confusingly known as the correlation insurance indemnity. Anyone who mentions the word \"insurance\" in a housing debate is quickly shouted down, but I refer to the experience in New South Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "preceding_text": "be welcome not only to me but to a number of my hon. Friends who represent local authorities which have handled their assets well. Finally, I wish to relate housing provision and home improvements to our present economic situation and to the needs in the coming year or so to try to revive that sector of our economy. The Building Employers Confederation, in which I declare an interest as an adviser", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Electricity and Gas Industries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ate was responsible for predicting in December. We do not believe that the great experiment is succeeding, or that the electricity industry should have been subjected to a giant experiment. We believe that the people working in the industry deserve the minimum of change and disturbance, if they are to be allowed to do their work. We have said all along that we will bring the National Grid Company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Electricity and Gas Industries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A priority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "er. We do not believe that the great experiment is succeeding, or that the electricity industry should have been subjected to a giant experiment. We believe that the people working in the industry deserve the minimum of change and disturbance, if they are to be allowed to do their work. We have said all along that we will bring the National Grid Company— [Interruption] —back into public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Electricity and Gas Industries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "It is not for the Government to second-guess the salaries that companies pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Electricity and Gas Industries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The important point is that the salary increases—and it is the increases of which I disapprove—do not affect the price to the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Electricity and Gas Industries", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Cohn Moynihan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Cohn Moynihan)", "preceding_text": "clock back and repeat all the mistakes of nationalisation and state intervention. They do not even understand the workings of the electricity market. Still less do they understand the workings of the financial markets. They continue, as we heard tonight—including from the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, who again is laughing, a mask of insecurity behind his ignorance of financial matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-02", "file": "debates1991-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2434b8df3d5eb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Severn Bridges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£11.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "England and continue to serve Wales, albeit from the other side. There have been gains and losses. The true story of the Severn bridge is not that it was inadequate in the short term but that it was shaken into early senility by lorries. The number of lorries using it increased far more rapidly than expected. The original cost of the bridge was not £62 million, as suggested, but about £14 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-02a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.303.9", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I have seen the Forum of Private Business proposals, to which I believe the hon. Gentleman is referring. They have been passed to the banks for comment, and will be one of the matters on which the Chancellor may touch when he produces his conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.303.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Talks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House knows that there is a statement on Yugoslavia after this one, and there is considerable pressure on the two debates that will follow. I shall take two more questions from each side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Talks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House knows that there is a statement on Yugoslavia after this one, and there is considerable pressure on the two debates that will follow. I shall take two more questions from each side. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order. I have to balance the time that I can allow for this statement against other business of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes, the hon. Member certainly has done that. I have to balance the desire of those who wish to ask questions against the desire of those who wish to make speeches. It is a difficult decision to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.337.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.337.8", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is going.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "It is quite wrong to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.337.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Constitutional Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "parliamentary regulation as that of anyone else. I must make it clear that the Bill does not apply to the civil list, which Parliament debates and votes on, or to other moneys granted to the Crown for its public duties —such as the money that Government Departments spend on maintaining the royal palaces, yacht, aeroplanes, train and the rest. They would remain untaxed, just as they are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Constitutional Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the hon. Lady not only that we were thanked and praised for the amount of financial aid that we were providing, but that, throughout our visit, I heard no one say, \"If only the British Government could provide more money.\" As further disasters occur, we may well have to find more money because we have given so much to the Iraqi refugees; but we are here debating aid for those refugees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-03", "file": "debates1991-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5bd6afbc4d7c35cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Constitutional Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "achieve a significant increase in output and employement over the past five years, and the recent formation of the Scottish Lace Guild augurs well for the future of the industry. It was initially funded and supported by Enterprise Ayrshire, and was launched on 21 May. If the hon. Gentleman looks carefully at my tie, he will see that the Scottish Lace label bears a thistle and a Celtic-style cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-03a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.422.4", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " Minister reckon to believe in a classless society—right? Yet some pensioners on one side of the street get free TV licences while some on the other side do not and some pensioners in warden accommodation get free licences while some in other warden accommodation do not. A rich pensioner living in The Savoy hotel gets a licence free, so I do not want the Minister to give me any of that crap about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am astonished at my hon. Friend's moderation in contemplating Labour's record. When we came to office in 1979, we found a police force that was undervalued, under strength, under-resourced, and underfunded. During the last 12 years, we have made it our first priority. There has been an increase in expenditure of 50 per cent., in real terms. As the shadow spokesman is not in his place today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.430.6", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The crime rate would be even higher if we had not given high priority to law and order. Not only have we increased the size of the police force but we have increased the level of sentencing very substantially and we have brought in new crimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The share options to which I assume the right hon. Gentleman is referring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.439.11", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Since summer has apparently belatedly arrived, can the Leader of the House at least give us one popular answer today and tell us whether he has decided when the House will rise for the summer recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.439.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.445.5", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "Should not there be an early debate on the criteria applied by the Home Office when deciding whether to permit the entry into this country of people with criminal records—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.445.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.458.4", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is the democratic right of the hon. Gentleman. It is a long tradition. In centuries past, hon. Members frequently wore hats. The trouble is that if an hon. Member wears a hat, it is difficult for me to recognise him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.461.7", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "ly taking verbal and written evidence at the House of Commons. Of course, it is often the case that the taking of evidence itself is an important service to the House of Commons, and the Select Committee on Procedure has often emphasised that. Sometimes, it is not the actual production of the report that is crucial, but the illumination of relevant factors through the taking of evidence in public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.461.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "herefore collaborated with the company. If that is true, they were simply the passive recipients of unwelcome news, interested only in minimising the embarrassment to the Government and distancing the Secretary of State as best they could from the coming disaster. It has already been mentioned by other hon. Members that the Prime Minister was writing to the Dalzell stewards on 4 June—the very day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "There is a sense of deja vu here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-04", "file": "debates1991-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "ae37a065b4fad1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at I had expressed in the House were endorsed at that election. I can only point out that a Conservative Member was elected to Glanford and Scunthorpe at the 1983 general election. I submit that we can do the industry a favour only if we ensure that at all times it answers to profit; that applies as much to the privatised steel industry in 1991 as it did to the nationalised steel industry in 1980.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-04a.487.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "A national legal minimum wage set at two thirds of median male hourly rate, as proposed by the Labour party, could cost up to 2 million jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "A national legal minimum wage set at two thirds of median male hourly rate, as proposed by the Labour party, could cost up to 2 million jobs—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—if higher-paid workers were successful in fully restoring pay differentials. That policy makes economic nonsense. My policy is to continue to point out at every opportunity the devastating consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "When will Conservative Members admit that they are talking nonsense about Labour's policy? They have doubled unemployment and are now presiding over the fastest rise in unemployment in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.771.7", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "When we are receiving reports from around the country that youth training and employment training have waiting lists because so many people are trying to get on them, when, even after last month's announcement, funds for training are being cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.771.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.771.7", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "When we are receiving reports from around the country that youth training and employment training have waiting lists because so many people are trying to get on them, when, even after last month's announcement, funds for training are being cut—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"]—and when the Department of Employment's review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.771.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "If this is old lags' corner, I am sure that I have seen the Secretary of State somewhere before. Indeed, I recall seeing a lot of him. I remember him as the Minister who was supportive in propagating every dot and comma of the poll tax legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "It was obvious from the moment the hon. Gentleman got to his feet that he would go to any lengths to divert discussion from the national minimum wage issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.792.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "man makes a fantasy point. Of course we will continue with family credit—we have never said that we will not—but it is far better to have a minimum wage to increase the take-home incomes of those in work. The right hon. and learned Gentleman accuses us in relation to benefits. Will he apologise to the House for the £30 billion cuts in benefit that the Government have made during the past 10 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "e fact is that the hon. Gentleman has totally failed to persuade his party to remove even the second part of the target from its policy—it remains in all the policy documents. I have always acknowledged that the strictures of the hon. Member for Birkenhead applied to the second stage of the policy, yet that is still the second stage of the policy to which the Labour party remains wholly committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Naturally, if the hon. Member for Birkenhead says that, I unreservedly accept it. I did not refer specifically to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Naturally, if the hon. Member for Birkenhead says that, I unreservedly accept it. I did not refer specifically to the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.] Let us get to the guts of the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "ional minimum wage. I am proud to discuss the whole matter with them, and I seek in the House to represent the interests of many low-paid women workers. Do Conservative Members consider that there is something wrong with that? It represents a democratic link with a large number of people in society. I am speaking of a large group of people who need a voice. I am proud to represent that voice here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ittle from them about Mr. John Baker, the chief executive of National Power, and his 60 per cent. pay rise or about Mr. Robert Evans of British Gas and Mr. Iain Valiance of British Telecom. Is there not something peculiarly disgusting about those who decry the notion of protection for the lowest paid, yet sit on their hands and do nothing while those in the privatised companies get huge pay rises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "he rank. I was always told that anyone who made only captain in the army was a bit of a failure, but that is another matter. I do not know why the conductors are not called train brigadiers or generals. We could at least do something better for our buses than give the staff fancy names. My hon. Friend the Member for Leyton spoke about the many people who use the buses. I use them and I am no toff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "t it will founder if there is no significant ban on nuclear testing. The Government have set their sights firmly against that and have blocked it on every occasion. I hope that they will change their mind. In 1987, France set up the missile technology control regime. What effort are the Government making to ensure that missile proliferation is controlled? As for the strategic arms reduction talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "at the Minister produced about the national interest not allowing any definition of what can be excluded, for example, is not acceptable, given the changes that have taken place throughout Europe. At an earlier stage, hon. Members spoke of the cold war and the threat from the Soviet Union. None of us believed in that threat for very long and it has now been proved that it was a hollow one. It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-09", "file": "debates1991-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "31880f212fd1bca3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Sittings of the House (Select Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "I commend the efforts of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, in bringing forward the proposals contained in the substantive motion to establish the proposed Select Committee. He is turning into an absolutely blooming marvel, and he is likely to be thanked by future generations of Members of Parliament as one of the great reforming Leaders of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-09a.905.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-10", "file": "debates1991-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ed21509ec86b8579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-10a.982.2", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "nd start. Once an applicant has started, it may take another year before the grant payable to him is released. The tremendous delay in the mechanism for handling urban development grants is damaging the possibility of further employment and improvements in our rural towns. There are towns and villages in the east of the Province that need urban development grants just as much as those in the west.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-10a.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-10", "file": "debates1991-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ed21509ec86b8579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-10a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "adee also apply in Millisle. The roads carry much the same traffic to the same caravan sites, and both areas have the same proportion of elderly people. I ask the Minister to reconsider providing a pedestrian crossing in Millisle. Granshaw presbyterian church is a great church in County Down, not too far from La Mon restaurant, which the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) knows well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-10a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-10", "file": "debates1991-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ed21509ec86b8579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-10a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "e centre of Comber is congested with traffic, especially in the early mornings and late afternoons. It is chaos and there are many delays. The sooner that section of the bypass is built the better. Another scheme in Castlereagh that has been promised for some time relates to the junction at the Knockbreda and Saintfield roads. I must declare an interest, as I own a little bit of the land involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-10a.988.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1081.6", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Has it escaped the Prime Minister's notice that the second half of the year began 11 days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1081.10", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "urther and further away. I shall therefore ask him a simple question based on his own pathetic analysis of when the economy might begin to improve. First, can we be assured that by Christmas and in the three areas about which I have asked the right hon. Gentleman—investment, unemployment and growth—this country will be doing at least as well as Greece, Portugal and Turkey? May we also be assured —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1081.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "has brought unprecedented improvements in industrial relations. Of course, they are unprecedented improvements which are not welcome to the Labour party. As Mr. Ron Todd said earlier this week: Tory industrial relations law has got to go. There is no fudging the issue. Labour's position is absolutely clear. As the right hon. Member for Isiwyn (Mr. Kinnock) said when he spoke to the TGWU yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "al relations. Of course, they are unprecedented improvements which are not welcome to the Labour party. As Mr. Ron Todd said earlier this week: Tory industrial relations law has got to go. There is no fudging the issue. Labour's position is absolutely clear. As the right hon. Member for Isiwyn (Mr. Kinnock) said when he spoke to the TGWU yesterday— [Interruption.] As the right hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ented improvements which are not welcome to the Labour party. As Mr. Ron Todd said earlier this week: Tory industrial relations law has got to go. There is no fudging the issue. Labour's position is absolutely clear. As the right hon. Member for Isiwyn (Mr. Kinnock) said when he spoke to the TGWU yesterday— [Interruption.] As the right hon. Gentleman said— [Interruption.] I can wait, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "f Europe and thoroughly enjoy the experience of our debates at Strasbourg, Paris and other places of hardship around Europe? I attend the Council of Europe as part of a delegation which is sent there by the House of Commons. It would therefore be appropriate if we had the opportunity to give an account in this House of what we have been doing in the Council of Europe on behalf of all hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It was the Conservative Government who appointed the Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into the south-east network and the provincial network. If he looks at the investment there from 1975, he is correct to say that up to 1979 it fluctuated within £10 million or £20 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Conservative Government who appointed the Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into the south-east network and the provincial network. If he looks at the investment there from 1975, he is correct to say that up to 1979 it fluctuated within £10 million or £20 million. [Interruption.] I am trying seriously to answer a point. The level of investment raises serious issues which I want to address.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"They are not technical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "At least we have been successful in bringing the Secretary of State on to the real problems of railways and finance. The technical questions that he posed have exercised my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hertsmere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Who was it then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1126.5", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Quiet, Bellingham.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "What does this have to do with anything?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1127.8", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has apparently learnt that British Rail has to give permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1127.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "his debate must be to see whether we have the will to achieve that renaissance and whether we shall will the means so to do. That is putting the debate in the context of learning from the past. We are now beginning to have what I regard as a healthy debate but, in the past, it has been motivated too much by partisan political knee-jerk reactions. Even The Times, that organ of independent thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "nutes of the time of two highly trained men? Do the police have nothing better to do? That is a matter for the chief constable of Wiltshire, but if we added up the true costs of the internal combustion engine in Britain, the answer would be unbelievable. It is not just the cost of police time in dealing with accidents and congestion, apart from the time-wasting activities such as I have described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "preceding_text": " British Rail could make their life considerably easier. Its failure to do so may be because most of those who sit on the disability committee—excuse the pun—are in wheelchairs, not standing, and blind or partially sighted. I hope that that is a matter to which British Rail will address its mind shortly. Let me examine the finances of the buffet facilities which, sadly, are still in state control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "preceding_text": " are on time and that those who are responsible for trains arriving on time receive the appropriate reward. My hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch referred, not for the first time, with a little humour, to a citizens charter. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was the first senior politician in Britain to devise a citizens charter, and he had British Rail very much in mind when he did so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "ject, I have refreshed my mind about the speech that he made on the channel tunnel at the conference of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities on 4 July, when he said: We will change the constraining Treasury rules to allow BR to raise money on the commercial markets\". The House needs to know precisely what the hon. Gentleman, the shadow Chancellor and the shadow Chief Secretary have in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " the extension of the docklands light railway to the construction of toll bridges. The hon. Gentleman did not answer my question. I asked him specifically: if British Rail borrowed from the private sector and that debt was on its balance sheet, would the shadow Chief Secretary and shadow Chancellor count that as a public sector obligation? Yes or no? The hon. Gentleman cannot answer that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is not a matter of a strict yes or no —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] Those who know anything about financing such matters know that it is a question of judging whether such expenditure is considered to be part of the borrowing requirements that the Treasury is obliged to finance. It is a question of interpretation. It is not necessary for some arrangements because if British Rail was privatised completely and wanted to borrow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will permit me, I will answer the points that he made in the debate before I give way. That will be the last time that I give way, because the House is anxious to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's point is a fitting one on which to end, because the attitude to Speedlink separates the parties. Speedlink, with a revenue of £45 million this year, would have lost £40 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " achieved by BR.\" I think that the Minister is a sensible enough economist and accountant—we both read economics in the same place at the same time—to realise that that is nonsense. It certainly does not meet the needs of those in rural areas whose services are being whittled away. I am confident of one thing—that the one train that now runs from Chatshill northwards will remain in the timetable.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-11", "file": "debates1991-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ac53721f1e807c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "British Railways Board (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "e services are being whittled away. I am confident of one thing—that the one train that now runs from Chatshill northwards will remain in the timetable.— [Interruption.] It is the normal custom for an hon. Member to ask another hon. Member to give way, rather than to make the intervention first. The hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape) must have pulled the signal levers early sometimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-11a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1219.2", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "No. I remember discussing the matter with Labour Members on my Committee who had been with us on the previous inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1224.12", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must not raise a point of order or anything else when I am on my feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1224.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1232.11", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman exhibits total ignorance of the subject. I shall explain how our target would be achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1232.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "CO2 emissions are realistic and achievable and predate the White Paper. I appreciate why the Government are trying to wriggle out of making binding commitments on the international scene. What is the Minister's view of the United State's position, and why are the British Government almost helping America to get away from making binding and legal targets and commitments? Many issues must be raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "—and that they do not recognise or want to make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": " been let, the Labour Government were bound to spend that money, which was on an increasingly rising graph. However, because they were forced to spend the money in that direction, they then lamentably failed to maintain the necessary investment in sewage treatment plants. That was the reason for the situation that my Committee discovered when it inquired into the pollution of rivers and estuaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-12", "file": "debates1991-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "964d57b63eb60f8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "Until we came to this part, I thought that the hon. Gentleman was making a fair and reasoned speech. I am anxious to know precisely the Liberal position on CO, emissions as a matter of record. I am more interested in knowing the Labour position because I might take that a little more seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-12a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.9.8", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put your hat on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend's answer. May I ask him whether he has any plans to encourage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.9.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.9.8", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend's answer. May I ask him whether he has any plans to encourage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Put your hat on.\"] individuals and corporations to invest in energy-saving devices, such as PL lightbulbs? Their use could be encouraged even at retail level through rebates, which are used in the United States and Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.9.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that answer. Will he confirm that Her Majesty's Government will press that campaign and policy vigorously, bearing in mind that there are rumours of tardiness by other member states as well as some of the officials in the Commission dealing with that policy? Notwithstanding that the single market has not yet begun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dander\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that I can allow the hon. Member to do that, because then he will raise my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "sector in this country. New clause 37 was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Workington as a direct result of the enormous concern that is felt, and has been felt in the past week, at the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International a week ago last Friday. It raises two primary issues, the first of which my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor drew attention to a week ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": " not be taken in a laggardly or neglectful fashion, this House and that Act established a board of banking supervision in the Bank of England, which is quite different from the department of banking supervision at the Bank. I am sorry that this is so esoteric, but it is an important point. To try to ensure greater accountability and greater supervision in our banking system, the House established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "would answer all outstanding questions. May I remind him of what they were? We asked him about the £2·3 billion offered to the bank by Ghanem Al Mazrui from Abu Dhabi in the hours immediately before the closure. Is that correct? We also asked about the £375 million which was sent to the bank by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan two weeks before the closure of the bank. We also asked about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " the report \"some time\". Why can we not have it now'? Why can we not have a clear undertaking from the Economic Secretary that we shall have the report before the end of the Session? If we had it, we could ensure that it receives the full glare of public scrutiny that it deserves. What have the Government got to hide? Why are they not prepared to have an open debate? They do not like it, do they?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "he full glare of public scrutiny that it deserves. What have the Government got to hide? Why are they not prepared to have an open debate? They do not like it, do they?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] No, they do not like it, but by jove we shall make sure that this one does not get away. We want a clear and unequivocal undertaking tonight that there will be a debate on this issue. Is that too much to ask?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.89.6", "colnum": "89", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.89.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "ver also asked why we do not adopt the American system if a company wishes, for accounting purposes, to set off its depreciation against its profits in year one or year two. Why not allow the same for investment allowances? I suspect that the Inland Revenue does not like that suggestion. I remember years ago when Trafalgar House bought P & O, and I suspect that it did so for investment allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.94.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "New Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "if we were serious in our intent to tackle environmental problems involving cars, the first step that we could take within the powers of the House would be to change our mileage allowance scheme, which currently gives a greater incentive to those who run bigger cars. It is interesting that their Lordships did so—I think that they have a standardised mileage allowance, regardless of the car's size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.145.7", "colnum": "145", "heading": "New Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman has done that before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I shall be brief as it has gone midnight and we have many more amendments to get through. I could speak at length on the new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.145.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "se that what has happened up to now has been clearly unsatisfactorily in several ways. First, the parliamentary draftsmanship was imperfect. That is clear from the need to introduce the amendment in the 1986 Finance Bill at a late stage. That was done to trump the Woolwich application for judicial review. It did not succeed. In the debate on 17 July 1986, when Patrick Jenkin raised the issue, two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Clause 114", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "That is not so. I appreciate that many hon. Members feel that we could be discussing this at another time and in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-15", "file": "debates1991-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a9c409c11808538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Schedule 18", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ing breached, although some hon. Members may say that that does not really matter. In the Committee examining the order I and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara), who led for the Opposition, were amused by some of the goings on. The right hon. Member for Strangford (Mr. Taylor) said: Two points arise. First, does the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman—he is a Roman Catholic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-15a.181.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.201.13", "colnum": "201", "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/1991-07-16a.201.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ospital to opt out of the national health service. The hon. Gentleman knows that that is a lie. He has backed down on the point before and I hope that he will do so again now. The hon. Gentleman recently made another unsuccessful visit, to Oldham hospital, to campaign against the consultants who wished the hospital to be a trust. He said then that a Labour Government would pour money into the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.212.5", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has got it diametrically wrong. Mr. Wilby has offered on a number of occasions to meet hon. Members from both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that the Bank took action as soon as it was satisfied that it would have evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "t been issued by the Department of Trade and Industry's Invest in Britain Bureau? Does he agree that it is encouraging to hear overseas business men say that we have better-qualified and better-trained engineers than the Japanese and that we now have almost no strikes in this country? Does not the report show that under this Government the British disease of the 1960s and 1970s has now been cured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "roving. They found that our workers had the skill and expertise that they wanted and they intend to make further investments in this country. Opposition Members did not like the comment that my hon. Friend made about the so-called \"British disease\" of the 1960s and 1970s. It is worth referring to the statement made recently by Gavyn Davies in reference to current trends on pay and prices. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "t wish good news to be announced in the House to prolong the proceedings so that there is no longer live coverage of them. Secondly, bearing in mind what you said before the Division in relation to points of order, may I ask you to consider the rumours that have come to my ears at least that there might have been a statement this afternoon about the matter had the Labour party wished to have one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "tive value of the various tax reliefs so that exactly the sort of comparison that my hon. Friend has made can be made. That does not involve a judgment on whether it is right or wrong to have such tax reliefs, but it does at least enable there to be informed discussion on the relative merits. I make no secret of our view that, in general, it is better to reduce reliefs and reduce the rates of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "canny resemblance to those made by the present leader: \"There will be no increase in the basic rate of income tax, honest, guv. Nothing like that—we've never done that before. Not the sort of thing we do.\" However, they have done it every time. We argue that under Labour's spending plans as they have been costed by us—and they have not been disputed by the Labour party—it is absolutely inevitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ith the rest than I have. The economic context is that output is falling, the economy is contracting, investment is forecast by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to fall by 10 per cent. in 1991, and unemployment is rising, as it has done for the past 14 consecutive months. The Chancellor tells us that it is a price worth paying. He may believe that it is a price worth paying if someone else pays it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.243.6", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I dissent strongly from the Financial Secretary's suggestion; the evidence from our European partners and from the United States of America is enough for me. But I shall not be drawn down that road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.243.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "er the end of the recession nor even the first signs of an upturn in the economy seem any closer than they were when the Budget was delivered in March or when the Finance Bill received its Second Reading at the end of April. The Financial Secretary appeared on \"TV-am\" recently and suggested that the economy may show signs of an upturn in December. I accept that that is the second half of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-16", "file": "debates1991-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cffd343e49cf196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "at there are those of us who believe that justice should be above political thinking. We say gently, \"Wait a moment. We are talking about real human beings and about the sentencing of people who should serve a sentence for the crime that they have committed. We are talking about the courts of tomorrow.\" I look at my own Front-Bench colleagues and I say to them as gently as I say to the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-16a.320.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.479.16", "colnum": "479", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.479.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that reply. Will he assure me that animals with a militant tendency or left-wing views or which do not pay their community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that reply. Will he assure me that animals with a militant tendency or left-wing views or which do not pay their community charge— [Interruption.] —will not receive any protection? Will he also give an assurance that the Government and our European partners will give adequate protection to the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.492.9", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I say to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.492.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.492.11", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) about the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman), I was interested that he said, Everybody knows\"— this is the statement on defence— it's a policy change, but no one is admitting it. If the right hon. Gentleman says, \"We will not get rid of nuclear weapons under any circumstances\", that really is a change. This demonstrates that the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.492.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I share the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "oes my right hon. Friend recall the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Romford (Sir M. Neubert) on Tuesday and the slur and slander by the general secretary of the Labour party on the President of the United States and particularly on the President's manner of election? Has my right hon. Friend received any indication from the Leader of the Opposition that he wishes to dissociate himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This matter is not the Government's responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.496.4", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "While not being too thirled to statistics, although they are important, will the right hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the rate of unemployment in the United Kingdom and Scotland is dramatically high and is producing great suffering? Will the Government and the right hon. Gentleman in particular stop behaving like a cross between a pit bull terrier and a Scot—a Scots terrier —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "us unemployment figures—this is the 15th consecutive monthly increase—will the Leader of the House confirm that our only opportunity to debate that will be in our precious and limited Opposition time next Wednesday and that, once again, not surprisingly, the Government have refused to find time for a debate on the jobs crisis that is affecting so many people? I turn now to another important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": " precious and limited Opposition time next Wednesday and that, once again, not surprisingly, the Government have refused to find time for a debate on the jobs crisis that is affecting so many people? I turn now to another important point— [Interruption.] I am sorry if the Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart), is getting upset, but these are important matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": ". We all fervently hope that there will not be any comparable need for Parliament to be recalled during this recess, but may I have the absolute assurance from the Leader of the House that if there is a crisis, either abroad or domestically, which leads us, the Opposition, to ask for a recall of Parliament the right hon. Gentleman will see to it that Parliament is rapidly recalled? The one reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Serious allegations have been made of widespread abuse of children in three county council children's homes in Leicestershire during the 13-years period from 1974 to 1986. The allegations are concerned with the sexual abuse and assault of the children. Charges are pending in respect of the allegations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Serious allegations have been made of widespread abuse of children in three county council children's homes in Leicestershire during the 13-years period from 1974 to 1986. The allegations are concerned with the sexual abuse and assault of the children. Charges are pending in respect of the allegations — [Interruption.] Therefore, the case is sub judice and I cannot comment further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.527.10", "colnum": "527", "heading": "New Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "citor. I hope that that would not prevent such a person, when appearing in the sheriff court, from applying for legal aid. There will be cases involving children and their carers in which a non-professional would not be appropriate and an advocate would need to be employed. I am anxious that the Legal Aid Board in Scotland does not refuse such applications because of the wording of the new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.527.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Clause 46", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "Committee. In the scandalous absence of a Scottish Select Committee, I would readily agree to the temporary arrangement in the other place. More important, I would readily agree to the inclusion of English hon. Members, who may not have local knowledge, sitting on a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs. I would even accept a token Nationalist on such a Committee, but that is really another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-18", "file": "debates1991-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "92d7016006e4d460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Clause 46", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "That would be interesting, but I did not have time to make that comparison. However, had I done so I do not think that it would have been unfavourable toward Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-18a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "on debate has been sought in Opposition time. The Government published what they claim to be important White Papers on the reform of education and training for those over 16, but none the less could find no time in which to debate the issues. We always welcome debates on education. One thing is abundantly clear: whenever education is debated, it is good for the Labour party and for Labour support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " made at the summit to a substantial reduction of tariffs and parallel action against non-tariff barriers include the multi-fibre arrangement? Will he assure us now that he will agree to no change of policy that could tell to the disadvantage of the British clothing industry, which is already under severe pressure as a consequence of international conditions and the Government's domestic policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is surprising how the right hon. Gentleman always seeks, in one form or another, to try to sell the country short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "requirement in the first three months of this year reached £6·9 billion—did the Prime Minister have a word with George Bush about drug-dealing banks? Did he discuss —I would find it unbelievable if he did not—the BCCI and the need for a public inquiry to expose the Government's squalid cover-up of their involvement in the bank and the fact that they have been passing letters to one another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Bellotti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Bellotti", "preceding_text": "fter coercion until those involved, whether teachers, parents or pupils, are beginning to wonder what is going on around them. The Minister began his speech by talking about city technology colleges, and I wish to do so as well. When the Government first announced CTCs, we were told that eventually there would be hundreds of them, but the Government decided that they had to scale down their ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "the Soviet Union had decided that they would control less of the curriculum from the centre and allow individual schools, with parental support, to decide on parts of the curriculum. I shared with him the view that the British Government were going in the opposite direction and putting teachers and schools in a position where they have absolutely no flexibility. As I come to the end of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-19", "file": "debates1991-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "213e296fe5228b35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "so I am sure that he will bear it in mind that, statutorily, the responsibility for banking supervision rests, as I said fairly in my statement, with the Bank of England. The hon. Gentleman mentioned what happened in the United States. The Bank of England made a judgment having considered the facts of what happened in the United States. It concluded that what had happened there was a local matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-19a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister consider the following? He will be aware that fewer people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I believe that the allowances that are paid —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that some areas do not spend their allocations, while others, such as Leicester, do not have nearly as much as they need? As a result, people such as my constituent, Jayne Cooper, of north Braunston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.751.6", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman anticipates a question just ahead of us on the Order Paper. He is not right to say that the number of those from ethnic minorities in the civil service has fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.751.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.755.4", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is for the inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t know of the very serious banking irregularities at the BCCI? Secondly, when did Ministers, including the right hon. Gentleman as Chancellor, first know about fraud? Thirdly, when did Ministers, including the right hon. Gentleman as Chancellor and Prime Minister, first know that the BCCI was being systematically used for the laundering of criminals' moneys and the funding of terrorism? These are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.755.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.756.6", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "There is certainly plenty of muck about, and I suspect that a great deal of it is on the Conservative Benches. The Prime Minister must withdraw his remark. Millions of pounds have been lost by small depositors, small businesses and local authorities. We deserve better than that answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.756.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e other day, and the remainder are for the inquiry. The right hon. Gentleman asked for an inquiry, and he has got an inquiry. All documents will be available, and all officials and all Ministers will co-operate with the inquiry. Nothing will be hidden. The matters that the right hon. Gentleman raised are matters for the inquiry. The right hon. Gentleman has twice shifted his ground in recent days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.757.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "As we are informed by the press that the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) is for ever dining or lunching in the City of London, is it not remarkable that he was not aware of the alleged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "e tax bill that the nation can afford. The White Paper is only the beginning of the charter process. Nevertheless, it contains well over 70 specific measures to raise standards in public service. I shall set out some of the main measures in the White Paper, the first of which is on education. I commend to the House two old-fashioned concepts which are the benchmarks of success—reports and results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "we will tackle the nuisance caused by road repairs. We will use new powers to make utilities digging up local roads co-ordinate their activity and complete work more swiftly. For large-scale road repairs, we will extend the use of \"lane rental\" incentives and penalties in order to reduce time taken for repairs. We will end the unnecessary coning off of miles of motorway when no work is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "abled a huge explosion to take place in cheap long-distance travel. Outside London, the deregulation of buses has brought in new operators and better value for money. In the light of that better service, we have decided that the time has come to deregulate bus services in London. Travellers on railway and underground services have in too many cases been expected to endure sub-standard performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " qualities so that we can raise standards up to and beyond the best that is currently available. The charter programme will find better ways of converting the money that can be afforded into even better services. I want the people of this country to have services in which they as citizens can be confident and in which public servants themselves can take pride. I commend the proposals to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that the excellent reforms in the public service can succeed probably only against the opposition of public sector unions, does my right hon. Friend think it remarkable that he should be subject to criticism from a shadow Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that the excellent reforms in the public service can succeed probably only against the opposition of public sector unions, does my right hon. Friend think it remarkable that he should be subject to criticism from a shadow Cabinet— [Interruption] —in which 16 out of the 22 are supported by public sector unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's latter point, I hope that he has not been misled. I did not say that in the Bellgrove report Mr. Seymour had said that single-lead junctions were inherently safe; what I said was that they were not inherently unsafe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "sible for the railways. To answer the hon. Gentleman's two specific points, while the Bellgrove inquiry was under way, there was a moratorium on conversions to single-lead junctions. Once the Bellgrove inquiry had reported, that moratorium was lifted. Provisional agreement was given for the operation of a single-lead junction at Newton, and the railway inspectorate did not withdraw that agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.785.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "What about the Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Dicks", "preceding_text": "ever, that the delay still cannot be explained. My hon. Friend has said that the problem started at 3.50 pm. The expert who belatedly came on LBC yesterday morning said that it started at about 9.30 pm. There are eight hours between 4 pm and midnight, but this expert said that it was dawn before an attempt was begun to contact the media. I listened to LBC from 8 am to midday, constantly trying to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "ent to which the Soviet-German and Soviet-Italian treaties undermine the NATO charter. My view is that they undermine it seriously. If, for instance, the Soviet Union were to attack Norway, Britain would be bound under its NATO obligations to go to the assistance of the Norwegians. In that event, and under the terms of the Soviet-German treaty, might not the Germans be inhibited from assisting us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "isting us? [Interruption.] One view is that under the terms of article 5 of the NATO charter an attack on one NATO state is deemed to be an attack on all the allies, and that it would therefore be possible to argue that, in the example that I have just put before the House, Britain would be engaged in a defensive action and that the terms of the Soviet-German agreement would not then be activated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"14 October.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ood by hon. Members that the recess is not a holiday, but that is not understood by some outside this place. It is certainly not understood by those malevolent, brain-dead journalists who insist that the summer recess is a long holiday and that as soon as we finish on Thursday we shall all decamp to Caribbean islands where we will stay until we are summoned back to this place on 25 October. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": " three Welsh regiments. In recruitment terms, it would not be fair to amalgamate the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and it could seriously damage future recruitment from the Principality, especially from north and mid-Wales. The second ground on which the Royal Welch Fusiliers should not be amalgamated is territorial fairness. I am looking quickly around the Chamber to make sure that no Scots are present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "preceding_text": "estimate the cost of the operation. It is estimated that in Somerset alone 400 bridges will have to be strengthened at an approximate cost of £8 million, at 1990 prices. In my constituency the small towns of Wellington and Milverton are both outstanding heritage settlements. Five hundred HGVs will pass through Wellington every day, and 70 through Milverton. I know that other Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Bank of Credit and Commerce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "preceding_text": "at an approximate cost of £8 million, at 1990 prices. In my constituency the small towns of Wellington and Milverton are both outstanding heritage settlements. Five hundred HGVs will pass through Wellington every day, and 70 through Milverton. I know that other Members want to speak—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"] I am glad that Somerset county council has produced proposals to resolve this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "rtainly did not intend to give any impression that the chancellor is briefed other than in general terms on major supervisory developments and issues. As the PM indicated in the House today, the governor would not have told the chancellor about individual reports on individual cases\". It was said in the House yesterday that the Chancellor must have known of every page in the accountants' reports —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "I referred earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " recent times. If one needed to consider for one moment whether it was likely that the Labour party, or the Labour party as it is likely to be constituted in the foreseeable future, could be anything other than a tool and pawn of the trades union movement, one would not have to listen to my words—good idea though that may be. All one has to do is to look at what the Labour party says about itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "gned. We all think of the skit that we often see of the hon. Gentleman on \"Spitting Image\", which has been unfair to him because, in reality, he is much worse than he is portrayed. It is interesting that when he was asked recently to reflect on the position of the trade union movement in relation to the Labour party he said: There is no way the Labour party can be distanced from the trade unions\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "hey speak of the abuse of the ordinary people of this country. When Conservatives abuse the most vulnerable people, Parliament should draw its own conclusions about the unkind and unpleasant nature of the modern Conservative party. There has been a denial of the negotiating rights of teachers, which was condemned by the ILO. The Government have refused to take action on the blacklisting of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend said, that firm is a big contributor to the Tory party. Mr. Robert George has been working for the company for many years. During the harvest, lasting from July to October, he is expected to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week—an 84-hour week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "m is a big contributor to the Tory party. Mr. Robert George has been working for the company for many years. During the harvest, lasting from July to October, he is expected to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week—an 84-hour week. [Interruption.] The Minister sniffs—I am not sure whether in commiseration with Mr. George or in indifference. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will respond to my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.969.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Paul Dean)", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has already spoken. I take it that he has the leave of the House to speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "he unions to put forward practical solutions to the problems of the marketplace. After millions of pounds of investment, Heinz recognises that were it not for the role played by the unions in the changes in the company, the advantages that the company has gained in the marketplace would never have happened. In London and Wigan the shop stewards are principal partners in the changes in the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "rests of the consumer, European agricultural ability to compete with the rest of the world, and use reform not to reform agriculture itself, but to put forward Mr. MacSharry's personal views.\"—[ Official Report , 18 July 1991; Vol. 195, c. 488.] The hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks emphasised that point. The Opposition and the farmers want to hear exactly what the Government believe should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-22", "file": "debates1991-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a73c835f415edc67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortifacient Drug (Licence)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "g time before we hear the Labour party's proposals for reform of the CAP. In the next few months, we shall tell all farmers that the Labour party has nothing to offer on CAP reform. It is also interesting that, when I tempted the Labour party to tell us its policy, it rushed in the hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Powell) to try to ensure that I would not have enough time to answer the debate properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-22a.1003.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1014.6", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "HOOK ISLAND (POOLE BAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "It is a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1023.5", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "We regard local management of schools—the preparation and management of a budget—as a preliminary and important preparatory step towards full grant-maintained status. Indeed, it is difficult to see how anybody could be against local management of schools, as it ensures that schools' money is actually spent in schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1023.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those depositors are in difficulty because of the fraud perpetrated by the BCCI. I have told the right hon. Gentleman that the first knowledge that I had of that fraud was on 28 June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those depositors are in difficulty because of the fraud perpetrated by the BCCI. I have told the right hon. Gentleman that the first knowledge that I had of that fraud was on 28 June. [Interruption.] If he is saying that I am a liar, he had better do so bluntly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.2", "colnum": "1029", "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 has just revealed to the House why he is unfit to be in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "o be fair. However, it then goes into a range of alternative means of valuing properties, which are likely to be not only unfair and expensive but extremely complex. The reason why neither Opposition spokesmen appears to understand the significance of my announcement is their failure to take account of the fact that part of next year's expenditure increases will come from local authority balances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " so next year. The hon. Gentleman's next question was whether I thought there was a serious gap between the announcement and the level of funding. I repeat that I am allowing for spending per charge payer in Wales of £1,207, towards which, on average, the charge payer is asked to contribute £118, against a charge this year of £121. If there is a serious gap, it is in the hon. Gentleman's thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head in disagreement, but local authorities have told me that they expect to collect 100 per cent. of what they budgeted to collect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "preceding_text": "hout the country may see the proposal as the best option in the circumstances, but they may feel worried that, in the market economy that prevails, it will not advantage those who wish to undertake an employee-management buy-out. I am going on at some length, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because this is an important issue which is fundamental to the Bill. We have wrung some concessions from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Bus Company (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1123.11", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Bus Company (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am not off the subject; I am on it. I must again repeat to the hon. Gentleman that we are within the time scale for an appeal, and if he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1123.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1123.14", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Bus Company (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "The Minister can speak freely tonight because he knows that there is no cash available for any appeal in the Court of Session, which would cost thousands of pounds. What we have heard tonight allays none of the fears that have been expressed in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1123.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-23", "file": "debates1991-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "868d8f2686e2e55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1128.2", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Bus Company (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the Scottish Bus Group would work out, but we were certain that Stagecoach—unloved, unwanted, but so influential—would end up with two large slices of the action. That is what we knew from day one, and that is precisely what happened. It did not matter too much how that was to be achieved—it was part of the end goal and, by heavens, one way or another it would be achieved. It is a dreadful story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-23a.1128.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to he upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Order of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1141.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " employee? That is why the law has not been applied more often in the past. As for the bits and pieces on scrutineers of union ballots, balloting requirements and the finances of unions, there is a slight contrast, is there not, between the frenzy of activity in respect of union finances and the Secretary of State's total indolence last year when he received letters on behalf of the staff of BCCI?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "en applied more often in the past. As for the bits and pieces on scrutineers of union ballots, balloting requirements and the finances of unions, there is a slight contrast, is there not, between the frenzy of activity in respect of union finances and the Secretary of State's total indolence last year when he received letters on behalf of the staff of BCCI? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] But again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "Contrary to what the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1169.0", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend made three points", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) must sit down. He has not been called to put a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I thought that Opposition Members were proud of their association with the trade union movement. My hon. Friend made three points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1176.6", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must not go into the detail. I got up when I did because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1176.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1176.7", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The difficulty that the House is in is that, because it will rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "and Partners, a firm of management consultants under contract to Nirex—the United Kingdom Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive. RAWMAC has a responsibility to the Secretary of State for the Environment on major issues relating to the development and implementation of overall policy on radioactive waste management. It has to be independent. Nirex has the responsibility for making proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1177.6", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is out of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "oncerns of communities threatened by the deposition of radioactive waste. The point of order for you is that, as Professor Knill is involved with Nirex but is also the chairman of RAWMAC, his independence is in question. May I call for a statement from the Secretary of State tomorrow, as the choice of Sellafield has been announced this week and the House rises for a 12-week summer recess tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Mr. Speaker—and you know I have enormous respect for you—it is an entirely fresh point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.6", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am not questioning what you have said, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.6", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Sit down then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am not questioning what you have said, Mr. Speaker— [Laughter] —and I am not raising a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.8", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He's raising it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to speak. I was stopped last time not by you, Sir, but by Conservative Members. Let me make two points to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.8", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "er hon. Member to speak, Mr. Speaker, I will put two points to you. First, on the question of referral to the Committee of Privileges, I seek your guidance on whether there is any way in which we can seek to put the matter before that Committee before the House rises for three months, during which time it will be impossible for anyone to take further procedural action on what is a grave situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1178.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Select Committee will consider those matters and, as far as I am aware, it is perfectly in order for a Select Committee to meet during a recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " operate a minimum wage and at the same time to have much better employment performance records than ours. The hon. Gentleman should also realise that we must consider the issue from the point of view of justice. The other day, I received a letter from one of my constituents, Mr. David Smith—no relation, although no doubt he would be honoured to be one—of 32 Livingston drive, Plains, near Airdrie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "urprised that the Chancellor seems to indicate dissent. Whether he knows this or that about economics, I hope that he knows that we are in the third quarter of this year. We might start from agreement on that point. Today, the survey by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce confirms: The country is still in the grip of deep recession and the economy will continue to shrink for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e chambers of commerce state: Business confidence has taken a severe knock in the region. The North West chambers of commerce state: The rise in confidence seen in the last quarter appears to be slipping away. The London chambers of commerce state: Confidence … remains firmly negative in the manufacturing sector. The Southern chambers of commerce state: \"confidence has fallen considerably.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " that opportunity today. In particular, when will unemployment start to come down, instead of rising month after month? Can he tell us whether he agrees with the gloomy assessment made by his colleague, the Economic Secretary, when he told \"Channel 4 News\" on Friday 12 July—the same day that The Kingston Informer hit the streets: I think you are not going to see significant growth until next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We could have had £2 billion years ago if the Government had not introduced the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "n way plenty of times and I must get on with my speech. To combat rising unemployment we need a proper temporary work programme based on three days' employment, one day's training and one day's job seeking. I am surprised that the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) finds that amusing. Such a programme should be introduced to deal with rising unemployment, which is afflicting so many people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "not afford to make those mistakes again in the pivotal decade that lies ahead. That is why, under a Labour Government, the thrust of fiscal and monetary policy will be to create the economic conditions that will maximise investment in our productive economy. We shall aim, as the Government failed to do, at macro-economic stability instead of practising the rollercoaster economics of boom and bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": " make his maiden speech, and I concur with every word that the hon. Gentleman said about him. Eric Heffer had many friends on both sides of the House, not only in his own party. He was as critical of his own party as he was of the Conservative party. The hon. Member for Walton made a rather contentious speech in which he criticised the Government. That is not supposed to happen in a maiden speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "t capital taxes more and should cut income taxes more. The institute said that even if the Government increase VAT— and, after all, it is the policy that the Government are advocating— they will have to cut out— phase out— the state pension scheme, phase out the health service, phase out our education service and phase out unemployment benefits, and replace them in every case by private insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No, not a faster rate of growth than us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No, not a faster rate of growth than us— [Interruption.] Oh, no, we have been through this before. Non-oil GDP growth from 1974 to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No, not a faster rate of growth than us— [Interruption.] Oh, no, we have been through this before. Non-oil GDP growth from 1974 to — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"] We are always told that oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Smith) says, \"Ugh!\" He should speak to my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Department of Education and Science where that may be more readily understood as a form of sign language. We are told that oil was a windfall benefit that the Government should not count. We had 1.2 per cent. growth in non-oil GDP between 1974 and 1979 compared with 1·9 per cent. growth between 1979 and 1990 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.5", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I am asked, \"Who wrote it?\" It was someone who knew some statistics that were accurate and tell a story of two different periods of government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1252.3", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) agrees not to shout at me from a sedentary position for the rest of my speech, I shall give way. Do I have a deal?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1252.6", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "at he would be extending his period of office until after the next election. He said that it would be useful for the CBI to be able to defer its final choice until the outcome of the election was known. If hon. Members want to know why he said that, he is quoted in The Times as saying: I think if there is a Conservative government what you need is a problem solver because under the Conservatives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1252.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-24", "file": "debates1991-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "57894bd3ba0f2b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never heard of him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Saying, \"Rubbish,\" s not an argument and an argument will have to be provided. One can assume that the only reason that the Labour party has failed to answer the charge is that it is thinking up new ones to levy. There has been no satisfactory answer. It is not only Conservative Members who are getting on to that point. What about Professor Rowthorn, not a well-known Conservative, who when asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-24a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-07-25", "file": "debates1991-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "ce1130ccdc4e8938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-25a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Royal Assent", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "ing Acts and measures:— Finance Act 1991 Appropriation Act 1991 Agriculture and Forestry (Financial Provisions) Act 1991 Planning and Compensation Act 1991 Badgers (Further Protection) Act 1991 Badgers Act 1991 Smoke Detectors Act 1991 Medical Qualifications (Amendment) Act 1991 Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Act 1991 Road Traffic Act 1991 Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Act 1991—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-07-25a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.334.6", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "A slowdown in payment levels was inevitable while re-billing took place to reflect the £140 reduction in the headline community charge. Strathclyde issued its revised bills for 1991–92", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "A slowdown in payment levels was inevitable while re-billing took place to reflect the £140 reduction in the headline community charge. Strathclyde issued its revised bills for 1991–92 [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.337.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.345.7", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Over the past 10 years, the number of companies in Scotland has increased by 25,000, or by 68 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.345.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.346.6", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recall that he was told in May about the background to the position that has arisen in the school. It has nothing to do with financial circumstances, and everything to do with circumstances resulting from—if I remember rightly—maternity leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.346.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "If anybody has to apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "convenience of the Opposition. I was ready to answer a private notice question. If anyone has to apologise, it is not me. I have to make the announcements, and if I cannot make them in the House, I will make them in the most convenient way. I make that clear. If the Opposition cannot sort out their act on whether they want a statement, I would be grateful if they would tell the truth in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.353.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.353.6", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I can understand what the hon. Gentleman wants to say. He should make his submissions when he asks his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ow, I shall write to him if I leave out the answers to any key questions. I should, however, like to deal with the central point. The hon. Gentleman has again sought to peddle at the Dispatch Box the story that has been peddled around Scotland that the decision had already been taken when, in fact, it had not. We were reviewing the options. Considerable alarm was caused in Scotland to many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "eved from any of the available options. That was an important consideration. As I have said, I do not have the details of the others, such as those at Trecwn and Copenacre, but in any case those closures are four or five years ahead. My hon. Friend has raised a serious point. I hope that those on the Opposition Front Bench will recognise it as such. The use of leaked documents is a serious matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Rosyth was not lined up for closure. It was precisely the repetition of that sort of statement in the early months that caused so much alarm. That sort of statement has been quoted, as though it was proved, on the back of leaked documents which did not prove it in any sense. The truth is that we have reviewed all the naval bases. Rosyth was the only one that was studied in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "l Livesay. I shall not breach the confidential discussions that we had, but it was clear that Rosyth was the most vulnerable of the naval bases. The transfer of four type 42s to Portsmouth makes the naval base at Rosyth most vulnerable in the future. The Secretary of State must come clean on that. Everyone at Rosyth must know the position. To put it colloquially, their jackets are on a slack nail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Naval Support (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The convoy was on its way to Rosyth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Are you aware that the parliamentary Labour party voted this morning for the House not to sit on Fridays? Labour Members voted for a four-day week: they voted to become part-time Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Restraint of Trade (Trading in Motor Vehicles)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "itain than in Belgium, while a Ford Orion 1·4 litre costs nearly £3,000 more. I accept that some surveys have exaggerated the differences in some respects by not taking special factors such as discounts into account, but even when they are taken into account there is still a massive difference. The price variations, with the fairly free markets in America and Japan, are even more startling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you volunteering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "o by the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile)? If so, how will the Secretary of State's fundamental principles on accountability in local government apply at the all-Wales regional level? That is the democratic deficit that stares us full in the face, including hon. Members who are members of quangos, or might hope to be. Some of my hon. Friends might want to be members of quangos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "tasy—the pipedream of someone who imagines a Welsh nation state. I never imagined a Welsh nation state, but I certainly imagined an elected Welsh polity, and I certainly imagined a Welsh democracy related to other comparable levels of democracy throughout Europe. The danger now is that we are moving into the 21st century with that vital part of our national life as a European region not in place.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has posed the specific question, I will tell him that I am against home rule for Wales. I make that absolutely clear. I have four proposals which strengthen the Principality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "preceding_text": " power within the United Kingdom. I wonder whether I can be partisan in respect of the party that has initiated the debate. In view of some of the remarks made, perhaps that party will rename itself the Welsh regional party. That does not have quite the same ring about it. I must chide that party gently for not recognising in its motion the leadership given by the Wales Labour party on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "ticism of the present county and district structure. The Secretary of State also spoke of creating enabling authorities. The Labour party wants active, effective authorities rather than limited, enabling authorities, to represent the Welsh people. His hidden agenda includes stripping away local government activity. It is closer to the agenda of the No Turning Back group, which wants to strip away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.428.5", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ortant issues—we have been able to show that the Tory Government bring in retrospective legislation. They send Conservative Members to dinner and bring them back when the Division bells ring. There are shop stewards on the door saying, \"We know that you have not listened to the debate, but go in here.\" They kick the Conservative Members into the Lobby to vote through the retrospective legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.441.7", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have got an idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.441.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.443.8", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "rospection? I am a relatively new lad in parliamentary terms and one seeks knowledge all the time. Perhaps the Solicitor-General could comment on this, but I understand that there is great difficulty with retrospective legislation. I thought that implementation had to be from the date on which legislation became law and, obviously, got Royal Assent. I can think of many instances in the past when —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.443.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.447.7", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I have given way to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.447.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "ch he once held. It is absolutely essential that the administration of Scottish justice is protected by a Scottish Law Officer from the Government Dispatch Box. Despite sedentary interventions from—I think—a solicitor who passed his examinations perhaps 30 years or 40 years ago, I tell the Solicitor-General that Scottish Members of Parliament should have the right to ensure that laws such as this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-08-17", "file": "debates1991-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "601241e628821726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.467.9", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Clause 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way: the hour is late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-08-17a.467.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "f State told other Transport Ministers just how well we in this country plan our transport infrastructure? Perhaps he will tell them how much they have to learn from his handling of the channel tunnel rail link, for example. As—in the words of the chairman of the Conservative party—political considerations dictated this choice, will the Secretary of State tell his fellow Ministers that the choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ure? Perhaps he will tell them how much they have to learn from his handling of the channel tunnel rail link, for example. As—in the words of the chairman of the Conservative party—political considerations dictated this choice, will the Secretary of State tell his fellow Ministers that the choice—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"] I am asking a question, as hon. Members would know if they were listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.13.7", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Who subscribes to what and to whom is not a matter for me. I shall refer matters relating to the NUM to the hon. Gentleman, who is its vicar upon earth, or at least upon the surface. It seems extremely unfair for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.13.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.15.6", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " Friend and I know that he takes a great interest in these matters. The Court of Appeal has used this power, which I have had since February two years ago, to lay down guidelines for the assistance of judges. I will now be referring fewer cases because those guidelines are being acted upon and they are inducing much greater consistency. I also agree with the last part of my hon. Friend's sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.15.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House recognise that many people in the country as well as in the House are surprised that we have not had a statement today from the Secretary of State for Health about the Government's further proposals for creeping privatisation of the national health service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "Those remarks illustrate the foolishness of allowing hon. Members such as the hon. Member for Dorset, South (Mr. Bruce) to intervene in the debate. Despite the efforts of this year's Conservative party conference to grope towards democratic debate and discussion, the Conservatives do not properly appreciate how a real political conference operates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.76.7", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I should like your protection, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am working against the clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.76.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.76.9", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "t have abandoned support for the Boeing project. Perhaps we may hear whether there will be some support for either the French or the Martin-Marietta programmes which are still going on and how we will be able to get our nuclear air-launched systems. So far we have had only an introduction to the debate on this issue, but tonight's debate would not have taken place if we had had a general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.76.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "entities are worth preserving —in historical, sentimental or emotional terms that may be so, and clearly the petition that has been presented suggests that that is so—that argument would be more properly applied to the units that we hold in reserve, the Territorial Army. I enter a plea that we preserve the identity of the Durham Light Infantry within the territorial units in the north-east. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "est aircraft, will fall. I know that that news will be welcome to the House. Wherever possible, we will use simulators and train abroad. I am grateful to the United States and Canada for the facilities that they provide. Let me also thank the House and the public for their tolerance and understanding of our low flying. Without that training, we certainly could not have a fully effective air force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.118.2", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "protect the environment need a structure that goes deep within the Ministry of Defence so that care for the environment becomes part of our way of life. We have therefore set up a network of environmental committees to cover every unit, both military and civilian, throughout the Ministry of Defence. These committees will closely consider how their units can enhance their effect on the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-14", "file": "debates1991-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18e46b554937643c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "By setting up those committees, our wish to nurture the environment will become a living reality within the Ministry of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-14a.118.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.131.22", "colnum": "131", "heading": "KING'S CROSS RAILWAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.131.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Cheshire\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "In view of the massive petition that was presented to Parliament yesterday on behalf of the Staffords, and in view of the powerful case that they have advanced, will the Secretary of State please reconsider his unpopular decision? I ask that on behalf of all the people of Staffordshire and the west midlands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.145.6", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "yed a major part in securing resolution 687 which stated that we would seek, identify and destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. As a result of the United Kingdom's initiative and of the courage of members of the teams including scientists from several countries under United Nations auspices, it is becoming clear just how extensive and advanced was Iraq's nuclear weapons capability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.145.6", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "y must know that this is one of the most crucial international issues at the moment. The Iraqi Government are still trying to cling to it and are still cheating and lying. I can tell my hon. Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Dr. Goodson-Wickes) that they will not be permitted to succeed. One way or another, their nuclear capability must go, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.145.9", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The first thing is to make it clear— time and again—as I believe the right hon. Gentleman now knows, that there is no question of privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.145.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Lies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.146.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman knows —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.146.7", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It has been a custom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.146.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.148.6", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "ed at his place of work because of his support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-poll tax campaign, despite the fact that 30 of his workmates take the same view and are not being sacked? Will my right hon. Friend look into this matter? He will understand that on this occasion I cannot name my constituent, but his job is as the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.148.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Squatting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I understand that. However, the hon. Gentleman's example goes rather beyond the matter with which I am dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have just said that you have received 44 requests to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The weapons that were listed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The weapons that were listed— [Interruption.] It is clear that Conservative Members are squirming and do not like what they are hearing. The list was submitted to the Select Committee, as I explained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "I close my remarks on the Iraq issue there because I want to get on and I have put on record our views about the hypocrisy of the Government towards the whole matter. A consistent complaint over the years has been about the ineptitude of the Government's management of defence procurement. In the early to mid-80s the Tory conference darling, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": " Government's management of defence procurement. In the early to mid-80s the Tory conference darling, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"]—was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, and Tory Members who were here at the time welcomed him with enthusiasm as the smart business man who would reform the Ministry of Defence. They said that the right hon. Member for Maidenhead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "g from the universities, it is no good our having all these grandiose defence establishments: there will be no scientists ready, able and willing to work in them. The Government's management of high-risk defence programmes still leaves much to be desired. That is typified by the recent debacle of the type 23 frigate programme. As I have said, the problem is compounded by misguided Government cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "I anticipated that question: as the Minister of State said earlier, the hon. Gentleman has a strong constituency interest in the matter. Labour does not believe that a fourth Trident boat is necessary. If, however, an order for one were placed before a general election, an incoming Labour Government would have to examine the contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.185.4", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What about the SSNs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, Conservative Members spent a good deal of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.185.6", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "s not want to concentrate on its estimates. We understand why Conservative Members continually try to divert the discussion to the subject of our policies. They bleat about the job losses that would result if a Labour Government were elected—but this is the party that uses unemployment as an economic tool; a party that believes that, regardless of human misery, that is all that unemployment means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.185.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": " at, for example, Castlemartin. The public are allowed on to the tank training area when it is not being used by German Panzers. I presume that the German Panzers will return home and that Castlemartin may become redundant for tank training purposes. The Ministry of Defence may therefore not need to retain that land. Last week I listened to the Prime Minister's speech at the Tory party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\": \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "ll deal later with some of the remarks of the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn). Parts of the procedures of this House disturb me and one, if I may speak with great humility, is the way that we pass over bereavements. I hope that the House will forgive me if I preface my remarks by saying how much I miss the late Member for Kincardine and Deeside, Mr. Buchanan-Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": " Member to ask serious questions about the safety of nuclear submarines. The hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn), in a speech which I think we call spirited on these occasions, referred in almost biblical language to the four fallacies of Ministers. He gave a sterling defence of the Scottish regiments and condemned the ill-thought-out action and obstinacy of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "riods of history that future generations will look back on and perhaps even give the nomenclature \"revolutionary\". It is a watershed. The continent of Europe, which for most of the post-war period appeared to be on the brink of disaster, now appears to be on the brink of lasting peace. Whether in retrospect we shall be praised by future generations for taking the challenge of those opportunities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "back on and perhaps even give the nomenclature \"revolutionary\". It is a watershed. The continent of Europe, which for most of the post-war period appeared to be on the brink of disaster, now appears to be on the brink of lasting peace. Whether in retrospect we shall be praised by future generations for taking the challenge of those opportunities — [Interruption.] —or whether we shall be condemned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "for having missed that opportunity or praised for taking it remains to be seen. Either way, it is important for all those involved in the debate about the future of European and global security to be aware of the burden which is being placed on all our shoulders. The burden has been placed most particularly on the shoulders of Ministers. Sadly, they have proven incapable of shaping up to the task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bill Walker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "r and over the next two or three years I have no doubt that the decisions announced by Tom King will be reviewed. As I said, the rate of change has gone from arithmetical to geometrical. I have news for the Secretary of State for Scotland. Tom King, whom he quoted there, will not be Secretary of State for Defence for the next two or three years, so if there is any review it will be carried out by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ection in 1979. We intend to go further than the Conservatives. We are going public and we have told everyone in the House that we will have a full defence review within the first year of a Labour Government. If hon. Members require further elucidation they should refer to the expansive section of our policy that was dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill) last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "I am impressed by the vigour that the hon. Gentleman is showing in the defence of this country now that the main threat to the country has passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that may not he the priority that the services collectively decide that they want. We must bear in mind that the savings which we propose came from the executive committee of the Army Board. It suggested how this could he done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "N. Fairbairn) and the hon. Members for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Galloway), for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) and for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) are very worried. I accept that great strength of feeling in Scotland has been aroused by the proposed changes. No solution will please everyone, but it is plain wrong to suggest that Scotland is bearing a dispropor-tionate share of the reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.247.4", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "But the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady accept the simple statement that it is not the Government who are denying funds to necessary industries, rather Commissioner Millan is responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-15", "file": "debates1991-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "dd978dbd0147ddef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.268.6", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Lady believe that she should be putting pressure on Commissioner Milian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-15a.268.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-16", "file": "debates1991-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "98dd3e58dfba2ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " Gentleman think that he knows better than local people what is good for their hospitals? Is it not just possible that local people are right when they oppose their local health service being broken up; that local health staff are right to worry about what happens when their hospitals have to compete against each other in a market, not co-operate in a public service? The Secretary of State claims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-16", "file": "debates1991-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "98dd3e58dfba2ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Government will make up their minds on the application from Aberdeen—an application so unpopular that not even the Conservatives' own by-election candidate dares to support it? Or do the Government hope to get the election over first, before coming clean with the people of Kincardine? Before the Secretary of State proceeds to ignore all my questions and reads out his prepared text of party abuse —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.313.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-10-16", "file": "debates1991-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "98dd3e58dfba2ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept my congratulations on his speech at the party conference last week, when he nailed the lies of the other side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-16", "file": "debates1991-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "98dd3e58dfba2ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.318.7", "colnum": "318", "heading": "NHS Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend nailed the untruths of the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.318.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-16", "file": "debates1991-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "98dd3e58dfba2ae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "What I am pointing out is that it was the Conservative party which said that it would balance the budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-16a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady has taken the opportunity to rise to her feet, she may care to explain from which of the Labour party's pledges she is now resiling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.427.11", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "It may interest the hon. Gentleman to know that when my right hon. Friend the Chancellor announced the increase in child benefit in the Budget the CPAG wrote congratulating him, saying how pleased it was with the increase. The statistics on the number of people living in poverty are, as the hon. Gentleman knows, completely meaningless as they rely on a totally artificial definition of poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.427.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.432.6", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "When the Chancellor next meets the Governor, will he raise with him the question of political contributions made by banks in the United Kingdom? Is not it true that Bank of Credit and Commerce International associate companies paid money to the Conservative party? Can those moneys now be returned to the banks for use by the liquidators so that at least some people will get their money back?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.434.8", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The facts are totally contrary to what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says. Any fall in investment during this recession has been from historically high levels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.434.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME 'MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that Opposition spokesmen seem to take particular delight in talking down the British economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME 'MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.436.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME 'MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that I am familiar with Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House do me a favour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Public Accounts Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "way in which they have gone about handling the poll tax affair and I am worried that the attitudes that they have engendered may spin off into other smaller taxation issues, especially those relating to car tax and television licences. For example, the region with the highest level of non-payment is Northern Ireland. We all accept that there are special collection difficulties in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-17", "file": "debates1991-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8387de9247693f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Public Accounts Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ve been from senior and distinguished Members, which is in marked contrast to the contributions by Conservative Members. Apart from three Conservative Back Benchers, nobody on the Government side seemed to be interested in the work of the Committee. That includes those Members who have joined us to laugh at the Minister when he is winding up. It is even more disgraceful that the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-17a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-18", "file": "debates1991-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0b46f1dc02acac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-18a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ct last year. Can we hear something about the use of police cells for remand prisoners? A chief constable to whom I spoke this year said that he welcomed his cells being used for remand prisoners, because the Home Office pumped so much money into his authority for that purpose that he received it in the form of revenue rating; he urged me not to criticise the proposals because he needed the money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-18a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-18", "file": "debates1991-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0b46f1dc02acac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-18a.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "al Parks constabulary for their excellent work in the royal parks. I know from my experience in the city of Westminster how splendidly they serve a very large tourist population as well as the local residential community. I now refer to the Labour party's absurd proposition that there should be an elected police authority for London which the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook again confirmed today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-18a.555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-18", "file": "debates1991-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0b46f1dc02acac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-18a.557.5", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "e totals £1,099 million, of which about £620 million is recovered, leaving a net loss of £471 million. Insurance claims for motor theft in the United Kingdom in 1989 totalled about £291 million. But because such crime is unrecorded the overall net loss to the public may be in the region of £550 million to £600 million. I welcome the fact that 1992 is to be car crime year. We require an innovative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-18a.557.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ses, with £5 and £8 a week increases, and the restoration of the pension link with earnings—instead of having to be at the end of the queue, as they always are under this Government? Will the right hon. Gentleman admit that, if the Government had not broken Labour's pension link with earnings, thereby cutting pensioners out of rising living standards for the past 11 years, he would be announcing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "n's medical centre in my constituency being taken out of the national health service. I will acknowledge that the form of the petition must have been correct, Mr. Speaker, or your office would not have accepted it. However, I ask whether it is possible for you to investigate how the other signatures were collected, for I believe that those people were unaware of what they were being asked to sign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "The signatures on the petition were collected by Alan Simpson, the next Labour Member for Nottingham, South, and myself. They came from thousands of people in Nottingham—health workers, doctors, nurses and patients—all of whom know that the Nottingham city hospital opted out last Wednesday. If it is of assistance to you, Mr. Speaker, I will read the full text of the petition. It states: \"We\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.6", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.9", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "hy with you because of the onerous responsibilities facing you, especially as we approach the intense battle of a general election. However, may I prevail upon you, in the coming short recess, to examine your responsibilities in relation to the Representation of the People Acts? According to the motions on the Order Paper, today's debate will be an exclusively English debate on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.9", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": " the Secretary of State for Scotland, and he will reply.\" May I have your assurance, Mr. Speaker, that in future, and especially in a general election or by-election period, you will seek to ensure that such debates are not dominated by Front-Bench speakers as happened during last Monday's defence debate when, although you asked for short speeches, the two Front Bench spokesmen consumed two hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.658.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.659.4", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "If you are to make the Representation of the People Acts your bedside reading during the short recess, perhaps you could consider the position of an hon. Member who is elected under one political banner but who then changes party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "ester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) saying that the Prime Minister would privatise health just like coal and steel. Then we had the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) saying, \"We all know what the Tories do with nationalised industries, don't we? They privatise them,\" and the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham saying, \"They will finish up selling off hospitals and privatising the health service\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "ys seem to be treading on him, poor fellow. The hon. Member for Livingston admits that the answer to the privatisation smears which his colleagues have perpetrated is \"No\". The hon. Gentleman should have the courage here and now to give the same clear, single-syllable answer to this House that he shared with Mr. Walden and the viewers. Why does he not just give us the same unequivocal \"no\" today?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " comes from patient charges is actually lower now than it was in the 1950s. We did abolish universal free eye tests and dental check-ups and introduce charges for those able to pay—as is well known—and it was controversial at the time; just as Labour introduced the original charges for teeth and spectacles, and just as, in 1967, they reintroduced the prescription charge having rashly abolished it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The position is entirely clear. NHS patients cannot be charged and will not be charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The position is entirely clear. NHS patients cannot be charged and will not be charged. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I have answered the hon. Gentleman's question. NHS patients cannot be charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "987. That is totally dishonest, because the truth of the matter is that the figures were not collected at all before 1987— not that they were collected separately. The hon. Gentleman is an honest man and he should repudiate that. He knows perfectly well that he gets his higher figure by including day patients, figures for whom were not collected before 1979. He should have the honesty to admit it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ly. The hon. Gentleman is an honest man and he should repudiate that. He knows perfectly well that he gets his higher figure by including day patients, figures for whom were not collected before 1979. He should have the honesty to admit it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] We will not get any answer. The next argument of the hon. Member for Peckham was that we were driving people into the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, because I was in Guisborough maternity hospital this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ption.] If the Tory candidate thinks that dealing with a printer's error which was accepted as such is a way to win a campaign, he has something else coming. I want to ask the question put to people who go to the maternity hospital, and I hope that the Secretary of State will answer it. Why do not his Government commit the resources sufficient to make sure that the NHS has the money that it needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "There is no need to consult about what the law of the land is, and that is the end of that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said—I repeat his words in the House today— There will be no charges for hospital treatment, no charges for visits to the doctor, no privatisation of health care, neither piecemeal or in part, nor as a whole. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not after the next election. Not ever while I am Prime Minister. That is what my right hon. Friend said, and that is the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Both those questions are now of such antiquity that we should send them for carbon dating. Let me respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ious because I said that it could not be done overnight. Having watched the Conservative party conference I understand that, for the hon. Gentleman, \"overnight\" is rather a long time. Nevertheless, the position remains precisely the same; over the lifetime of the Parliament, we shall seek to restore the underfunding, and in each year we shall make progress towards achieving that end. In precisely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": " truth about NHS trusts, if people consider and discuss the facts, rather than simply trying to scare others, it will become clear that trusts will lead to better public health care for all. Rather than swapping the kind of ill-researched generalities that the Labour party likes to use, let me try to get at the truth by referring to a case study. Ashford hospital, Middlesex, is in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is called the Labour party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "etters. The group claimed that the fact that only six letters opposing the trust had been received by the region demonstrated apathy. It does not: it demonstrates the contentment of the people I represent. Let us now test Labour's claims about the spontaneity and genuineness of opposition to trust status. I suffer from the presence in my constituency of a very vocal anti-Government pressure group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "preceding_text": "ch, unfortunately, I do not have time to deal. However, I shall refer to many of the substantial changes and improvements that I have seen in the past few years. I do that because the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) recently came to my constituency. He did not, as would normally be the case, advise me that he intended to do so. He held a press conference outside a hospital in myconstituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "preceding_text": "renshay health authority. The Labour party consistently tells us that it is committed to the health service. Let us look at the record of Councillor Berry. He was elected to Frenshay health authority in February 1990. I have with me the minutes of Frenshay health authority for 1990. At the bottom they state, \"Apologies, Dr. R. Berry.\" I have with me the March minutes for Frenshay health authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "d about their hospitals opting out and whose Member of Parliament refuses to listen to them. What was striking about the speech of the Secretary of State was that it showed not a glimmer of recognition of the crisis that we all know exists in the NHS. We know, and so do patients who use the NHS, that it is being damaged by a threefold Tory attack: underfunding, commercialisation and privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " for which they have no mandate and not a scrap of public support. It might make the Secretary of State feel better, but it is no way for a Government in office for 12 years to defend their record. Everyone knows, even if the Secretary of State does not, that underfunding in the NHS has caused long waiting lists. In 1979 there were 690,000 people on waiting lists. By March 1991 there were 900,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "r a Government in office for 12 years to defend their record. Everyone knows, even if the Secretary of State does not, that underfunding in the NHS has caused long waiting lists. In 1979 there were 690,000 people on waiting lists. By March 1991 there were 900,000. [Interruption.] The all-party Select Committee on Health said that 23 per cent. of those waiting had been waiting for more than a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State and members of his party can try to sweep away the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "The difference between the next Labour Government and this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.725.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.726.5", "colnum": "726", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": " and do what a Select Committee on Health wanted the Government to do, but which the Government refused: set up an investigation into the link between waiting lists and the amount of private practice. We shall bring opted-out hospitals back within district health authorities and end the internal market in which district health authorities and hospitals have to buy and sell services. It is no good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.726.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "No. Then there will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aid to Developing Countries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "e House about the trading relationship between the EC, including this country, and Cuba. Cuba removed United States influence in 1959 and has suffered 30 years of a United States economic blockade. As a means of survival, Cuba became a full member of Comecon and its economy was greatly linked to those of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Now it has to pay for all its imports with hard currency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-21", "file": "debates1991-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "85ccfd692f443954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "earned Friend the Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) for the privilege of addressing the House on this issue. As he said, we met the Minister last week. This is a unique occasion, as this is the first time that I have seen all the three Members who represent Leicester together on an issue to defend the elderly people of Leicester. This is one of the saddest debates in which I have taken part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-21a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-22", "file": "debates1991-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "79b233c78236de82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know full well that the survey of the chambers of commerce of which both he and I have been provided with advance copies —it is to be published on Thursday—shows a substantial increase in business confidence on the part of those who responded to that survey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-22", "file": "debates1991-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "79b233c78236de82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend is referring to the policies of the Labour and Liberal parties on defence. The Labour party's conference proposals, which a future Labour Government would be pressurised into accepting, would mean defence cuts of about £6 billion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-22", "file": "debates1991-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "79b233c78236de82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.794.9", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The position is absolutely clear. It is illegal for the NHS to charge NHS patients except in the limited respects allowed by statute. The NHS has, of course, never provided every service in every area. It is up to local health authorities to decide local priorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.794.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-22", "file": "debates1991-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "79b233c78236de82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "MV Antares", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "The sheriff principal fully accepted the need to train in coastal waters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-22a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ck Buchanan-Smith, a colleague and great personal friend of mine, a person who served this House, the Government and his constituency so well, is not with us today. He was a remarkable parliamentarian and, as a Minister, he was with me for many years. He loved his constituency, his country and the House of Commons, and I know that he will be sadly missed by hon. Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ith eagerness and enthusiasm. In 1961, I was fortunate enough to win a by-election in the constituency of Worcester. After that by-election, I remember taking my place in this House and walking nervously towards Mr. Speaker. To my surprise, voices from the Labour Benches shouted, \"Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee.\" That was a form of punishment reserved for English Tory Members at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"It still is.\"] Little did I realise that I would end my ministerial career by spending much of my time on the Welsh Grand Committee. It was a great privilege to become the Member for Worcester. I am very proud of my constituency, which has immense quality. It is a microcosm of England. It has the old and the new, and it has industry and agriculture. It is known as the \"faithful city\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": " Britain's closest to Europe. From my home in Sandwich bay, on a clear day I can look across the English channel and see the coast of France. I understand that from nearby Broadstairs, from the boyhood home and birthplace of my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath), the same continental shoreline is equally visible. It is a case of same view, slightly different vision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n. Member who sadly left the Labour Benches during the summer recess, George Buckley, whose courage no one could ever fail to admire, especially the way in which he carried his mortal illness. His honesty and loyalty is a model to everyone who wishes to be an authentic representative of the people he served in a variety of capacities for so many years. We are going to miss Alick and George deeply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "new car.\" I had a similar experience back in 1978, when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party. I called home and spoke to my then seven-year-old daughter who had been rehearsed by her grandparents about what she should appropriately say. She lisped over the telephone, \"Congratulations, daddy, on being elected to the national executing committee of the Labour party\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "As it happens, I do not share the investments that my good friends the Labour party candidates happen to have made. The hon. Gentleman may have noticed that this is a free country. Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n no clear personal statement from the Prime Minister. The nearest that we have had to a declaration so far is an off-the-cuff remark to journalists in Harare last week, when the Prime Minister said: There are eight months to go. Now that he is back among us, will the right hon. Gentleman say whether there are really eight months to go? I shall gladly give way if he wishes to make an announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "antity and quality of skills throughout British industry. They refuse to do that. In order to achieve sustained growth, the Government would have actively to encourage industrial investment with a tax regime promoting the purchase of new plants and machinery. They will not do that. They would have to put private money into public transport projects. They will not do that. They would have to allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is their flagship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "nd in the world economy. As the Queen's Speech again makes clear, the Government have not learnt and will not learn from the success of others. They do not even learn from their own failures. That is true not only in respect of economic policies but in many other areas—not least, in the Government's policy towards local taxation. The council tax is said to be the centrepiece of the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "aumont-Dark) have to face up to is whether we maximise the essential influence that we must exert in the European Community by taking a back seat—he may not want to take that view—or by pressing our Community partners to ensure that, as there is a process of monetary union, we gain both the safeguards and conditions necessary to make it a success for Britain and the rest of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "If I get on, I shall give way to the right hon. Gentleman later. The privatisation of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has reached an important part of his speech but, unfortunately, it is not a clear part. Will he tell us—it is important for the nation—the policy of the Labour party, in a nutshell, on European monetary union and the single currency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has reached an important part of his speech but, unfortunately, it is not a clear part. Will he tell us—it is important for the nation—the policy of the Labour party, in a nutshell, on European monetary union and the single currency? [Interruption.] Will he do that briefly—ideally, in fewer than 234 words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.7", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Gentleman said. I think, however, that I have his drift. The answer can be simply given, and it should be given to every Member of this place. The answer is to secure the best possible deal for Britain, in the knowledge that there is, as I have pointed out in the House before, a process under way in the European Community which, as it moves towards its conclusion, holds a danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.11", "colnum": "22", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "say that the Government are not positive, that is because they have sought no undertakings on regional policy, growth policy or employment policy. They have sought no undertakings whatsoever. Unless the Government pursue policies of that sort, the Tory party will, and certainly not for the first time in history, be taking us naked into that kind of arrangement within the European Community. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.22.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The privatisation of the inspectorate of schools is a most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "heir process of privatisation. The public saw what happened only last week, when the Secretary of State for Health dared to say that tax relief on private health insurance should be dropped. The Prime Minister was away on duty out of the country at the time, so he did not see the Secretary of State say on Mr. Walden's programme that tax relief on private health insurance has not worked very well\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "sed the Loyal Address 29 years ago and referred to a subject in terms that may be familiar to the House today. He referred to it as a matter of controversy in the days, weeks and months to come.\"—[ Official Report, 30 October 1962; Vol. 666, c. 11.] He was referring to Britain's negotiations with the European Community—plus ca change, as my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, South implied earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "NO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It comes ill from a party that is now committed to fixed Parliaments to complain that we are going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, answer that point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It comes ill from a party that is now committed to fixed Parliaments to complain that we are going on—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have just answered. Let me pursue the point that I was dealing with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It comes ill from a party that is now committed to fixed Parliaments to complain that we are going on—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have just answered. Let me pursue the point that I was dealing with—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, answer that point.\"] I have, and this is germane to that point. I have here a leaflet that will help us during the campaign and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.7", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have here— [Interruption.] Perhaps in a moment the Leader of the Opposition will answer this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.8", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They do not like it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have here— [Interruption.] Perhaps in a moment the Leader of the Opposition will answer this point— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.9", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "an they imagine, especially those who have been able to buy their own home. I am very glad to have that endorsement of Conservative success. It comes from the Labour party. But the people of this country might feel more reassured if that same political party was not at the same time threatening to increase taxes on ordinary people—on their income, on their savings and on their wealth. The leaflet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.9", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "le to buy their own home. I am very glad to have that endorsement of Conservative success. It comes from the Labour party. But the people of this country might feel more reassured if that same political party was not at the same time threatening to increase taxes on ordinary people—on their income, on their savings and on their wealth. The leaflet— [Interruption.] Let me just refer to the leaflet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.9", "colnum": "27", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". It comes from the Labour party. But the people of this country might feel more reassured if that same political party was not at the same time threatening to increase taxes on ordinary people—on their income, on their savings and on their wealth. The leaflet— [Interruption.] Let me just refer to the leaflet— [Interruption.] I am prepared to wait until Opposition Members will listen. The leaflet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.27.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.30.10", "colnum": "30", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends had the opportunity to intervene on several occasions. I invite him to wait a while. It is interesting that the principal paymaster of the Leader of the Opposition, the TGWU, refuses to welcome investment from Japan, especially in Scotland and Wales. What do they call it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.30.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " second rate? We shall introduce three Bills on education this Session. We will require the publication of local league tables on exam results, staying-on rates and truancy rates for all schools. Parents have a right to that information and they will get it. They also have a right to short, clear reports on their child's school prepared by independent inspection teams, and they will get that, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r all schools. Parents have a right to that information and they will get it. They also have a right to short, clear reports on their child's school prepared by independent inspection teams, and they will get that, too. [Interruption.] I must say, Mr. Speaker, that if the public at large could see the behaviour on the Opposition Benches, they would know why Labour Members are unfit for government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This coming year we will begin to introduce national vocational qualifications to schools, bringing in the high calibre technical qualifications that have been missing in education for so long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This coming year we will begin to introduce national vocational qualifications to schools, bringing in the high calibre technical qualifications that have been missing in education for so long— [Interruption.] Opposition Members may not regard further and higher education as importantly as we do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", bringing in the high calibre technical qualifications that have been missing in education for so long— [Interruption.] Opposition Members may not regard further and higher education as importantly as we do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah.\"] Perhaps they could cheer this. We will give further education colleges and sixth form colleges the same freedom from town hall control as we gave to the polytechnics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Ashdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "o set the tone for the rest of this Session and through the general election, God help us. I wonder whether hon. Members understand the appalling impression conveyed by the way in which we conduct our business. The nation will have seen on its television sets the scenes that we witnessed here this afternoon—scenes that were, as an example of what we should and could be doing, an absolute disgrace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.39.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "and lays great weight on Britain's relationship with our friends in Europe. In the near future—certainly until 10 December, and probably right through to polling day for a general election next year—Britain's role in Europe will be a dominant topic for debate in Parliament. I have no objection to working more closely with our colleagues in Europe. My family has had a home in France for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-10-31", "file": "debates1991-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "085c6de131b79665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": " reference has not yet been made. That is the spirit of Thomas Digges, a former Member of this place. It was revealed in today's Daily Telegraph that he invented the astronomical telescope 30 years before Galileo, but the discovery was kept quiet for security reasons and we have all been under a misapprehension ever since. That so-called Digges doctrine is alive and well on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-10-31a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-01", "file": "debates1991-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c7053b80de09451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Engels, actually.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "em is smashed beyond recall. There is no doubt that its total failure has left the Soviet Union and the peoples of the republics in a disastrous state. The economy is disintegrating, the institutions are discredited—a very bad combination for any country or group of countries. The House must face the possibility that the centre in Moscow will wither away, not at all in the way that Marx envisaged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-01", "file": "debates1991-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c7053b80de09451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "s, and the press reported that the Prime Minister himself ignored an approach from the defence consortium—Labour will work with industry, trade unions, academic experts and others to help the defence industries to make a positive contribution to national output and employment. Labour will establish a defence diversification agency to save skills and talents that the nation cannot afford to lose. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-01", "file": "debates1991-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c7053b80de09451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "rency. I say that as a Hayekian, as I should like every bank in the country to be allowed to issue its own currency; it is not just a question of Europe. The good currencies—the ones that did not inflate—would be the currencies that remained. I remind the House that, 100 years ago, about 48 banks in Britain still issued their own currencies. Just think what that would do for collectors of currency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-01", "file": "debates1991-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c7053b80de09451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "itude on Britain's position within the EEC. There have been some changes, but they have not been dramatic. It is clear once again, Britain is in a minority of one within the EEC, especially on monetary union. The opt-out clause is a fig leaf that the Prime Minister is clutching to his private parts to cover the serious disagreements in his party, and especially the objections from its right wing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-01a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.195.5", "colnum": "195", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Brooke)", "preceding_text": "is baby daughter. Other children in that ward were immobilised in traction. So far, 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled, 80 out of the 200 national health service beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable and damage totalling at least £250,000 has been caused. I am sure that the whole House will join me in utter condemnation of this appalling attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.195.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "rticle with him in advance. Do the views expressed in it represent his views and the views of the whole of his party, or the views of only one part of his Front-Bench team? Let us examine the views of the hon. Member for Fife, Central on the subject of TECs. The hon. Gentleman thinks that TECs are a symbol of deep rooted mistakes of political philosophy\". Does the hon. Member for Sedgefield agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.213.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.217.9", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.217.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we shall be able to enter into interesting correspondence. It is rather odd to suggest that such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": " to whom to relate. If they could be assisted and befriended by someone who has brought up her own child—someone who would read to and play with the child—in most cases that work would be welcomed and better done purely by volunteers. However, in many parts of the country volunteers receive expenses and some receive slightly more than their expenses, which helps them if they have a limited income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ly independent of Government and will be able to discharge its new role without, as Opposition Members would say, interference from Ministers. The independent inspection teams will be chosen by governors from a list approved by Her Majesty's inspectorate. There will therefore be no soft options for schools, no comfortable inspections by a friend of the headmaster or even by a friend of the school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "interference from Ministers. The independent inspection teams will be chosen by governors from a list approved by Her Majesty's inspectorate. There will therefore be no soft options for schools, no comfortable inspections by a friend of the headmaster or even by a friend of the school— [Interruption.] Inspectors will be approved and will be required to undertake a rigorous and thorough inspection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.241.6", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman and I serve on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration Select Committee, where we frequently are in agreement, but I must tell him frankly that across the Floor of the House today we are in complete disagreement. The new measures will not in any way reduce the responsibility of Ministers to this House. Indeed, they will do much to improve the quality of state education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.241.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.244.5", "colnum": "244", "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": "ish a grant-maintained school? The Labour party remains the party of the bureaucrat and of the trade unions. Labour Members will defend the vested interest of the LEAs and of the teacher unions before those of parents or pupils. It is worth remembering that, if elected, the Labour party will abolish grammar schools, grant-maintained schools, city technology colleges and the assisted places scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.244.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "t. Helens, because there are no jobs. The unemployment rate is rising, no new industry is coming in and there are no grants. The Government would not even back the European Coal and Steel Community's campaign so that we could get our fair share. That is a disgrace in European terms. The Government are the pariah of Europe, but they cannot see it, because they are stuck in dogma and stupid beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "are no grants. The Government would not even back the European Coal and Steel Community's campaign so that we could get our fair share. That is a disgrace in European terms. The Government are the pariah of Europe, but they cannot see it, because they are stuck in dogma and stupid beliefs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] With great respect, those Conservative Members are stuck in the same stupid beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is happening in Langbaurgh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "orld—for instance, the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Dunn), who began his speech with four minutes of diatribe against my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot). Why? I notice that his recreations are American politics and canvassing. I hope that we shall not be introducing into our political system the black propaganda campaigns that we see in America. That would be a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "d be wide informal consultation. The Government say that they believe in open government. They have published such reviews of the machinery of government in the past—in 1983, they published the Rayner scrutiny of the HMI—but the Secretary of State has refused to publish the latest internal review. Indeed, it has been kept so secret that no summary or abstract of the review is to be made available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Publishing exam results is fine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Local authorities can continue to inspect in their areas. Alongside them will be the new inspectors, from private organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-04", "file": "debates1991-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7a17450cbf5f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.300.7", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "y, never read Her Majesty's inspectorate reports on their schools. Indeed, it is unusual for parents even to see such reports. Some 3,000 to 5,000 inspectors will be required to produce those reports. Is the Labour party proposing that Her Majesty's inspectorate should suddenly take on 3,000 to 5,000 inspectors in one great national monolithic inspecting organisation? Perhaps that is the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-04a.300.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.315.5", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.315.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Renewable Energy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "One.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Although I am sure that all hon. Members accept that alternative energy has joined that singular category of motherhood and sliced bread as something that no one can seriously oppose, perhaps I might ask my hon. Friend two questions——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.337.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Renewable Energy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Butler", "preceding_text": "Do the longer-term contracts that my hon. Friend's statement envisages, which presumably depend on the longer-term view, take the prospects of a Mersey barrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twelve years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "I know that we are near to a general election, but would the right hon. Gentleman please remember that he is not the current chairman of the Conservative party, he is the Home Secretary? We do not expect such a flippant presentation, we expect something rather more serious. If he is claiming that law and order is close to his heart, why have we had so little law and order in the past 12 months", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " the inner cities, but the Prime Minister arid the Home Secretary have been explicit in rejecting the connection between crime and deprivation, so that is nothing to do with contributing to more peaceful streets and safer homes. The Government, who have failed to combat crime, have, judging by the Queen's Speech, given up the battle altogether. The Home Secretary has at his disposal the framework—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " far less gullible audience, he came close to warning us that 7 million Russians were moving out of the Soviet Union towards the democracies of the west. The right hon. Gentleman may like to know that this year 117 Russians have applied for asylum in the United Kingdom and he may want to tell us—and I shall give way immediately if he were to be gracious enough to grant me the audience that I seek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "imply pandering to prejudice. I make it clear that I believe that the Foreign Secretary is right to insist that we apply our own system for the examination of asylum seekers and the control of immigration. We believe that, within the Community, border control must be a national responsibility, and we shall support the Home Secretary in that. Our situation and the situation in Europe are different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-05", "file": "debates1991-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3be41d589b6111c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "stand up and fight for their rights if, when things get too hot for them and they want to become political refugees, we say, \"You can't come here, we don't want you\"? The Home Secretary and the Minister must know that, if someone is fleeing persecution or political oppression, that person does not have his documents with him. He does not run back and say, \"Where is my passport? Where is my visa?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-05a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "over 50 per cent. In England alone, this has funded an increase of 1·5 million acute in-patient and day cases a year, with 16,000 more doctors and dentists, 51,000 more nurses and 500 major capital schemes completed. At a time when tough decisions have been necessary across a range of public service programmes, we could not have made our commitment to the national health service more clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "nt remains higher than at any point in the 1970s. Investment usually lags the cycle in total activity, but it is likely to rise from about the middle of next year as profitability recovers, company finances improve, and the general pick-up in activity gathers pace. The last few months have seen a surge in business optimism in nearly every sector, nearly every region, in businesses large and small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": " usually lags the cycle in total activity, but it is likely to rise from about the middle of next year as profitability recovers, company finances improve, and the general pick-up in activity gathers pace. The last few months have seen a surge in business optimism in nearly every sector, nearly every region, in businesses large and small. [Interruption.] The October CBI survey was just the latest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "the impression that they are committed to increasing public expenditure, the Government are making promises to cut the standard rate of income tax, not merely to 20p in the pound, but below that. Both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor do that on every possible occasion. The Government's record on economic growth is pathetic: and average of 1·75 per cent. annual growth from 1979 to 1991.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "entleman implied—as did his hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett), the shadow Chief Secretary, on radio—that in the past we have announced expenditure plans that sometimes were not implemented. If he is more worried about that than the control of public expenditure, which I am much more worried about, that must mean that he thinks that recovery in activity is going to be stronger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.463.5", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I do not accept for one minute what the right hon. Gentleman says. The monthly rate of increase in unemployment has come down sharply. In March it was 110,000; last month's figure was just over 35,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "first assertion. The fact of allowing and conceding the automatic effects of a recession does not tally with what he likes to call Keynesian economics. He may have noticed that there was an interesting article on this very theme by Mr. Gavyn Davies—formerly, I think, an adviser to the Labour party, but an admirable commentator none the less. He disagreed with what the hon. Gentleman has just said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " consistently undermines the credibility of the democratic process by refusing to pay legally raised bills, which he then foists on his constituents. If that is the voice of the Labour party, I challenge its leader to say whether that is the message that he wants spread from one end of the country to the other. His supporters are flouting the law. Is that what the leader of the Labour party wants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "go. It was last week that the hon. Gentleman was saying all that. Can anyone tell the House how one can pin down the figures that they claim to have published if one has not made up the basis of valuation upon which one is going to do it? Will either the hon. Member for Dagenham or the hon. Member for Brightside, or any Labour Member, intervene at this stage, so that we can understand their logic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Dagenham can add up. At least, I did not think that he could add up until I heard him doing a broadcast about his place in the shadow Cabinet, when he was obviously able to add up to determine exactly where he had come. The hon. Gentleman's figuring ability is focused, but not on local government finance. I have only one final point that I want to draw to the attention of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ed Mr. Speaker earlier to ask him whether I might speak, I explained to him that, although I fully understood that the topic for today was the council tax and the Opposition amendment connected to it, I wanted to speak particularly about the other local government Bill which is to come before the House, which is much more relevant than you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and other hon. Members may suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "Do not talk so much drivel. That is absolute drivel and you know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.511.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Absolute rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "entleman aware that in East Sussex, where the Conservatives control the county council, there is exactly the same problem because the Conservatives want to close seven old people's homes? I am sure that he would agree that the real problem is that local authorities across the country cannot spend the necessary money on our elderly people because of the capping regime imposed by central Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has it in one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "ates relief to people whom the present Government have abandoned. They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who cannot pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds. The Secretary of State could take the necessary steps to give people a 100 per cent. rebate now and even make it retroactive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ly paid for their house but what it is deemed to be worth without discount. They may have bought it for £9,000 with full discount, if it is actually worth £30,000 it will be the latter figure that will be used to work out their roof tax … Labour will punish them with a vengeance. That was a fundamental objection to our plans. How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-06", "file": "debates1991-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "81a9bcb19c2df4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Our view is simple. We should not have a discount and rebate system. We should have simply a rebate system in which a flexible, generous and realistically tapered rebate takes account of the incomes of the people in any house. All the available funds should be targeted in that way to ensure that we achieve the best social return on the available resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-06a.535.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.567.8", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "bilateral with President Bush in Rome. He is currently attending the NATO summit now under way there. That summit will set the future course for NATO to ensure that it remains as it has been—a bedrock of stability in a still uncertain world. The fact that Opposition Members should regret the fact that my right hon. Friend is in Rome, shows how little attention they pay to defence and NATO matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.567.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.567.12", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.567.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Mr. Kinnock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.567.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.568.4", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the commitment on income tax is a longer-term one and that we hope to achieve it as and when conditions permit and when it is prudent to do so. We have made that clear on many occasions. But it is really not for him to argue the case about taxes because, as we well know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry warmly welcomed the Government committee report recommending, among other environmental measures, an increase in petrol tax? They have referred that recommendation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Will he ensure before the Budget that, in any such conservation measure, account is taken of the needs of rural areas where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "al Times on 1 October, the Government sought to have the action struck out before the High Court, but the motion failed and the case appears to be proceeding. The plaintiff is a Mr. Mark Harries, a Cardiff business man. He accuses the Government of, among other things, the following errors: Selling valuable public industries, such as water and the telephone service, at one quarter of their worth\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "7;25 per cent. in 1979 to 37·75 per cent. in 1991. How can the Chancellor have been cutting taxes since 1979? When the Chancellor was taxed with the matter this morning, he said that the Government had been cutting taxes since the early 1980s. That is the oldest trick in the book. The Government get into power in 1979. They increased national insurance contributions by 2·5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We believe that we need to introduce a much fairer system of income tax, and we have spoken about that on many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "g to the Chancellor at the Guildhall. On that occasion, he talked about being on the road to recovery on the basis of a claim that retail sales were on an upward trend. Unfortunately for the Chancellor, Sir Ian Maclaurin of Tesco was in the audience. Immediately after that speech, he pointed out on \"Newsnight\" that that was not the case. He said that there was no rise in the trend in retail sales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Chancellor raised that point. I have the retail sales figures in September issued by the Central Statistical Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I am, as he must know, in the middle of giving some statistics. A range of other forecasters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interrupton.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": ", I will get round to him all the more quickly. Plus 1·75 per cent., says the Chancellor. The IMF forecast minus 2 per cent., the CBI minus 2·3 per cent., the London business school minus 1·9 per cent., Phillips and Drew minus 2·4 per cent., Greenwell Montague minus 2·5 per cent., NatWest bank minus 2·7 per cent., Shearson Lehman minus 2·1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " substantial omission from the autumn statement was the Government's failure to increase investment in industry and training. There is no question about that. The Government talk about priority areas, but as soon as one identifies a priority area, one also identifies non-priority areas and, sad to say, the Government's non-priority areas include industry and training. What really needs to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " Government's failure to increase investment in industry and training. There is no question about that. The Government talk about priority areas, but as soon as one identifies a priority area, one also identifies non-priority areas and, sad to say, the Government's non-priority areas include industry and training. What really needs to be done— [Interruption.] The Government should finally realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "e the 1960s. That is the measure of our considerable achievement. I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman mentioned inflation but, unlike him, we have never wavered from the view that the defeat of inflation is a necessary condition for growth and economic success. Unlike the right hon. and learned Gentleman, we have never flinched from the measures that are necessary to deal with opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ast three months compared with the previous three. There is every reason to believe that we are emerging from recession. The whole House will have heard what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said about retail sales. The facts are that, in the last three months for which there are published figures—July, August and September—retail sales are up 0·5 per cent. on the previous three months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "e is every reason to believe that we are emerging from recession. The whole House will have heard what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said about retail sales. The facts are that, in the last three months for which there are published figures—July, August and September—retail sales are up 0·5 per cent. on the previous three months— [Interruption.] —0·5 per cent. was what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "In that case, and if it is a rising trend, will the Chancellor explain why the figure in September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "In that case, and if it is a rising trend, will the Chancellor explain why the figure in September— [Interruption.] I am sorry, I mean July. Will the Chancellor explain why the figure for July is higher than the figures for August and September?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is being absurd. He takes one month's figure and says that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "gine how preposterous a goal that would be for the right hon. and learned Gentleman to state. Even yesterday, he wanted more money for training, for transport and for industry. Now that he has had a day to reflect, the whole House will be waiting for his answer to some vital questions. Does he accept the pledges made by Opposition spokesmen to spend more than we plan to? How would he pay for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "NHS spending since 1979 to well over 50 per cent. We could not have made our commitment to the NHS clearer. What a contrast with the Labour party—the party that cut nurses' pay and, in one year, cut NHS capital spending—hospital building—by 22 per cent. Fine words but poor action from the Labour party. So would the right hon. and learned Gentleman spend more? Now is his chance to tell us how much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"Answer. \"] We also announced an extra £1·4 billion for British Rail and London Transport. Next year they will invest more than three times as much as they did in 1979. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman were standing here, would he spend more? His hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) would like to, but would he? Now is his chance to tell us how much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ve more students in higher education than ever before. Pupil-teacher ratios in our classrooms are at their lowest ever, and spending per pupil is up more than 40 per cent. The leader of the Opposition plucked a figure our of the air and said that he would spend £2·6 billion more. We he licensed to do that? Would the right hon. and learned Gentleman give him the money? If he would, how much?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "tleman give him the money? If he would, how much? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Next year, the aid budget will increase by 2 per cent. in real terms. Again that is not good enough for the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd). She wants to put it up in a single Parliament by more than £3 billion. Would the right hon. and learned Gentleman give her the money? Now is his chance to tell us. How much?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "left out. Indeed, the House quite expected a second half after the interval, but that did not come. Notably, the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) left out an exposition of the Labour party's official stance so far on taxation, with its official commitment to swingeing increases in the taxation of the incomes both of higher rate taxpayers and of standard rate taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the point of order. It seems that the Department of Health may well have drafted amendments that were moved in July by a Tory member of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "yers, for service providers, for voluntary organisations and for councillors—even their own councillors. The Tories epitomised Santayana's definition of fanatics: Those who redouble their efforts even when they have forgotten their aim. No doubt those hon. Members who rushed into the Lobby to rush in the poll tax, those who proclaimed it around Britain with ringing declarations of undying support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "phors—a nightwatchman. He is a caretaker who will not last. He says that he wants women in his Cabinet—but not yet. He says that he wants Britain at the heart of Europe—but not yet. He says that he wants to abolish poll tax—but not yet. He says that he wants to reform the DTI and put the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) in charge—but not yet. He says that he wants a mandate of his own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slow down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "d in the reform of antiquated, obscure private Bill procedures and should reduce by about half the number of private Bills that come before the House, while improving procedures in the area that deal with them. The Select Committee on the Hours of Sitting, chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling), is carrying forward its work with vigour and enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.664.5", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "out education: We will continue with the scale of commitment at least at the level of 1979. That means, year on year, sustaining the commitment instead of letting it be eroded. We know that that would cost an extra £2·6 billion. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East immediately tried to suppress that, and that is indicative of the battle that is going on in the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "bers. They are all listed, and not one of them has been denied. Nor can the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East claim that it would come from growth, because growth is already assumed in our plans. He knows that it would be a real-terms increase on top of inflation. That is why, on the costing basis, we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-07", "file": "debates1991-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ab003cd0f7887c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "0p in the pound on basic income tax. [Interruption.] I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East, because the Opposition must now come clean. Which is it—massive increases in normal basic income tax, or does the Labour party intend to reject all the spending plans with which it has conned the electorate by saying that it will engage in them? It is a massive con trick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-07a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-08", "file": "debates1991-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "947a2e507ee0b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-08a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "The Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is keen to have prosecutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-08a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.765.9", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " \"real terms\"? \"Real terms\" must be set against the fact that the price of the crude fuels that are being bought, such as coal, oil or gas, has remained stable. In any common-sense meaning of \"real terms\", a 38 per cent. increase in cash terms is a 38 per cent. increase in real terms as well. Did not the hon. Member for Gravesham get it right when he said, \"Is it not good news\"? Indeed, it is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.765.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has already answered that question, and the right hon. Gentleman will find it in Hansard last week. In that answer, my right hon. Friend lists the names of all 39 specialist advisers, all but five of whom are political advisers, with those five being special advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.783.7", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The only apology that is required is one from the Labour party, which is frustrating our attempts to get rid of the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.783.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "bour Members were standing singing \"The Red Flag\". If the hon. Gentleman wants to know why they were singing it, let me point out that it was because they had cheated to get a piece of nationalisation legislation through the House. At least I apologised to the House, which they never did. They went on to lose general election after general election as a consequence, and that was a very good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "gest that the Labour party has done any work whatever on the subject, and the reason for that is perfectly clear: the Opposition do not want to have to answer any of the specific questions that anybody responsible for preparing the legislation would have to answer. We are left with the concept of fair rates, from a party whose leader, as we have said many times, said as recently as September 1980—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.789.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.793.7", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e in the Financial Times. When talking about the benefits of competition and about how this Government are always seeking to extend competition in the private sector, the hon. Member for Dagenham said: Ministers are fond of saying there should be no `no-go' areas for the private sector. I would reverse that and say that in principle, there should be no 'no-go' areas for the public sector either. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman reads Hansard, he will understand my reluctance to give way to him. I somehow had the feeling that he was not properly following the argument. As a consequence, he misunderstood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "on. Friend and the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities constantly to keep in mind the deep dissatisfaction about aspects of the standard spending assessments and to remember that even small improvements can bring benefits out of all proportion to those who feel discriminated against. I am conscious that I have been on my feet for some time. I do not wish to prevent others from speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "le humility, which would help. I want them to consider the damage that has been done to people because those Members did not think and trooped through the Lobby blindfolded. I want Conservative Members to think of the human resources in town halls which were wasted by devotion to an inordinate amount of administration over the past few years and which could have gone into the delivery of services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " the size of the bills. It is inevitable that people's view of a tax is directly linked to the size of the bill that they have to pay. The figures that were projected by my right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) were not exactly those on the bills with which we ended up. That was one of the major factors that contributed to people losing confidence in that system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "d so to hide its embarrassment about Labour's record in local government. Let us take Birmingham as an example of a Labour authority. We are told that there are many services which it would fund if it were not for the poll tax. Such services, perhaps more nursery education, housing and so on, could have been funded if the authority had not paid for 149 trips to 31 countries in the past year or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.824.4", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the money spent by Sheffield city council on renovating those flats for the athletes could have been better spent on renovating other flats for people really in need of housing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I am speaking not only about Scotland. I am sorry if I did not make that clear. I am making the general point about estate agents being brought in. The Minister says that assessors will be used in Scotland. Why not use assessors throughout the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": ";18. In other words, he is paying just £34 less than the richest charge payer in Neath, compared with £164 less last year. How can that be just and equitable? I want the Secretary of State for Wales to justify the way in which that discriminatory system is penalising my constituents—many of whom are least able to bear the brunt of ever-increasing costs as a result of the Government's incompetence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister was referring to banding in the context of the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "her; the assessors, the Government hope, will get the job done by 1993; and some of the anomalies will he ironed out, for example, in relation to students. The council tax will not provide a buoyant source of local revenue and will not give direct local accountability. What does the council tax do in Scottish terms? I have been on demonstrations with Labour Members who are not here in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "emocrats are saying; they vote on the basis of the performance of the national Government. One has only to look at the correlation between local election results and the party in power and how it affects the same party at local level to realise that that is true. In the 1970s, probably some reasonable Labour councils were chucked out of office because of the appalling Labour Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "tail now, and although I believe that the 50 per cent. figure is illogical, I believe that the 25 per cent. discount is possibly too low. Could not larger households, containing more than two adults, pay a small supplement to the council tax and thus, in effect, fund the increased reduction of 40 per cent. for single householders? The principle of the community charge was never all that unpopular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your lot?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "out that I have never in my life before spoken from one doughnut to another. Given their present configuration, Opposition Front-Bench Members might better be described as a hot dog. I do not know where all the Labour Back-Bench Members, supposedly so angry about the Bill, can have gone. It appears that only five or six Labour Back Benchers have come here to protest about local government finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " the bill. If a number of people share a house, it is unlikely that any student in it would be worse off than under the community charge. Several hon. Members have said that there must be a register. The Government have made it absolutely clear that a statutory register of council taxpayers is not required. There is no provision for one in the Bill. It will be up to councils to decide how to keep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I have many points to answer, rather than respond to hon. Members who have not been present for the full debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.872.11", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "he property. What on earth is the modernised valuation system? It is bad news for Wales. Under Labour, there would be unlimited spending. As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre (Mr. Mans) and for Thurrock have said, people expected to be protected by central Government, but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending. If we look at the rates proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.872.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.872.11", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ews for Wales. Under Labour, there would be unlimited spending. As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre (Mr. Mans) and for Thurrock have said, people expected to be protected by central Government, but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending. If we look at the rates proposals— [Interruption.] I shall give way to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.872.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-11", "file": "debates1991-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d135e1c6251b45bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "No, I have said that I will give way to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside. With a rates system that no longer preserves the Welsh grant advantage, it is all bad news for Wales. Labour's rates proposals are to fairness what Henry VIII was to marital stability and what Basil Fawlty is to the art of hospital and hotel management. Labour's faulty fairness is something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-11a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget, which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year, Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport. The first tranche of money from the foundation of £3·7 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.888.4", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "Might the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) want more money for Derbyshire so that it can employ more people such as his brother, who is employed as a personnel liaison officer for Toyota, his sister-in-law, who is employed in the county publicity department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that he recognises, in his words, the potential impact on our influence and prosperity were we to take a different decision from our principal competitors\". In saying that, is he recognising that isolation would mean the sacrifice of influence that is essential to the vital interests of the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "preceding_text": "What has the Prime Minister to say about the comments of the last Conservative leader of Lambeth council, who in a letter published in The Guardian on Saturday said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No quoting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "preceding_text": "What has the Prime Minister to say about the comments of the last Conservative leader of Lambeth council, who in a letter published in The Guardian on Saturday said [Interruption.] I want to quote it, and he said, \"The Government is failing in its treatment of the mentally ill\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.899.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.900.6", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sillars—question 9.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say a little more about a rapid reaction force? Is not there a real danger in multi-country political control resulting in nothing happening if there is a real crisis? Does he agree that it is different from the previous situaton in NATO, when there was clearly only one real enemy and everyone knew where the threat came from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance about a matter on today's Order Paper that is causing some confusion. Early-day motion 117 commends the Bolshevik communist revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "y householders. The answer is to be found in paragraph 4 to schedule 2. Local authorities are required to take reasonable steps to ascertain entitlement to discount, but in the absence of firm information they can send out an undiscounted bill. In other words, as a matter of sensible administrative practice, authorities should make efforts to ascertain discount households before sending out bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "9 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent. to 54 per cent. and the percentage staying on until the sixth year from 14 per cent. to 25 per cent. The percentage entering higher education has increased from 16·8 per cent. in 1978–79 to 24 per cent. and is still rising fast. Expenditure per pupil has increased in real terms by 49 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "Why is the Secretary of State now reading a speech that he clearly had not seen before he came to the Dispatch Box?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "that the system operates on a daily rate. I understand what the right hon. Gentleman says about a person having to have a principal residence or dwelling and that if somebody comes casually to visit that will not count. Nevertheless, there are great problems. I can think of categories of people, for example, Members of Parliament, and of interesting little tricks of the trade that may arise there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": "State for the Environment. He talked about what my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) said. I shall quote a couple of paragraphs to see if anyone knows who said them: Once implemented and through transition, 1 believe the new system will prove enduring and a vast improvement on the status quo. It was said at the annual conference of the Association of District Councils on 1 July 1988.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": " certainly will not; I am afraid to. Even some Conservative Members have been grumbling about the bands and asking for another two or three at the top of the ladder because of the jump from £160,000 to £320,000. But some houses in this city are worth £2·5 million. What band should they come under? I hope that a new Government will come to power so that the council tax cannot be implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said yesterday that, despite the Opposition's fears and unyielding opposition to the proposed council tax, they managed to muster only 20 Members for the debate. I see that that number has fallen still further today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "d to muster only 20 Members for the debate. I see that that number has fallen still further today— [Interruption.] Despite the laughter, only 14 or 15 Opposition Members are able to be here at this early hour for what will be a lengthy debate. What is more, I see that the Liberal Democrats cannot be bothered to be present at all, such confidence do they have in their proposals and their amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": " smack of their obsession with the continuance of the command economy. Perhaps I should say command extravagance and incompetence and, ultimately, the stagnation by command that socialist systems produce. The Opposition propose large-scale meddling in private matters, and that lies at the heart of Labour's obsession with a fair rates system. Their system would not work without an army of snoopers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "opose large-scale meddling in private matters, and that lies at the heart of Labour's obsession with a fair rates system. Their system would not work without an army of snoopers. [Interruption.] There is an overlarge army of Scottish Opposition Members. If I had my way, there would be a fair system of Scottish representation. There would be fewer Scottish Members, and none of them would be Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.952.5", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to put my views on record. He should have at least done me the credit of reading my paper, in which I made proposals for the structure and financing of local government. That is what fundamentally influences my attitude tonight. The Government took on board substantially what was contained in my—paper", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.952.5", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "portunity to put my views on record. He should have at least done me the credit of reading my paper, in which I made proposals for the structure and financing of local government. That is what fundamentally influences my attitude tonight. The Government took on board substantially what was contained in my—paper [Interruption.] I do not claim that that was by design; it could have been by accident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " control the national economy, they must have levers to control local government expenditure. That was why I intervened on the hon. Member for Garscadden. It was the blunt instruments used by the previous Labour Government that led to the winter of discontent. Labouv employees and Labour councillors lost faith and confidence in their Government and the trust that had previously existed was broken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute to my hon. and learned Friend, whose views I hold very dear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.954.5", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ntained in my local government paper, which includes the structure of local government and other matters, not just finance, and which I believe was important, although I personally would have preferred to retain the community charge, which was never a poll tax—I made that clear to anyone who wished to discuss the matter with me—it perhaps should have been but it was not, it was a community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.954.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "preceding_text": "Derby and West Lancashire. That showed that when people perceived that their vote could make a difference to the community charge, they used it in the Conservative cause. The electors in boroughs such as Lambeth, however, did not perceive that a vote could change control of the council, so they said \"Ouch\" to the Government, in effect. In Wandsworth the community charge has not even been an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "well considered and well worked out reform which sets up a new and viable system for financing local government for generations to come. It creates a new balance, a new fairness and a strengthening of local democracy and accountability which will stand the test of time.\"—[ Official Report, 9 December 1986; Vol. 107, c. 275.] He did not stand the test of time and nor did a number of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " on the amount that they paid. Yet that is exactly what the council tax will involve. With the intricacies, unfairness and technicalities, it is no wonder that the Secretary of State for the Environment has declined to serve in Committee. No wonder he will not join us three days a week from now until Christmas. Instead, he will have a fortnightly visit to Brian Walden on Walden's weekly interview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "ide for that. For example, in Barnet, the borough of my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, South, the rates bill on a four-bedroomed detached house used to be £986. We now propose a council tax that would have produced a bill this year of £617. Last year, two of my hon. Friend's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge, so this year's council tax would have been cheaper for them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.992.4", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "dsworth and Westminster. So I am happy to say that the Government have changed their mind on local authority finance, but the world still goes round and the Conservative party is still a Conservative party. Has the Labour party ever changed its mind? Has it changed its mind on unilateral nuclear disarmament, or on the Common Market, or on nationalisation, or on trade unions, or on the free market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.992.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.992.4", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes: the poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "party is still a Conservative party. Has the Labour party ever changed its mind? Has it changed its mind on unilateral nuclear disarmament, or on the Common Market, or on nationalisation, or on trade unions, or on the free market? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Has the Labour party changed its mind on capitalism, or on the Soviet Union? Is there anything on which the Labour party has not changed its mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.992.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell my hon. Friend the precise number of days because we never can at this stage. We will observe the normal rules. I am sure that my hon. Friend will appreciate that I misunderstood him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " days for Report, which is mentioned in the motion. My hon. Friend sought to correct me from a sedentary position, but I now understand from the intervention made in the normal way that he was talking about the number of days between the end of the Committee stage and Report. I have already said that we will follow the normal rules, but at this stage I cannot say exactly how many days will elapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "We shall follow the normal rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "s legislation if we are to give local authorities enough time to implement the council tax effectively and meet the 1 April 1993 deadline. Indeed, in the internal discussions now taking place between the Department and the local authorities, the latter are saying that they want the draft regulations and guidance on them as soon as possible and the formal regulations as soon as possible after that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "oyed some of his remarks. The trouble is that many of them were carbon copies of speeches made from that Bench over the past 20 years. I and many hon. Members in the House tonight have listened to a vast number of guillotine debates. They are predictable. I have not participated in one before, but I thought that it was perhaps worth making a contribution on this occasion, for a variety of reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1021.6", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "to my hon. Friend. There is no point in the House deciding that it will examine the hours during which it sits and the conditions in which it works if it does not intend to reform the structure of legislation. That is why I hope that the passing of the motion will create a precedent. It will affect both sides of the House. Governments become the Opposition and the Opposition become the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1021.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-12", "file": "debates1991-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b9d9962346b488c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "troduced earlier on measures and Ministers have come forward, as though it is a matter of no significance, to recommend new guillotine procedures, some in novel circumstances. That poses a great danger to the House. The right hon. Gentleman made the weakest speech in favour of a guillotine motion that I have ever heard from a Leader of the House and that is saying something. He really had no case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-12a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1061.19", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Defence have spoken in complete unison on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1061.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "that the Scottish ones will take place at the end of the process. If military circumstances change, there is time for a reassessment of the present plans. I fully appreciate the importance of GEC-Ferranti as an employer in Edinburgh and Lothian. Yarrow is also a major employer, not only in the constituency of the hon. Gentleman but throughout the west of Scotland. The hon. Gentleman will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And answers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I realise the importance of such matters in Scotland, but may I ask for crisper questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. and attractive Friend congratulate Perth and Kinross district council on the dynamic quality of its work in attracting vast benefits to Scotland and Scottish industry by means of its policy of twinning with Pskov in Russia and Haikou on Hainan island in China, this year bringing to Perth the most valuable exhibition of icons in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1070.7", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will no doubt welcome the fact that unemployment in his constituency fell last month, as it did throughout Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1070.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "0 unemployed youngsters; that is 22 per cent. up on last year's figure. Strathclyde has a shortage of more than 3,000 opportunities. All that is concealed beneath a cloak of commercial confidentiality. The Minister is walking away from the problem, and he must stop doing so. Let us have a full independent review of the extent of youth unemployment in Scotland, and end the Government's complacency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1079.10", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me deal with one point at a time, please. I must keep a balance in this House. Hon. Members from Scottish constituencies have as much right as an hon. Member from an English constituency to raise a question on defence or any other matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1079.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1080.7", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I had better take one from a Conservative Member now. I call a Member from Cornwall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1080.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1085.4", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "sion that we are exaggerating the problem. He will not face up to the problem. Faced with the evidence that we have, any responsible Home Secretary would act as I have acted. For the right hon. Gentleman to oppose the Bill and underestimate the problem that faces us shows that he is completely unsuited to hold this office. I suggest to him that he should overcome his natural sloth and complacency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1085.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a question not of being racialist but of being realistic? Is there not some hypocrisy when the Opposition talk of problems of unemployment and housing, yet suggest that we add to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I must resume my speech. I have not given way to Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ncluded falsified letters from the Home Office, Angolan, Gabonese and Burkina Faso birth certificates and Gabonese authenticating stamps. More than 100 cases are under investigation. Clearly, measures are needed to tackle that problem. There are 56 north London addresses under investigation at present. One address in Gravesend which was under investigation was the source of 47 asylum applications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "n 100 cases are under investigation. Clearly, measures are needed to tackle that problem. There are 56 north London addresses under investigation at present. One address in Gravesend which was under investigation was the source of 47 asylum applications— [Interruption.] Opposition Members want the information, but they do not like it when I give it to them. A further 600 files are under suspicion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. It is difficult to hear the hon. Gentleman at this end of the Chamber as he is so far away, but did he refer to the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) as having uttered racist remarks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "alse pretences, never to return to their country of origin. They and their families draw social security benefits to which they have made no contribution through the tax system. I suggest to my right hon. Friend that such people should receive no benefits, such as housing benefit or any other free handout, until they have paid tax for five years. That might make them think twice about coming here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman raised the subject.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I made no such comparison. I said that Britain has a bad reputation and I adhere to that view. I am more concerned about the future than the past——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "preceding_text": "ont National in France and the Republican party in Germany. The hon. Gentleman's speech might more appropriately have been delivered at a National Front rally. If it had been, it would have met with rapturous applause, doubtless followed by a forest of \"Seig Heil\" salutes. Heaven help us if the hon. Gentleman and his type ever become influential in any political party that gains electoral support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "rant not one, but two amnesties to people seeking political asylum or waiting for their immigration status to be proved. That is what an open-door policy means. All I could gather from the long and boring speech by the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) was that he said nothing about what the Liberal party would do about what has become a considerable problem in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1136.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1136.5", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I have substituted the words that I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "o an end. At 5 o'clock this afternoon, I received an answer to a written question in which I tried to ascertain the cost of legal aid to asylum seekers. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department replied: I understand that legal aid for all immigration cases was £2·65 million for 1990–91. No separate figure is available for asylum related costs. For the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "There is no objection, and that is exactly what we are doing. On refusal, the failed applicant will be given the reasons why and receive a copy of the papers that will go to the adjudicator. What the hon. Gentleman wants, he will get. Not everything is set down in the rules, but it is the practice to provide those papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "d on the Floor of the House. However, when I heard his speech, I was very grateful to him for having raised the issue in such a way. It gives me the opportunity to explain in proper terms why the Government took that step and to give the lie to many of the hon. Gentleman's arguments. There has been much misunderstanding, and the hon. Gentleman has done his best to manipulate that misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "s benefit to which they were rightfully entitled where those exceeded the statutory 12-month limit. When giving evidence to the PCA, the then permanent secretary to the Department agreed that that situation could not be defended, so we decided to put it right. Our original intention in enacting regulation 72 was to facilitate the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases of clear official—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "to the previous arrangements. I hope that that satisfies the hon. Gentleman. If it does not, perhaps he will come back to me on it. Let me try to explain to the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West that we were faced with an undoubted campaign to swamp the arrangements for deciding such cases. Many genuine cases would have been put aside, delayed and not arranged in time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases, I shall respond in detail. I do not accept that the agency and the new arrangements that have been introduced are delivering a less good service than hitherto. We are delivering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1189.7", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "We are some way from the context of the debate, but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered, I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1189.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1191.6", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "All such cases are assessed by adjudication officers. If Labour Members were sitting in my seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1191.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "somewhat surprisingly, by the hon. Member for Ross, Cromarty and Skye (Mr. Kennedy), says that people should be able to sign a piece of paper in the hope that it will unlock riches for them. We have a responsibility to bear in mind where the money paid out in benefits comes from. For the most part it does not come from wealthy people such as the hon. Member for Oldham, West and other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-13", "file": "debates1991-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a99fd65bd5e3656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Adjudication)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I impress upon the hon. Gentleman that any case of official error—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-13a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "What protest did the Government make to the Dublin authorities about the attempt to get Dr. James McDaid into such a key position? Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1212.6", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that it is quite outrageous that people should stand up in this Chamber and attack the character of someone who is not here to defend himself? I am the only Member of this House who knows Dr. James McDaid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1212.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I hope that both communities in Northern Ireland will unite against any extension of the Government's desire and mania to privatise the health service.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "entioned in the course of the past 12 months, it has gone up in his constituency by 110 per cent. That is very close to home. Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000, while in this country, for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible, unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1223.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1237.0", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shady?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Following the statement of our right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, will my right hon. Friend arrange for a debate on the relative benefits of the investigative and prosecuting services in England and Scotland? As the investigation has resulted in an announcement—although our right hon. Friend was shady in saying so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1247.2", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that this is all part of the debate that will take place next week. It is not a matter of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "which criticises my conduct in an issue in my constituency. Are we to allow a situation to arise in which two local councillors, one of whom will be my opponent in the general election, can instigate on the Order Paper without any investigation an early-day motion that criticises me and which is signed by 17 Opposition Members, none of whom has taken the trouble to talk to me about the rent rises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "nd the House that the privatisation unit at Rothschild is run by an exceedingly neutral and objective person—the Tory candidate for Hampstead and Highgate. At great expense to the taxpayer, Tory merchant bankers have produced secret reports that can be considered in secret by Tory Ministers. The Secretary of State has refused to publish any of the Rothschild reports. Some of them have been leaked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "blish any of the Rothschild reports. Some of them have been leaked—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] When I published the information that Rothschild considered that only 28 of the then 60 collieries would remain after privatisation, I faced the usual charge of scaremongering. The hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart) went on the radio in the east midlands to say that I did not know what I was talking about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will answer that question in a minute, but I shall make my own speech in my own way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will answer that question in a minute, but I shall make my own speech in my own way— [Interruption.] Let me make it clear that if the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) had read the Rothschild report, which I made public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "r that if the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) had read the Rothschild report, which I made public—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] Yes. If he had read it, he would have found that Rothschild recommends that the Secretary of State should get involved in the discussions between British Coal, National Power and PowerGen to ensure that, for a start, it got a good contract. I sold no one down the river—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman's background, he will clearly represent the constituents who elected him last week. I thank the hon. Gentleman also on behalf of us all for his glowing and deserved tribute to his predecessor. The hon. Member for Hemsworth stuck, within reasonable bounds, to the conventions of the House in not making an over-contentious maiden speech, but he came very near to being contentious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " stuck, within reasonable bounds, to the conventions of the House in not making an over-contentious maiden speech, but he came very near to being contentious—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"]—when he suggested to a Nottingham Member of Parliament that Boycott was one of the best cricketers in the world. Given that I was born and brought up in Middlesex and spent my childhood idolising Compton and Edrich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-14", "file": "debates1991-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f9ee85ff82d9d0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "preceding_text": "t considerably greater cost. It is much more expensive to retrofit such equipment. Plenty of evidence was available at the time that that equipment should have been fitted, but if the Labour Government did not want to do something or recognise something that was to the disadvantage of the mining industry, they turned their back on it, closed their eyes and pretended that the problem did not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-14a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-15", "file": "debates1991-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "263cb683d8d91154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-15a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "It is all very well for the Minister to talk about inefficiencies in the public services. Nobody is denying that there is room for improvement and that mechanisms for improvement are worth exploring, but the Minister is throwing up a smokescreen to obscure the accountability of Government. It has been estimated that the poll tax debacle has wasted £19 billion of taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-15a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-15", "file": "debates1991-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "263cb683d8d91154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-15a.1359.3", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " extremely sophisticated assessment system if the relationship between remuneration and performance is to mean something. Anyone in business knows that if, for example, a salesman is rewarded simply on the basis of the amount he sells, that could often be a desperate distortion of performance. This might appear to be frightfully obvious, but in a bull market it is easy to sell anything to anyone —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-15a.1359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "\"Competing For Quality\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend graphically illustrates the benefits to direct patient care that can flow from this programme, which is growing not because of a dogmatic commitment to the process, but because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "\"Competing For Quality\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recall from his study of the mandarin civilisation of China that that society relegated the mercantile class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "\"Competing For Quality\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "arin civilisation is judged to have been due to the fact that it laid down regulations to ensure that the mercantile class never dominated the society? When the historians look back across history at our society, will they not judge the dark age of Thatcherism, in which competition was elevated to a supreme virtue, as a great heresy that has resulted in much misery? Have not the Government proved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "\"Competing For Quality\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The production of the White Paper is reckoned to be recompensed from sales of the White Paper —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.46.15", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. The Secretary of State has indicated that he will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.46.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.46.16", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Is that remark in order, Mr. Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.46.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "appear to be capable of doing simple arithmetic. If the prices of British Telecom's services have fallen by 27 per cent. in real terms since 1984 when it was privatised, and if its prices have risen faster than the RPI in the 12 years since 1979, it follows that its prices rose substantially in real terms before it was privatised. There were always excessive price rises in nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "\"Leave it to the regulator.\" However, in such circumstances, the regulator does not have enough power. The Government have rejected the idea of amending the 1984 Act and I hope that that will be corrected tonight. The thing that makes me laugh is that the House authorities have recognised that there is a problem. During the summer recess, 0898 numbers were barred from House of Commons telephones —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Corporate Affairs (Mr. John Redwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Corporate Affairs (Mr. John Redwood)", "preceding_text": "tment in the leading industries has to be cut back. That is the state to which the Labour party would return us. It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems. The hon. Lady did not seem to realise that the diversification policy of those industries cannot be cross-financed from the core businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-18", "file": "debates1991-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83c533affc506452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.110.5", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " we make sure that he does and that the regulators do their job excellently. I was surprised by the hon. Gentleman's attack on the standards of the work of some of the regulators. I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators, who are standing up for the interests of the customer. He asked where OFFER's telephone number was. It is on the back of the bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-18a.110.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.125.12", "colnum": "125", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ead the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the last Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table. That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the last Session.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.125.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that under the 1951 United Nations convention on refugees, to which this country is a signatory, all Governments are obliged to provide asylum to those fleeing from serious human rights violations? Given that the Asylum Bill will deny genuine asylum seekers entry to this country,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should, for once, get his facts straight and stick to them. I remind him that great improvements have been made not only in the amount of assistance that is available to people who are unemployed, but in the amount of assistance to ensure that people receive training so that they can get back into work. When the last Labour Government left office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ibuted only in the way in which successive Governments have distributed material to parents. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel): the behaviour of Richmond upon Thames borough council and that of Nottinghamshire county council shows what Liberal and Labour councils all too frequently believe about exposing their activities and their performance to the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "rmation that is politically contentious. The parents charter is unusual in that respect, in that it sets out in red type information which has not been agreed by the House, which is politically contentious and which may not be introduced this side of the next general election. The advice circulated to those local authorities is that the information may infringe the Government's legal restrictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.155.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ures in the article were not those that I have ever given to the House. My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House. It is most unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman does not have the courtesy or good sense to withdraw an allegation based on his misreading of a newspaper article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "l norm, with local authorities inspecting the schools which only they are allowed to run. I cannot think of a recipe for diminution of standards that is more likely to succeed. The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors, but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with exactly that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Whichever inspectors a headmaster selects, they will be from an approved list. All the inspectors on the list will have been approved. The inspectors will be rigorously inspected by the inspectorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "es have greater value than others. The best description of Labour's proposed, solemn but non-binding agreement comes not from my right hon. and hon. Friends but from a man who formerly sat with Opposition Members. He described Labour's measures as \"humiliating and intrusive\", a \"patronising\" policy initiated by \"bossy, middle-class know-alls.\" That is a more accurate description than I could give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that to do with the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "ure that the best arrangements are made and that some schools do not suffer as improvements are made in others. The annual report also deals with the school's budget, which was £2 million in 1990–91 and has increased to more than £2·2 million in 1991–92, the current academic year. The report says that 1,316 pupils are now on the roll and that the staff consists of 80 teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "ly management problems. During the last election campaign, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary came to my constituency. At a public meeting, there was a lively debate on education reforms—a key issue in that election campaign—and I said that I strongly suspected that, by the time of the next election, there would not be one school in North Yorkshire that was grant-maintained. That is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "ity—280,000 additional students every year in the past 12 years—a quarter of our seven-year-olds cannot give the result of the sum three multiplied by 10p plus four multiplied by 1p. Just in case anyone does not know, the answer is 34p. The National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales shows that too many of our seven-year-olds cannot achieve a satisfactory standard of reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "'s education is being undermined. No wonder HMI is under attack. We were told by the inspectorate last week that schools had had difficulty in introducing the national curriculum. Some 85 per cent. of secondary schools reported difficulties because of the shortage of staff in specialist subjects, and the whole of the primary sector reported difficulties with primary technology and primary science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "The Minister deliberately misled the House. He said that not one Labour Member paid tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.10", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.11", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. What is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.233.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.235.7", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would not give way, so I see no reason why he should make inroads to the limited time available to me. The basic fact is that a youngster will not get a job armed with a socio-economic factor or a correction factor. A youngster will not move on to further or higher education with a correction factor. What counts in the outside world is real achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.235.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-19", "file": "debates1991-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c13484bdf657fc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.237.6", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "der some of the authorities that Labour Members know. In Lancashire, for example, the hon. Member for Blackburn will know that the authority does not believe in inspection. It employs only advisers, not inspectors. The advisers' role in Lancashire is to \"validate schools' self-evaluation\"—not to go into the classroom to see what is going on, but to hear from staff how they would like things to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-19a.237.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "Coming from the party that went to Munich to betray Czechoslovakia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": " to a 20-year-old smear by the Foreign Office Minister most unseemly. It might have something to do with the forthcoming general election when any smear will do. Since the Minister is so concerned about the gold belonging to the Baltic states, will he see justice done for the poorest country in Europe, Albania, whose gold is in the Bank of England and was stolen from that country four decades ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "We do not allow the export of arms and equipment likely to be used against the civil population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.260.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I can certainly say to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y envisages applying this principally to those subjects to which majority voting was extended under the Single European Act. We are prepared to consider some blocking power for the European Parliament, but it must cover a far narrower range than that set out in the present Presidency text. There is a tendency for the Community to want to legislate over a wide area. That tendency needs to be curbed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "tment and a Japanese company. I do not recall that that was always his keenest and most enthusiastic point. In 1972, when he and I were both in the House, I voted in favour of the European Communities Bill, as it then was, and the right hon. Gentleman voted against it. In 1974, I opposed the referendum on Europe when he was in favour of it. Will the right hon. Gentleman give the House one example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.11", "colnum": "283", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question that the Government must answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.11", "colnum": "283", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question that the Government must answer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—if they are to maintain their position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.11", "colnum": "283", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question that the Government must answer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—if they are to maintain their position— [Interruption.] If the Tory party demonstrates its great nervousness by its attempts to disrupt, the whole country will form an accurate opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.283.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that precise point. It is interesting that the Chancellor should anticipate it, and I am sure that he will find the answer very satisfactory indeed. He will also discover that my desire—indeed, my absolute commitment—to ensuring that the House has a proper decision to make at any stage of development in the EC is at least equal to his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I should like to make it clear at the outset of my remarks that tonight I shall support the motion in the name of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " forward their views on what should be a very great and serious occasion. When my right hon. Friend is negotiating in Maastricht, it will undoubtedly be a very tense and hard negotiation. He has already said that there are some proposals which are quite unacceptable to the Government, and he pointed out which they were. His task will be to remove those proposals before he comes back to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ay, that would have required the occasional use of the handbag. Now it will doubtless be the cricket bat, but that is a good thing because it will be harder. The Government will achieve their objectives only by putting our arguments vigorously and persistently, by refusing to be intimidated by deadlines and by making it clear that there are certain points on which we are not prepared to surrender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "not there. That should have made a difference to the Labour party's decision. It is not surprising to some of us that the Labour party might wish to hand control of our financial and economic affairs to Europe, or indeed to almost anyone other than itself. It would suit it to get out of the responsibility and to pass it over to another body. That is not what we are here for. The fundamental issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Not yet. I will take the broad-brush issues, because it is very easy to get lost in the detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I ask the House to settle down? This parliamentary debate is of great importance. I ask the House to deal with it seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "tly not. There are two ways to go—the treaty of Rome, with the European Court's interpretation of it, which is quite different from ours, or an intergovernmental agreement which is binding upon us but which does not have to enter into our law and is not part of the treaty of Rome. That agreement on political co-operation is an excellent agreement. It was wholly drafted by us in the Foreign Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "y and a tradition such as Britain's cannot allow their hands to be tied on defence and on foreign policy by making them or their implementation subject to majority voting. I was very grateful to the Prime Minister for what he said, because something in a speech made by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary—I think, in The Hague—suggested that there might be majority voting for implementation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "A little more patience. It was never the intention, I believe, of the founders of the European Community that the Commission should try to exercise its control over every aspect of a nation's life in that way. Again, I was very grateful to my Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " single currency would mean. Nor do I believe that a single currency would be in this country's interests. It would require a vast transfer of resources to the poorer countries of the Community to enable them to meet the obligations of membership of a single currency—and that at a time when we in Britain are already giving more money in most years to the European Community than to the third world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "No, I must give way to my hon. Friends on the Back Benches first. Many people would have thought that we should give more money to the third world than to the Community. In the coming years, we shall be giving about £2·5 billion to the Community and £2·1 billion to the third world. That is before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Certainly, it will be difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "massive transfer of power to the Community, which is not accountable to our electorate. Therefore, we should not join a single currency. I understand that my right hon. Friends wish to keep open the option, but the option is inevitably open because future Parliaments may consider it. We do not have to keep it open. I understand my right hon. Friends' wish, but I want to be sure that it is genuine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Paddy Ashdown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Johnny come lately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says it is rubbish, but is that not exactly what the Prime Minister said at the beginning of his speech? We did not shape the common agricultural policy, about which Conservative Members now complain. The fact is that we have to submit to it. We did not shape the treaty of Rome—we had to join it at the end of the day. I am seeking to avoid that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.300.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " the beginning of his speech? We did not shape the common agricultural policy, about which Conservative Members now complain. The fact is that we have to submit to it. We did not shape the treaty of Rome—we had to join it at the end of the day. I am seeking to avoid that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Johnny come lately.\"] I heard that comment from the Conservative Benches. This party has stood on this ground——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.300.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the referendum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "hem now so much. They cannot have it both ways, and they had better make up their minds which of the two options they want. They must either keep things as they are and stop complaining or they must give our democratic representatives in Europe the power to hold them to account and to stop the interference from Brussels of which we now legitimately complain. Finally, Maastricht will set the terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have failed in Yugoslavia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " of the threats that will affect Europe's peace and stability. Threats to Europe's stability in the next few years will probably come, not from national conflicts about borders, but from older religious, ethnic and cultural conflicts which cross borders. As Yugoslavia has shown, it may well be that we have to call the power of the new Europe into being to cope with some of the problems of the old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "cultural conflicts which cross borders. As Yugoslavia has shown, it may well be that we have to call the power of the new Europe into being to cope with some of the problems of the old. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We have failed in Yugoslavia.\"] Hon. Members sitting behind me say that we have failed in Yugoslavia, and so we have. Perhaps history will say that the Yugoslav problem came before Europe was ready—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "a right to be involved in this decision, not separated from it. If this Parliament remains as unrepresentative of the views of Britain as it is and if it continues to be subject to a conspiracy between the two major parties to keep the real issues of Europe off the agenda, it would be appropriate to give the people a say in this decision after Parliament has spoken. I give Parliament this warning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.304.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Is this relevant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "As a distinguished lawyer with considerable experience of European negotiations, who does the right hon. and learned Gentleman think is correct in the crucial argument about attribution and the whole question of additionality, which affects many of us? Is it the Prime Minister, who argues that Commissioner Bruce Milian is completely wrong or is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "rand and Chancellor Kohl. If we value independence in foreign policy making, let us not forget what happened in 1940. If we want to have that freedom again—to stand out against the trend and, if necessary, to be on our own—then I pray that the Government will look hard at the question of retaining the right of a single foreign policy, with the decisions made by this country alone. In that context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "ther that is so, but I do not believe that either the central bank or the German bankers could make a bigger mess than the Treasury and our bank have done in the past two decades. The one advantage of ERM membership is that it would no longer be possible for the Tories and their friends in the City to organise the run on sterling that traditionally accompanies the elections of a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "me problems of divergence, and of how to produce the grants to compensate the least successful. Those countries will find that they have great problems in managing a single currency, because Europe is so divergent. Thirdly, there are many examples of small countries trading highly successfully in large markets. Hong Kong has never been part of a fixed parity arrangement. Canada is another example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": " of the very resources that are readily available and waiting for us. We have been denied them. That is a disgrace. Tory Members may say, \"We can't sacrifice sovereignty.\" Let me finish with this point: how valuable was sovereignty from 1979 until now, in the days of the vast, docile majority enjoyed by this Government who have brought Britain to a greater decline than any Government this century?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "gh which fields we are to put our roads. All that is resented by Parliament and our people. The current proposition is that we should go further. As Mr. Delors explained—my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) and others will be interested in this—the suggestion is that 80 per cent. of our economic, social and political affairs should be decided in Brussels. Who wants that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": " to do the job. That Administration will need to control interest rates, exchange rates and budgetary policy. If we go along with the present approach we shall have unilateral economic disarmament and many crucial matters will be decided elsewhere. If so, what is the point of having this Parliament? What is the point of having the Labour party? What is the point of having elections? These matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": "iends. If that announcement is correct, we should be told, because it has an important bearing on our proceedings. We have here no lesser personages than the Minister of State, Treasury and the Foreign Secretary's Parliamentary Private Secretary. The announcement might be merely one of the late night fantasies to which the the Opposition are prone, but we need to know whether such an announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-20", "file": "debates1991-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "aaae26fecdf29b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "preceding_text": "es to pool a certain amount of their sovereignty, but only that amount which they are willing to give to central institutions. The Community will not depart from that. I understand that, in December 1992, which is after the general election, the European Council will hold a summit in Edinburgh. As the Scottish National party expects to win the mandate for independence at the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-20a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As I had already called the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker), he had better ask his supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "nts to be discussed before those decisions can be reached, including specific hours, for which we must press. I undertake to the House that I shall continue to make that a very high priority. I am as yet the only Minister in the Community who takes animal welfare matters seriously. I am increasingly gaining support from our Dutch and German friends and I hope ultimately to have everyone's support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"French wife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "I trust that my wife will cook my monkfish in a way that avoids rumination on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "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 was here yesterday when I set out quite clearly and in some detail the Government's position on the negotiations at Maastricht. As I recall, my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) began her speech by giving me her full support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "While rejoicing with the rest of the civilised world at the release of Terry Waite and the other hostages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "of unparliamentary expressions but I asked the Leader of the Opposition to refine it.\"— [Official Report, 20 November 1991; Vol 199, c.283.] I want to make a submission to you, Mr. Speaker, which is of some substance. The list to which you refer only gives examples of what, in the past, Mr. Speaker has ruled to be unparliamentary expressions. That list has grown up by Mr. Speaker ruling each time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Finchley and by the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) —is that secondary decisions—decisions to implement measures decided unanimously—might be taken by majority voting, to speed things up. We are not persuaded that the distinction between the original decision, which everyone agrees must be taken unanimously, and the implementing measures can be made to stick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.447.6", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "There are no objections to looking at those matters again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.447.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.450.7", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": " Gentleman was a Member of the House in 1975 when the Government, under the leadership of Lord Wilson, recommended a referendum to the people. Indeed, he probably even helped to draft the document \"Britain's New Deal in Europe\". I believe that at one time he was the Prime Minister's press officer and, indeed, worked in his office. In the document under the heading Will Parliament lose its power?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That question has been answered three days running. It was certainly answered by me to the Select Committee, as the right hon. Gentleman, who attended the Committee, will know. It was answered by the Prime Minister yesterday and by me again today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Would you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "No, I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary, who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him. Will the Government veto a draft treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "Characteristically, the right hon. Gentleman has totally misquoted what I said. I said I was confident that the Government would come back from Maastricht with something that was acceptable to the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "to surrender Britain's true interests. It is to let others make the decisions while pretending that we are free to stand apart, unscathed and unaffected, when every decision taken without our full participation will affect our country's future, perhaps for generations. Because the Prime Minister did not have the backbone to call a general election this month, Labour will be absent from Maastricht—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.456.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": " me as if three parties will be for a single currency and for sacrificing a great deal of the work that it has previously been the right of Parliament to do. How are the people to make their views known in this absence of choice? That was the particular point. My right hon. Friend will remember that our right hon. Friend the noble Lord Hailsham, made an interesting speech on elective dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.464.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.465.8", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.465.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Trade with eastern Europe has normally been centred on the Soviet Union, which still needs that produce, because it is short of food. Surely it would be more logical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman)—that the Opposition were in favour of majority voting on foreign policy. I had not heard that before. Without wishing to give offence to a great Department of State, I see a danger of a sort of Foreign Office view gaining ground which holds that foreign policy, defence and security are what really matter and that we should not worry about money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "an rates before Maastricht—indeed, hopefully, so long as the treaty is signed, not before our general election. \"That, John,\" says Helmut, \"is what European solidarity is about.\" But what chance of help if the Prime Minister vetoes the treaty? After all, thinks Helmut, if interest rates rise, perhaps Labour will come in, which is a soft touch not only on the single currency but on political union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "I have disagreed with the political views of the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) on many occasions, but he has just highlighted what might be called self-government and he rightly pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "he people of Europe in wishing to build another super-state. Super-states have been dangerous to the peace of the world. They never brought peace. They brought trouble in their wake. I got from the Library at Strasbourg a copy of the poster that I am holding up. It is interesting, because it depicts the future of Europe. The picture in the centre is a copy of a painting by a great Belgian painter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I will deal precisely with that point, but I ask the hon. Gentleman to allow me to develop one or two other aspects as a necessary background to my later comments on the issue that he raises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-21", "file": "debates1991-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "88d8ecacf9bd00ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community (Intergovernmental Conferences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " I should like to emphasize that my colleagues fully support, inter alia : The institutional development of the community into a European Union of a federal type\". I think that the chairman of the Conservative party would be better employed sorting out a few of those matters before he comes back to the House. I apologise for raising such matters in detail, but it is the duty of the House to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-21a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-22", "file": "debates1991-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "15fd3e0bb4710d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " of its tactical air-to-surface missile programme means that we would have great difficulty getting a credible system from the United States if we wanted one. If we had to go to France, that would create other questions which may or may not be quite as acceptable to some of the hon. Friends of the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson), whose suspicion of things European have been evidenced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-22", "file": "debates1991-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "15fd3e0bb4710d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-22", "file": "debates1991-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "15fd3e0bb4710d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.560.5", "colnum": "560", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that stricture, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I realise that I have a duty to enlighten the House this morning and I am endeavouring to do that, but I am mindful of the fact that other hon. Members wish to participate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-22", "file": "debates1991-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "15fd3e0bb4710d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Philip Goodhart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He may be against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Philip Goodhart", "preceding_text": "I assumed that the hon. Gentleman was more or less in favour of his party's policy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-22", "file": "debates1991-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "15fd3e0bb4710d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": "ber about the SSNs—the nuclear-powered submarines with conventional weapons—that we were astonished to hear the hon. Member for Houghton and Washington say that the Labour party would abandon the fourth Trident submarine and also the SSNs. Instead, it would go for the SSKs—conventional submarines with conventional weapons. That has tremendously damaging prospects for employment in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.570.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-22", "file": "debates1991-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "15fd3e0bb4710d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is there any more?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": "f Parliament writes direct to the Leader of the Opposition he cannot be bothered to reply himself but gets some lackey to do it for him. We have a first-class candidate in Barrow who is addressing the issues of the future of engineering and shipbuilding at Barrow far more realistically than the Conservative party, which appears to be inviting people to look at the past rather than face the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-22a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.611.8", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister acknowledge that even London Transport is alarmed at the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.611.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.652.5", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I fail to see what point the right hon. Gentleman is trying to make. The defeat of the private Bill showed that the Secretary of State carries little clout in the Cabinet. We all know that he tried diligently to get Conservative Members to be present that night so that the Bill would go through. We all know that a three-line Whip operated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.652.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "to the national economy outweighed the damage to an internationally important wildlife site. That is precisely the same argument as was put to us by the Secretary of State today. The Felixstowe docks were subject to certain exemptions at the time of the Bill. They were not subject to the normal restrictive practices that operated in the docks and it was not part of the national dock labour scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "l advantage. By the time the SSSI was destroyed, Felixstowe had lost all such advantages. What happened? the port started to lose trade and all the major operators transferred their services from Felixstowe. More than 100 jobs at the port were lost. The Bill destroyed an SSSI that was an internationally important wildlife site. That private Bill had been whipped through on the champagne vote when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "e constrained by capacity problems. The new station would allow two 12-car Thameslink platforms to replace the present cramped eight-car King's Cross Thameslink station, to which the Minister of State has just referred. Two weeks ago I visited that station for the first time. The fact that so many additional trains could go from Peterborough, Huntingdon, King's Lynn and Cambridge in the north to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": ", East. I have never opposed the fast link from Kent, which does not run through my constituency. Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link, and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London, to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel. I am on record as having said that on many occasions in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-25", "file": "debates1991-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "98b7ca34adc68137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "May I help my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr. Rowlands) by giving one example of a scheme which will never run into profit, but which will be financed out of public funds? It is the London docklands light railway extension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-25a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment— [Interruption.] —he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.776.8", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about choice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "How does the Prime Minister justify sending his son to a private school where nearly £4,000 a year is spent on each child when at present half the children in Tory-run Cambridgeshire's secondary schools receive only half that amount and when that authority is currently reducing its budget by almost £2 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.776.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.780.2", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "My point of order is this. Is it correct —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no idea whether that is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.797.8", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Well, it is not a matter of order here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.797.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.827.5", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "se of almost 11·5 per cent. over the previous year. That demonstrates clearly that the Government are putting the taxpayers' funding where it matters. I declare an interest. In recent times, all my daughters have attended Scottish institutions of higher education, and my youngest is currently attending one. I will not say where she is because she would not want me to draw attention to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.827.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "lished. In connection with the duty of the Council to keep eligible activity under review (section 37(2)), we suggest that the Council be specifically empowered in this section to commission and carry out such research as it may think appropriate, and be involved in the collection, monitoring and publication of statistical information related to Scottish higher education.\" The association goes on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "paign. The hon. Gentleman deserves his success. He won well, he is here, and we look forward to the speeches that he will make in his time here. I know that he will represent his constituents of all parties as well as he is able. I feel something of an interloper in the debate, but I hope that the House will not feel that I am too much so. I lectured for seven years at the university of Edinburgh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "nment—we had such economic problems that our GDP was hardly growing. By Japanese standards, therefore, we have a long inheritance of a small GDP. In terms of proportion, which is usually the statistical base used by Labour Members, we are spending more than our rivals. Indeed, it would be hard to increase the figure dramatically. Following my hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "t all of them have done so. Obviously, Brunel remains distinct. Then we set up the polytechnics. In creating a single university system, it is essential to retain diversity. Above all, these institutions must set their sights on particular goals. They are particularly good in certain directions and they must carry on in them. I hope that the funding mechanism will encourage them so to do. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": " not teachers. They sit on committees. They may have an interest and they may take an active role, but not necessarily. Councillors have been put on various bodies simply because places have to be filled and not because of a commitment. The idea that a college must be democratically accountable is farcical. What is needed is a college that delivers what parents, pupils, students and trainees want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS : \"There is one hiding in the corner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "ucation to ensure that the needs of that sector are addressed. Before the House votes on the Opposition's motion to refer the Bill to a Special Standing Committee, I hope that the Minister will say which Back-Bench Members he plans to have on the Standing Committee, because the Conservative Benches are obviously lacking in Members. Indeed, the Minister is the only member of the Government present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": "re politicians in the north-east. Now that the criteria have been published, we have not, so far as I am aware, received any representations that they should be tougher—and as the hon. Gentleman knows, RGIT would comfortably meet them. My hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) pointed out that this is a major devolutionary measure that involves a vast transfer of power to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Dewar) and for Clydebank and Milngavie about the need for more resources before any improvements can be made to higher education. That could not be described as a surprising line. It is the line that Labour Members always take—it is their standard gambit. We heard tonight echoes of previous debates. I refer to a statement made by the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) on 8 July 1981.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "land but quite inappropriate for Scotland. I waited in vain to hear what Labour's policy for Scotland was. The truth is that there is no such policy. Labour has said that it will repeal part I of the Bill, but it is bereft of any alternative ideas. That will not do: it displays complete contempt for the further education colleges in Scotland that support our proposals to give them greater freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-26", "file": "debates1991-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "88d02ff0eca53efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.883.7", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Hargreaves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Hargreaves", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition signed by 300 people who attended the LIFE national conference at Leamington Spa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-26a.883.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"English\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Is not the law perfectly clear and enforceable as far as British courts are concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "ery large companies, who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of smaller competitors which wish to keep Sunday special for their staff, their families and the general public? Are not those people trying to bully the Government into abandoning the whole of the Sunday trading laws? I ask my right hon. and learned Friend to use his powers under the criminal law to take those people to the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.914.7", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "s not the right and learned Gentleman embarrassed by the correspondence between the Prime Minister and the chairman of the Conservative party and B & Q, thanking it for sponsorship provided for the Conservative party conference? Is not the right hon. and learned Gentleman embarrassed? How much financial sponsorship has his party received this year from the big vested interests of the large stores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.914.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) wishes to suggest that the Attorney-General has been influenced in this connection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.915.9", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "How does the Attorney-General seek to answer an ordinary citizen who is summonsed for not paying the poll tax when that person knows that the Government have leaned on the local authorities to pursue such summonses, but when that person also sees the Government rolling over like a poodle and conniving and colluding with the big interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.915.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Questions of enforcement of the criminal law depend on whether the law is clear and questions regarding injunctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.916.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Sunday Trading", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "I have made perfectly plain my views on opening on Sundays by the major retailers. I do not condone it, and I commend those retailers who have said that they will not open on Sundays. The hon. Lady's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.921.9", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Sunday Trading", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) must sit down. We cannot have a debate. I ask hon. Members to put questions, and single questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.921.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "—to pay the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " Sheffield world student games and no help for the Birmingham or Manchester Olympic bids\" The verdict of British sport on the Government's record will be that it is helpless and hopeless. As the general election draws near, a new hope and a new realism is available for sport and we set it all out in Labour's \"Charter for Sport\", which the motion endorses. Already it has been welcomed on all sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "ago, the previous Minister announced his review of the organisational and financial arrangements of United Kingdom sport. He made no progress over the next three years. He has disappeared through the turnstile of government marked \"exit\" and, as befits a man who spent so much time getting nowhere, he has now been sent to the Department of Energy. The present Minister has held office for 12 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You'll be paid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " It will be nonsensical if our people can buy tickets to build and support sports ventures in other European countries but cannot do so to provide for sport and the arts in the United Kingdom. I must declare a personal interest in this matter, as I am a director—unpaid, I hasten to add—of the National Lottery Promotion Company. What I can say for my party is that, if we endorse a national lottery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.977.7", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What modesty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "As someone said the other day, half the nation thinks that I am still the Minister and the other half thinks that I should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.977.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slander.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that widespread libel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has stated what is, regrettably, a fact of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should ask the Minister for the Arts if he wants to know why the arts provision has been increased. The sports increase was in line with inflation and we have provided other funds which I am discussing now. The right hon. Gentleman should recognise that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "rs. I am most impressed by the enthusiasm and dedication of the youngsters, coaches and, above all, the parents who have become involved in activities such as transporting the children. In addition to that £700,000 I was able to find a further £300,000 as a direct result of my move from the Department of the Environment to the Department of Education and Science—which makes a total of £1 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": " who created the Sports Council and gave Britain its first Minister for Sport. In the 1970s, it was a Labour Government who led the way for British sport in Europe and who negotiated and signed the European sport-for-all charter. Within the world community, by signing the Gleneagles agreement, a Labour Government established the boycott of sporting links with South Africa, on account of apartheid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "in direct opposition to the views of the local electorate. On the whole, such things have happened where Labour authorities have not followed that dictum or taken the Department's circular No. 909 to heart. At least there seems to be some consensus in the House now on this important matter, and I hope that that will continue. I turn now to the basis of South Africa's return to international sport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " Indeed, expenditure in 1992 looked set, earlier on this year, to reach the guideline. We strongly supported the Commission's proposals in the price-fixing negotiations earlier this year, which aimed to ensure that the 1992 guideline would be respected. The savings that resulted from those negotiations ensured that that will be so, and that the agricultural budget fully respects budget discipline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": "best only if we have the proper time and the proper documentation. I regard the bundle of documents that we have been given—hastily stapled and put together—as an absolute disgrace. If we are to consider these most important matters, we need to have the issues and the figures set out carefully and professionally, not in this slovenly way. I realise that the Minister is not personally responsible —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-27", "file": "debates1991-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "86a7311672c73190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": "oper documentation. I regard the bundle of documents that we have been given—hastily stapled and put together—as an absolute disgrace. If we are to consider these most important matters, we need to have the issues and the figures set out carefully and professionally, not in this slovenly way. I realise that the Minister is not personally responsible —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is.\"] Well, ultimately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-27a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister share the view of Sir Leon Brittan and the European Commission that there should be a Europeanwide deposit protection scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ntleman's last point. If I understood him correctly, he seemed to be saying that our inflation rate was converging too quickly, and that that was imposing costs on the economy. That is an extraordinary contrast with the uncritical support for monetary union expressed by his right hon. and hon. Friends, who want to leap in with no conditions and to throw away the conditions that we have negotiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I touched on those points yesterday when I appeared before the Treasury Select Committee. Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices, the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "This is a point to which we return time and again. No Opposition have ever mutilated more forests in the interests of producing an endless stream of written policy documents containing come-ons and pledges of all sorts to every sectional interest, but when we add up those pledges and cost them, the Labour party becomes very coy. We want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The record shows that during the 1980s we were able both to increase public expenditure in real terms by about 20 per cent. and to cut tax rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The real point that one needs to note is the increase in capital investment in plant and machinery under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that high interest rates are a disincentive to investment? Instead of indulging in sterile exchanges of statistics across the Chamber, should not the House decide whether the level of investment in this country is adequate to ensure that our manufacturing base can compete against other countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1063.5", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": " the events of 25 years ago this very day, as reported by The Times, when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint, there would be a prices and incomes policy? It brought the worst economic turmoil that this country had seen since the industrial revolution. Will my right hon. Friend set out his policy for 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1063.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give his assurance that, neither explicitly nor implicitly will any deal be done at Maastricht?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is referring, I suspect, to a referendum. The position of the Government and, I think, of the Labour party has been made clear on that. My hon. Friend makes an interesting point on the stance that the Liberal Democrats appear to have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "National Health Service (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will come to those. In 1979–80, we spent in the national health service £170 for every man, woman and child in Wales. If spending this year was at the same level, uprated to take account of inflation, we would now be spending at the rate of £392 for every man, woman and child. The actual figure this year is £614 and, under my proposals, it will go up to £651", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "National Health Service (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "We have to have the most able people serving on the health authorities. If the hon. Gentleman can provide any names, I am perfectly prepared to consider them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "National Health Service (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "We have to have the most able people serving on the health authorities. If the hon. Gentleman can provide any names, I am perfectly prepared to consider them— [Interruption.] Well, I shall simply tell the hon. Gentleman that under the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "National Health Service (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In his own column.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I, too, read the Pembrokeshire newspapers and constantly see praise of my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "In putting together the budget, I must be satisfied that what are, after all, indicative figures are realistic and reasonable estimates. I am satisfied that they are realistic for next year, so the hon. Gentleman's point does not arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I put up with a lot from the hon. Gentleman, but the accusation that I am misleading the House is totally unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.6", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am terribly sorry if I have offended the Secretary of State by using an unparliamentary expression. I am sure that there was no intention on his part to mislead the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.7", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I do not know what to say to that. I think I will ignore the whole thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1096.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "and of its chairman. The chairman and the present team are continuing the record of outstanding achievement. To add a new dimension and considerable experience of the world of international business and commerce, I am delighted to take this opportunity to announce today a new appointment to the board, Dr. Pamela Kirby. Dr. Kirby will be the first woman board member of the Welsh Development Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another recession.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "on, the agency and Newport borough council must be applauded. It is a first-rate development which is good for Wales. It will become one of the leading research and development parks in the United Kingdom. I have set out the Labour party's agenda for the agency and I have referred to the Welsh economy, but before I conclude I pose the question: what would a fourth Conservative term mean for Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-11-28", "file": "debates1991-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "34534b6f7c96c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "I was slightly puzzled by the equivalence between the hotel in Tahiti and the Membury service station. Clearly, there has been a marked rise in the standards at the Membury service station since I was last there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-11-28a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to confirm to my hon. Friend that the structure of our child benefit scheme ensures that the first child receives benefit, unlike the position under the scheme in France. He may be interested to know that several European countries have extra conditions on entitlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.4.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.10.6", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How many?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "lly cold weather. In a sense, I am disappointed that the Meteorological Office was unable to trigger in advance on this occasion. The Met Office tells me that it wanted to study the matter with care, as this was the first such period of cold weather since the new system was introduced. It will be studying the pattern that has occurred this time, and hopes to be able to make improvements in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "On this occasion, I find myself 100 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Mortgage Repossessions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I agree that it is an important matter. That is why I allowed a long run on question 1 today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Yes, there too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.47.7", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "I withdraw any implication and apologise to the hon. Member for Maryhill. That is the least that I can do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.47.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "e in the budget, not in expenditure, and that is what we have difficulty in bringing home to the people of Scotland. All over Scotland we see in local and national newspapers talk of cuts in this and cuts in that, but the cuts are in proposed budget expenditure, not in real expenditure which has, of course, increased year in, year out as has the revenue support grant under the present Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.69.13", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "New clause 2 goes to the crux of the council tax. The test that one should apply to that tax will be crucial and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.69.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "I am having some difficulty in following the argument. If the hon. Gentleman is arguing for a local income tax, which is perfectly fair, he should have tabled a new clause on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Generally, I support new clause 2, but I want particularly to refer to new clause 4, which deals with Scotland. I do not want to offend the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace), but the Scottish National party has no problems about copyright in its proposals for a local income tax—they are all our own work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.75.5", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "know no one who pays taxes out of capital, with the possible exception of the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn). He might have to sell some of his capital assets to pay his taxes, but most people would not. The touchstone of ability to pay is that people pay tax out of income. We understand that in Scotland it would cost about 4p in the pound to collect £800 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.75.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about yours?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I had intended to appeal tonight to the massed ranks of Conservative Members representing seats in London and the south-east, who I thought would be here to protect their constituents' interests and to press for a change in the banding structure, Unfortunately, however, there are fewer than a dozen of them here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.91.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.95.4", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "en to get rid of the 14 bands. The 14 bands went, even though they brought greater fairness and would have protected in some measure the people in the areas that I have described, as well as some people in some northern constituencies where the banding system again clusters in an unacceptable way. Band A residents in Wigan will be paying £339 a year, which is more than the top band in Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.95.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " come as a terrible shock to him. Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery. Labour is simply trying to hide the awfulness that lurks behind its so-called fair rates system All the concern felt in local authorities in London and the south-east—which I well understand—really relates to grant. Two so-called alternative schemes have been suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A fringe benefit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) has been arguing against a regional band for London, thereby costing his constituents about £66 a year, based on average house prices in London. I had to cut short my attendance at the Hairdressing Council dinner to speak in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-16", "file": "debates1991-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "e02985a45c53de23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "able. They are not the issues that we should discuss when considering the way in which the council tax will be implemented. It is important that a house worth, say, £200,000 should have the same bill throughout the country for a given level of services. I am not interested in the situation in Wales or Scotland as they have their own systems of delegated government and their own systems of finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-16a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.130.4", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Is not my hon. Friend delighted with the $450 million order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a strong point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics, when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities, and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real, it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.142.8", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e scheme proposed by the Labour party is a farce and has been denounced as such and the right hon. Gentleman should know it. As for the real problem, we are in the midst of discussions with the Building Societies Association and others and in due course we shall make an announcement that will build on the assistance that we have already provided. We have been considering the problem for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.142.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The alleged mortgage rescue scheme about which the hon. Gentleman boasts was described this morning by an independent commentator as a policy made in an Enid Blyton story book\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation, does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent. of actual valuation, nor, from the point of view of personal status—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "—more than one quarter of monthly salary? If those criteria had been adhered to, many people would not be in their present position. Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.11", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I recognise that point very well. But the right hon. Gentleman should not pose, as he frequently does, as the friend of the home-owner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.143.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Tees and Hartlepool Port", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You may remember that I raised this matter with you by way of a request for a private notice question on Tuesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.149.11", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Points, of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dame Peggy Fenner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Peggy Fenner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will know that I am not given to raising bogus points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.149.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.149.11", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Points, of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dame Peggy Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Peggy Fenner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will know that I am not given to raising bogus points of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"]—but I ask you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.149.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " ensure that their administrative time, their legal expertise and the time of the courts could be spent in endeavouring to do what Conservative Members are constantly telling us should be done and which they now have the opportunity to help us to do. Abolition would not only help those who are struggling to raise the 20 per cent. contribution but would have a beneficial economic effect nationally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " am glad that the hon. Gentleman made that clear, because it is a fundamental point. The important aspect of the argument of the hon. Member for Brightside was that, because of the cost of collecting the debt and the involvement of so much manpower—he drew attention to the situation in Strathclyde, and the splendid councillors there; I imagine that that is why Strathclyde is so short of policemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": " a register it would be difficult for local authorities to establish who was receiving income support. In Committee, Ministers continually told us that there would be no problem: council tenants, even if they were not receiving 100 per cent. rebates, would receive housing benefit and income support. The Government have now decided not to claw back the compensation element in means-tested benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "id of the tax now. They would accept our amendment or at least admit the principle of it and then table amendments in the other place. Unfortunately, they do not have the humility or the guts to do that. They do not have the guts to stand by their principles, as is shown by the 20 per cent. minimum payment, nor do they have the guts to get rid of that payment on 1 April 1992. The whole problem is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruptionl", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "lieve this to be an unacceptable element of head tax. I appreciate why the hon. Gentleman tried a time-honoured diversionary tactic when things were getting uncomfortable. The importation of this remnant of the poll tax is unnecessary because virtually no Conservative Member will vote against the Bill. Government supporters will troop into the Lobby in support of a measure to abolish the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would care to invite the Minister to come to the Dispatch Box, he will hear confirmation from the Minister's own lips. I asked the Minister about that just a couple of days ago and he confirmed that his advice was that keeping a register is not only not necessary but unlawful. It seems that the Minister will not stir himself to dispute that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "ly before the debate on discounts. That resulted in my proposal to increase the discount to 50 per cent. not being taken until one and a half minutes before the guillotine fell. Despite that, I managed to speak 322 words in the time left to me by Labour Members and Ministers. At least tonight I have about 45 minutes in which to speak, and whether I take that much time will depend on how we get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I am in the very comfortable position of being able to give the hon. Gentleman exactly that assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dagenham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Barking, which I think is a very suitable seat for him to hold, and I thought that it was one of the greatest pieces of hypocrisy that I had ever heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "two years, or 10 years, or 70 years, and which may be in Dagenham, or Barking, or London, or Scotland, or Stornoway, or anywhere else, happens to alter, one should be charged on the assumption that one is rich thereby, because one's home is worth more? One cannot get rid of one's home. One can no more get rid of one's home than one can take off one's clothes in the Chamber of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "on residence. I want the Minister to study that carefully, because the Bill is subject to all sorts of orders and preparations. The Secretary of State can make the day longer or shorter and houses and residences different. I want to know what that means. I want to know whether it means that, if I am not resident in the house that I own, that day, even if it continues as the day that it started as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ve to pay. I have never seen legislation drafted worse than this, more complicated, or more open to doubt. However, one thing about it is certain: it is the legislation on which Labour Members fought the last three elections, and is what they wanted—but now they are against it. That shows that Labour Members are hypocrites. I want the Minister to explain to me simply, because I am a simple person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "I shall deal not with the comments of the hon. Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall), but with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "ot with the comments of the hon. Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall), but with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist)— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Coventry, South-East is an honourable friend. I have great respect for someone who has the courage of his convictions. The House owes him a debt for standing up for them. I am a reluctant law breaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you count them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "l excuse me if I do not manage to reach them in the time available. My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall), in a splendid speech, reminded the House that law makers cannot be law breakers. I had heard before much of the speech of the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), although not always in the same order. He was supported by the massed and serried ranks of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.240.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-17", "file": "debates1991-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "21252a7e43bbf89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Paul Dean)", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman have the leave of the hon. Member for Shipley (Sir M. Fox) and of the Minister to speak?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-17a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ce prize for her courageous struggle against the brutal regime in Burma? As Britain has a special responsibility towards her and her country, can the Minister tell the House what action our ambassador is taking to get access to her and to secure her release? Will the Government now say that we shall initiate urgent discussions with both the United States and our European partners to isolate Burma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Homicide (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "reaching implications for the individuals whom it will affect: it is a matter of great moment to them. My main reason for introducing the Bill is that those women who are the victims of domestic violence, who are driven to despair and provoked into killing their spouses, may find that the defence of provocation is useless when it is used in a court of law. This is a grave injustice to those women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Homicide (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "ducing the Bill is that those women who are the victims of domestic violence, who are driven to despair and provoked into killing their spouses, may find that the defence of provocation is useless when it is used in a court of law. This is a grave injustice to those women. [Interruption.] The clearest example is that of the case of Mrs. Sara Thornton—a woman who suffered a great deal of brutality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and it would have been a betrayal of our national interests. Let me turn to social issues, and set out in detail the reasons why we could not agree to the social chapter in the treaty. Let me first remove a misunderstanding. The issue with the Community is not the quality of social provision in the countries of the Community. In Britain, we have a national health service free at the point of use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "esult of these agreements. I am not prepared to accept that on behalf of this country. Neither—on the basis of the experience of what is happening under the existing social provisions—was I prepared to trust the Commission not to stretch the new definitions of the proposed social chapter. We have seen what the Commission is doing with the working time directive under the health and safety article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I told the House on 20 Novembe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e citizen. We equipped ourselves to fight international crime, terrorism and drug trafficking. We secured provisions that will be good for British industry, and a Community that will be open to the rest of the world. Our role consistently has been to ensure that the Community does not become self-regardng, inward-looking and over-regulatory. Brussels is a means to an end; it is not the end itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l differently. In their view, if Brussels says it, it must be right irrespective of the national interest. There is one critical agreement among the Twelve, which is outside the treaty but in the presidency conclusions, and which I believe is vital for the future of Europe. As we reach the end of the century, it becomes even clearer that the Community does not end with the Twelve. I do not accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.288.9", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "There are several. For example, the very long dated and hitherto insufficiently reformed proposal from Brussels—the common agricultural policy in its present form—is totally unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.288.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.288.11", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "undertakings that I will give way and I will do that in due course. I was beginning to tell the House why it would be very disadvantageous for our country to use the Prime Minister's opt-out clause at the point of formation of union and given that convergence conditions had been satisfied. First, if the opt-out was exercised, our country would certainly stand to lose inward investment. Inevitably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.288.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.288.11", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "l the House why it would be very disadvantageous for our country to use the Prime Minister's opt-out clause at the point of formation of union and given that convergence conditions had been satisfied. First, if the opt-out was exercised, our country would certainly stand to lose inward investment. Inevitably— [Interruption.] He is at his mother-in-law's funeral. Will you stop that stupid nonsense?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.288.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "The significance of the opt-in clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.291.7", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "For the second time in two weeks a member of the Cabinet has grossly misrepresented my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith). Let me read what my right hon and learned Friend said, instead of the contorted version produced by the Prime Minister, dishonourably, last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.291.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t my right hon. and learned Friend said that we should not commit ourselves in advance of 1997 to enter into a single currency. That is the point of agreement that all sensible people will have. What my right hon. and learned Friend said on the Walden programme was: We should not commit ourselves now, in advance of 1997, to enter a single currency irrespective of what the state of the economy was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I must get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.292.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "So why cannot the Government accept the social charter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "en in a recession—and with negative growth, reduced investment, spreading poverty, rundown public services, a housing crisis and record bankruptcies. Whatever else cuts in provisions and rights do, they certainly do not produce economic success, and they never will. Modern competitiveness depends on competing in quality—competing up-market. It depends on a highly educated, well-trained work force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "uence over both has now diminished; the gap has widened. After the passage of stage 2, Britain will be faced with a structure that others have fashioned. That cannot be in British interests. This Government are not only allowing that to happen, they are causing it to happen. Such a Government are no longer fit to lead Britain. The British people know that and, come the election, they will show it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman, whose intervention I know was made in a spirit of good will, that I shall come to that later in my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I know that the Minister has a different view from that which the Prime Minister has expressed on such matters. I invite him to read the Prime Minister's response to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield, which was far and away the most interesting part of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.301.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "el of the challenges that confront us in Britain, everyone in Europe and, indeed, every inhabitant of the planet. I realise that, if someone is driving a car, and sitting behind him is a lady with a handbag and a man with fangs, he may feel it wiser to drive in the slow lane. My advice is that he should pull into a lay-by, turf the others out and then hand the wheel over to firmer and safer hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.311.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "nts of the European convention on human rights into specific treaty additions of the European Community. An antediluvian handful of hon. Members, many of them retiring at the next election, are not keen on these matters, but they are a diminishing and insignificant number. There is a substantial consensus in the House for deepening the European Community, which came from the Maastricht agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fudged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "r and other colleagues would not be able to speak later. The pre-economic and monetary union full convergence measures are more severe in their final outturn than was anticipated several years ago when the whole debate began. We must be realistic about that. As time goes on, many of the economic and financial conditions may change significantly and the final stage of the agreement will need to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Crawler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "After the deliciously witty and perceptive speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) and after the truly formidable and memorable speech by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Dykes, Tebbit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": ", in 1986, when, as a result of what happened in La Belle discotheque, Berlin, there was an attack on Tripoli by aircraft based in this country by the Americans, the terrorist attack in Germany turned out not to have been Libyan inspired at all, but to have been inspired by Syrian and Iranian groups. It is uncharacteristic of the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Dykes) to make such interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this got to do with Maastricht", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "tely illegal in both US and international law bombing of Cambodia in the seventies that cost more than 100,000 Cambodian lives? Will the US pay compensation to the relatives of 50,000 Chileans who lost their lives in the military coup in 1972, a coup organised and financed by the CIA to overthrow a democratically elected government, in violation of every significant principle in international law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could help my right hon. Friend a little further. A decision to recognise Croatia has already been taken by both the United Kingdom and other members of the Community. It was the timing of recognition that was under discussion yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " their collective strength, they can achieve a great deal both individually and collectively. I like what is happening and I want the process to continue. It is true that I now have a different attitude—I have managed to do a 180 deg. turn, something that the right hon. Member for Chingford said that he could not do. I have done it because circumstances have changed dramatically in eastern Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "here can be a political dimension of regulation for people, we'll go along with it.\" The same things are happening on the Pacific rim. That is where we are in history—we are in a new era. I believe that I am representative of my party in holding those views and very much go along with the explanation that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition gave of our shift of view on this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "n the Pacific rim. That is where we are in history—we are in a new era. I believe that I am representative of my party in holding those views and very much go along with the explanation that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition gave of our shift of view on this question— [ Laughter.] No, in my view this is a matter of the history of the world. We are in a new era and silly little men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "he years passed, it became very clear to those people that they would no longer be able continually to take taxes from people who were unrepresented and whose views were not to be heard. Initially, the barons and the burgesses were sent out into the shires to get cash, but, bit by bit, power came to be translated in such a way that those who were taxed demanded a say in how those taxes were spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "ion in education, particularly through the teaching and dissemination of the languages of the Member States. My hon. Friend the Minister is nodding his head. He signed it and I hope that he means it and will do something about it. The worst barrier of all is that of attitudes. It is high time that we abandoned for ever the notion that we can survive outside Europe. It is time for a culture switch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.364.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So is this one.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "That was a federal arrangement imposed by the great powers after the great war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "On the 30th anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Rome I was the European Commission's delegate to Guinea Bissau and we were given a small amount of money to celebrate the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-18", "file": "debates1991-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e102abdaa117c2e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "ubstantial reprieve for our country. The effect here has been all that my right hon. Friends could have desired. There remain a mere handful of the rugged individualists on both sides of the House—but, none the less, outside the mainstream of politics—who wanted Britain to sabotage the conference by using our vetos. How ineffectual the veto would have been. I think that that has been demonstrated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-18a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.439.8", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend clarify a puzzle which arose during yesterday's European Community debate? On two separate occasions, when questioned about the cost of implementing some proposals under the Maastricht treaty, the Leader of the Opposition said that the money could be found from the reform of the common agricultural policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.439.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.444.8", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Very much the same situation has obtained under Ministers of both Governments for the past 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.444.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I can certainly inform the right hon. Gentleman about matters that he does not seem to understand. Unemployment has risen in virtually every western country in the past decade. Many of the major industrial countries have seen unemployment increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Housing Repossessions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ontribution of more than £400 million would be regarded as substantial by anyone with a responsible attitude to finance—if not by the Labour party. The measures that I announced stand to reduce the number of repossessions by 40,000. They are currently running at an annual rate of 80,000. That is a substantial reduction and the hon. Lady should have had the grace and the good manners to welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am afraid that I was deflected and called two Members from one side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.477.11", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": " all written by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman). They reached the conclusion they did because today none of those policies would have attracted more than a fraction of the parliamentary Labour party. Therefore, any attempt to define what the Labour party stood for on the European question was doomed to failure. In the past few weeks, we have seen our party come together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.477.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.477.11", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "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": "beral Democrats feared, and which led us in the end to decide that we would not accept that chapter. However, the right hon. Gentleman did not notice that the declaration that he was quoting covered only one of the methods of legislation provided. When that ace of trumps turned out to be a two of clubs, he simply charged on. But it is a crucial point. The issue here is philosophical and practical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.477.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I want to make a little progress, and then I will give way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ed. Tens of thousands of people have already been killed. If it continues, the figure may be hundreds of thousands before long. The cities of Croatia have been destroyed, including Split and Dubrovnik, which are among the most historic in Europe. The third aspect that I wish to highlight is the social chapter. I believe that the 11 have scored an own goal and that we have scored a remarkable coup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.529.2", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way, because I have only 10 minutes. On the social chapter, it is no use the hon. and learned Gentleman saying that the Government can introduce the changes. We have waited 12 years. To take one simple example, working women in this country do not have the maternity benefits that women working in other European countries consider a basic right. We have waited 12 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y to pay, the right of association, the right to strike or the right to impose lock-outs. Had the Prime Minister had the courtesy to attend the winding-up of the debate, he would no doubt have tried to justify why, only a week ago, he intentionally pretended something quite different. No doubt when the Chancellor of the Exchequer winds up he will summon up all the sincerity of which he is capable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I believe that there are certain conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "itted to a single currency, as they have to be under the treaty. Germany does not meet the convergence conditions at present. Suppose that we had a proposed monetary union of three small countries—or of three countries, excluding Germany. Does the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook think that we should have signed a treaty committing ourselves now, irrevocably, to becoming a party to monetary union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly does not understand the treaty. He says that a mass of seven countries is required. The whole point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tebbit knows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should know—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tebbit knows.\"] I know that the right hon. Gentleman does not want to hear the answer, because he has got it all wrong and his party is in an impossible position, but the answer is that our protocol takes precedence over the language in the main treaty amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "r is that our protocol takes precedence over the language in the main treaty amendment. [Interruption.] Of course that is absolutely right. That is why this country has the option to opt out. That is why, as a result of our negotiations, we have the choice—rightly, I believe—to decide whether to move to a single currency. The Leader of the Opposition made a very forceful and good speech yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ified majority voting. The Labour party's attitude is an illustration of its lack of confidence in its ability to persuade the British people at the polls. Why does it have so little confidence in its ability to win the argument or to win an election that it wants to chuck the power away and give it to Brussels? If the Community is to have a social dimension, the top priority must be job creation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1991-12-19", "file": "debates1991-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "916d46a88ad8ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maastricht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " to chuck the power away and give it to Brussels? If the Community is to have a social dimension, the top priority must be job creation— [interruption.] Our policies in the 1980s gave us a job creation record as good as any in Europe. Between 1983 and 1989, the United Kingdom created more jobs than any other member state. The OECD has recently noted that, between 1984 and 1990, the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1991-12-19a.545.7"}