{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "ken to clear the site down to ground level and to leave it in a tidy condition—further than the legal requirement. On the question of the £120 million of economic infrastructural investment, the hon. Gentleman complains that that is in existing budgets. Of course it is. We put it into the existing budgets with precisely this situation in mind. Incidentally, it does not include the Wishaw hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Each side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is a private notice question. However, I fully understand its importance for hon. Members with Scottish constituencies and. indeed, for the whole of the United Kingdom. I will call two more from each side and those whom I have not been able to call—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "ese costs from within their own resources. In addition, I have announced that credit approvals will be available to local authorities to cover the full £1·24 million capital cost of preparation estimated by CSL. That is a generous contribution towards overall preparation costs, particularly as the savings to Welsh authorities in administering the council tax when compared with the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "to the hon. Gentleman that it allows for local authorities to spend £1,193 for every man, woman and child in Wales, towards which they will be receiving external financing of £1,075. That is a pretty good deal by any stretch of assessment. The hon. Gentleman says that it is nothing like enough, but what is he really saying? I notice that there are certain key Opposition Front-Bench Members absent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "r local authorities to spend £1,193 for every man, woman and child in Wales, towards which they will be receiving external financing of £1,075. That is a pretty good deal by any stretch of assessment. The hon. Gentleman says that it is nothing like enough, but what is he really saying? I notice that there are certain key Opposition Front-Bench Members absent— [Laughter.] wait for it. I do not see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I do not criticise the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East or the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) for being absent. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would say what he has just said if the right hon. and learned Gentleman and the hon. Lady were present. He has said that the proposed spending is nothing like enough. I want to know whether he says that with the authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) for being absent. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would say what he has just said if the right hon. and learned Gentleman and the hon. Lady were present. He has said that the proposed spending is nothing like enough. I want to know whether he says that with the authority— [Interruption.] Not from the districts. He has said from the Opposition Front bench that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I would listen more willingly to the hon. Gentleman if he were to get his facts right. He says that, if I had listened to local authorities in Wales, I would not have produced this transitional relief scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s directly affected by the noise and nuisance of the works. It deals with the voluntary purchase of blighted property. It places a duty on British Rail not to purchase all properties in the buffer zone, but only if required to do so by the owner of the property. The largest owner of property in the buffer zone is the London borough of Islington, which will not want to yield valuable housing stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-13", "file": "debates1992-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca9b26ae8ab96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Clifford Forsythe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Clifford Forsythe", "preceding_text": "ts of Northern Ireland will seek to talk them up tonight; councillors would act likewise, regardless of their political party. If we had councillors on the tourist board, at least some of its members would be responsible to the people who elected them and representative of those people. It is important to stress that. Why is the tourist board report for 1990 not yet available? The report for 1989—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-13a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.808.7", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " interview and everyone will have the opportunity to ask why, if those words are so wrong, they have not been corrected before now. Does not the Prime Minister recall saying in precise terms that tax cuts in the Budget before the election—as he is precisely quoted as saying—would be \"unwise\", would \"recreate … problems\", would be \"unfair\", would \"hurt\" people and would be \"economic tricks\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.808.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.808.7", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " the opportunity to ask why, if those words are so wrong, they have not been corrected before now. Does not the Prime Minister recall saying in precise terms that tax cuts in the Budget before the election—as he is precisely quoted as saying—would be \"unwise\", would \"recreate … problems\", would be \"unfair\", would \"hurt\" people and would be \"economic tricks\"— [Interruption.] Is it not clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.808.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.810.10", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Why did the Prime Minister not have the courtesy to respond to a pre-Christmas appeal by Church leaders that he should make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.810.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Health Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "ns in receipt of certain categories of benefit; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges. If passed by the House, the Bill will reform fairly and effectively the forgotten area of the health benefits system. The present system is unwieldy, unnecessarily complex, inconsistent and over-bureaucratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "untry where we stand. We as a Government do not shirk that responsibility, and any party with aspirations to government should not do so either. Perhaps the most worrying feature is not the withdrawal from operational activity of the Soviet fleet, which might have been caused by fuel shortages or uncertainties about control at home, but that which we indentify as happening within the armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.827.8", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ts members say, \"We shall do what needs to be done when we get into office.\" Their slogan is, \"Trust us,\" but to do so would be to give a blank cheque to all those who have been wrong on every count in the past two elections and who would have destroyed our defences. They expect the British people to buy unseen a defence policy of which they know nothing. This is the end of the road for consumers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.827.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nadequate. How can it be otherwise when the latest White Paper on defence states: It is not for the Government to seek to influence such decisions. Those who work in our defence industries have the right to hope for a more reliable future from a country that relies on their contribution to its defence. The Tory Government show no interest in that problem. The Labour Government, soon to be elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": ". I know how the Secretary of State may respond: he may say that the 1945 Government were different from the Labour party facing him today. Of course, he is right—the 1945 Labour Government were the one that the Tories said in the 1945 election campaign would bring the Gestapo to Britain. Whenever the Tories know that they are facing electoral defeat, they dive head first into the political sewer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "g the work forces that produce the planes and ships of our forces. Labour voters were among the men who last week were used by the Prime Minister as a background for a photo opportunity at a tank factory. Labour voters were among the men and women who risked their lives, and the men who sacrificed their lives, in the Falklands and the Gulf. Labour voters are among the men who patrol the dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": "tleman has not visited Barrow during my eight and a half years as an hon. Member or ever—unless he has come in the middle of the night. I wonder whether, during the hon. and learned Gentleman's visit yesterday, representatives of management took him into the Devonshire dock ship hall. If so, no doubt he was taken to the ninth floor and could look down and see what was being built. Can you confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Nuclear Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "re are 5,000 scientists—people previously in the employment of the Soviet Union—with experience in plutonium separation and uranium enrichment. One recalls that, after the second world war, the United States was careful to ensure that Dr. von Braun was transported to the United States-not because of any inherent qualities of personality but because he was the leading exponent of rocket technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Ports (Disposal of Land)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I would rather not, for the simple reason that a number of hon. Members want to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-14", "file": "debates1992-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "527f192179fb7ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Ports (Disposal of Land)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Walley", "preceding_text": "tance to proposals to maximise employee participation in the equity of successor companies and of setting the trigger mechanisms for clawback, as we have just heard from the Minister, on land and lease disposals, which ostensibly encourage management-employee buy-outs if, by the same token, the Secretary of State is not immediately mindful to go ahead and approve the bids outstanding in Cleveland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-14a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman to this extent—that the coal mining areas need this money. If Mr. Millan releases the money, every last penny of it will go to the coalfield areas. I have said that Mr. Millan is an honourable man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.951.10", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I thought that that was interesting news. It shows—we are not allowed to use the word hypocrisy, are we?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.951.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am very much looking forward to meeting my hon. Friend's constituents on that occasion. She is right in saying that the west midlands has benefited from a vast increase both in the amount and the share of inward investment into this country. Ten years ago only 6 per cent. of inward investment went to the west midlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Environmentally Sensitive Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "yers' and consumers' money have been poured into the scheme area—more than £550,000 in SSSI management agree-ments and ESA payments, to which must be added approximately £3 million in price support under the common agricultural policy agreement, also paid for by taxpayers and consumers. In short, the scheme has absorbed huge sums of public money, for virtually no discernible environmental benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Environmentally Sensitive Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": " that the removal of the word \"outer\" from the proposed Christchurch relief road plan has meant that the preferred plan could be jeopardised by his announcement today? Will he please consult the Department of Transport and let me know—although he cannot do so today—how his announcement might affect the ultimate choice for the Christchurch relief road by that Department? Finally, on aircraft noise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "that they envisage, as set out in successive Rothschild reports. The first Rothschild report reduced to just 26 the number of collieries to be considered as candidates for survival. Of those, just six were to remain in the Nottingham coalfield. When I said that on the news media in the east midlands, the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart) responded that I did not know what I was talking about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "ecretary of State confirm that it says that the prospects for the industry are even more gloomy than the second report envisaged? Will the Secretary of State tell us, or is it to remain a squalid secret between Tory merchant bankers and money-grabbing Tory politicians, when and how many British miners they intend putting out of work? Apparently, for the time being at least, it is to remain secret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does Stewart feel that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend gives us the benefit of a more balanced presentation of the evidence given to the Select Committee this morning. Anyone who considers the industry at present—I am sure that that includes the hon. Member for Sherwood—must feel gloomy about its prospects unless something is done", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " could refuse to work for more than seven and a half hours. Anyone negotiating about hours with an Act such as that behind him has his hand significantly strengthened, and can get extra pay and other concessions in return for working longer hours. The Secretary of State has chosen to break the pledges made by two of his predecessors, and has given an even vaguer pledge than the one that they gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "ployment had sought to repeal the 1908 Act, he would have needed to use a Bill. For the reasons that I have just given, I believe that he could have achieved his purpose by using the powers conferred on him under the 1974 Act. However, for the purpose of this argument, I am prepared to assume that he could introduce a Bill, but why was that Bill not introduced by the Secretary of State for Energy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "preceding_text": "very argument they possibly can to deny and denounce that change. They do not want to see increased productivity or flexibility, or any improvement in the way in which industries are run. That is the picture that we have seen for years. The enormous increases in productivity have taken place in the teeth of opposition from the Labour party. That means that it does not care about the coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "preceding_text": "financial position—the bottom line of profit or loss in the industry. In 1980, the industry was losing £159 million, but by 1990 there was a bottom-line profit of £78 million—a turnround in the industry. I should have thought that those figures would make the people who work in the industry proud of it. I remember that in 1983 miners came to ask me about privatisation and I spelled it out to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "ld examined the industry, Silverwood was not making very much money because it was investing in opening up new faces. Shortly after the leak of the Rothschild report, Silverwood again began to make a lot of money—because its investment had come to fruition. Before Christmas, Silverwood colliery produced its millionth tonne of coal. It produced 1 million tonnes of coal once before—in the mid-1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "Merchant bankers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1043.5", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way again. All you are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "have been called on to do, but on Bruce Millan, who was a Minister of the Crown and knows exactly how procedures for public financing operate in this country. He is simply playing a miserable game of party politics. The hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mrs. Heal) is not here at present. but she has an important interest in the Cannock Chase district council region, as do some of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1044.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "t, not output, and since 1979 the Government have made brilliant progress within the coal industry, according to every principle that the Labour party holds dear. Every hon. Member with a mining constituency knows full well that the miners he represents have enjoyed the benefits of massive investment in safer and more productive equipment—money invested on the taxpayers' behalf by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1044.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about closures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "nt made by the Government to enable the British coal industry to be viable and productive. As the hon. Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy) said, it is fair to point out that both management and employees have responded in good measure. Let us not forget that productivity increased by 2·5 per cent. under the last Labour Government—that is all. Since 1985 alone, it has increased by 100 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1044.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "now that that is not true. I wonder why the Government are paying Rothschilds for advice if they believe that it is up to the market and not to them, as they are saying. However, I agree that the generators will be the major determinants of the future of the industry. Conservative Members who have spoken in the debate should realise, including the hon. Member for New Forest (Sir P. McNair-Wilson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "nergy prices. Conservative Members will answer for that, and some will answer long before then. That is the truth of the matter. Conservative Members should not make accusations that we have ever sold out the coal industry to foreign coal coming into the country, because we have not. I shall stand the rest of the criticism, as we all must do. I agree with the Rothschild report that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-15", "file": "debates1992-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "70f4c3d61f2fb30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "rnment are trying to fish for votes? Hitherto, there was a brainless scheme whereby the Government were to carry on watching houses being repossessed and then fill those empty houses with the homeless people who had had their own houses repossessed some months before the repossession of the houses that they were to move into. That was a lot of nonsense. I do not believe that anyone in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-15a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1081.13", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the backs of the working class.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I suspect that we will live on the talents of the British people, which will be greatly assisted by the tax and spending regime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1081.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1081.16", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Minister asks what Labour will do when it gets the chance to govern. Labour will ensure that the 3 million people on the pile of human misery known as the dole queue will be given a chance to work and to provide tax and insurance. Then, if I have anything to do with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1081.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a dodger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Some people might say that on policy rather than on personal matters the right hon. Gentleman is a tax dodger. He can give no lecture to us on unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Some people might say that on policy rather than on personal matters the right hon. Gentleman is a tax dodger. He can give no lecture to us on unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] His policies would cut jobs across the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.8", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if the upper earnings limit on national insurance contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.11", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1095.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister confirm that he personally was informed about British Steel's decision to close Ravenscraig over a fortnight before the official announcement last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is noticeable that the Labour party has not offered to keep Ravenscraig open. I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is clear that, as my hon. Friend says, Labour would cut the defence budget to ribbons. It is true that on defence Labour cannot be trusted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1109.2", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend made that point; he is right. I hope that there will be plenty of opportunity to debate those matters next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-16", "file": "debates1992-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf7b80bfe34a939a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong on the first point. I get a different reaction as I go round the country: I find that there is a great deal of interest. The Labour party would not apparently hint that it will change its position on national insurance contributions unless it was not greatly worried about the reaction that the public are already showing. The hon. Gentleman is wholly wrong about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-16a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ivities, nor intends to do so. Our purpose would be at an end if a lottery were promoted. Secondly, no American money has come forward for the promotion of the national lottery. It is true that £20,000 has been paid towards our expenses, but that pales into insignificance compared with the expenditure on the other side. It was paid by a British company which is a subsidiary of an American company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I know that it is sometimes to the public good that people win large sums with the national bookmakers. Let us not fall out over that. I think that the Bill will please everybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "s—fewer than one in five of women—while 72 per cent. would play a national lottery as would a much higher proportion of women. Why should women be discriminated against? They are as important in society as men and they have as much right as men to ease of access. Not all women are as interested as men in filling out complicated football pool coupons. Most of the national lottery payments would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ees to allocate the revenue—90 per cent. to arts, sport and heritage and 10 per cent. to charities. It lays down requirements for monitoring activities and for ensuring that that monitoring comes before Parliament and the Home Secretary. It also provides for the Treasury to extract its share. I have drafted the Bill in such a way as to avoid arguments and limitless interventions and interruptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I have given way many times. The hon. Member for Bassetlaw may well say, \"Hear, hear\", but I have spent about half of my speech answering the inane points that he has made on behalf of the Pools Promoters Association. If the hon. Gentleman had not made those points, I should not have had to deal with them. For more than 200 years, lotteries have played—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ing the British presidency—they will say that competition should not apply in the twelfth largest industry. We know that it will apply and that is another good reason for the pools industry and its workers to anticipate their future. There is no doubt that in two or three years the European lotteries will come into this country because they cannot be stopped under the terms of the treaty of Rome.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal Democrat policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "hat was said by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Howell). We know the Government's view from the written reply that the Under-Secretary gave to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson). As recently as 12 December 1991, the Minister said that the Home Office had no proposals to include gambling within the terms of the single market. A flood of continental lotteries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Illegally.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " and I believe that it will not continue to be outside the terms of the single market. That is the context in which we need to consider the debate. In Northern Ireland it is not so much poor people buying lottery tickets from southern Ireland as people in cars queuing up and going over the border to buy lottery tickets. Other countries' lottery tickets are already being sold in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1272.5", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "I am quoting the forum. It is for the hon. Lady to know that it has interests in football. I accept that it has. But notwithstanding that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1272.6", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I did not. I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1272.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1286.12", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIREARMS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1286.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-17", "file": "debates1992-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d13fdce7a4b21b23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1286.21", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (LIABILITY FOR INJURY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object:", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-17a.1286.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.13.5", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I have not troubled to inquire whether any firm has contributed to the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.13.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "European Fighter Aircraft", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman's endorsement, especially in such positive and unqualified terms. I take that as part of the Labour party's approach to defence procurement, which is to tick off each individual project, factory or programme whenever it comes before the House and to say that it fully endorses it. As we all know, that is immediately reflected in the inconsistency of Labour's accounting programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "European Fighter Aircraft", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ch is threatened with rationalisation, they say, \"Of course, under us, not only would it remain, but it would be expanded and we would put more money into it.\" When such reports are brought to the unfortunate right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) periodically and he has to add up another £50 million, £90 million or £120 million, his heart must groan under that extra burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "European Fighter Aircraft", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": " every statement, we have always offered our support for the project. We have continually given unequivocal support for it. The Minister knows that, and he is telling untruths if he is suggesting otherwise. Normally, he behaves like a clown, but normally he does so without malice. That is why I was amazed at his response today. He obviously feels under great pressure because of his small majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe that my hon. Friend would suggest that I, of all people, have ever had a hidden agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "If another apology is required, it is from the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) for psyching up the level of community charge bills and encouraging local authorities to increase their expenditure, to add another burden to the tax increases with which we are already threatened by a future Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.43.7", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "hem to judge the services provided by their local councils and the costs. Those electors should know that it costs 8.69p per head to collect the rubbish in Tory Wandsworth, and 23.28p—nearly three times as much—in Labour's Camden. They should know that it costs £10,000 per km to maintain the roads of Labour's Lancashire, but only half that in Tory Lincolnshire. We know that these variations exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.43.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "g account of local needs and circumstances is recognised. Nor is there any recognition of the complexity of the measurements that are to be attempted if fairness is to be achieved and like is to be measured with like. Even a simple task such as grass cutting, for example, cannot be measured unless we are clear about many variables, such as the length of the grass and frequency of cutting. That is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I doubt that that will be necessary in most areas; but it is essential—and, indeed, it is clearly laid down in the consultation document—that the decision that is finally reached should be reached by the vast majority of local people. People in my part of the country would be in no doubt about what they wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the exact figure, but the figure would be far less than 1 per cent. I turn now to part II which deals with the dramatic restructuring that will be entailed. I have to declare to the House not a financial interest but the fact that I am the honorary vice president of the Association of County Councils and that I have held that post for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "g more to private contractors when those contractors get away with paying low wages. Under other provisions of the Bill the same thing will be done to white-collar services. I do not understand. No one would run a private business like this. No one would suggest that the personnel function of a multinational company should be tampered with to the extent of 25 per cent., as is proposed in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "her place as being innocuous, is, in fact, a reflection of the views of the No Turning Back group of Conservative Members. Unlike the council tax legislation, its provisions can be embraced with genuine enthusiasm by the Minister of State. Instead of having to stand on his head, he is runing hard and pushing his shoulder to the wheel because, of course, he is a member of the No Turning Back group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ople cherish with their traditional counties. Even if the units of government are not based upon the counties, people still hark back to the links that they had with the traditional counties. They are still keen on those links. There is no reason why the traditional counties should not emerge as part of the process, even if they are counties that have no administrative functions in certain places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Stamp Duty (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "und plus 9p for national insurance, which makes 34 per cent. Under the last Labour Government, national insurance was only 6.5p in the pound. Value added tax was only 8 per cent., but under the Tories it is now 17.5 per cent. Under Labour, the burden of taxation was about 34 per cent.; under the Tories, it is 37 per cent. I do not need any lectures on who is the high taxing party—it is the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Stamp Duty (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "need any lectures on who is the high taxing party—it is the Tories— [Laughter.] They may laugh, but let them challenge what I am saying. I shall give way to any Tory Member who wishes to do so. The high taxing party is the Tory party. The burden of taxation in the 1980s was always higher than it was in the 1970s. I am waiting for a Tory Member to challenge my figures. Of course, no one will do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Stamp Duty (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "and are now taking the desperate measure of emigrating from Scotland for a job. Some of them had to drop their house prices by about £6,000 which gives a lucky chance for anyone with the money to buy them. I am sure that the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed would agree that there have been many such sad housing tales in Scotland. I have seen the same problems in London. I am looking for a house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.145.7", "colnum": "145", "heading": "PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF STAMPED INSTRUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The two amendments are fairly sensibl—at least, amendment No. 11 is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.145.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-20", "file": "debates1992-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "478d6fbce6b7c4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF STAMPED INSTRUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Chairman—Chairwoman—Chairperson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-20a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "It is true that the hon. Lady said in column 687 a couple of years back on 15 March 1990—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "It is true that the hon. Lady said in column 687 a couple of years back on 15 March 1990— [Interruption.] —that there was \"no support among GPs\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.171.8", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "She said that that was the position of all general practitioners of fund-holding practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.171.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "g, what does the Secretary of State call it? How can he explain the position in Surrey and in St. Albans, where consultants are being placed under pressure by managers to give priority to GP fund holders because they bring extra money? If the Secretary of State does not recognise that as an example of two-tier lists, what will he recognise as such? I shall answer the Secretary of State's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.180.6", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In my judgment, the election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ause to those of us who observe such matters it appears that what is happening to UKIAS is an all-too-clear sign of the fact that when such agencies seek to behave and sound as if they are at arm's length from the Government—giving independent advice and expressing views that are not likely to find favour with the Government, of whatever political persuasion—their grants and functions are at risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State will be able to comment on the activities of some of the charities that are concerned with assisting those who are applicants for refugee status. He may have noticed a recent report in the News of the World—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "An authoritative source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.199.6", "colnum": "199", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "In that case, I must ask my hon. Friend whether he will investigate whether those letters were forgeries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.200.8", "colnum": "200", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to hear the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) give his hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz) the advice that he should speak to the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.200.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "on the papers, whether there was an arguable claim. The hon. Gentleman was pleased that those provisions are not in the latest draft of the procedural rules. However, the paper that is attached to the procedural rules may have come adrift on his copy. That paper suggests that, as I said in Committee, I want to see that description reworded and included in the primary legislation because I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "e made arrangements with my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department to ensure that the normal mode of communicating between the housing authority will be in writing. I am satisfied that there is no need to include that provision in the Bill. We will make administrative arrangements, but as I gain the impression from Opposition Members that they want to conclude the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "the accusation of the Commission for Racial Equality that at least some of the Bill's provisions are racially discriminatory and are counter to the provisions of the Race Relations Act 1976. It is a very serious matter that the chairman of this Government-appointed body, Mr. Michael Day, should make such a charge. I refer in particular to clause 4, which relates to the duties of local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-21", "file": "debates1992-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa3dc86a5d77fd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "t forward. I should say in passing that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office has undertaken his role with honour and distinction. He has attempted the impossible by at least seeking to explain, if not to justify, what is in the Government's mind. Justification would be impossible. The Home Secretary, of course, has nothing to say. The Home Secretary is the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-21a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "SHOPS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "All I can say to the hon. Member is that, if he voted against the motion, he cannot then say that he is for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.324.7", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "Sometimes that commodity is used more sparingly than on other occasions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.324.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not quoting me precisely. The point that I am making is that the reason that the outlook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "we will continue our prudent stewardship of public finances, in contrast to the reckless promises of the Labour party. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East likes to pretend that he has some alternative policy. For months, as we were lowering interest rates cautiously and carefully, he said they should be lower. Whatever the state of the economy, Labour's refrain has been the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This gives a very bad impression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.327.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor admit that, this time last year, he forecast that there would not be a budget deficit? We are now running into the possibility in 1992 of a deficit of the order of £19 billion. On top of that, when the Government came to power in 1979, personal debt on average was 45 per cent. The latest figure is 102 per cent. That figure will haunt the Government for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "m commitment, costed and clear, that I pledge our Labour Government will carry out. Again, that sounds like a pledge, but the Labour party says that it has only two pledges. Is it a pledge, or is it just empty words? Yesterday, my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary showed that the bill for Labour's spending plans has now risen to an astonishing £37 billion over and above the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that, because of unemployment, each day 3 million working days are lost from production, and that the cost of benefit and lost production put together is probably about £50 billion a year? Any proposal to expand production will be self-financing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.334.5", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Let me make it quite clear that I have never accepted any economic propositions to the effect that if one constantly reduces tax rates one will constantly increase tax revenue. That seems to me to be an inherently absurd proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.334.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.337.6", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We will look at the record and establish the facts. However, the right hon. Gentleman still has not told me what his forecast was from July 1991 to July 1992. I will give way again if he will tell me that. In the absence of a frank reply from the right hon. Gentleman, I shall move on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.337.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not doubt that high interest rates have had a very bad effect on the British economy. However, I must warn the hon. Gentleman about one matter—the line is not, \"the new respectable Labour party\"; the right hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Patten) gives a quite different line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " to move out of recession towards an investment-led recovery. The Chancellor has received strongly worded representations from British industry. He has them on his desk. They have come from the CBI, the engineering employers and others. They have argued for the introduction of measures to promote investment, including the enhancement of capital allowances for investment in new plant and machinery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " this year. It was ridiculous of the right hon. Gentleman to claim earlier that we should be gratified because manufacturing investment has increased in the third quarter. Why on earth should we be gratified when manufacturing investment has fallen by 20 per cent. this year? What does it matter whether we are up or down slightly on the quarter when we are 20 per cent. down for the year as a whole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "facturing investment has increased in the third quarter. Why on earth should we be gratified when manufacturing investment has fallen by 20 per cent. this year? What does it matter whether we are up or down slightly on the quarter when we are 20 per cent. down for the year as a whole? [Interruption.] That is a fact that the Chancellor cannot deny. If he wants to deny it, he should get to his feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "th should we be gratified when manufacturing investment has fallen by 20 per cent. this year? What does it matter whether we are up or down slightly on the quarter when we are 20 per cent. down for the year as a whole? [Interruption.] That is a fact that the Chancellor cannot deny. If he wants to deny it, he should get to his feet. [Interruption.] He cannot deny that manufacturing investment fell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.340.11", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Gentleman intervening. This is a serious matter, as his right hon. and learned Friend knows. At constant prices, in investment in plant and machinery in 1979 was £19.7 billion. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman prefers, the average for the Labour years was £17.5 billion. In 1990, at constant prices", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.340.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I am answering his point. I am not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman should learn more manners. He should not interrupt someone who is speaking and who has already given way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Complaints about manners could become the last refuge of the parliamentary scoundrel. I shall tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Complaints about manners could become the last refuge of the parliamentary scoundrel. I shall tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman— [Interruption.] If there had not been so much noise earlier from the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore), who is a bit more Lambeth council than learned counsel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.8", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes, do get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's strong support. He had a distinguished career at the Department of Industry when we had a Department that cared about British industry and worked hard to help and support it. If the position is as good as the Government say, why is the CBI complaining so loudly about investment? I must get on, Madam Deputy Speaker, and deal with the autumn statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.341.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Gentleman that I would give way to him, and I now do so. The revenue increases referred to in Labour's election proposals more than cover those commitments; there is no difficulty whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is asking me to give details of a Budget when he will not even tell us what his Budget may bring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.343.8", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s is that, while giving the impression that he is committed to increases in public expenditure, he also pledges to cut the standard rate of tax from 25p to 20p in the pound. He has constantly reiterated that promise. How is it possible for the right hon. Gentleman to maintain the spending plans that he announced in the autumn statement if he is going to cut the standard rate of tax by that amount?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.343.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The House will have noticed that the Chancellor has not said a single word about the Tory pledge to cut the standard rate of tax from 25p to 20p. If he reads the considerable debate that is now taking place in the public press about the respective tax and spending plans of the Conservatives and Labour, he will find that no objective commentator supports the point that he is making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I must get on with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.344.7", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Did the Chief Secretary know that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.344.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "the figures, makes him a laughing stock. According to the Chancellor's own autumn statement, tax as a percentage of gross domestic product in the last year of the Labour Government, 1978–79, was 34.3 per cent. Under the Tories, it rose in 1981–82 to a colossal 39.9 per cent. of GDP. Today, it is, at 37.1 per cent., still way above what it was under Labour. The position is even worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, it was the ex-Prime Minister and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "eople to save, so that there is more money for investment. I think that the autumn statement had it about right. A substantial increase in public spending—an increase of some £11 billion—is proposed for next year. Labour would like to increase spending further—much further, no doubt. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary has costed all Labour's proposals, and they total £37 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas McAvoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas McAvoy", "preceding_text": "efer to many other remarks which have been made which show the complacency of the Prime Minister or, if I were to be more frank, his incompetence and that of the Chancellor in failing to realise the serious state that this country is in and to do something about it. We have referred frequently in this debate to the Prime Minister's heartless statement that, if it is not hurting, it is not working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "If that is true, why did the Government bother to provide tax relief to encourage people to take out private health insurance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I can, indeed, name one as it happens —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I can, indeed, name one as it happens — [Interruption.] Oxford Economic Forecasting refers to The …better long-run growth picture in the Labour case …arises from better productivity gains\". In other words, there would be better growth under Labour. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has stated that, in the longer term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "uld raise the sustainable level of output in the United Kingdom and might also bring about a lasting reduction in unemployment\". Goldman Sachs has referred to our \"extra training provisions\" while James Capel has stated that there can be little doubt that our supply-side measures…would improve the United Kingdom's long-term sustainable growth rate and expand the supply-side of the economy\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "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": "th protestations about what they will give this, that and the other interest group; the document will make clear the order of priorities, and will begin to explain how the expenditure will be paid for. It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well. What about Mr. Hugo Young, who wrote in The Guardian yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.404.7", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Chesterfield and 24 other Members of Parliament have put their names to a return to the alternative economic strategy—a return, once again, to the longest suicide note in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.404.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ates. He no longer talks about 1 per cent. off. He knows that the organisations that the hon. Member for Derby, South said commend Labour party policy and many others are arguing amongst themselves about only one thing—how much the Labour party would have to put up interest rates in order to establish its credibility if it were elected. What is the Opposition's alternative to the autumn statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Such questions should be directed to Access Opinions Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No, I want to push on. I wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No. I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections. Let us see if Labour Members have an answer to one of these pledges. In 1990, the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd), who leads for Labour on overseas development, said: I want to see Britain reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent. of GDP as top priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.408.10", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman, who reads with his lips so much that he could almost give lessons to the Leader of the Opposition, read the amendment which deals with precisely this issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.408.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.408.10", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "an the right hon. and learned Gentleman needed— you wouldn't adjust what you're going to do, downwards? That gave the right hon. and learned Gentleman every opportunity to say that the increases would be phased, but what did he say? He said: I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes. I want to see the National Health Service properly financed\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.408.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "We can take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "t found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd's accountant, or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography. He had his revenge today, though. He started talking about individuals' opinion poll ratings. I wonder why he made such a thing of that. Was it to say that his right hon. Friend's opinion poll rating was 20 per cent. below that of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "odd's accountant, or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography. He had his revenge today, though. He started talking about individuals' opinion poll ratings. I wonder why he made such a thing of that. Was it to say that his right hon. Friend's opinion poll rating was 20 per cent. below that of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister? [Interruption.] Was that a way of getting his own back?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "s revenge today, though. He started talking about individuals' opinion poll ratings. I wonder why he made such a thing of that. Was it to say that his right hon. Friend's opinion poll rating was 20 per cent. below that of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister? [Interruption.] Was that a way of getting his own back? [Interruption.] We heard what the Leader of the Opposition had to say about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "man's authority makes a hid in its housing plan for the homeless, that hid, together with the other bids for the £7.5 million, will he looked at with the greatest possible care. The allocations that have so far been made are provisional. In previous years, the final allocations have always been considerably higher than the provisional allocations. The final allocations are due to be made in March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) for not being here, but I had intended to quote from his constituency newsletter—have claimed for some time that Lothian is somehow being cheated over the distribution of Government support. If I recall correctly, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) made the same allegation in a recent Committee debate on the Local Government Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "intends to abolish the 20 per cent. minimum payment from 1 April this year rather than wait for the introduction of the council tax on 1 April 1993. I gather that he will also increase VAT again to try further to reduce next year's poll tax figures. It would appear that, yet again, Scottish Office Ministers, including the Secretary of State, will be kicked in the teeth by their Cabinet colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-22", "file": "debates1992-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b53a43737931102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": ". I shall spend a minute trying to examine the convoluted reasoning of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton). He said that there would be only about an 86 per cent. pay-up, yet now he complains because his predictions have been fulfilled. He blames the Scottish National party and others for that. That is the reasoning that someone uses when he has been educated at a fee-paying school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-22a.459.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.498.4", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House consider changing the order of business next week so that there may be an urgent debate on pensioners and unearned income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.498.4", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "nsider changing the order of business next week so that there may be an urgent debate on pensioners and unearned income? [Interruption.] Bearing in mind the Labour party's policy of imposing a 9 per cent. surcharge on unearned income over £3,000, we have a duty to tell millions of pensioners the disastrous effects that the Opposition's policies would have on their life style and means of survival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.498.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Tracey?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot take a point of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".]—until after the statement. I must apply the same rules to those on the Front Benches as to those on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.511.7", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clyde Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I should explain to the hon. Member why he was not called. I have to have a balance of Glasgow Members and other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.511.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister, but since he became Prime Minister? The Prime Minister inherited a wilderness and he has simply presided over its getting worse. He spends more time running away from elections than facing up to fundamental issues. Our social security system is probably the worst in the EC, with the possible exception of those in Greece, Spain and Portugal. It is getting steadily worse by the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I accept that there are variations in the way in which incomes have grown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I accept that there are variations in the way in which incomes have grown—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—at different levels of the income distribution. I am going no further than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.520.5", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there is any basis in the hon. Gentleman's report for that suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.520.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Those are just numbers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "people has increased by more than 150 per cent. in real terms under the present Government. The number of people receiving mobility allowance has risen from fewer than 100,000 to more than 600,000. The number of people receiving attendance allowance has risen from about 250,000 to well over 750,000. In addition, the number of people receiving invalid care allowance has risen from 5,000 to 150,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "h this is the second time that it has happened within a year. Last March, we had the mini-shambles of the so-called \"shadow Budget\" which, if I remember rightly, did not even mention the so-called \"priority\" of retirement pensions. It contained what the hon. Gentleman described as a \"carefully costed\" proposal on child benefit which would have given money to every family except the least well-off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.522.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is getting very nervous in his fabrication of bogus questions. We have made it absolutely clear that the pensions link with earnings will be restored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "nce and the United States shows that a minimum wage is a con. It would be a con on the British people, for while it sounds simplistically attractive in principle, in practice it would cause more misery by causing more job losses. Labour also proposes the introduction of a pickpocket tax that would have made Fagin proud to be associated with it. It would mean more money being taken from the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.529.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "t that, because I shall be doing my fair share of dishing it out when the time comes. Let us bear that in mind as we near the election. There are two ways of considering social security provision and the system as a whole. The Conservatives are more in favour—I put it no higher than that—of a low tax, low benefit system. They have been moving over the years in the direction of the American system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. The previous Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "th rate for young males between the ages of one and 44 had been falling—the only interruption in that decline being the slaughter of young men during two world wars. Now doctors save more and more lives but, since 1985, the death rate for males in that age group has started to increase. The Government have managed to achieve what previously only the German armies achieved. Why are young men dying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "oncerned—but we are talking about literally millions of people. I do not believe that there is genuine commitment on the part of Conservatives to end poverty. They have none of the commitment that we have. If, when in office, a Labour Government are not doing as much as they should be, although I believe that they will take the right steps, there will be immense pressure from Labour Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "years ahead to right the wrongs of the Conservative Government. We shall start by implementing Labour's two pre-funded commitments. We shall immediately increase the pension for the single person by £5 and for the married couple by £8. Thereafter, we shall link increases in pensions to increases in earnings—the link that was so callously broken by the Conservatives in 1980. Ten million pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should enjoy his last few weeks in office and not try to give us lectures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "icion of the Government's plans and of their attitude became a certainty when the Department of Trade and Industry finally blew their cover. Perhaps I do not recognise an unsuspected luminary, but I do not think that there is a representative of the DTI here. I remind the House that the DTI is supposed to be the lead Department in this business. That absence is therefore the height of discourtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.553.10", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "No. I believe that nationalisation is no more than a slogan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.553.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "t which the Secretary of State confirmed in the House tonight. In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) the Secretary of State, from a sedentary position, confirmed that, although he knew on 20 December that this closure would take place, the only action he took between then and 9 January, when the other place resumed, was to make application for an enterprise zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " Rifkind)—came to the House and made a statement when the hot mills were closed. Whereas the current Secretary of State has not found it possible to criticise British Steel, the right hon. and learned Member for Pentlands made it absolutely plain that he was opposed to British Steel's position. The present Secretary of State's weak and mealy-mouthed response on this issue is entirely unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "to £19 million. Whose fault is that? Is there not a recession? Do the Government not have something to do with it? Did we not warn that if we did not have the necessary investment in manufacturing industry and training, and the necessary investment in Lanarkshire, this was inevitable? Despite the unacceptable brevity of this debate, the people in my constituency are left with a number of problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": " pipe mill, bend it, put it on a lorry and send it to the customer? If the SNP thinks that that is a viable scenario to compete with others in the market, its view of competition is different from mine. I shall not go into detail on the challenge to me about what Labour would do, but I shall deal with it quickly. First, we would insist that British Steel maintains the plant for sale on the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Rolls-Royce?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "wer. I shall remember that when the Labour party says that it intends to nationalise the water industry. The people of Scotland are being told by the SNP that British Steel assets in Scotland should be nationalised to preserve jobs. Did nationalisation ever preserve jobs on the railways? Has it preserved jobs in British Coal? Did it preserve jobs in the shipbuilding industry? Of course it did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member for Motherwell, North (Dr. Reid), who sat down to great cheers from his supporters, reads what he said tomorrow in the cold light of day, I do not believe that he will feel as happy as he did a few moments ago. What we got from him, tragically, was a comprehensive rubbishing of the Dalzell plant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Sit down. The hon. Gentleman made fun of steel passing backwards and forwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.584.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-23", "file": "debates1992-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "52815f046be6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ides of the House. My hon. Friends the Members for Dumfries and for Tayside, North, the hon. Member for Gordon and, of course, the constituency Members and others have rightly paid tribute to the Ravenscraig work force for their hard work, effort and endeavour. I, too, pay tribute to them, and I hope that when the furore has died down British Steel will lose no opportunity to pay the same tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-23a.593.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.705.10", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "preceding_text": "The document is actually being printed at the taxpayers' expense on the two photocopiers next to my desk in the House of Commons. Both photocopiers have been set for multiple copies, and both have run out of paper. That is clearly an unauthorised and flagrant abuse of the facilities of this House and an unauthorised use of taxpayers' money. Should you not summon Mr. Davies to the Bar of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.705.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.7", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.10", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is the trouble with points of order of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.13", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Janman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance on a matter that may arise in future. You will know that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.15", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Could I be of some assistance? Incidents like this happen almost every day, usually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.15", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "preceding_text": "lmost every day, usually— [Interruption.] —raised by Tory hon. Members, and they are usually dealt with through the usual channels, the Government deputy Chief Whip, myself and the Serjeant at Arms. If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House, I am quite prepared to do exactly the same, and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.706.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If there is not some self-discipline, that is exactly what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "On a different matter, Mr. Speaker. Oldham has been mentioned, and as five wards of my constituency fall within the borough of Oldham, this matter very much concerns me. We are talking not about election expenses, but about theft from the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Electricity (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I shall let the hon. Gentleman develop that point later. May I come to the conclusion of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-27", "file": "debates1992-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "2383dfd1d8c7a315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Electricity (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "courage participation by employees of Northern Ireland Electricity, as well as the electricity consumers in Northern Ireland, in the ownership of that industry.\"— [Official Report, 20 March 1991; Vol. 188, c. 285.] According to today's proposals, that worthy idea seems to have gone by the board. The management-employee buy-out appears to have been completely restricted to Coolkeeragh power station", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-27a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "First, the good news. I am delighted to hear my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.798.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.805.6", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No quotes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend will know that school children in my borough of Havering came fifth overall in the national listings. That is a considerable achievement. Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that my local Labour party is circulating a leaflet, from which I shall now quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.805.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.810.8", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.810.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I took the opportunity to enjoy an excellent luncheon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "he conduct of industrial relations\". The Engineering Employers Federation says that its members strongly support the Government's objective of providing a balanced and effective framework of trade union and industrial relations law and that the step by step approach has been seen by all to have worked successfully and it is right that it should continue. The Institute of Personnel Management says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "s at the Government communications headquarters, who have been denied it for the past eight years. Let him also take action against the Economic League, which prevents that right from being exercised by many people. The Secretary of State gives a wholly misleading account of how check-off operates. Will he confirm that it operates only if there is prior written consent on the part of the employee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.816.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.820.5", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Of course I withdraw the word, but the fact still applies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.820.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.820.7", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "purely party political—an attempt to put the heat on the Labour party, with a motivation that is entirely negative. That is to be regretted. My party would have preferred to welcome a fundamental reform of industrial relations in a statement that introduced greater employee participation, greater encouragement of employee-management buy-outs and more profit-sharing. The statement ignores all that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.820.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Uncertificated Securities", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "xamples of the way in which the DTI reacts to a problem that has become too large to ignore. The Department does not take the initiative in solving problems. TAURUS is an example of the way in which it lets problems fester year after year. I want to make it clear that we are committed to the forging of a constructive partnership with the stock exchange, as with other parts of the financial sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-28", "file": "debates1992-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c16c63cd172d3be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Uncertificated Securities", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": " it clear that we are committed to the forging of a constructive partnership with the stock exchange, as with other parts of the financial sector. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) may laugh, but the partnership that we have seen over the years has resulted in arguments between Departments and the City. Institutions like the stock exchange and the DTI have had arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-28a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us the reason.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Expenditure on the health service in Scotland per capita is 23 per cent. more than in England—£730 per person in Scotland and £595 per person in England. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.936.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.938.4", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may point out to the hon. Lady that unemployment is down 14 per cent. over the last three years and that long-term unemployment is down by 1,000 over the last three years in her Maryhill constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.938.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.939.8", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": "t Opposition Members should contemplate it after all that the United Kingdom has gone through in the past 300 years. We founded the British Commonwealth together. This nation is one of the most admired in the world. Opposition Members say that they cannot make their voices heard here. What chance then would they have among the Italians, the Germans and the French? United we stand, divided we fall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.939.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "ool leavers a guarantee of youth training—a guarantee that was never given by the last Labour Government and is unique in Europe. The present Government have brought in employment action as an extra weapon in the battle against unemployment. If the hon. Gentleman really cared about unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds he would dissociate himself from his party's policy of a national minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have already spoken about the allegations made by the hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes). As an English Member of Parliament, I take great exception to the suggestion that English Members seek to undermine the Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.953.6", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to have a debate on how I call hon. Members at Question Time, because it might be painful in subsequent Question Times. May I repeat that Scottish questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.953.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has raised a reasonable point, and I will give him a reasonable answer. Let us imagine that the philosophy on reading methods espoused by the spouse of the Leader of the Opposition was in force. Mrs. Kinnock is known to be in favour of what I consider to be the voodoo technique of leaving a book in a room in the hope that a child will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.970.7", "colnum": "970", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady does not seem to have any grasp of the character of British education as it is or will be. A good education authority takes care to appoint a chief education officer or director of education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.970.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Who are we going to have—the monkey or the organ grinder on this occasion? It is clear that the Secretary of State does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.988.8", "colnum": "988", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "f education 20 years ago. On that occasion he escaped only because an inspector helped him. In any case, he decided to make a distinguished career in this House and not to carry on teaching. The position has changed in the last 20 years—and not just in Leeds. There are boroughs where expression of views that are inconsistent with the ideology of the council gets teachers into serious difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.988.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member for Blackburn agree that his position is that Lancashire county council should be the only people allowed to inspect Lancashire schools? What sort of independent regulator or guarantee of independent quality is that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "oking for smaller classes. We should like the inspector to comment on that point. We should also like the inspector to comment on the quality of our school buildings. We are faced with a backlog of £3.5 billion of school repairs. We need comment on that. We need to know what that does in terms of the quality of education and the standards of education for our children. They are legitimate matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1012.7", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "g on because the difficulty of the Government's scheme is that the main source of data on what happens in schools would come from inspections carried out by privatised inspectors. May I put on record the fact that there is now no Conservative Member left in the Chamber apart from Ministers? Although this is supposed to be a flagship policy, no Conservative Member is here to support the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1012.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "in which the Government have put the national curriculum into practice. They have failed to think the matter through, and consequently one change after another has been imposed on schools. Some 165 separate documents have been sent to schools—more than one for each week of every term since the Education Reform Act 1988 has been in force. Before I was interrupted, I was saying that we believe that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I provided £250,000 for Church schools in Darlington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Off the top of my head, I cannot remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1042.4", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "important aspects of the Bill. Not one speech has been ruled out of order by the Chair, and we have not been pulled up for being out of order. The whole issue was still to be debated, and we were most concerned about it. Moreover, will the Leader of the House explain what is to be done when local authorities all over the country are waiting to hear what is to happen with the revenue support grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1042.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "How can the local authorities which are most concerned about the revenue support grant settlement and how it will affect services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "How can the local authorities which are most concerned about the revenue support grant settlement and how it will affect services— [Interruption.] When will they know when the grant settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "How can the local authorities which are most concerned about the revenue support grant settlement and how it will affect services— [Interruption.] When will they know when the grant settlement— [Interruption.] When can local authorities sort that out? It is disgraceful that the Government are running away from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.9", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Is it not a little disingenuous of the Leader of the House to pray in aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1043.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1044.7", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House confirm that the 10 o'clock motion was not moved because the Government feared that they would not be able to sustain the business as they did not have 100 Conservative Members in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1044.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1048.9", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He was not here. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. The Leader of the House is mistaken. There were no discussions about not suspending the 10 o'clock rule. What is more, there was no filibustering on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1048.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-29", "file": "debates1992-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "759aa353299b62c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1048.10", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I say briefly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-29a.1048.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1071.6", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House convey to the Prime Minister the request that he restore to Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1071.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Natural Gas (Imports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "This is another fine mess that the Government's shortsighted policies have got the country into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Natural Gas (Imports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that there are plentiful supplies of gas for the United Kingdom —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Natural Gas (Imports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "e outlet comes to fruition—which I certainly hope will happen—it will doubtless have a significant impact on future investment and jobs in the oil and gas sector. Companies came to us because they saw the commercial opportunities. Six companies expressed interest to the Department, and were keen to get the study under way. There will be opportunities for other companies to join in the study later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "unity to do so. I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to the comments in The Times today about the Government's feeble proposals for the future government of London and about the mean and spiteful decision taken, admittedly under a previous Prime Minister, to abolish the Greater London council. Is there not now a wide consensus for the re-establishment of an elected authority for London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": "enior Ministers involved; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to act swiftly, before the election, either to bring this matter urgently before the Committee of Privileges or to allow the honourable Member for Winchester to present his case before Parliament in Government time before further injustice is done in this or any future case.] I also draw to his attention early-day motions 115, 121 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Education (Schools) (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "performance. There is nothing in the Bill to stop the West Sussex practice from continuing as long as the authority has the assent of the head teachers and governors. No one in West Sussex has led me to believe that there is any move there on behalf of the head teachers and governors to stop that process. It is a somewhat fanciful fear to read the Bill and believe that that system is under threat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Education (Schools) (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ts out debate of amendment 59, which stands in the names of, among others, my hon. Friends the Members for Chichester (Mr. Nelson) and for Crawley (Mr. Soames), my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing, who intervened yesterday, and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Sir P. Hordern) who also spoke yesterday. I accept that that amendment is unlikely to be reached, because of the filibuster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Education (Schools) (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "e borne out in last night's debate. We heard all the usual pious hand-wringing, the heart and breast-baring demands for a period of stability in education. My hon. Friends and I found that extraordinary, because Labour is the party which wants, for example, to abolish grant-maintained schools. It is said that one of the first acts of an incoming Labour Government would be to introduce legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Education (Schools) (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "nspection of education necessitates an independent HMI, free from political control or manipulation. Inspectors must have power to report on all aspects of education policy in England and Wales. Fourthly, all inspectors should be subject to a code of practice. Fifthly, the coherence of local education authorities' provision of schools inspection will be undermined by the imposition of competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Education (Schools) (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e privatised firms who will need to be registered with HMI. As to the rest, the Secretary of State admitted in evidence to the Select Committee that even a local butcher might do the job. What is astonishing about the Bill is that it specifies that some members of the inspection team should have no qualification. The second fundamental flaw in the Bill is that the provider will pick the regulator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Education (Schools) (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Neither was my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, but he was better advised about what occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-01-30", "file": "debates1992-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4623751cb611d0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "gland because of the distinctive features of the education system in Wales, notably Welsh-medium education and the teaching of the Welsh language and Welsh history and culture.\"— [Official Report. 29 January 1992; Vol. 202, c. 576–77.] That is so obvious that even the Secretary of State can work it out, but he is ignorant of another major difference between HMI in England and that in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-01-30a.1158.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-03", "file": "debates1992-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4186a2b9b4be8b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-03a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Overseas Development and Co-operation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "e sugar is the life blood of employment and society in the Caribbean. It is a plant which grows well there and it can stand up to all the vagaries of the weather. I beseech the Government to consider that question when looking at trading regimes and the common agricultural policy regimes. Not least—I am sure that this will be very close to the Minister's heart—I ask him to consider the rum regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-03a.83.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It is always interesting to note that the moment one reminds Labour Members of their party's commitment to high taxation, they lose control of the argument completely and deliver tirades along the lines of that to which the hon. Gentleman has just subjected the House. We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry—of course—and the figure is 25,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.119.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.127.12", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "literacy. If the right hon. Gentleman is genuinely concerned about recovery, what does he think that higher taxes would do to it? What does he think that his jobs tax would do to it? What does he think that his investment tax would do to it? What does he think that his minimum wage would do to it? The policies which the right hon. Gentleman pursues would mean perpetual recession for this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.127.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson (Newbury)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson (Newbury)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend Part II of the Caravan Sites Act 1968; to make further provision in respect of encampments of travelling people; and for connected purposes. I am asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.133.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Yes, but there were limitations. If the hon. Gentleman cares to go to the Library, he will see that that is confirmed. Since money can be transferred between budget heads, if money is wasted in one area, it is because the local authority has made a choice not to spend it elsewhere. When Labour-controlled Birmingham council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "d by the Government on Newport and the Isle of Wight. Those actions are wholly inconsistent, and I am sure that people living on the Isle of Wight will realise it. One day the hon. Gentleman votes to support his local authority's SSA, and a few days later he marches against cuts that are the result of Tory action. The hon. Gentleman deserves any conclusion that those on the Isle of Wight may draw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellotti", "preceding_text": "The latest information we have is that many councillors of all parties are leaving local authorities because they blame the Government for interfering in the provision of services that they were elected by local communities to deliver. The Government are having such an adverse effect that 42 per cent. of all councillors are standing down after only one term of office. That is an amazing statistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": " The £12 million that could have come to Kirklees has gone to other local authority areas in the north of England. It is an absolute disgrace. Let me refer to another interesting local issue. The council is imposing smokeless zones on rural areas, at a cost, this year, of £250,000. This is highly unpopular and totally unnecessary. I should like to go into more detail, but I am running out of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "preceding_text": "To many people the annual debate on the RSG settlement must be one of the most boring in the House. I rise with no great expectation that the next 10 minutes will add anything to the interest of these proceedings", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ecause of the way in which the Government calculate standard spending assessments. On Monday 3 February, under the heading \"Spending curbs land thrifty Wigan with 20 per cent. poll tax rise\", The Times local government correspondent said: Wigan, run by Labour moderates,\"— the Minister of State knows from my speeches in Committee that I am a moderate person who always puts his arguments moderately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ties, but what I dislike about the Secretary of State's usual contribution is that it is so clichéd, simplistic and grotesque. He seems to say that Tory councils equal good, Labour councils equal bad. That does not bear any analysis. If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter, it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "n 1981 census data. Thirdly, the financial effect of the inclusion of foreign visitor nights is totally unfair. I do not want to point an accusing finger at the Secretary of State. Actually, I do point an accusing finger at the Secretary of State, but not at the Minister of State, who is a decent, honourable person. I hope that, when he winds up the debate, he will say something nice about Newham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Norfolk\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "y if the hon. Gentleman wishes to remain outside the partnership. During the debate, we have heard complaints about the inadequacies of the standard spending assessment in Newham, in Shropshire, in Wolverhampton, in Wigan, in Eastbourne, in Northumberland, in Calderdale, in the Isle of Wight, in Warwickshire, in Staffordshire, in Barnsley, in Langbaurgh, in Middlesbrough, in North-East Derbyshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "—whether in Wolverhampton or Bolton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.222.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Caravan Sites (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I wish to make it clear for the record that I did not say it. \"The Parliament Programme\" on Channel 4 on Saturday night, on which I heard that quote, is unable to give me chapter and verse other than central office briefings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.251.13", "colnum": "251", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1991–92", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have been through this process twice now. It was wholly clear to me that there were both Ayes and Noes, and we are now proceeding to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.251.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-04", "file": "debates1992-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "91dc182946e3019d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1991–92", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are now proceeding to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-04a.252.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "was abundantly clear a week or so ago, when the Leader of the Opposition questioned the Prime Minister about something that he had read in a popular tabloid newspaper, that his claims were grotesquely wrong, and Conservative Members said as much at the time; but Hansard failed to report that. I would caution against allowing Hansard to report all the rubbish that comes from the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "House knows, I think, that Hansard is a report of what goes on in the Chamber. I have said before that, if it reported every hon. Member's words absolutely verbatim, speeches might not be wholly and always understood. Sometimes, therefore, some licence is taken in putting them into correct English, and I am sure that hon. Members always feel when they read Hansard how excellent their speeches are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman argued in Committee that an amendment should be tabled to allow the Secretary of State the power to set up such a funding council, and that I argued against it on the basis that to do so would involve a complicated and lengthy series of amendments, is it not a little disingenuous of him now to argue that it is unfair on the House and him that such amendments have now been tabled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next it will be letters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "n that day he had 70 pupils at the West Lothian college and Oatridge agricultural college, and the links between the colleges were excellent. But he thought that the links were bound to become more tenuous when the institutions were paid for from different purses and had different bureaucratic structures. The House will be relieved to hear that I am coming to the end of my list of telephone calls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "nd Deeside (Mr. Stephen). The hon. Gentleman argued that the Bill was a centralising measure. For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary. It was even more extraordinary that the hon. Gentleman seemed to think that the measure had something to do with the poll tax. I explained in Committee that the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.305.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the clause be read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "e it said different things yesterday and on the day before that. We are now told that there will be a great future for the Scottish working class if we jump into the same bed as the very people who inflicted those evils upon us in the past. We are now to cuddle up to the Scottish industrialists, financiers and house owners who will put everything right in the new millenium if the SNP gets its way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ing about a change of mind or heart, but simply suppress the original feelings. That is why I believe that my argument for open discussion and debate and for a lack of pressure to be placed on academics in the area of Scottish history and culture is all the more important. The SNP must realise that blaming the English for all our ills is just one step away from blaming the Jews and the Pakistanis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "t new clauses 1 and 2 were not linked, but, on reflection, I believe that they are. The burden of my remarks will relate to new clause 2. It is not my intention to make a speech similar to that of the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes), except to say that I have a great deal of sympathy for what he said. What we are asking for, and what we must try to display in this House, is tolerance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "that of the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes), except to say that I have a great deal of sympathy for what he said. What we are asking for, and what we must try to display in this House, is tolerance. [Interruption.] Oh yes, tolerance of different views. I was an academic, and I never expected my students to take me as other than someone who had a Labour bias and held Labour principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I can only communicate the information given to me: these institutions are not running into deficit. Stirling received the largest increase in support of any institution and it is going from strength to strength—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"North.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "study of Scottish history would involve people in trying to imbue in Scottish youngsters a particular philosophy or approach to the political scene. Nothing could be further from the truth. The hon. Gentleman does himself, his colleagues and the people of Scotland a great disservice by the remarks that he made tonight. I say both to the hon. Gentleman and to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "duced in 1988. It will continue unaffected by our higher education reforms. New clause 14 raises the position of graduates and employees of the Council for National Academic Awards after its dissolution. Perhaps I could take this opportunity to pay tribute to the CNAA. Too often in the past, public sector bodies have become self-perpetuating bureaucracies. The CNAA has avoided that—indeed, it has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": " Money should not be a barrier to disabled people and those with learning difficulties entering college. There is an untapped pool of talent among disabled people. It is not only a crime against those people not to tap into their talent; it is a crime against society. There is another benefit from further education for disabled people, and that is the respite provided to their carers and families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "e quota system was mentioned earlier. Only 24 per cent. of organisations in this country achieved the 3 per cent. quota, and Government Departments are not among them. The Scottish health service achieves only 0·2 per cent. and the House of Commons only 0·6 per cent. The Minister shakes his head, so I must tell him that those figures come from a parliamentary written answer from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.370.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.384.7", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "As the amendment is important from the view of medical and other scientific professions in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.384.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.384.9", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ng to Edinburgh university, we should not be training doctors and dentists just for Scotland. The dean states: To do so would not only mean a drastic reduction in output but would destroy our role as one of the major medical schools in the UK. He also argues that we must consider how to maintain national standards. The General Medical Council plays the key role, as does the General Dental Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.384.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.384.9", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "edical standards. It is probably a United Kingdom rather than a Scottish matter, as the Minister's letter suggests, but it is important that, in the English Bill or from the Secretary of State for Education and Science tonight, we get an undertaking. I cannot think of any other reason why the right hon. and learned Gentleman should so courteously have come to the House to take part in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.384.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "s. The wording in subsection (2A) is necessary to ensure that the general terms and conditions that the Secretary of State may impose are capable of taking effect. The hon. Gentleman is concerned about that wording, and his amendment seeks to remove it. We need the wording to ensure that institutions that comply with the general conditions benefit, and that those that do not comply do not benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.405.16", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "ill, being given to the boards responsible for further education, that could cause difficulties for such people. I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment. I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that, yet again—and I congratulate them on this—our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.405.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Bradley", "preceding_text": "the economy: secondly. there are its housing policies. described in The Independent as a disaster waiting to happen\". The management of the economy has caused massive interest rates, crippling mortgage rates and escalating unemployment. The Minister for Housing, who I am pleased to see is present, recognised in a previous debate that unemployment was a crucial part of the problem of repossessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "be covered by housing benefit? The anomaly will become even more evident when the change in qualifying hours of work for income support is made in April. For new claimants the qualifying period will be reduced from 16 hours or more, and the income support problem will become more serious. The Government should now consider extending help with mortgage costs to people who are not on income support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": " new claimants the qualifying period will be reduced from 16 hours or more, and the income support problem will become more serious. The Government should now consider extending help with mortgage costs to people who are not on income support— [Interruption.] I am asking the Government now in place to consider the idea that I have suggested, in the light of the problems that have been experienced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "re not already ceilings and limits on direct deductions. There are. We should remember that the sums made over in income support include an amount for community charge and an amount for ordinary living expenses, and that they should, therefore, be used for this purpose. When social fund loans deductions which are on top of the 15 per cent. ceiling are made, they are flexible and negotiable. Often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-05", "file": "debates1992-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3275f6b66d4f53c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.427.8", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) Bill", "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": "ve been involved in social security, I have proved that we are anxious to monitor and report back to the House regularly on what happens with our legislation. There are sufficient opportunities open to hon. Members, let alone Front-Bench spokesmen, through Adjournment debates, questions, written questions, and so on, to ask the Government to produce the figures on the implementation of any policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-05a.427.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Cabinet meeting today, Your Majesty's Ministers agreed that I should convey to Your Majesty our warmest good wishes on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Your Accession to the Throne. This was in recognition of the incomparable contribution Your Majesty has made to the life of our nation throughout your Reign. I am sure that those are sentiments that the whole House would wish to endorse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.449.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.450.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "rammar schools, CTCs, the assisted places scheme and as much variety of provision as possible, giving freedom of parental choice, is the Conservative party, whereas the Labour party and the party of the quasi-Liberal Democrats are wholly committed to the comprehensive system. Will he arrange for a debate to take place on secondary education, if not next week then the week after? May I further ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes the point that the Prime Minister has been trying to make for a few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The policies that we advocate for manufacturing industry have been welcomed by the CBI, and are similar to the policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "on in which, last year, business investment rose by 7 per cent., employment by 2 per cent., and output by 4·5 per cent. There is no recession in Japan, where the economy is growing, not declining, and unemployment is at 2·2 per cent., compared with 9 per cent. here. Where is the world recession when the Prime Minister needs it? There is no world recession. Surely the only conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that there is no world recession. Has he seen the statistics coming out of the United States? There is a recession there. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would do well to listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "preceding_text": "Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) devoted the bulk of his speech to his choice selection of gloomy statistics, gloomier forecasts and the gloomiest quotes he can find. He overdoses on gloom. He cannot get enough of it. I fear that eventually it will consume him entirely and he will end up like one of those unfortunate old men in Oxford street between the sandwich boards proclaiming, \"The end is nigh\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ise in personal bankruptcies. Further, by tipping house prices into a new decline, it would hit consumption and make recovery more difficult. The changes projected … by the Labour party … would mean those affected would face the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase. He concluded: Dare Labour risk kicking an economy that is already down? On top of that, Labour proposes to tax savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.489.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "How Labour Members can claim to favour investment while penalising savings baffles me, and I suspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.489.6", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "hen, challenged the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East five times to dissociate the Labour party from that attitude. On each occasion, he has refused to disown the views of his party's paymaster. Now that some TUC leaders have backed off from that policy, surely he can do likewise. I give him the opportunity now to dissociate the Labour party from the attack on inward investment. How extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.489.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.490.5", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ain by their extravagant spending programmes; by the higher taxes and borrowing that would be needed to finance those programmes; by the prospect of monetary relaxation; by fears of devaluation with which every Labour Government have been associated; by their minimum wage policy, which would jack up the whole pay structure; and by strengthening trade union power, which would ratchet it up further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.490.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.494.4", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "factory that produces it in Britain is to close and the jobs go overseas because the Government have failed to invest in the company? The Government abandoned that British company—the investment of British taxpayers—and sold it at a knockdown price. The computer will continue to be manufactured and be hugely successful, but it will be manufactured in France, Italy and the United States of America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I do not respond with the relish shown by Opposition Members. I shall talk on the precise subject of the encouragement of innovation, and research and development in a few minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I do not respond with the relish shown by Opposition Members. I shall talk on the precise subject of the encouragement of innovation, and research and development in a few minutes—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the answer?\"] I shall first deal with a recent Opposition broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "that are in difficulties. Even when they try to identify them, they list countries such as Japan and end up with egg on their faces. Any time now, I expect the Prime Minister to start complaining about bad economic circumstances in the republic of Bolivia—even then, I am not sure that the comparison would stand the Government in good stead. In the remarkable performance of the Secretary of State —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ks of Conservative Members this evening. During these difficult times, we demand a strategy for investment, for manufacturing and for exporting. Our growth rates do not begin to compare with those of Germany, France, Italy and Spain. There must be a new commitment to investment and training; it is that commitment which Labour policies represent. The right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.536.4", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman questioned whether manufacturing output and productivity had risen faster in Britain than in any other European country. The answer is that they rose faster in the 1980s than in any other major country. Manufacturing jobs in Britain have been lost in every decade since the war; 500,000 manufacturing jobs were lost and unemployment doubled under the previous Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.536.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "no help from MITI and the Japanese Government. Indeed, they generally spurn such help. Conversely, the least successful Japanese industries tend to be those which have had the most interference from Government. There are two reasons why the Japanese economy has done so well over the past 30 years. First and above all, the Japanese have had a sound, rigorous, vocationally oriented education system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "orward to watching them practise the restraint that they now preach. I shall be surprised if I am impressed by their performance in that respect. The Secretary of State said that the Labour party was intellectually paralysed and near brain-dead. Some of my hon. Friends suggested to me that that was a state about which the right hon. Gentleman could talk with some authority. But, to be fair to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman, having made a speech in which he overran his time, has now departed the House. He is the kind of gentleman who gives a public school education a bad name in Scotland. His planted question gave the Secretary of State a chance to set out his industrial policy—and a sad fist he made of it. However, he made one straightforward claim for which I am grateful. He referred to his policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ly being stripped of all credibility. I find it very irritating indeed—wounding, indeed, to my constituents—when I look at the problems and prospects that they face, when I consider the deprivation that is growing in our communities and when I listen to the complacency that is peddled daily by Ministers. The Conservatives are not the only people making a claim, so a comment about the nationalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State has an appointment in Scotland that he cannot break. We have heard another dreary list of statistics from the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown)—as my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Dame J. Knight) said, as boringly predictable as Pavlova's dog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "particularly by the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East. There are bound to be fluctuations in investment over the economic cycle. Investment responds primarily to expectations of future demand, not tax incentives. What has depressed investment of late is a cylical downturn in demand and activity. It would be totally counterproductive to attempt to offest that effect by creating artificial stimulae—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-06", "file": "debates1992-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "17bb8e4a2b33423d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen do not really believe it themselves, but they cannot bear the horrible truth. It makes them shudder to think of it. They know that, after 13 years of Opposition supply days, a complete policy review never knowingly under-relaunched and a risible prawn cocktail offensive, they still cannot convince people that they can be trusted to run the economy. Their feeble new industrial policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-06a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-07", "file": "debates1992-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c35da608723c4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Timeshare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " to do was to fly. When an RAF officer achieves a certain rank he is not allowed to do that, so I had no intention of going beyond the point where I could fly. The salesman's second mistake was that, in any case, I could not possibly pay for the \"Encyclopaedia Britannica\" on the very poor wages that I received at that time. I should point out that that was during the period of a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-07", "file": "debates1992-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c35da608723c4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Rule (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think that there is a majority for what the hon. Gentleman refers to as reform within the United Kingdom when that case commands a majority in the House. It is as simple as that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-07", "file": "debates1992-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c35da608723c4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Rule (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde is clear about the answer, but the rest of the Opposition do not agree with him. He is clear, I think, that there would not be a Secretary of State for Scotland, but that is not the Labour party's view. Already, on that simple and straightforward question raised by my hon. Friend, the so-called united front on devolution has fallen apart fairly quickly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-07", "file": "debates1992-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c35da608723c4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Rule (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "be damaging to our growth industries and to the case for inward investment where we have been markedly successful in a tough, competitive market. We have been markedly successful because the Government changed the institutional arrangements in that area. To be in favour of the Union is not to be in favour of an unchanging status quo. We changed the arrangements for Locate in Scotland, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-07", "file": "debates1992-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5c35da608723c4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.623.7", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Rule (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The reason is that many years ago the Government decided to deploy to Scotland the nuclear deterrent capability, which gave the matter a Scottish dimension. There is no secret and I do not know why the hon. Member for Gordon is so amused. My job in Scotland was to deal with the peace movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-07a.623.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-10", "file": "debates1992-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af3576925cd56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Motorway Service Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": " by his colleague the Secretary of State for the Environment on planning grounds. Once again, he overruled the Department of Transport on transport matters. The statement represents a further victory over transport for the Secretary of State for the Environment. The matter is to be dealt with in a review, and as the review will be completed by 20 March, I as the Secretary of State will not accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-10", "file": "debates1992-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af3576925cd56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.660.6", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Motorway Service Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fearn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fearn", "preceding_text": "to allow for negotiations between consumer organisations and others, and those who own the motorway stations. What will happen about signposting? People will be turning off motorways to smaller units and may well find that they provide only eating places and lavatories but no petrol. That is most important. Women driving on their own will have certain reservations about turning off to small units—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.660.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-10", "file": "debates1992-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af3576925cd56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.689.7", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Offshore Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": " point that I was trying to make was that in the debate on 7 March, hon. Members spoke as though we were discussing a Scottish industry. The point that I made—there were some nods of agreement from Opposition Members—when we started to talk about moving the offshore safety division headquarters to Aberdeen was that there was and is a very important sector of the industry in the southern North sea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.689.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-10", "file": "debates1992-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af3576925cd56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.715.5", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Offshore Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The peroration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "the resources and resourcefulness of those north of the border in dealing with such matters. I will go even further while I am in an expansive mood and say that we often look at what happens north of the border to give us inspiration and we then follow. In this case, we may want to follow. I will move on rapidly and I will deal with the points made by—I seem to have dealt with all of this already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-10a.715.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.779.9", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to respond to my hon. Friend's invitation and I entirely agree with his remarks. The success of the TEC movement is the result of an unprecedented partnership between business leaders and the Government across the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.779.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "f abuse of trade union power or trade union positions. For any political party that makes any pretence of seeking the government of this country to want to remove from the courts the sanction that my hon. Friend has described as so essential is utterly irresponsible. It gives the lie to the real relationship that exists between the Labour party and the trade unions, and that will not go unnoticed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend visits the port of Southampton he will realise that two Conservative policies have changed the position of the port from stagnation to prosperity. The first policy was privatisation and the second the abolition of the national dock labour scheme. All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years. There is only one fly in the ointment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "\"People, Jobs and Opportunity\"", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "l check\" where, with expert advice and guidance, they will be helped to take stock of their existing skills and experience, identify how they can improve their skills and map out their future training and career options. By placing purchasing power in the hands of the people concerned we shall transform their attitude to training and to the opportunities that are available to them. The initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "\"People, Jobs and Opportunity\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "gh the employment service, including job review workshops, which provide precisely that service for those who are unemployed. If the training and enterprise councils think it appropriate to make some of those funds available for unemployed people, they are perfectly free to do so. As to where the money is to come from, it is true that the proposals will be funded from within my existing resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " that the objective of the Bill is to expand the provision of further and higher education and to expand opportunities for adults, as well as for young people, to engage in all sorts of courses. It is not true that the Bill cuts a line between vocational and leisure courses, any more than it does between the academic and the vocational. It draws no line of a sort that will damage provision. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Of course they do, because in their opinion it is in the interests of the colleges, and of their ability to secure the best possible provision of local services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government dictate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ibe the aim of the proposals as \"centralised control\" is utterly daft. The polytechnics are not under centralised control; quite the reverse. They were taken away from local authority control and given their autonomy—given complete academic independence. That point was mentioned in the other place, and I shall return to it later. A funding council distributes money at arm's length from Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.821.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ich Richmond college might, first, decide whether it wishes to seek designation under clause 16 to come within the remit of the further education funding council or, secondly, have a look at clause 6 under which it might obtain funds indirectly from the funding council. The position of the college in Richmond is best left to my hon. Friend in his reply as he spent a considerable time this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.827.6", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "espread provision of that type in rural areas. The first question is whether the college comes within that category of colleges that will transfer to the further education funding council. When I replied to my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham a moment ago, I referred to clause 16 which determines whether further education institutions which do not automatically qualify should be incorporated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.827.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "cretary of State has clearly come up with a simple system which he had no difficulty explaining to us. He put forward two hypotheses. One is that the FE college turns down the proposal. The other is that the proposal is made to the further education funding council. The FEFC could also turn down the proposal. The Secretary of State needs to tell the House and his hon. Friends that under clause 10—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is not. It is a straightforward Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.830.7", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e, neither to my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Greenway) nor to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell). Despite constant attempts to seek clarification on points of policy, I have succeeded in covering the policy on higher and further education and dealing, first, with the nonsense campaigns on adult education and, secondly, with serious matters raised by my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.830.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.830.13", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "dford, with the support of a number of my noble Friends and other noble Members of the other place, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, tabled a provision relating to religious education and acts of collective worship in sixth form colleges. That is a difficult matter. The amendment established provision to match the existing legal duties on sixth form colleges—in fact, it eases them slightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.830.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Indeed, we win them over bit by bit, but unfortunately that process will not go on for much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Indeed, we win them over bit by bit, but unfortunately that process will not go on for much longer— [Interruption.] As my hon. Friends say, we are winning the intellectual argument bit by bit, and that will certainly continue, but unfortunately we shall be unable to win over sufficient numbers of Conservative Members because there will not be so many of them when we return after the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.900.10", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the timetable motion is to structure the debate in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.900.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "sition to the new funding system is to be ensured. As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me, uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector. That is why it is essential that we make progress with the Bill as quickly as possible, consistent with proper discussion and consultation—not so much consultation as consideration—in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "e should be, and without any reciprocal arrangement that improved the rights of the Opposition. There are many ways in which that could be done. When there is a Labour Government and the Leader of the House finds himself sitting on the Opposition Benches, that Administration will be gracious to the then Opposition. We shall discuss ways in which the rights of the Opposition can be observed. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "It happens to be worse than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "It happens to be worse than that— [Interruption.] Oh, it is. I smell a rat here—I really do. The Secretary of State for Education and Science sits on the Treasury Bench, treating us over this Bill just as he did when he was Secretary of State for Health. I remember the time when you and I, Mr. Speaker, had a few words because of what was happening because of the Secretary of State for Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "tate for Education and Science sits on the Treasury Bench, treating us over this Bill just as he did when he was Secretary of State for Health. I remember the time when you and I, Mr. Speaker, had a few words because of what was happening because of the Secretary of State for Health—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh yes, I remember it well and I am sure that you do, Mr. Speaker. I apologised to you anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " The Secretary of State should come clean. I do not know what the people back in Rushcliffe think about him when he messes about in this way. He messed around with health, and look at the mess we are in. Now he is messing around with education, and look at the mess that that will be in. It has got to stop. The people will decide in not many weeks' time. I know that I will not be here, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ss we are in. Now he is messing around with education, and look at the mess that that will be in. It has got to stop. The people will decide in not many weeks' time. I know that I will not be here, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] The right hon. and learned Gentleman, the Leader of the House and all those on the Treasury Bench know that the people outside will not stand for this kind of activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " not many weeks' time. I know that I will not be here, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] The right hon. and learned Gentleman, the Leader of the House and all those on the Treasury Bench know that the people outside will not stand for this kind of activity— [Interruption.] The Secretary of State is supposed to be listening. That is how he ducks out of his responsibilities and will not come clean——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is this an intervention or a speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier, but everyone knows that that is how we got here. It is shocking that a guillotine motion should be produced in such circumstances. My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin has proved to the hilt that there has been a greater, easier and more eager resort to the guillotine than at any time in English parliamentary history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "What my hon. Friend is saying may fit a rumour that is flitting around the House. The rumour, which I heard last night, is that the Government are considering going to the country before 9 April. In fact, it goes further; it says that they will go without a Budget. If my hon. Friend thinks about that, he will see the need for this timetable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation etc.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State shakes his head. As at 24 July, the Secretary of State had visited only one further education college and one sixth form college throughout his period in office. There is a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-11", "file": "debates1992-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "604dd5f83c9d3360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Hospitals (Allocation Formula)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise with the Under-Secretary of State for Health the formula for the allocation of funds to hospitals and area health authorities in places of great deprivation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-11a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Confidence will not be instilled by harping solely on the negatives. Naturally we regret any rise in bankruptcies, but let us remember the strengths of British industry, which has increased exports in the past 10 years by more than France, Germany, the United States or Japan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.964.9", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Let us put the matter into perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.964.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.974.8", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.974.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "essed, as is most of the House, at the ignorance shown by Opposition Members. In respect of disposals from collections, I have sought to honour the commitment given to the House in 1989 by my right hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham that any relevant powers would, as far as possible, be tailor-made to meet the specific requirements of each institution for the optimum management of its collection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman's worries about the natural history museum. He has often spoken of them in the House to my predecessor and myself. The reorganisation of that museum is now well in place and it is benefiting from that. Curation has been strengthened and there is a more effective and efficient advisory service. The impressive ecology gallery has been opened and a new dinosaur gallery is planned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.998.4", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I recognise once again the hectoring and bullying manner that the hon. Gentleman adopted when we met for debates on immigration. I regret that it continues. I am aware that an approach was made to the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.998.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": " lottery which will throw up substantial funds for the refurbishment, repair and maintenance and construction of museum buildings in the national interest? Will he not only take note of that but convey it to the Government as a whole, in the hope that they will have a Bill ready on the stocks for early implementation in the very first Session of the new Parliament for our Governmnent to introduce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " Government who have a strong commitment to expand collections rather than to freeze acquisition funds. The Minister cannot duck the fact that, even in the years when he had some money from the Chief Secretary to dispose on our arts and cultural life, he deliberately chose not to unfreeze the purchase grants of the galleries. I am not surprised that the Minister looks away with some embarrassment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "roductory remarks, it does not begrudge him his last trip to Paris as Minister. I hope that he enjoyed it, but I wish that he had gone earlier and had learnt from the French socialist Minister what a Government should do for the arts and how they should support it. I hope that he has learnt something from the majesty and beauty of some of those grands projets like Ieoh Pei's pyramid at the Louvre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Luce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Luce", "preceding_text": "esources, which would strengthen the arts still further. I do not see a national lottery as a substitute for public expenditure, but as a way of substantially supplementing overall available resources in areas that one would not expect the taxpayer wholly to finance. I am glad to support the Bill and all the remarkable work done by the Minister. I may add, in what is probably my last contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "as Minister for the Arts, despite the constraints imposed on him by the lunatic policies of the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher). It is touching that he wants to end up as an exhibit, like Jeremy Bentham —stuffed and put on display in the natural history museum. I am not sure that I would pay money to see him, but perhaps the right hon. Gentleman realises we would like him to go now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Museums and Galleries Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "vious Minister for getting the Bill on the Floor of the House. The House knows, however, that we owe something to him for it. Although there is cross-party support for the Bill, the wider picture will continue to be fiercely argued and disputed on the Opposition side. I believe that we speak for most of the museums world and arts world. The Government's record over the last 12 years is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman thought about it, he would understand that the figures sharpen accountability —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "hat the party was over. There has always been a conflict between central Government and local government about the appropriate level of spending, but in Wales we have a particularly effective mechanism. We sit round a table and argue the points through, which is the function of the Welsh Consultative Council for Local Government Finance. I pay tribute to the local government officials and leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ontinue to receive community charge relief. The amount that I am committing to the scheme is double that provided in 1990–91, when the community charge for standard spending was £55 higher than the level that I consider appropriate for 1992–93. Provided that local authorities spend in line with my plans, the personal community charge that they set should not exceed, on average, £118.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": "enue to a much greater extent than is the case now or is likely to be the case with the council tax. Before elaborating on those remarks I should like to comment briefly on one or two aspects of the community charge in its dying days. The average cost of collecting the minimum contribution of 20 per cent. of poll tax from those on social security benefit is £6 more per head than the amount raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": "ng of 20 per cent. of the average community charge throughout England and Wales. Surely the sensible thing for the Government to do would have been to reduce the income support by 20 per cent. rather than waste money in attempts at collection. Surely it would be fairly easy to do this and cheaper than collection of the 20 per cent. The case for abolition of the minimum calculation is overwhelming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "or, in the downfall of the poll tax. Yet it is still a major feature of the council tax. That is what concerns me. The council tax is a better and fairer tax. I will not get too carried away because, although I will not be here in the next Parliament, my words may be thrown back at my hon. Friends. I am not particularly enamoured by the council tax. At least it got us off the hook of the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "say that. Another issue about which I am very concerned is that of rents of factories. I am not sure what is happening in Wales, but I have suddenly received a rush—or a rash, however one wants to describe it—of papers coming through my fax from companies in the Rhondda which are being asked for huge rent rises from the Welsh Development Agency or the local authority. Whoever owns these factories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Nicholas Bennett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Nicholas Bennett)", "preceding_text": "sociation of London Authorities said: Rates over the years have become widely detested both by those who have to pay them and those who have to defend raising them. In 1990 the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) said that Labour agrees that the rates system was flawed. But now we hear that the Labour party would bring back the rating system. The people of Wales need to know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1076.8", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "a Welsh assembly, something which the Leader of the Opposition was opposed to in 1974 and in 1978. Now he is in favour of it. The cost to the Welsh people of a Mickey Mouse assembly in Cardiff would be £50 million. It would duplicate the work done by this House and would ensure that Opposition Members became second class citizens in this House. We have also heard that the Labour party is against —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1076.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-12", "file": "debates1992-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e9e95180e82490ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Horticulture", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "h national inspectorates to ensure that inspections of domestic production and third country imports are on the same basis throughout the Community. Of the planned complement of 17 EC inspectors, it is intended that nine should be filled by national inspectors on temporary secondment. This movement between the national and Community inspectorates should help to reinforce the harmonisation process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-12a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1094.6", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"You have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend does well to remind the House of what happens under a Labour Government. They had a value added tax rate of 25 per cent. My hon. Friend may have noticed that the Opposition have been floating a similar idea among themselves and discussing again in an internal memorandum the possibility of a luxuries rate of VAT. We have no problem in this regard; we do not need to raise taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1094.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1096.6", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "It simply is not true that the burden of taxation has been increased on the poorer members of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1096.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1096.6", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "It simply is not true that the burden of taxation has been increased on the poorer members of society. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] That was the subject of the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question. Living standards at all income levels improved over that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1096.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1099.2", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1099.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "On a constitutional point, does my right hon. Friend agree that if an assembly were set up in Scotland with responsibility for health, trade and industry, and taxation north of the border—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "On a constitutional point, does my right hon. Friend agree that if an assembly were set up in Scotland with responsibility for health, trade and industry, and taxation north of the border—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] In such circumstances, would not it be impossible thereafter for Members of Parliament with Scottish constituencies to sit in Departments as Ministers, administering those Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1105.10", "colnum": "1105", "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/1992-02-13a.1105.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Further to the European Community budget proposals, which were proposed unanimously by all the Commissioners, including the two British Commissioners, will my right hon. Friend also agree that extra resources long term will be needed for redundant farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1112.7", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ent Commission to be established so that it can get on with its job. When going round the country, I have had such requests from many areas. We are engaged on the sensible management of Government business, and we are ensuring that priority Bills have every opportunity to be passed in this Session. I note that hon. Members on both sides of the House now call for timetables on all Government Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1112.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "e have been no delaying tactics from the Opposition. Since the Bill entered Committee, there has been only one full day of debate because the Government, on numerous occasions, have curtailed debate. On one occasion, they ended a whole session without debate so that the rate support grant settlement could be debated on the Floor of the House. The Government kept us up until 5 am the other morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-13", "file": "debates1992-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b9dd2bf353744ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I am not at all surprised that some people feel like that. Perhaps it is because of their sense of identification with the Ulster Defence Regiment. Those feelings are misplaced and I cannot help feeling that they are engendered by some of the public remarks of the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-13a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that as I go through the various provisions of the measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that as I go through the various provisions of the measure—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and I assure the hon. Gentleman that his question will be answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": ". That seems a somewhat questionable practice. Apart from that, may I ask the hon. Gentleman whether he thinks that it is sensible that he and his Bill should be associated with someone who, writing in a book entitled \"Fettered Kingdom\", published in 1982, made it clear that he opposed not only hunting but shooting, fishing, eating meat, riding horses and even people keeping pets? Is it not clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I have yet to come to the detail of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "May I refer my hon. Friend to a letter that I received from a gentleman in Lincolnshire who say that the Blankney hunt 'imports' its foxes from a centre which breeds foxes for hunting\". That runs contrary to the vermin argument. It makes no sense to import foxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware—I do not think that he is—that, because one of the effects of clause 2 would be to ban hunting, within a month of the clause becoming law, up to 1 million horses will be put down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the point to which I am coming. I have first established that we are seeking to abolish not the cruelty of animals but cruelty by mankind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1224.12", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I quoted the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North, who said that hunting was \"human entertainment\". If the motive of those who want to stop hunting is to do nothing other than to prevent a form of human entertainment, what sort of slippery slope is that? I know many forms of human entertainment of which I personally do not approve and in which I should not like to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1224.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "Although my hon. Friend's question does not apply to the Bill, it is a fair one to ask. I believe that there is what I would call a scale of cruelty. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ty policy was remitted to an animal protection working group which is currently working on further detail. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North has beaten us to it. I went to the last seminar of that working group. It will produce a full policy paper which will go into more detail on animal protection issues than our present policy. Unfortunately, that will not now be before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ve made it clear. However, further work will be done. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Corbett) asked how my colleagues would vote. Our position is the same as that of the Labour party and, as I understand it, that of the Conservative party—there is no party line on the way in which Liberal Democrat Members should vote on the Bill. My party has a free vote in every vote in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ues would vote. Our position is the same as that of the Labour party and, as I understand it, that of the Conservative party—there is no party line on the way in which Liberal Democrat Members should vote on the Bill. My party has a free vote in every vote in the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"] No. All my hon. Friends will confirm that. Although there is a procedure for establishing a party line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " as that of the Labour party and, as I understand it, that of the Conservative party—there is no party line on the way in which Liberal Democrat Members should vote on the Bill. My party has a free vote in every vote in the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"] No. All my hon. Friends will confirm that. Although there is a procedure for establishing a party line— [Laughter.] —every vote is a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "mbers should vote on the Bill. My party has a free vote in every vote in the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"] No. All my hon. Friends will confirm that. Although there is a procedure for establishing a party line— [Laughter.] —every vote is a free vote. [Interruption.] Hon. Members may ask any of my colleagues. For us, every vote is a free vote. But, of course, on some issues there is a party line", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "is a resounding no. What are the arguments against the Bill? First, it is argued that it would produce 14,000 to 16,000 redundancies in the rural community. I do not accept that by preventing horses and hounds from being used for hunting, one prevents them from being used. That is not logical. Many people ride and keep hounds, and farriers and people who work in stables will continue to be needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "taking that there will be some sort of negotiations at a later stage. I have serious anxieties about the ability of farmers in particular and of a number of other people in general, especially householders, to control pests. I understand that, as a result of the way that the Bill is framed, lawyers have questioned the future of rabbit shooting, because of the danger of those animals being wounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerrard Neale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerrard Neale", "preceding_text": "ived any intimation from the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) that he wishes to make a statement regarding the details that have been published relating to a former research assistant. It is an important matter and it seems conceivable that he would be able to explain fully to the House exactly what happened. Given the incidence of political advisers being appointed by members of all parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1234.6", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "r rats, the Bill as it stands leaves what is permissible very much open to doubt—whether it be shooting, poisoning or trapping. One suggestion has been made which, to begin with, I thought was absurd. However, as I read the Bill, I began to see that there was something in it. A lawyer had suggested that, as the Bill stands, it might be illegal to put a cat into a granary that had a plague of mice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": " constituency is, to talk to the farmers so that they could explain to him how important hunting is if foxes are to be kept down in such areas. Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman, who kindly accepted the invitation, could not come at the last minute. It was a great disappointment. I do not blame him at all. I perfectly understand why he was unable to come. It was just a pity that he could not come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": " hunt are not the same. A drag hunt is much more like a race. It is more akin to a point-to-point. It involves chasing round the countryside after a scented bag—so far, nobody has indicated who the scented bag is. Neverthless, a scented bag is drawn round the countryside first. I have been looking for an analogy to a drag hunt. Someone I know likened it to kissing one's sister, and he should know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "k at the wonderful paintings and etchings of the chase. The fact that those are minority pastimes is no argument for banning them. Over the centuries, this country has developed a justified reputation for tolerance. The Bill will inevitably reduce tolerance of the views of others. I cannot help feeling that a certain amount of good, old-fashioned left-wing class prejudice is coming to the surface—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "hbours kindly call—I am not pretentious enough to call it this—a wildlife sanctuary. Once we realised that the mink were there, I got my son who was then aged 15 and a friend of his to shoot the two mink. It was three weeks before they were able to shoot one of them. There was a great deal of cover in the summer months, and it was difficult to get a shot at the mink. By the time the mink was shot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "is—a wildlife sanctuary. Once we realised that the mink were there, I got my son who was then aged 15 and a friend of his to shoot the two mink. It was three weeks before they were able to shoot one of them. There was a great deal of cover in the summer months, and it was difficult to get a shot at the mink. By the time the mink was shot— [Laughter.] Hon. Members may find that funny, but I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No—there is no time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "lambs or chickens are attacked by a fox. The hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies), in an excellent contribution to the debate, told us that that happens. What does the law-abiding farmer do? It is clear that the Bill would require him to put in for a licence to deal with any repetition of the situation by shooting or by some other method. How long would it take for that licence to come through?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I declare my interest—although it is well known to most hon. Members—as chairman of the British Field Sports Society, and I am a farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "clearly gives away both the intention behind the Opposition's support of the Bill and what they intend the Bill to accomplish. Until the speech of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Corbett) we had had a good debate, conducted in a fair and proper manner. The hon. Member for Erdington made one of the worst and most provocative speeches that I have heard in a long time. It was divisive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was 40 years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "t in people's minds, they are, on a superficial level, against fox hunting. I remind hon. Members that we went through all this in the late 1940s. My right hon. Friend the Minister of State reminded us that the then Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Tom Williams, a member of the Labour party, urged hon. Members on both sides of the House to support fox hunting. He tabled a motion in 1925 to abolish it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me for not giving way. I do not want to delay the House much longer. There is no doubt that field sports, taken collectively, have always played an enormous role in the founding of the countryside as we enjoy it today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-14", "file": "debates1992-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a3b67191c473143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "who live in the countryside, or even people with gardens in rural areas, from being accused of committing a criminal offence if they took the steps that were necessary to protect themselves or their property. There is no doubt that this is a remarkably bad Bill. It is a pity that the House has had to spend this Friday debating a party political issue that should have been dead and buried long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-14a.1279.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "Everyone will welcome the fact that the Government have now abandoned their plans——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) clearly does not understand the contents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Secretary of State on his grovelling apology to Commissioner Millan, who has acted correctly throughout? I also thank the Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs, who, by his presence today, admits that he was wrong in his legal interpretations on RECHAR. Two questions that I would wish to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It is precisely on the point. It is pollution-related. The Scots are now faced, so we are told on page 1 of our national newspaper. The Scotsman, with —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It is precisely on the point. It is pollution-related. The Scots are now faced, so we are told on page 1 of our national newspaper. The Scotsman, with — [Laughter.] It is not funny to have 300,000 skin cancer-related cases. That is the possibility. The evidence from NASA is no laughing matter whatsoever. I am asking a serious question. Will Government Departments consider this alarming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Well, philosophical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "RECHAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Member for Bridgend (Mr. Griffiths) had a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.79.9", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "in Committee, have made a deliberate attempt to frustrate proper consideration of the Bill. The Bill received thorough consideration in the other place—more than 40 hours in total, including almost 20 hours in Committee. The detailed record of the Committee stage so far in this House provides the clearest possible evidence of a blatant attempt by the Labour party to drag out Committee proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.79.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "vernment have made serious errors yet again in these proposals. My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), who has been speaking for us on these matters, and my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) have made that fact clear time and again. My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham does not serve on the Committee, but he was involved on Second Reading and elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities mutters from a sedentary position about filibustering. The penultimate time we discussed one of these timetable motions, it was his right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science who made the longest speech, as we discovered by checking. The Minister should therefore not be too anxious to mention the length of speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.91.6", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "I will. The Labour party has argued, for outside consumption, that it is against not competitive tendering, but compulsory competitive tendering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.91.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.93.4", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": ". They have never understood value for money. Let me give an example to which I have referred previously. Our own Labour authority in Nottinghamshire, working from desktops on unchecked and untendered for building work needed in our old people's homes, would rather announce their closure—as it disgracefully did—than obtain outside quotations and find out what it would cost to do the work required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.93.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.105.3", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "No doubt my hon. Friend is asking me a rhetorical question. As he well knows, it should not be the function of any publicly elected body to provide such a service. He has put his finger on another critical aspect of the Bill. He referred to nine NALGO members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.105.5", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Local Government Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It is unelected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "t Commission and unitary authorities. Hon. Members should not fool themselves. They should not assume that the House has been misled into believing that the Local Government Commission legislation could be pushed through in no time. Much of the debate has already taken place in the other place, whose primary function is to act as a scrutinising body. We know that it could not reject the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Association Agreements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": " deny that patriotism and the sense of belonging to a nation could—indeed, should—be subsumed under some sort of all-enveloping socialist morality. In the end, it was that sense of belonging that gave Poles, Czechoslovaks and Hungarians the courage to come out into the streets against communism. Those of us in the west who have consistently advocated free market economies underpinned by democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Association Agreements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "n Strasbourg in December 1989, and that is why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister moved to speed up the negotiations last summer. These agreements begin to substantiate the euphoria with which we all greeted the arrival of Poland, Czechosolvakia and Hungary into the family of democratic nations. They provide the tools for consolidating democracy and creating a liberal market-oriented economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Association Agreements", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " the arrangements. That has resulted in the full membership of Poland, the Czechoslovak Federal Republic and Hungary, which is far more important than the quibbling over detail that I have heard at least twice tonight. We must look much wider. I received Lech Walesa in my office in Strasbourg last week—we had about 40 minutes' worth of conversation together—and the major problem that he put to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-17", "file": "debates1992-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "640bfa03dea56091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Association Agreements", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "I shall deal mainly with the agricultural issue, because that seems to preoccupy Members most. If I do not have a chance to reply to all the other issues that have been raised, I shall make sure that a reply is given later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-17a.148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.162.6", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Heal", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Heal", "preceding_text": "The policies of the Secretary of State have meant that patients who have waited too long find the lists abolished, as happened to the varicose veins list at Whipps Cross hospital. As South East Staffordshire health authority has drawn attention to the longest waiters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.172.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Frit!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, we hold televised debates in the House twice a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.175.11", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend agree to visit Basildon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.175.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The straight answer to the hon. Gentleman is no, I have not seen that prospectus. If the hon. Gentleman had wanted a detailed comment on it, he would have invited me to look at it before he asked his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.182.9", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a wholly different point of order, Mr. Speaker, but I suggest a far more important one in the long term. In his question to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) asked about the health service in Norwich. The hon. Gentleman has it as one of his ambitions that the health service of Scotland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.182.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has he changed his mind?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "r members' interests\". The hon. Member for Sedgefield attacked the same Bill as a \"shabby, partisan stratagem\". He described ballots as a scandalous and undemocratic measure against the trade union movement.\"—[ Official Report, 8 November 1983; Vol. 48, c. 170, 210.] Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will take the opportunity today at least to tell us why he changed his mind. Or when he changed his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.191.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " a \"shabby, partisan stratagem\". He described ballots as a scandalous and undemocratic measure against the trade union movement.\"—[ Official Report, 8 November 1983; Vol. 48, c. 170, 210.] Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will take the opportunity today at least to tell us why he changed his mind. Or when he changed his mind. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Has he changed his mind?\"] Or whether he has changed his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about GCHQ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I invite the hon. Lady's attention to the 1990 Act that enshrined the right of workers to join trade unions as well as not to join them when we abolished the closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " Labour party policies, they have been refuted. For example, yesterday, and also last year, the Government alleged that, during an interview on the \"On the Record\" programme, I was forced into an admission that miners would be able to picket power stations and other such places under Labour's proposals for industrial law. I shall read from the transcript that I have obtained. Mr. Dimbleby put the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should tell the truth. He has just alleged that I said that if there were a loophole, we would simply look at it. However, I said: I can't actually see that that could happen under the present set of proposals that we've got and if there is a loophole there,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "As we have told the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends many times, the fault was to combine interest rate cuts with a tax-cutting Budget in 1988 which ruined the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.203.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ing unemployment, a crisis in the nation's skills and training—has as its sole response, stripped of its pretentions, simply an old-fashioned rant about trade unions. Such a party does not deserve re-election as the Government of Great Britain. People do not want to go back. That is agreed and accepted. I say that in this decade they want to go forward, and under Labour they will be able to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.203.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.214.6", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Directives?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "We did not do ourselves a lot of favours in many different directives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.214.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "In defence of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State, I should make it clear that our range of estimates of job losses as a consequence of a statutory national minimum wage, range from as few as 100,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "tivity, with exactly the same capital equipment as you.\" In a single year, that company achieved a productivity improvement of no less than 70 per cent., with exactly the same work force. The carpet industry is another example of the improvements that have been made: there is no doubt that, over the past 10 years, the work force have been much more flexible and the old demarcation lines have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "tive and Allied Workers. It is getting new members, and it is one of the unions in the forefront of fighting against low pay, and of fighting for the minimum wage and for the right of people to be able to eat and to heat themselves in the winter. It is fighting to ensure that the work force have a salary or a wage, and a right to a living. I am delighted to back that union by which I am sponsored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.252.5", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ition Members have no chance of bamboozling Conservative Members or the electorate is how anyone could claim to have the faintest understanding of industrial management and yet propose a policy that would make it illegal to sack a striking worker. That would lead to manifest absurdity. Anyone who felt that he would be dismissed, even for the best reasons, would presumably immediately go on strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.252.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "wage would help to create unemployment, a hoary old chestnut that we now regularly hear from Conservative Members. What about other countries in western Europe and the Economic Community that have national minimum wages and are prepared to defend them? He gave the example of France, but there are many reasons for the difficulties experienced with the French economy during the past 11 years or so —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "use of greedy, brutal employers who did not care about the workers. During the last century the workers were compelled to form themselves into trade unions because of the brutality and complete indifference of some bosses. During the past 12 to 13 years, the Tories have been busy trying to turn the clock back by reducing the rights of workers. There are no rights to holidays for part-time workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "ke the United Kingdom a magnet and a paradise for inward investment. We know, and even Jacques Delors knows, what Opposition Members do not yet know—if additional costs are foisted on employers of the Community, the only result can be that we shall become less competitive. We do not want that to happen to our industry, which is why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister resisted the siren voices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I am here in my capacity as a shadow Education Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-18", "file": "debates1992-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d87a2bc54eb4a0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on, spoil yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ls to be closed then became grant-maintained, so the surplus places remained. The reorganisation of those schools has been turned down, and local authorities know that, if they seek further reorganisation, they are likely to be in exactly the same position, with their ability to deal with surplus places increasingly depleted. It is—I was about to use unparliamentary language but I shall not do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-18a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "In the latest housing investment programme returns, the 10 councils reporting the highest percentage of their council house stock empty on 1 April 1991 were Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "In the latest housing investment programme returns, the 10 councils reporting the highest percentage of their council house stock empty on 1 April 1991 were Liverpool—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—with 5,733 dwellings; Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "In the latest housing investment programme returns, the 10 councils reporting the highest percentage of their council house stock empty on 1 April 1991 were Liverpool—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—with 5,733 dwellings; Manchester—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—with 6,042; Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "In the latest housing investment programme returns, the 10 councils reporting the highest percentage of their council house stock empty on 1 April 1991 were Liverpool—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—with 5,733 dwellings; Manchester—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—with 6,042; Salford—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—with 2,292; Burnley, 372; Brent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Instead of trying to score cheap points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be aware that there is much disquiet in Warwickshire and elsewhere about the standard spending assessment and the result of the revenue support grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "That millionaire mammy's boy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Defence Equipment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "cause many decisions which they have refused to make affect thousands of jobs throughout the country, including those near Preston. When will the Minister order the auxiliary oil replenishment vessel which will affect workers in Wallsend and Tynemouth? Those questions must be answered. I am sure that the Minister will resist the temptation to produce a litany of lies about Labour's defence policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Defence Equipment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I accept the apology that was graciously extended by the Minister. He will recognise that it is not fair to say that I did not welcome the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Coal Imports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I recollect that allegation having been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.344.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " that were \"highly encouraging\". In October he was convinced—admittedly in the curious atmosphere of the Conservative party conference—that the green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again. It was not only the Chancellor who indulged in a bit of bogus forecasting. The Secretary of State for the Environment, who has replaced the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman was referring to taxes rather than taxis. We will deal with that argument when we come to it. There are so many commentators critical of the Government's economic record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.348.7", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " Members on the Government Benches do not wish to be reminded of the frequent predictions of recovery which were made last year, but they are highly relevant to the debate today. I return to the Chancellor. On 20 December, when the figures for GDP in the third quarter of 1991 were published, the Chancellor went so far as to claim that there had been what he called a technical end to the recession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.348.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Last week the effects of the continuing recession were made abundantly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of Conservative Members' behaviour, I feel little incentive to give way. If they cannot abide by the rules of the House, they cannot expect to be supported by the rules of the House. Unfortunately for the Government, the evidence of the real causes of the British recession are here at home. It was a recession made at Nos. 10 and 11 Downing street. It is patently clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. What I have said is not the result of some wild surmise on my part. At a meeting of the National Economic Development Council on 8 Janaury this year, the Chancellor said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "r the Environment, whose book \"Where There's a Will\" is described as a No. 1 best seller. The only thing wrong with the cover is the view expressed by The Guardian's Hugo Young that the book is Of its kind, the most impressive book I've read by a modern Conservative. I do not know whether that will do him much good. In his book, the Secretary of State makes a strong cse for an industrial strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.7", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "store the budget for employment training which has been so drastically reduced? We need to stimulate investment in new plant and equipment and new technology but that needs to be matched by an equivalent commitment to training for work and for people in work. To compete in a world of constant technological change, the investment and training gaps must be closed. Part of the stimulus to investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.7", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "new technology but that needs to be matched by an equivalent commitment to training for work and for people in work. To compete in a world of constant technological change, the investment and training gaps must be closed. Part of the stimulus to investment— [Interruption.] I shall resist Conservative Members' attempts to distract attention from what I am saying. Part of the stimulus to investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.7", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " systematic and organised interruption and vanity by people who do not want to hear any criticism of their policies. They are too used to the uncritical columns of the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and The Sun, but—thank goodness—in this Parliament we can criticise them, and we will. Part of the stimulus to investment should be regionally directed through the establishment of development agencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.355.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have said that before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "1 per cent. No wonder it is said that our standard of living has fallen over that period. That is proof positive of our relative economic decline under the incompetent management of an increasingly discredited Government. The people of this country will not forget that it was the Chancellor of the Exchequer who told us that rising unemployment and the recession have been a price well worth paying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "by Conservative Members. We can therefore ascertain which Conservative Member was responsible for the hooliganism, because under the rules of the House we can take up to 12 copies of a document without charge, but any larger number of copies has to be paid for. Will you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, through the authorities of the House, identify the hon. Member who took all those copies and make sure that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It was obvious that there were a number of facsimiles of whatever the document was, but I have no evidence to suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It was obvious that there were a number of facsimiles of whatever the document was, but I have no evidence to suggest— [Interruption.] Order. Let me deal with it. Hon. Members must resume their seats. I have no evidence whether the copies were produced by one individual, or of their source. However, it is obvious that there was behaviour symptomatic of an orchestrated demonstration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "oaring inflation, greater public sector borrowing, higher taxation, increased unemployment, rising interest rates, declining investment and a spiralling cycle of higher wages and prices which would destroy any prospect of recovery and plunge Britain into perpetual recession.\". You, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will of course identify the speech of the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh, Monklands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Is that The Guardian?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "yal to a man, are concerned that he is not radical enough on the economy\". I gather that it is felt—dare I say it—that he is \" less clever than he thinks and less busy than he should be\". There is even a suspicion growing—only on the Labour side, of course—that he has left Labour boxed in\", and that his policies are deflationary and offer little comfort for the unemployed or for debt-laden firms\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " year. I understand that he is not leaping up and down to restore the record of a Government among whom he was prepared to serve without complaint. The right hon. and learned Gentleman's problem is that most of his right hon. and hon. Friends are positively enthusiastic to restore, piece by piece, the regime that Labour left behind in 1979. What is at issue this afternoon is not the debate across—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "I forgive the Secretary of State for not knowing that Monklands is not in Edinburgh. It was very revealing about Conservative attitudes to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows full well that the matter was then negotiated brilliantly by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "preceding_text": "I fear that that is a point of frustration, rather than a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.365.8", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it not one of the conventions of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.365.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.367.6", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "my. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East is not that far apart from his leader on putting up tax rates. In a recent interview, David Frost put it to him that The Economist had pointed out that, under his proposals, Britain would have the highest tax rates for middle managers anywhere in the world. Quick as a flash, the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East said, \"Ah.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.367.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Why should I not speak to my own Benches? We are the governing party and we will stay that way because the Labour party is out of date, out of touch and out of office. We will keep them there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEmBEas:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ould have brought £192 million to Chesterfield. Pro rata among all the people in Chesterfield, the capital exported has been more than £600 million. The EC contributions from Chesterfield alone represent £45 million. I cited another figure earlier today—that the cost of defence is £30 per week for every family of four. When one looks at it like that, one realises that if the money were redirected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "preceding_text": " different words, tonight. He spoke about redistribution, which has been his clarion call all the time that I have been in the House, and all the time that he was a Minister. In the right hon. Gentleman's speech, and in the speech of the hon. Member for Newport, East (Mr. Hughes) we heard the authentic voice of socialism. We heard the real call for a return to the discredited policies of the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Day", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Day", "preceding_text": "e said for the views on Europe of the Opposition Front Bench. No one denies that the economy faces serious difficulties,. The problem is to convince the Opposition that our troubles are being experienced, to some degree, elsewhere. I set great store by what my constituents tell me, and some interesting observations arise from that exercise. The mood of the average business man in my constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "eted; spending stopped; demand fell; unemployment soared. Unemployment drove repossessions, and repossessions drove unemployment. The economy was now in terrifying, dizzying, spiralling free-fall. Still the Government did nothing except, presumably, congratulate themselves that their policies were working. It was certainly hurting. This deliberate wrecking of the private housing market took place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.418.6", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for the hon. Member who has the floor. I remind the House that this has been a relatively quiet debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because I want to ask him one simple question. If we live in a world in which people invest for profit, which is surely a sensible thing to do, how is it that in this knacker's yard of an economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "orities' actions, the recovery which seemed in prospect in early summer appears now to have dissipated. In fact, output appears to have risen hardly at all in the final quarter of the year. Western Germany has also ceased to grow after its post-unification rise in output, while in France and Italy activity has remained weak. Even Japan is experiencing a notable slowing in the pace of GDP growth.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.425.4", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) is well past his yell-by date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-19", "file": "debates1992-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b6e75613fee377d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.426.5", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Everyone in the forecasting community accepts—the Governor of the Bank of England said so yesterday—that there will be a recovery during the course of this year. That would not happen if there were the kind of programme that the Labour party wants to carry into effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-19a.426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the shadow Home Secretary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "S: \"Where is the shadow Home Secretary?\"] My right hon. Friend is presenting awards at an important lunch. The Minister of State does not want to make this a political issue, but I want to make two important political points. It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports, but at the same time they have allowed another Department, the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In the last 18 months of recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "tatement on this important issue next week from the Secretary of State for the Environment? Why does the Leader of the House persist in giving the Government Supply days, as he is planning to do again next week, when he cannot find time for the proper consideration of legislation and introduces guillotines almost weekly? He cannot find time to give the Opposition Supply days, but he can find time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "ange for the Home Secretary to come back to the Chamber this afternoon and make a statement on this morning's High Court ruling in favour of my constituents David and Eleanor Bullard, and against the Government's persistent illegal use of uncorroborated computer printouts in poll tax cases in magistrates courts? The ruling puts a question mark over 11 million liability orders in England and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport and Works Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "In certain circumstances, the situation could change. There could be a general election and a different Parliament might be involved. That would make it a different issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport and Works Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape) for the way in which he moved the amendments and to my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham (Mr. Moate) for the constructive part that he played in Committee. I have no doubt that the amendments are well intentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport and Works Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Amendment proposed: No. 26, in page 7, line 43, at end insert— '(1A) Where an application has been made to the Secretary of State under section 6 above and he considers that any of the objects of the order applied for could be achieved by other means, he may on that ground determine not to make the order (but this subsection is without prejudice to subsection (2) below).'.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.553.5", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport and Works Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "out from 'relates' to end of line 13 and insert— '(a) the procedure for obtaining, or otherwise relating to, the consent, permission, licence, order or confirmation, and (b) the procedure relating to the application made under section 6 above, are wholly or partly assimilated (and in particular that proceedings relating to the one may be held concurrently with proceedings relating to the other)'.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.553.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-20", "file": "debates1992-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "e7f0e42fc30a059e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the Government Whip has not moved the 10 o'clock business motion, did he make any change to the information on the Annunciator? As you have seen, Mr. Speaker, there is a petition on the Order Paper and it seems unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-20a.570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "self is informative. When I consider their solemn pledges about the freedom of the press, which I wholeheatedly support and which I have tried to introduce legislation to support, I find that when it comes to identifying great issues it is not for the hoi-polloi of the House of Commons or the people of this country to be troubled with the great stirrings that underlie these constitutional changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "rinciple—attestation, as Burke would say, that our electorates give either consent or acquiescence. If we truncate our debates and do not weigh their views, we are contemptuous of our electorates and they, in turn, are contemptuous of us. I have never known the standing of Members of Parliament to be so low. I see people shudder almost as we pass and say, \"You are only in it for what you can get\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": " which to entrench something as important as democracy. The Maastricht treaty reinforces our determination to retain democracy in Britain by telling us that if we abandon democracy, we will no longer be members of the European Community. That is good for Britain, which—it will come as no surprise to the House to hear me say this, as a Liberal Democrat—has the greatest democratic deficit in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "wnhills was correct to introduce the Bill. I start from the same premise as my hon. Friend. I was sent here by no other device than the people of Beverley, who decided that I should come to the House. I represent them for the term of this Parliament and, at the end of that term, they will decide whether I stay. I think that they will probably decide that I should stay at the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "where the marker points are in that argument, but I am less clear about what will happen once they leave the scene. There will be other faces who may take a different view about the whole proposition. Consequently, if as a Member of Parliament I give way now, that will open the door for someone in the future to say yes, notwithstanding the fact that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "e judgment. One can go on for hours on this sort of mobile pattern. It is rather like those toys that we had years ago that hang from the ceiling. A balance of judgment is involved and we could argue for years. In the end, it will be for the European Court to decide whether subsidiarity applies. I close on the matter of citizenship. All of us here are proud of being citizens of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.611.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Opposition Benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because I am trying to keep my remarks brief. It is important for such complicated issues to be understood by hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-21", "file": "debates1992-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba2c03e6cce3f0ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Opposition Benches?\"] Yes it is important that it should be understood by the empty Opposition Benches. The way in which the House functions in controlling legislation is extremely weak and, in many ways, lax. That is also one of the problems with the nature of Members of Parliament. We have set up a number of Select Committees to examine European legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-21a.642.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.667.7", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The arguments for nuclear electricity were different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.667.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "To ask the Minister for the Arts, what plans he has for the European arts festival,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it be possible to refer to the death in the Netherlands of Mrs. Kate ter Horst? She was a very brave person during the battle for Arnhem in September 1944. Would you consider writing a letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.686.7", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The quotes were to be used by a Minister in the House. Is that not tantamount to misleading the House? Is that not an appalling practice and a matter for you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.686.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "nto which he has entered in opposition\".—[ 0fficial Report, 7 March 1983; Vol. 38, c. 576.] What an indictment of the right hon. Gentleman that those words are as true today as they were nine years ago. The criticism of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook —he is smirking—by his own party members does not stop there. The former Northern Ireland Secretary, Roy Mason, speaking in the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and he makes my point with a precision that I wish I had used. They would have been detained under the PTA. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for pointing up the argument that I was trying to address. As they would have been detained under the PTA, they would not have enjoyed any of the protection that would have been available to them under PACE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "London Docklands Railway (Lewisham, etc.) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has heard those words before and he will hear them many more times from me. The Channel tunnel project has been a remarkable success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "London Docklands Railway (Lewisham, etc.) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "klands. Actually, I enjoyed the concert al the London Arena with my step-lad and his girlfriend. We travelled on the docklands light railway but halfway through the concert it was announced that the light railway would not be running at the end of the concert. So we were trapped in the arena and had to walk back in the pouring rain. I am told that that is not the first time that that has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "London Docklands Railway (Lewisham, etc.) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's demand was most reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "London Docklands Railway (Lewisham, etc.) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's demand was most reasonable. [Interruption.] I see that one of the Conservative Members who represents Lewisham has walked into the Chamber. The hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Maples) has an important role in the Treasury: he can borrow the money. I am pleased that he has walked in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-24", "file": "debates1992-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c00431186bda451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "London Docklands Railway (Lewisham, etc.) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "e here now. The other one, the hon. Member for Lewisham, East (Mr. Moynihan), has had to take time off to decide which one of his brothers should get a knighthood. These gentlemen could borrow the money so that my hon. Friend's constituents were given the environment that they deserve and the compensation that they deserve. I have no intention of talking out the Bill, and I have tried to be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-24a.774.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-25", "file": "debates1992-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d8c5a268bf2e202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.797.7", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "Yes, I definitely want to do that. First, I want to draw the attention of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.797.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-25", "file": "debates1992-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d8c5a268bf2e202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard this before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said a very short time ago that \"If\" Government borrowing takes the strain, taxes—not just our taxes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-25", "file": "debates1992-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d8c5a268bf2e202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Offending on Bail", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " to find every reason and excuse for crime other than the individual responsibility of the criminal. I do not agree. He says that we are producing tough measures at the end of this Parliament. We have introduced tougher penalties during our years in office and the Labour party has voted against them. When we introduced the Criminal Justice Bill in 1991 the Labour party voted against the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.819.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-25", "file": "debates1992-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d8c5a268bf2e202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " also made their intentions clear. Much of the Bill is a hidden agenda. It is difficult for the Secretary of State for Education and Science to hide anything under a bushel, so the intentions for education have been made clear. We need to make them even clearer today. The guidance to the commission says: The number of schools operating as grant-maintained … is likely to rise significantly\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-25a.835.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Elimination of Poverty in Retirement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " that, during the lifetime of a Parliament, we should make the state old-age pension half average earnings for a couple and a third for a single pensioner. That would be a considerable increase and would bring us roughly in line with the average rate of old-age pension in comparable industrial economies around the world. If other countries can pay such levels of pension, it can be done in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "rrent of words has ever been unleashed in the history of human civilisation than by the right hon. Gentleman, it is not easy to find much that he has had to say on the subject of inflation. I have had his conference speeches from 1983 analysed—I could not bear to read them all myself. Is it not interesting that, while everyone agrees that the fundamental issue for the British economy is inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "s come to the point. It is beyond denial that the most fundamentally important factor for the success of British industry is low inflation; yet, in his party conference speeches between 1983 and 1988, the Leader of the Opposition did not mention the word \"inflation\" once. Between 1989 and 1991, he mentioned it only in the context of cheap debating points about the Government's record. Nary a word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.978.7", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Wait a minute; I have not finished yet. The Minister will be aware that I shall be leaving this Chamber —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.978.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.978.15", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "All right, two points. The first one is that, under the last Labour Government, unemployment doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.978.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman can contain himself, I am about to come to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ect comes up, or investment and training as the answer to everything. It is what one might call the policy of the parrot house—\"One per cent. off, pretty polly, pretty polly\"; or, \"Investment and training, quack quack, quack quack.\" Where lies the substance behind the solutions that the right hon. and learned Gentleman suggests? When will we have from the Opposition a coherent policy on inflation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "nd thousands of people, many of them constituents of Opposition Members. So I got in touch with Grand Met to see whether it had been traduced by the Daily Express. On only one example of its activities, the managed pub business, Grand Met has costed the combined impact of the minimum wage and atypical workers' directives at £15 million a year. That is the reality of the impact of the minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": ", there were eight speakers from the Labour Back Benches. Four of them advocated devaluation or are exponents of it. Unlike some of his hon. Friends, I am prepared to accept that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East would not want to devalue the currency. So what premium would a Labour Government be prepared to pay to prove to the international markets that they would not devalue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.984.4", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": ". I ask: when is a recovery package not a recovery package? Answer: when it is a piece of nonsense like this one. I hope that today we will discover something more concrete and more persuasive about the Labour party's policy on inflation. At the moment, Labour's economic policy is a bit like a haggis—for most people it is okay only as long as they do not think too much about what has gone into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No. This was at a time when Britain was a heavy net importer of oil. By 1979 when Labour left office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.986.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.987.4", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "9. There were other factors which affected the rate of inflation, but these were within the Government's discretion. Earlier, the Chief Secretary quoted Sir Brian Corby on the rooting out of inflationary psychology applying to all levels of society, including the Government. The VAT rise especially was made to pay for the pre-election promise to cut taxes on incomes, and it was made in the belief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.987.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.987.8", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that our proposal for a charge on investment income above—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.987.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that we have long expressed the view that, if the exchange rate is properly managed, there is no need to take that step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I recommend that the hon. Gentleman reads the case put by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": " of the British consumer to spend, despite falling inflation and reduced interest rates. The Governor of the Bank of England is probably right to say that consumers may be making attempts to reduce their existing debt holdings in much the same way that companies … have sought to reduce their borrowings. In other words, consumers having taken on an excessive level of debt in the early 1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Well, it is an answer that satisfies me, even if it does not satisfy the hon. Gentleman. Given the problem of personal debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "out that. The only time that the Labour Government invested in a space programme was when inflation went into orbit. In August 1975, our inflation rate made us the sick joke of Europe. When I am at home, my children ask me, \"Come on; what was Labour's highest inflation rate?\" I say, \"Have a guess.\" They say, \"10 per cent.\" I say no. They ask, \"11 per cent?\" I say, \"Sorry.\" They say, \"12 per cent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "invested in a space programme was when inflation went into orbit. In August 1975, our inflation rate made us the sick joke of Europe. When I am at home, my children ask me, \"Come on; what was Labour's highest inflation rate?\" I say, \"Have a guess.\" They say, \"10 per cent.\" I say no. They ask, \"11 per cent?\" I say, \"Sorry.\" They say, \"12 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"13 per cent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ugust 1975, our inflation rate made us the sick joke of Europe. When I am at home, my children ask me, \"Come on; what was Labour's highest inflation rate?\" I say, \"Have a guess.\" They say, \"10 per cent.\" I say no. They ask, \"11 per cent?\" I say, \"Sorry.\" They say, \"12 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"13 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"It can't have been 14 per cent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ade us the sick joke of Europe. When I am at home, my children ask me, \"Come on; what was Labour's highest inflation rate?\" I say, \"Have a guess.\" They say, \"10 per cent.\" I say no. They ask, \"11 per cent?\" I say, \"Sorry.\" They say, \"12 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"13 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"It can't have been 14 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] \"15?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Morel They say, \"Oh come on, dad; you've got to be joking. Was it 17?\" (HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": ". When I am at home, my children ask me, \"Come on; what was Labour's highest inflation rate?\" I say, \"Have a guess.\" They say, \"10 per cent.\" I say no. They ask, \"11 per cent?\" I say, \"Sorry.\" They say, \"12 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"13 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] They say, \"It can't have been 14 per cent.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"] \"15?\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"] \"16?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "preceding_text": " the other members of the European Community. Our determination to do that, which was confirmed to me just a fortnight ago, already impresses people, not from the European Parliament, but from the other member Governments. I am proud of that. When the Chief Secretary was talking about pretty polly parrots, he reminded me of the Greek story about Echo. She was a nymph who went to Hera, her mother —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": " and all that goes with it—for their local councils have no houses to put them in. The Government were responsible for the sudden boom in house prices. Their policies were responsible for the following loss in confidence. Conservatives have repeated their parrot cry tonight—it amounts to a mantra—that a Labour Government would lead to high taxation. It is one of the many myths that they put about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "control inflation. In 1990, the Labour party went further. In \"Looking to the Future\", the 1990 policy revision, there is a page on inflation. Again, there are no suggestions on how one would set about keeping it under control, but there is this amazing proposition: We propose to develop regular discussions between government, employers, trade unions and others about Britain's economic prospects\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "le of weeks later, on 18 June, the Leader of the Opposition said on \"Panorama\" that we need credit controls. Obviously, he had not read or digested those remarks. My right hon. and hon. Friends and I can forgive him. He has a little difficulty when he is let out alone, and we understand that. Perhaps the more honest comment came from him in that famous \"World at One\" interview with James Naughtie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "n inflation. It is not serious about interest rates and that shows that Labour is not serious about inflation. The Labour party recently developed or found by accident a rather convenient fig leaf called the exchange rate mechanism. We are supposed to take seriously its commitment to the ERM, but it is rather difficult to take seriously a party that apparently cannot make up its mind about Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": " During the short space of five years, the Labour party has moved from outright opposition to the European Community to fawning acceptance of anything that comes from Brussels. From the way in which Labour Members behave, one would think that Mr. Delors had a large block vote at the Labour party conference. We are supposed to take seriously that Damascene conversion by two or three Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is melting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "enchers tabled an amendment calling for full-blooded socialism. That is not even consistent with membership of the European Community, let alone the exchange rate mechanism. What I and some of my hon. Friends wondered during that debate was how many more Labour Members thought the same and would have liked to sign that amendment. We suspect that it was the brave tip of a cowed and gutless iceberg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1054.3", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ity commentators have had to say about that. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary pointed out that almost all of them thought that the advent of a Labour Government would bring an increase in interest rates. Some of them said that interest rates would go up, some said by 4 per cent., but none said that they would go down. What about inflation? That is the subject of today's debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I am in the middle of a paragraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "It is a long-term target, as we have made clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a Tory newspaper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "theless, he represents the respectable face of the Labour party. What we must ask ourselves is whether he represents anyone in the Labour party other than himself. From time to time, he represents his client down in Islwyn; but he certainly does not represent the parliamentary Labour party. Recently, we have been entertained by a series of articles in the newspapers. They started in The Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Inflation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": " subject to raise in the House, but this is a lady with a past—a very disreputable past. She used to be a socialist. That is no longer fashionable, so she denies it. She used to be very left wing. Ten years ago, she would have been the scourge of the policies that she now espouses. In the 1981 contest for the Labour party leadership, she supported the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Fire Service College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": " privatisation. He was quite candid about that. Many fire authorities are already under considerable financial pressure because of inadequate standard spending assessments. For example, SSAs take no account of non-fire emergency rescue services. That relates to people locked in or out of premises or trapped in lifts. Those of us who have a motorway through our constituency know about the enormous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Fire Service College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "hey could move? This is a recipe for disaster—for the decimation of a public service. It is absurd. A well-trained fire officer is what we have always considered him to be: a national asset, wherever he —or she—is stationed. The move to trading fund status is short-sighted. As usual with the Government, it displays more concern for the ideology of political dogma than for the safety of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-26", "file": "debates1992-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f99af7e4263b55e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Fire Service College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), when Postmaster-General, made the Post Office into a trading fund. So we are not being asked to consider a new proposal. I am a great enthusiast of the \"next steps\" agency programme. The Select Committee on Home Affairs considered the forensic science service, the passport office and the immigration service and \"next steps\" agency status was very attractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-26a.1077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister, in the last couple of weeks left to him in that office, try answering the question? Does he not recall that he has promised to increase public expenditure, to cut taxes and to balance the budget? His promises do not add up. He was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has made all those promises. He was right: those promises are dishonest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has made all those promises. He was right: those promises are dishonest— [Interruption.] I am quoting the Prime Minister, and he will hear this again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1125.5", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House find time next week to debate the future of the 999 service? It has emerged in the past few hours that British Telecom plans to hive off the service to an independent agency. That will have a massive impact on the quality of service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I do read newspapers, and I was aware of the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall) referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Pension Rebates Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "e package will cost £7·1 billion of taxpayers' money now in order to save about £4 billion in reduced benefits at some stage in the next century, so the net cost is more than £3 billion, which is equal to £300 for every pensioner in the land? Why did not the right hon. Gentleman's statement acknowledge that the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee have strongly condemned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on—answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman may feel it necessary to stress the bad side, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman also said: Who is prepared to give up £1 million to be bossed about by an institution in Cardiff? He also said: A new slab of Government in the form of a Welsh assembly would turn into yet another costly millstone around the necks of the people of Wales. I agree with those comments, and I agree even more with the right hon. Gentleman's comment that the Welsh assembly would take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " and I agree even more with the right hon. Gentleman's comment that the Welsh assembly would take— [Interruption.] I know that Opposition Members do not like hearing the words of their leader, but I am determined to shove those words into the debate in every possible way. The right hon. Gentleman said: that Assembly would take power and money from local authorities and the communities they serve\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Under-Secretary of State has a copy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I passed to the hon. Gentleman my only copy of \"The Liberal Democrat Pocket Guide to Reform of Government\". Could he possibly return that to me at some stage? However, I have a photocopy of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": ", I said that I had heard the remarks of the Leader of the House. It is possible to reach an agreement, and then it would not be necessary to hold a debate. That is being discussed through the usual channels, and I hope the matter will be resolved quickly. I believe that we have everything to gain from a wide-ranging debate on the imposition of a Welsh assembly, which would run Wales from Cardiff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Grist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Grist", "preceding_text": "ree major declining old industries. I should have thought that everyone would welcome that. New roads, which were cut when the Labour Government had to go to the IMF, have been constructed. I bitterly remember the dual carriageway to Merthyr Tydfil coming to an abrupt halt at Taffs Well—another project which foundered on the rocks of the overspending espoused by the Labour party in 1974–75.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "y of State and his advisory council. In this, as in so many other matters, I have great faith in the judgment of my right hon. Friend. He has shown a quite extraordinary sensitivity to Welsh feelings and aspirations, and a startling ability to fight his corner for Wales in the Cabinet. I can hardly suppose that he will remain in his job after the election: he is clearly destined for higher things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1203.4", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say that that is a piece of bloody nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-27", "file": "debates1992-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "256663c8e21a9214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Minister has been misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-27a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-28", "file": "debates1992-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f0e90447b523088c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "ary question that I put to the Prime Minister? Is that justice, Mr. Deputy Speaker? No. 6—no statute of limitations. The Committee accepted to investigate all the charges made against me, even the most trivial, including minor errors that I had already admitted. This made the case vastly more complex in its ramifications. The case, as I said, covered some 20 companies over a span of some 12 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-28", "file": "debates1992-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f0e90447b523088c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Fishery Decommissioning Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "s, although the species are different. I do not believe that we can take measures under the proposals specifically to address my hon. Friend's concerns, but I am looking at ways in which the present system bears upon the smaller fishermen, particularly in relation to shellfish, where there are real worries. May I correct an answer I gave earlier to the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-28", "file": "debates1992-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f0e90447b523088c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Fishery Decommissioning Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "This scheme could not have been introduced two years ago, because the arrangements under which the European Community operated would not have given us the opportunities to take the conservation measures that we now have.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-28", "file": "debates1992-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f0e90447b523088c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Fishery Decommissioning Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "2013;96. The hon. Lady does not normally speak on this subject, so she will understand if I say this directly—this is the timing that is inevitable given the European Community's timing. As to the hon. Lady's colleagues, I have made no further announcement today that was not clearly put in the answer to the written question that I gave last night. I am answering this private notice question today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-02-28", "file": "debates1992-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f0e90447b523088c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "North-West Region", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Edward Leigh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1\\10.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Edward Leigh)", "preceding_text": "hat we have had so often in the past few months has become wholly predictable. The House need look only at the speeches of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) to see that. I have done an analysis of his speeches. In June he made a speech on manufacturing. It amounted to 57 paragraphs in Hansard. How many of those, do my hon. Friends think, describe his policies? Was it 20? Was it 25?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1296.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-02-28", "file": "debates1992-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f0e90447b523088c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Second Reading deferred till Friday next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-02-28a.1300.32"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mrs. Alice Mahon. I call Mr. John Evans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Sometimes you shout out the names of hon. Members who are caught up in British Rail delays. It is most unreasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Moscow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady could not be more wrong. Of course I am aware of what she found in Moscow. The beef that went to Murmansk was used immediately, and the beef that has gone to St. Petersburg has been used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will know that, at last Thursday's business questions, I asked the Leader of the House to ask the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Scotland to make a statement about the changes that they propose to make to renovate and improve the A1. This morning, a press conference was held in Edinburgh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.19.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.19.6", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.19.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I have answered several letters and questions on the matter. Speaking from memory, I think that last year there were about 4,400 rejections of visa applications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "shows that he does not understand how the rule works. It requires an immigration officer to read the mind of an applicant. I am opposed to laws which require officials to read the minds of British citizens. There should be clearly determined rules to show whether a marriage is bogus or genuine according to accepted criteria. We shall, of course, keep parties to bogus marriages out of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "as in the rules. That is a concession. Secondly, applicants will not, as was originally intended, have the actions of others held against them when they apply to remain here. Thirdly, oral hearings, which, according to the Home Secretary on Second Reading, were to be allowed only after the special adjudicator agreed, are now more easily obtained. Fourthly, the period allowed for lodging an appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Sir Timothy Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Timothy Raison", "preceding_text": "ces—to do with the history of the British empire. Our non-nationals are from the new Commonwealth and Pakistan. They came here for reasons to do with the empire and in many ways they have retained their special character. It would be wrong to say that what has been suitable for us should necessarily be accepted by all other European countries as suitable for them. Their histories differ from ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEmBERs:\"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " and the Government are miles apart. That was well highlighted in this afternoon's speech by the right hon. Member for Birmingham. Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley), who once again failed to answer the relevant questions put by Front and Back-Bench Conservatives. The representative from the Liberal Democrats, the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan), saw fit to grace our proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.54.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, the 10-minutes rule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "rived at this consensus and I hope that the House will approve it. Other time-saving measures would be: first, to refer affirmative statutory instruments upstairs automatically; and secondly, to limit statutory instruments and European documents to one and half hours, regardless of the time at which they begin. Thirdly, we suggest wider discretion for the Speaker to apply the ten-minute rule Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": ". The report and hon. Members' experience show that, with each new Parliament, each new group of Members is dissatisfied with the procedures of the House or how it is run. These proposals are modest, and include two or three central points. One is that Members do not see any value in sitting through the night, as we have often done night after night. Our electorate think that we are made to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "ays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and that we should not sit on Fridays. I expect a Labour Government to offer the House a vote on those matters. Actually, a vote is not necessary, because Crossman left behind a Standing Order that could still be activated to convene the House at 10 am. A further matter is the gruesome business of dying or very ill Members being inspected by Whips for signs of life —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Faversham (Mr. Moate), I warn against the guillotine or timetabling. On occasions, we all take advantage of our next engagement. If we are out in our constituency, and people buttonhole us with awkward questions, it is always nice to be able to say that we would love to answer them, but are sorry we have got to be somewhere else within the next minute or so, so that we can duck away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the blessed and holy Member for giving way. This is a genuine inquiry, which is not my usual form of inquiry. Is it possible for me to be buried at the end of my garden if I so choose? Does the ground have to be consecrated? If I were to be cremated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Write—or pray—to the Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " from the service to which most of us are called. One of the reasons why I have not been a very successful politician is because I do not know how to get on bodies such as the Ecclesiastical Committee. If I am re-elected at the general election, could those who know how to get on that Committee tell me, because I should like to be on it, especially when Measure on the ordination of women comes up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Stratford School", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "pupils, compared with only about 180 when Newham had finished luring children and teachers away. The school had almost to start from scratch, not knowing until the last moment how many pupils and staff it would have on 1 April 1991. Instead of attacking the school, Opposition Members should join in praising the head, the head's staff, parents and pupils for their sheer hard work and determination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-02", "file": "debates1992-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ee40db007c6659ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Stratford School", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "erning body. The Government intend to assist the school to get over its difficulties and to ensure that, by whatever means necessary within our powers, the school knows what is expected of it and the right atmosphere is created to allow the head and her teaching team to get on with their job. We have not hesitated and we will not hestiate to use when necessary the powers given to us by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-02a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State recognise that the Government's inaction on this matter has resulted in \"Options for Change\" being a shambles? There has been no positive action to give hope to those communities and workers involved with the defence industry. The Government have failed to take the opportunities before them. Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.156.9", "colnum": "156", "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/1992-03-03a.156.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "But does not Dr. Jackson have a powerful point when he says that the new system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.158.10", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady were sensible, she would look in the backyard of her own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.158.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Air-to-Air Missile", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary of State give more information about numbers? He gave the raw statistics and referred to 7,000 jobs, and we gather that they will be preserved or created by this order. In the last few weeks, we have had procurement orders worth over £1 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Air-to-Air Missile", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " depends on how the companies handle the business and the number of subcontractors they use. The figure of 7,000 to which I referred was used by British Aerospace in the material that the company sent to a number of hon. Members in support of its case, saying that that would be the number of people involved in this country in the programme. I cannot give specific figures for Hughes in Glenrothes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.165.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.178.10", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Local Government (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "First, when my right hon. Friend thinks further about local communities, will he give as much weight to the importance of the views of local people as he gives to the views of local councillors and local authority associations? Secondly, when thinking about whether 23 new authorities means 23 of this and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.178.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "local education authority. The hon. Lady is absolutely right in terms of her argument when she says that there can be no guarantee that individual local education authorities will spend the full amount. But that is the weakness, not in my argument, but in the Secretary of State's, because to make his proposed system work he has to rely on individual local education authorities picking up the bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I note what my hon. Friend says. The hon. Member for Leeds, North-West is an assiduous attender here. Whatever else he may be learning from the Chinese Government, I suspect that the People's Republic does not yet have a pay review body for university academic staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ities in Manchester and Liverpool in his constituency. The list contains the names of hon. Members from Leeds and West Yorkshire, and includes the name of the hon. Member for Pudsey (Sir G. Shaw) who has in his constituency many university staff from the universities of Bradford and Leeds. The list has a surprising connection with Conservative marginals which could be affected by the student vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals in Tavistock square. For a Higher Education Minister in the current Administration to pray in aid academic freedom in defence of the line that he is taking is most unusual. I am glad to see that even the Minister can see the joke. It was a good try on the part of his officials to make bricks without straw, to coin a phrase, but I am not sure that it succeeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-03", "file": "debates1992-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c70f8c0175c01761", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tiverton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised at that contribution from the hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth (Mr. Dickens). I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Tavistock. Is it Tavistock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-03a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-04", "file": "debates1992-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8e3d898419b1f48a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on, get up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "l tax bills at least until after 9 April. The Minister of State permits himself the faintest shake of the head. Since he appears—in that careful manner—to disagree with what I have said and with the report in The Times, I invite him to assure the House that those reports are wrong. Will he deny that the Government have considered any proposals which might lead to a delay in issuing poll tax bills?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-04", "file": "debates1992-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8e3d898419b1f48a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "nnot check as they could do in any other circumstance at any other court under the provisions of the 1968 Act. We should have more time to debate that, so that others of my hon. Friends can take it up. In Coventry, as in other places, two-year-olds have been dragged before the courts. We have seen distraught families whose deceased relatives have been summoned before the court because of computer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-04", "file": "debates1992-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8e3d898419b1f48a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.362.6", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Transport and Works Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "No. 89. in page 29, line 33, at end insert— 'section 48. sections 49 to 64 (except as incorporated in, or otherwise applied by, any Act of Parliament or Provisional Order),'. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-04", "file": "debates1992-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8e3d898419b1f48a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Transport and Works Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "f 13 years of Tory rule, and there has been little that we could support. But I think that my hon. Friend will agree that this is a legitimate occasion to vote for a Government Bill, especially when we bear in mind the part that he played in Committee, helping to organise the manifold improvements in the measure. Voting for the Bill will really be voting for the numerous Labour improvements to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-04", "file": "debates1992-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8e3d898419b1f48a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Disability Living Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What are your views?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "t is a criticism of what they are saying. I ask the Secretary of State, who has great experience in this policy area, and the Minister of State, to meet as quickly as they can with representatives of Disability Alliance and other organisations whose views I have been trying to present to the House tonight. They ought not to be of ridiculous flights of rhetoric. I am simply saying that their views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-04a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.437.4", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "When the Minister next meets them, will he tell them why he stood on his head over a decommissioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.437.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.437.6", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Why he stood on his head over a decommissioning scheme which is too little, too late?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge, will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge, will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party [Interruption.] for what The Sun —I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "In that case, I will paraphrase, Mr. Speaker. For The Sun told us of members of Britain's Asian community being brought together to win the votes of that community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " the votes of that community. [Interruption.] Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that nine of his 21 guests were tax exiles in this country who cannot even vote here? Will he also confirm that he was able to tell them that the loophole in the tax law which enables them to pay virtually no tax in this country will not be closed by his Government? Finally, will he tell us whether they were asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system— [Interruption.] I am telling the truth about the health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service. They have done more work. During the first six months of operations English trusts treated 6·5 per cent. more patients than in the months before they became managed. They have treated 5 per cent. more out-patients. That is the Cook test, not mine. Why does not the right hon. Gentleman accept it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.440.8", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has made much of the citizens charter and the need for openness in Government. Does he realise that many of our citizens would like to know whether and how much Mr. Vijau Mallya, an Indian millionaire, and Mr. Adam Polemos, a Greek shipping magnate, contributed to the funds of the Conservative party?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.440.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn:", "preceding_text": "I urge the Leader of the House to reconsider the request for an urgent debate next week on car ownership and \"Made in Britain\" campaigns. After all, what message is being given to workers at Dagenham and in the west midlands by the prospect of the leader of the Labour party buying an Italian car for his daughter, and the leader of London café society driving round in a French car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.454.12", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Maxwell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "y, and, bearing in mind what the Leader of the House has said, I ask why the Tory party does not publish its accounts. The Labour party does. Why does big business give money when the Labour party gets money from the trade unions only after a ballot? If students and people who get money from the social fund have to give their loans back, why cannot the Tory party give the money back to the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.454.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. If questions put to the House are found by you to be out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I have to disappoint the hon. Gentleman in relation to his opening comment, which I think he will find will not be correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "e gone bad. The Labour party, on the other hand, is prepared to proclaim its policies from the roof tops. We will invest, modernise and train, and insist that goods are exported in the knowledge that there will be whole-hearted commitment on the part of the Government to furthering the interests of industry in Northern Ireland. Industry is not a dirty word to us: it is a basis for a sound economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-05", "file": "debates1992-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "794a4af4dc101d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I had nothing whatsoever to do with that, as the hon. Gentleman knows. I was not even living at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-05a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-06", "file": "debates1992-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a648421d106f562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.572.4", "colnum": "572", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fitting epitaph for the Government that after 13 years, having chucked 3 million people on the dole and having a public sector borrowing requirement of £30 billion, they come to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-06", "file": "debates1992-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a648421d106f562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.572.4", "colnum": "572", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fitting epitaph for the Government that after 13 years, having chucked 3 million people on the dole and having a public sector borrowing requirement of £30 billion, they come to the House— [Interruption.] —they live in a never-never fantasy land—to talk about running another gambling den'? Will the Home Secretary consult the 50-odd Tory Members who are members of Lloyd's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-06", "file": "debates1992-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a648421d106f562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrat spokesman must struggle with his conscience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-06", "file": "debates1992-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a648421d106f562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "anuary. The forthcoming election has caused that. There have been no consultations with the pools companies. We spoke to them this morning and they are annoyed that the Government have reneged on the promises made by the Under-Secretary of State, who is in his place, on 17 January. The nature of gambling in Britain is such that none of us here today even knows whether a national lottery is viable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-06a.574.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-09", "file": "debates1992-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf7a27b4dad6d121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "ieve what he reads in the newspapers about the bonus for British Rail's chairman. There is no truth in those articles. British Rail has not yet put an investment proposition to the Department for the west coast main line. It will be for expenditure in the mid-1990s. It is an extremely important investment project. The passengers charter has been warmly welcomed by many of my Back-Bench colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-09", "file": "debates1992-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf7a27b4dad6d121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in my constituency people refer to buses these days, following deregulation, as bananas because they tend to arrive in bunches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-09", "file": "debates1992-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf7a27b4dad6d121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-09", "file": "debates1992-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf7a27b4dad6d121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Trust Ports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "is done, it avoids any discourtesy to the House that is caused by having to go out of the Chamber to read the statement in order to make a proper assessment of it. In view of that, I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will withdraw his earlier remarks. In view of the complex matters involved, we have been given insufficient time to make a proper judgment of the Government's assessment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.648.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-09", "file": "debates1992-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf7a27b4dad6d121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "New Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "out giving Members decent office accommodation, so that they can be of proper service to their constituents. Anyone who has served in the House for any length of time—I am approaching 22 years now—knows that the workload of a Member of Parliament has greatly increased during the past couple of years, regardless of what part of the country we represent, or of the side of the House on which we sit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-09", "file": "debates1992-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf7a27b4dad6d121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "New Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "erally they mistakenly call it Big Ben and they see it as a symbol. Throughout the war years it was a symbol of something proud, defiant and good. One only has to travel in eastern Europe today and talk to people in Czechoslovakia, Romania or parts of the former Soviet Union, as I have done, to know that when they were depressed and suppressed they looked to this building and to what it stood for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-09a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The same survey showed an increase of more than 100 per cent. between 1984 and 1991 in the number of people receiving training paid for by their employers and seven times as many people receiving training now as in 1979. That is the reply to the Opposition's synthetic protestations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "There has been an increase in the overall budget made available by the Government for training. Negotiations between particular TECs and providers must be a matter for those TECs and providers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.738.4", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that the north-west of England is coming out of recession faster than the rest of the country? Will he also confirm that we are leading the way in many training schemes and that there is no doubt that housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "hampion the cause of the north-west in the next Parliament. The only things that could put a stop to the recovery from recession in the north-west of England and elsewhere are the policies of the Labour party—for example, the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase, the national statutory minimum wage, and changes in the law to encourage strikes. Those would be the policies to put a stop to recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.738.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "st in the next Parliament. The only things that could put a stop to the recovery from recession in the north-west of England and elsewhere are the policies of the Labour party—for example, the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase, the national statutory minimum wage, and changes in the law to encourage strikes. Those would be the policies to put a stop to recovery. [Interruption.] We shall ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.738.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.739.7", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the proposals, as attacked by civil engineers, would be a restrictive practice and would restrict the flexibility of the construction industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.739.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did answer that question. Before asking his second question, the right hon. Gentleman might have consulted the shadow Chancellor, who said last week that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.763.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.765.8", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "an will just shut up. I will answer it, no problem. We shall, next week, be offering our alternative Budget. The country will see in that how we shall have a much better offer to make to the taxpayers of Britain and to the people of Britain, who, in the great majority, want jobs, decent public services, a health service, an education system and not the bribes that the Government are offering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.765.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "amental strategy is wrong. It will do nothing to stimulate the investment that the country requires. In the middle of his statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer produced a curious little homily about the difference between public investment and private investment. The right hon. Gentleman more or less said that all public investment was somehow bad and that private investment was good. It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "ep in shot foxes. I ask them to remember what we are going to do for pensioners by means of income support and what we will do for people on lower incomes by introducing a 20 per cent. band for the first £2,000 of taxable income. That is a significant move on the Conservatives' part: the party is recognising the poorer members of society, and giving them some help in a particularly difficult time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.776.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "roposals on UBR will be particularly well received by the small firms in my constituency. Likewise, easing the tyrannical and over-rigid VAT policy and his proposals for recovering debts will be welcomed. When I was Minister responsible for small firms, there were substantial complaints about debt recovery and the way in which large firms played the credit game. They played it with enormous skill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-10", "file": "debates1992-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc5cdaeded14d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolfson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolfson", "preceding_text": "ns have been too ready to pump up or to depress the economy for domestic reasons instead of paying attention to the underlying strength of the economy and the importance of a sustainable and consistent interest rate policy. The ERM certainly provides an additional limitation within which Governments have to work, but it is a necessary discipline if we are ever to make our industrial base stronger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-10a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.840.8", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is in contact with the CBI on Humberside, I am sure that he will have noticed its comments on the Budget. It especially welcomed the measures introduced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor to encourage late payment of bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.840.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary that the Labour party, which we all know want to tax the rich, now wants to tax the poor as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.844.8", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "If we compare this stage in the economic cycle with the previous stage, we see that output is up a quarter, investment is up a third, productivity is up a half and exports are up three quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.844.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.846.6", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.846.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend seen the latest survey from the Institute of Purchasing and Supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend seen the latest survey from the Institute of Purchasing and Supply—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"] which publishes a regular report based on surveys of purchasing managers throughout British industry, studying their purchasing activities and intentions. That is an important survey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "latest survey from the Institute of Purchasing and Supply—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"] which publishes a regular report based on surveys of purchasing managers throughout British industry, studying their purchasing activities and intentions. That is an important survey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"] Clearly Opposition Members do not care to brief themselves with such important information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend has seen this survey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.847.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Does not everything that the Leader of the House has just said flatly contradict the assurances that he gave my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) and the House last week? He said that we should wait and see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.851.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.854.9", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Goodbye!", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.854.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.854.13", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "dcast, the Chancellor described 1991 as a year of achievement. Some achievement—record-breaking levels, certainly, but record-breaking levels of business failures, of house repossessions, of homelessness and of economic decline. If that is a year of achievement, what on earth would the Chancellor describe as a year of failure? Not only is there no apology from the Chancellor or the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.854.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "March 1992; Vol. 205, c. 747.] What is perhaps even more revealing is that that prediction of rising unemployment was made on the explicit assumption that growth will resume in the course of the year. So much for the Budget for jobs forecast by the Secretary of State for Employment. But perhaps we should not pay too much attention to him because, like the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Perhaps I should start at the beginning again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "0,000 people having lost their homes, and for some having lost both. The Secretary of State replied: It's been a bad recession through which most people actually have not suffered any of the consequences you have described. What country is that member of the A team living in? It is simply not good enough to dismiss the unemployed and those who have lost their homes as a minority of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.857.6", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We did not borrow on the eve of an election in 1979, as the right hon. Gentleman knows very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.857.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.857.7", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " Chancellor stands by what he said on 28 November last year. Then, he said: He asked how we are going to pay for the borrowing. We shall pay for the borrowing by borrowing—that is the normal way in which one pays for it.\"—[ Official Report, 28 November 1991; Vol. 199, c. 1062.] If the right hon. Gentleman disagrees with that, or wishes to explain his statement, I shall be happy to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.857.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The question I was asked in Birmingham was whether I would abolish the special car tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.8", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "few days that remain, I should not want to fall out too sharply with him. But he is simply wrong. We made it clear that we could not afford to abolish the car tax—and nor have the Government done so: they have reduced it. Let me make it clear that our car industry is in such a dire state as a result of the Conservative party's policies that it needs the relief that has been given on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.8", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " now means higher taxes later. If I may say so, the co-ordination and management of the Government's presentation of their Budget, particularly through the Tory tabloids, have not reached their usual skill. Those who opened the Daily Mail today and turned to the political column would read the ex-editor of New Statesman and Society, Mr. Paul Johnson, who wrote: Now Major's on the road to victory\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.8", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "lexander has as his headline, \"Lamont misses his chance\". There follows a gloomy account of Britain's parlous economic condition, stressing how serious our condition is and making statements such as this: It also makes it hard to take seriously the Chancellor's pledge that the Government will successively reduce income tax in the years ahead. The distinguished writer of the City column continues —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.859.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " the Select Committee. Undaunted, our intrepid researchers kept working, and discovered some evidence given in 1988 by the then Chief Secretary after that year's autumn statement. Perhaps that had got confused in the right hon. Gentleman's mind. On these matters, given the stresses and strains of the House of Commons, one should take an indulgent attitude but, unfortunately for the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.860.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) when she was Prime Minister, urging her to borrow ever more money. A few years ago, the Leader of the Opposition said: The vitality of the US economy has been initiated by Government … borrowing. To renovate our economy we have to generate expansion in much the same way. The question that the right hon. and learned Gentleman must answer is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.862.7", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not answered the question that I put to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.862.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are a Whip. Be quiet.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "You have not given any answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "cal colour since the end of the second world war. Despite all the benefits of North sea oil, with those revenues alone worth more than £100 billion, and despite selling off the family silver, our public finances are now in debt and in disorder. Fortunately for our country, time has run out for a party living on borrowed money and on borrowed time. The time for choice is now; it is time for Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "and the real voice of the guts of the Labour party. The hon. Member for Rhondda (Mr. Rogers) shouted out \"Cheap labour\" when my right hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) referred to Japanese investment. Even more extraordinary is that he from south Wales should shout \"Cheap labour\" when the economy of south Wales has been transformed by inward investment from countries such as Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I shall push on for a bit now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": ": This is a prudent and positive Budget—reflecting the prime importance of keeping inflation under control. Business welcomes, particularly, bringing forward the benefits of the Uniform Business Rate reforms, and the measures to help small firms and the car industry. The Institute of Directors said that the Budget was prudent, sound and correct and producing a realistic base for business recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "rd the benefits of the Uniform Business Rate reforms, and the measures to help small firms and the car industry. The Institute of Directors said that the Budget was prudent, sound and correct and producing a realistic base for business recovery. [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not like it, but they will have to deal with the business community in Britain. They do not understand for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.866.9", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "benefit to many small businesses … It has been most refreshing to see that you have listened to the recommendations put to you and have been able to act upon a number of them. The Road Haulage Association said: It was a very clever Budget. The secretary of the National Farmers Union's taxation committee said: This is a substantial help for the farming industry and something we will welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.866.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.868.4", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No. I shall push on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.868.4", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "No. I shall push on— [Interruption.] I do not think that the Labour party wants to listen to this speech, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that has anything to do with the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "has been announced, what they intend to do? Why can we not know now? I have got the back of an envelope here and the shadow Chancellor could do that for us now. After all, most of the calculations that the Labour party has made and has had to move away from, had to apologise for and give contrary explanations for in the past eight weeks, all seem to have been worked out on the back of an envelope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Up, up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "r for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) is being extremely noisy, particularly about my electoral prospects in Putney. He might ask the Labour party why it has not targeted it as a seat that it expects to win, because it knows a bit more about Putney than he does. I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman and then, I hope, he will shut up for the rest of my speech. What has he got to say for himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.871.8", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The Labour party is in a muddle and a mess, and I think that I know why. Is this a pamphlet that I see before me? Was it not published in February 1992, which is quite recent, even for the Labour party? Is it not a Labour party publication entitled \"Pocket Policy Guide\"?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.871.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.871.8", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": ". Member for Workington will rely on it to mislead the citizens of Workington, he should at least open his ears and close his mouth. Do I not see a section marked \"Fair Taxes\", and does it not say: Labour's plans—a move towards a starting income tax rate of 20 per cent.\"? We have already moved there, so perhaps the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East will tell us what the problem is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.871.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "here was terrific resistance to foreign capital. The unions held talks about whether we could allow one union for one factory. I wish that we had had one union in the port of Southampton all those years ago; instead, we had about a dozen. We resisted foreign investment for as long as we could. Now, people are building on green-field sites in some parts of the country in highly successful ventures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "businesses to feel able to hand them down to their families. We have heard very little from the Opposition about that, and it would be interesting to hear whether they propose to support the measure which has been widely welcomed by the business community as one that would be of great benefit. I do not know whether any Opposition spokesman wishes to say whether the Opposition support that measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-11", "file": "debates1992-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "758cfbb9cf1f2827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Insurance Companies (Supervision)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "annot entirely agree. We do not have a system of self-regulation: we have a system of professional regulation under statute. There is practitioner involvement at board level, but the people doing the day-to-day regulation—those who have to go out and interrogate, investigate and bring suspicious circumstances to the public eye—are all full-time paid professionals who do this work and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-11a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "e reliable as a criticism of the Budget, from the point of view of business, to listen to what representatives of business and industry have said rather than to the hon. Gentleman's somewhat partial account. They have been extremely supportive. Secondly, Labour always concentrates on manufacturing investment because it thinks that that is the one that allows it to see that figures are not so good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.957.7", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "However the Chief Secretary handles the figures, is not it remarkable that investment in the manufacturing sector is less now than it was in 1979?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.957.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman's statistics are dodgy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "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's statistics are dodgy—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"No\"] Oh, yes. He knows only too well that the proper comparison is with the growth in non-oil GDP, which has been substantially higher under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "three quarters of average earnings and from 32 to 33½ per cent. for average earnings. That compares with increases of 32·2 and 35·5 per cent.—about 3 per cent. higher—if Labour's 1978 regime had been indexed. During the same period, real take-home pay for a man on three quarters of average earnings has risen by £45 per week and at average earnings by no less than £60 per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.964.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.964.7", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "In 1980, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe), abolished the reduced rate band by saying, and I quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the average family man can rely on us for continuity when it comes to income tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "It is a constant feature of history that Conservative Governments like to bring tax down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "It is a constant feature of history that Conservative Governments like to bring tax down— [Interruption.] so as to leave more of people's hard-earned money with them, whereas every Labour Government, apart from the first Ramsay MacDonald Government, increased the basic rate of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.968.6", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have better than a debate—we have a general election, at which the case can be taken to the people. If I accurately recall my Shakespeare: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Appropriately, that quote comes from \"Love's Labour's Lost\"—and Labour will lose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.968.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.970.6", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "who fought alongside America in world war 2 share the view of President Bush that my right hon. Friend provides superb leadership in an uncertain and dangerous world? Will he also accept that my constituents are concerned that, in this general election, campaign, people should be aware that the Leader of the Opposition wanted to pull us out of NATO, to abandon our nuclear deterrent and to destroy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.970.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Mr. Speaker (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have a brief statement to make of a valedictory kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Mr. Speaker (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "eaker is a Speaker who did not call you today; and a very bad Speaker is one who did not call you yesterday. When I was rechosen as Speaker in 1987, the Leader of the Opposition came to my rescue by saying that, sadly, no hon. Member can be expected to be called on the day that he wants at the time that he wants and on the subject that he wants. I thank the Leader of the Opposition for that today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.979.3", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Mr. Speaker (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that it was Speaker Brand who created the closure by saying, \"I have had enough.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.979.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Mr. Speaker (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "er. I have absolutely no complaint about the fact that it has been easier to catch your eye today than it has been on other occasions. You have been an extraordinarily impartial and fair Speaker—so fair and so impartial that I have never been able to discover over these last nine years whether you admire me and approve of me—as I am sure that you should—or whether you think that I am a total berk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House accept that, in view of the extra hours that he proposes for Friday's business, it makes him seem somewhat foolish, given that he is the architect of the proposal to diminish Parliament's hours? That is in direct contravention of his proposals for tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "And after all those wasted hours, the hon. Gentleman still does not understand the basic principles that govern these matters. As I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.994.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " an attack on the National Minimum Wage. It upset Mr. Edmonds and caused Tony Blair to have a long discussion with me afterwards. I don't think he had fully understood our objections. As he stormed out of the studio, Edmonds said to me with all the pomposity he can muster, 'Thank you very much for that.' Blair obviously had not thought through the effects of the policy on skilled people like ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor is in any doubt about the deterioration of public services in this country, let him visit our schools and hospitals, and let him travel down our roads and look at our railways. A report today by the King's Fund reveals the problems that the health service faces under the Conservative Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " mention unemployment in his speech. Let us be absolutely clear about the scale of the problem that this country faces. In 1992, investment—which has already fallen—will fall again. Business investment, which has already fallen, will fall again. Construction and housing investment, which has fallen, will fall again. Having been bottom of the league in the European Community for investment in 1991—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1005.6", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "have lost faith in Government funding and have had to launch huge appeals for millions of pounds—not for extras, but for essential development. Disgracefully, in the Budget the Government have approved the transfer of £80 million from the health service to private medicine. A terminally ill cancer patient who needs radiotherapy for pain relief has had to wait four months—too long—to get it. I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1005.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "d. It would be far more effective to use the same sum to increase personal allowances. I do not know whether anyone has done the calculation, but for many people the additional income that will derive from the tax cut will mean that they will no longer qualify for as much family credit as they do now. Some people will be taken out of family credit and will lose benefits—such as free prescriptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "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": "I am grateful for the opportunity to sing my swansong this evening. I shall leave this place when Parliament is dissolved and there is no doubt that I shall miss it. I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment I have spent here, but one can only enjoy those moments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "for all that you have done for me as a Back Bencher and for so many others during your lengthy term of office. I do not intend to talk about animals throughout my Budget speech. I could not help but listen to the hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Haynes). I am sorry that he is temporarily not with us; I am sure that he will be back in a moment. I wonder whether he quite knew what he was talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": " electorate with its claims that our education policy is all wrong. The hon. Member for Ashfield wanted more money for his chief education officer to spend on running education. I shouted out—perhaps inelegantly— \"Jobs for the boys\". The fact that I am right is demonstrated by the fact that schools are opting out and walking out of local education authority control in many Labour-controlled areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": ". The Leader of the Opposition now seeks to present himself as a man who thinks that he can manage a market economy and manage capitalism better than the Conservative party can. That seems a little strange for a man who, only a few years ago, did not believe in markets or in the capitalist system. Just three years before he became Leader of the Opposition, he said about our free enterprise system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-03-12", "file": "debates1992-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0bfe5dfcb10cbd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARDIFF BAY BARRAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ve been read the first and second time, to have been reported from the Select Committee and to have been re-committed to a Standing Committee; and (b) the Standing Orders and practice of the House applicable to that Bill, so far as complied with in this Session, shall be deemed to have been complied with in the next Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Mr. Nicholas Baker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-12a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Finance Bill and Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "t the House approved last night must be enacted in a Finance Bill, otherwise the extra tax collected would have to be repaid. The Finance Bill provides also for the renewal of income tax and for the continuation of tax relief on mortgage interest, which are also essential. If the powers to collect income tax are not renewed by 5 May, no income tax could be collected for the financial year ahead. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Finance Bill and Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I cannot let the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Nelson) in on the secret of my right hon. and learned Friend's Budget to be revealed tomorrow because it will be revealed next week. All will be revealed. My right hon. and learned Friend made it clear in the Chamber that we shall have to work within the circumstances that we inherit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Finance Bill and Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that we have substantially increased spending on the health service in real terms, by about 55 per cent. overall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Finance Bill and Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "The House has just heard a vintage performance from one of its favourite performers. I remember the day when I had to congratulate the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) on his maiden speech, and I did so with great sincerity. I forecast then that the House might hear from him occasionally in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Finance Bill and Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "The Government Whip, the hon. Member for Derby, North (Mr. Knight) says, \"Get on with it.\" The Government Whip is responsible for the timetable motion which ensures that, if any hon. Member actually wants to debate the details of the Bill, there is no provision to enable him to do so. Coming from the cesspit of the Government Whips office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Finance Bill and Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) is another figure from the past. We can discount him. This person is still hanging around. That is surprising, bearing in mind the muddle and confusion that he has created in every Department of state that he has ever sought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1134.7", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Labour needs to answer several questions, and the fact that it chose not to produce its shadow Budget until after Parliament has been dissolved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1134.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ber for Copeland said that Labour would not produce a shadow Budget, but it has done so—not because Labour feels any need to be more candid with the electorate but because Labour has been driven to it by the number of holes punched in its proposals over the past eight weeks. My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton (Mr. Nicholson) asked about the PSBR. Among the muddles that Labour needs to clear up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "foreign holidays has doubled since 1981. That is the revolution in which my right hon. and hon. Friends and I will have so much confidence during the next three weeks. Whatever the ups and downs of the economic cycle, people realise that we have managed to improve the wealth and prosperity of the nation. We have done so by running a successful and dynamic economy. That has been achieved partly by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What minds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ment clearly say that there will be a public sector borrowing requirement for the forecastable future. In other words, there will be a PSBR over the cycle. On the Government's own evidence, the Budget will not be balanced over the cycle. An on-going, and in my view unhealthy, deficit is forecast for the future. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury had the cheek to say that we had changed our minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1167.9", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "dgy characters would be likely to get though the net. The Secretary of State could not be bothered to serve on the Standing Committee. He always likes to travel light, and he had not bothered to consider the detail of the Bill. There were some extraordinary admissions in Committee by the Minister of State and the Under-Secretary of State about freelance inspectors who would be roaming the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1167.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the Secretary of State will get away with that. He argues in the same way every time. He knows as well as we do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1192.3", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ducation. The Government frequently tell us that expenditure on education has nothing to do with the outcome. That is an interesting argument. Conservative Members have made it clear time and again that they are so concerned about the quality of education for their own children that they choose to opt out of the state system, since the resources provided for the maintained sector are insufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1219.7", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a further point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are not questioning your ruling on this matter. It is", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1219.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-13", "file": "debates1992-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1734f83862d4879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1219.7", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a further point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are not questioning your ruling on this matter. It is [Interruption.] The problem with the Conservative party is that it wants to steamroller the people of Northern Ireland without even listening to the voices of the Members who represent them. As I have said, Mr. Deputy Speaker, we are not questioning your ruling. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-13a.1219.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-03-16", "file": "debates1992-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "1375130f075f2d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-16a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "British Nuclear Fuels (Warrington)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "me to move this Adjournment debate. There were some procedural difficulties, and thanks to the kindness of the House, I have been allowed to initiate this debate at this time. Like other hon. Members, I was in the Chamber earlier. I want to thank the Under-Secretary of State for Energy, the hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) because I understand that he faced some small local difficulties", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-03-16a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.2.4", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "preceding_text": "s over so many years. I believe that it will not be the least important of your duties that today you preside as the new Father of the House over the election of our Speaker. This Parliament —if you will approve the metaphor, Sir Edward—will not be plain sailing. Unusually, we have a choice of candidates. In particular, on the Conservative Benches, it seems that we have an embarrassment of riches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.2.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "eaker who will allow Westminster Hall to be used so that we do not leave pensioners freezing outside in the winter when they come to lobby their Members of Parliament. I should like the Strangers Gallery to be renamed the \"Electors Gallery\". We have never caught up with 1832 when this place was done out. I should also like a Speaker who does not wear a wig every day, because it is so intimidating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "s of those represented here. Although I am not speaking for my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, West (Miss Boothroyd), whom I support, I hope that she and the other candidates are listening. If Parliament is to survive, it must be a workshop, not a museum. For one reason or another, the years ahead will be very troubled. There will not only be difficulties in the House, but social unrest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "t is vital that the House should elect as Speaker somebody who believes in the integrity of the House of Commons and is prepared to safeguard the ability of the House to monitor the Executive. Year by year, the House's ability to monitor the Executive has been increasingly eroded. We want a Speaker who is committed to the House and to its ability to hold Governments to account. We want a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": ", the House's ability to monitor the Executive has been increasingly eroded. We want a Speaker who is committed to the House and to its ability to hold Governments to account. We want a Minister— [Interruption.] We want a Speaker who is prepared to stand up for the rights of the only organisation within the House that can effectively monitor the Government, and that is the Select Committee system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "unt. We want a Minister— [Interruption.] We want a Speaker who is prepared to stand up for the rights of the only organisation within the House that can effectively monitor the Government, and that is the Select Committee system. [Interruption.] Remarks that are not unexpected are being made by Conservative Back Benchers. Perhaps too many people come to the House merely seeking ministerial office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-04-27", "file": "debates1992-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "075fb8c282dab5ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House for long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-04-27a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": " looked up, so my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Mr. Mitchell) should watch out. I begin by congratulating—as I did 13 years ago—my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on his success in the general election. Some four weeks ago hon. Members on both sides of the House were candidates and, as we ran up to polling day, there were not many who believed that the eventual outcome would take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "fficult. But the process that the Labour party has adopted is not so much an election as an exercise in collective group therapy. The purpose of group therapy is to admit guilt and rectify the fault, and I wish the Opposition luck. The leader of the Liberal Democrats must be a disappointed man at this moment. He hoped to have the balance of power, but he has finished one Member of Parliament down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": " wish the Opposition luck. The leader of the Liberal Democrats must be a disappointed man at this moment. He hoped to have the balance of power, but he has finished one Member of Parliament down. [Interruption.] I am told that he is one up— small choice in rotten apples\". He does not have the balance of seats in the House, but no doubt he will argue that he has the balance of votes in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " foundations of sustainable recovery, we heard the Prime Minister claim last week in his speech to the Institute of Directors that half the world is queuing up for a dose of British medicine. Can the Prime Minister mean the medicine that has put our country at the bottom of the G7 leagues for manufacturing investment, economic growth and job creation for an unprecedented fourth year in succession?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "evements, it would be his education reforms. By introducing the national curriculum and asserting the need for national standards, he initiated one of the most significant reforms of the past 13 years, and one that will stand the test of time for many years to come. My right hon. Friend must be the only Education Secretary to have served in the artillery as an instruct or to the Royal Libyan army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " said anything about the reform of the method of government. Given that, as he has rightly said, he has won a fourth term—I congratulate him—but given that this was the sixth consecutive election at which a third or less of the British people have supported the Government and the 14th consecutive election at which fewer than 50 per cent. of those voting have supported the Government, when will we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.65.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.70.6", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "udging tribute to our success. Of course, that tribute was the dog that did not bark—the concealment of clause four. The Opposition dare not commit themselves to reverse every privatisation. They would like to, but they dare not. The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) would renationalise water and the hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) would apparently renationalise the lot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.70.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Toll Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.152.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-05-06", "file": "debates1992-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "97a7e8347c1c059b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Toll Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame on you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "t's commitment to progressing the scheme as a matter of the highest priority and the way in which we have managed successfully to tap into the initiative and resources of the private sector, work on the project is already under way. Within four years the new bridge will be open, when it will provide huge benefits to the economy of the area, not only south Wales but the whole of south-west England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-06a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "dmit today that that tax table is a lie? It was a campaign lie; it was not based on the truth. Those tax tables were never at the heart of Labour policy, and were never used by the shadow Chancellor. They were not produced at our press conference or in the shadow Budget. They were a lie, yet they contributed to the election of a Conservative Government. Will the Minister disown that leaflet today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Yes. The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. —Campbell-Savours) insists on calling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "llion deficit and a predicted doubling to a £28 billion deficit this year—is a result not of Government response to the recession, for which a case could perhaps be made, but almost wholly of the impact of the recession. I noticed, incidentally, that the Chief Secretary referred to the borrowing requirement of today as if it were better than the borrowing requirement of the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is referring to the centre of the lifespan of the last Labour Government, and I cannot recall whether his figure is right for 1975–76 or for the following year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "t temptation to roam over whatever territory one chooses in a debate such as this. I will resist that temptation and focus on a specific aspect of public expenditure, in drawing the attention of the House to particular problems and possible solutions to them. I refer to central Government spending via local government. I deliberately phrase it in that way, for reasons that I shall explain shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ey hand over fist. Peter Walker left office to look after the family. In 12 months he had 10 directorships, probably the equivalent of 100,000 quid. The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Lawson picked up about £200,000 for a two-day week at a bank. Those people have the cheek to talk to us about the rich and about where the money is coming from. I would have no hesitation in bringing back that money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "g turn of events. Conservative Members have been cutting defence expenditure and accusing us of being unpatriotic. I would reduce defence expenditure. I do not see the point in Britain spending more money per head of population than European countries such as Germany. I just do not see the sense of it. I know that Germany is going through some difficulties now because we have got a good strike on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.237.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " say that there will be world government. I want it. I believe that that is how we could achieve socialism on a grand scale. But I am not a fool. I see the Scots arguing the toss about breaking away from the United Kingdom. I do not knock that, if that is what they want. But what does it tell me? It tells me that they have a different culture and want to have it identified. That is the real world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " humour in some of his appointments. On this occasion, I fear that the joke may be at the expense of the unemployed. The Prime Minister likes to claim that he has some affinity with the unemployed because, for a brief period, he was one of them. The truth is that nobody who had any concern about the unemployed would have appointed the right hon. Gentleman as Secretary of State for Social Security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "curred in several other cases, not least treating pension funds as the trigger for takeover targets. On an even more urgent matter, there is no mention in the Queen's Speech of what the Government intend to do in support of thousands of Maxwell pensioners who, through no fault of their own, and to a large degree due to the Government's negligence, now face being deprived of their basic livelihood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "years of Tory government, pensioners have gained fractionally over zero per cent., because there has been no real gain for pensioners—at least for the poorest pensioners, who do not have other income, and that is what really matters. That is the difference between the parties. There was a 20 per cent. gain over five years of Labour government and virtually nothing over 13 years of Tory government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-07", "file": "debates1992-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae19e0c0d67b8398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " been no real gain for pensioners—at least for the poorest pensioners, who do not have other income, and that is what really matters. That is the difference between the parties. There was a 20 per cent. gain over five years of Labour government and virtually nothing over 13 years of Tory government. [Interruption.] My third point is something about which the Secretary of State should be concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-07a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-08", "file": "debates1992-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e41e4136d636aa05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-08a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "arge majorities, but did nothing about proportional representation. I am reminded of the analogy of the boy who takes his bat away when somebody hits his wickets, as if to say, \"If I can't bat, no one is going to play.\" Proportional representation would make the outcome of every election a hung Parliament. Italy, with its 50 Governments since the war and its 18 parties, Poland with its 29 parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-08a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-08", "file": "debates1992-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e41e4136d636aa05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-08a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "From being the second largest donor of the seven major industrial countries in 1979, we are now the second smallest. As a percentage of GNP, our aid is now the lowest ever on record at just 0·27 per cent. —what a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-08a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-08", "file": "debates1992-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e41e4136d636aa05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-08a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "tates, \"It is a mistake. How can we help you to rectify the mistake as soon as possible?\" That is what we shall be seeking to do through the Community in its dialogue with Latin American countries at the Rio group meetings. I am reluctant to respond to the speech of the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd), not least because it was out of kilter with all the other contributions to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-08a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should refer to the statement that I made to the House. He will see that the next step is the publication of a White Paper later this year, and legislation will then follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " difference of opinion on the way in which unitary authorities should be introduced. There is a great deal of dissension about the boundaries, but there is an area of agreement about the broad range of local authority functions. The hon. Gentleman may say that his proposals command widespread support, yet when they were first introduced they were strongly opposed and they were changed as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is it not extraordinary that no prosecutions have so far occurred relating to the way in which so many pensioners in the Maxwell companies have been swindled out of their pension rights and entitlements? That is quite unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.368.7", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman would like a reminder, let him consider the examples of Lords Longford. Shackleton, Caradon, Chalfont, Crowther Hunt, Goronwy-Roberts and Donaldson. It may be suggested that that was a long time ago; that is because it is so many years since we had a Labour Government. Let me deal with the hon. Gentleman's specific question. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.368.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I have the letter in front of me, and it would be entertaining to read it all to the House because on every page the words \"I will instruct\" and \"I will require\" appear a dozen times. That is exactly the role which the hon. Gentleman or future Secretaries of State should not hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I was arguing that there is a good case for public ownership, which is embodied in Labour's clause IV —which I am happy to accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "an is very good at public relations, but his ambitions for the east-coast main line seem to be to piggyback on a major slice of public investment. In the past few years £500 million has gone into that line. To cherry pick a few of the juicier bits and pieces of the railway system does not help us to judge whether private operators will invest capital in our railways. We have a complex rail system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Nicholson", "preceding_text": "of correspondence in the local press. An important matter for my constituency—it is typical of one of the weaknesses of British Rail—is the handling of freight. As a major environmental objective, we should be aiming to transfer as much freight as possible from road to rail, especially with the coming of the channel tunnel. I must report of Taunton Cider, an important employer in my —constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "We are exporting them. It is one of our little Scottish successes. Better keep your tolls and your bridges: that might discourage them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "of our little Scottish successes. Better keep your tolls and your bridges: that might discourage them. [Laughter.] As I was saying, there was a long-honoured tradition of the nervous wait. As far as I can see, that has been well and truly buried by this generation of Members. The standard, too, has risen tremendously over the years. I first came to the House in 1966 for a brief period, by mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-11", "file": "debates1992-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "bf347791392b9ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ve down that disadvantage speedily. My hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Ms. Jackson) made a first-class speech, concentrating on education. My hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster, North (Mr. Hughes) is one of a number who showed a deep knowledge of the mining industry. I am always amazed that as numbers in the mining industry decline people ask me where they all go, and I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-11a.455.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not reading from any speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.495.5", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the enormous sense of pleasure, relief and hope in the future generated by our victory at the election under his leadership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.511.6", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Environment, Local Government and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. and learned Friend will know, I have been campaigning for about 15 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.511.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Environment, Local Government and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "about £40 billion a year. But that role should be an enabling role. There are marry ways in which the local services that people need can be delivered. Local management of schools is one example. Competitive tendering ensures a choice of providers. Free from the responsibility of running a large work force, local authorities can concentrate on ensuring that local people get a high quality service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Environment, Local Government and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "arly, it will be difficult for some small schools to consider grant-maintained status on their own, but, if they join neighbouring schools of similar size, such status should be possible and even desirable. I have long argued that the principal attraction of grant-maintained status is not the additional funding received by the schools involved, but the greater independence that such schools enjoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Environment, Local Government and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "That was before the idea of the minimum wage had even passed the lips of Labour spokespersons. On the basis of the money I earned, I bought myself a suit. I still have that suit, and I can still get into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Environment, Local Government and Education", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": ")—a sort of Baedeker tour of the tourist spots of the United Kingdom. I greatly appreciated the graceful remarks made by the hon. Member for Cambridge about Sir Robert Rhodes James, as I am sure did others. The hon. Members for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Ainsworth) and for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Cunningham), neither of whom would claim a major part in the tourist guides for their constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Environment, Local Government and Education", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": "sting remarks, including showing a bit of independence, saying that he supported some of the Government's education legislation. The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) was extremely generous about his predecessor, Hugo Summerson. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Ms. Morris) was equally generous about David Gilroy Bevan and the victor in Stockport over the Liberals was very generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Education Facilities (Mid Glamorgan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, lack of time allows me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-12", "file": "debates1992-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d4863144aea4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Education Facilities (Mid Glamorgan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "rities of south Wales. General underfunding of the public education service is the problem faced and shared with other local education authorities. For example, on capital financing, Mid Glamorgan's capital building programme averages £6 million to £8 million in any one year, on a revenue budget of £240 million. No business of that size can properly exist on such a low level of capital investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-12a.593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "To the extent that I detected a compliment in that question, I thank the hon. Gentleman, but in reply to the substance of that question, I must say no. The Government believe—and I agree", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.611.8", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. All those authorities were Labour when the figures were prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.611.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rmined to conceal the extent of their failures, but, even on the basis of their own underestimation, unemployment is now at 2.65 million, or 9.4 per cent. of the work force. Were unemployment to be measured today on the same basis as it was in 1979 rather than on the manipulated basis, it would, according to the independent Unemployment Unit, be at 3.7 million, or 12.9 per cent. of the work force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.631.10", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman does not know what the table says.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The answer is crystal clear. The process of moving towards balancing the Budget is set out and set out clearly in the Red Book. The right hon. and learned Gentleman will see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.631.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " shall have a satisfactory long-term anti-inflation policy unless there is a combination of an independent central bank and the narrow bands of the exchange rate mechanism. That is the way to ensure that in the longer term we have lower interest rates. That is the only way to remove the premium that the market expects if it is to hedge itself against the belief that the currency might be devalued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "alins. He is well known to Members of the House and he was highly regarded. In an interesting, multicultural constituency he was certainly highly respected, and he made friends and, helped many people from the different groups making up that energetic community. Humfrey had one claim to fame which left me somewhat anxious. Recently, I believe that he was captain of the House of Commons rugby team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "n Heath. Judging from his behaviour, he was mentally ill. I asked myself what Parliament and democracy had to offer him. He was probably not on the electoral register. As I came to Parliament down Victoria street on my second day, I was stopped by another gentleman of 70, asking for the price of a cup of tea. I obliged with a few coins and asked him what explained his situation and where he lived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ek an assurance from the Chancellor—perhaps the Leader of the House could give it to us—that when the Bigham report is handed to the Chancellor, who was a witness to the Bigham inquiry, the Chancellor will publish that report. It is important that it is not kept hidden. Newspaper reports say that it will be kept hidden until the Governor of the Bank of England has retired. That is not good enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister: He is a caretaker who will not last. Having delivered himself of that, he proceeded to have a bit of fun, as he saw it, at the Prime Minister's expense. I have to say that it was reasonably funny. He said: 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.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "unny. He said: 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. [Interruption.] It was not bad at the time. 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/1992-05-13a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-13", "file": "debates1992-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "9b5b2350db3522b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "I wish to present to the House a petition from the residents of the Chapeltown nursing home, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-13a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-14", "file": "debates1992-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "45c66dda0cd3ba4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I welcome the increase in expenditure on prison education. When I was a prison visitor at Lancaster prison, far and away the most popular course was the literacy course, without which people could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-14", "file": "debates1992-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "45c66dda0cd3ba4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.737.7", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " promise a remand centre, at least not at this point. However, the arrangements for transporting prisoners are well organised. If the hon. Gentleman has particular complaints and would like to see me about them, I should be glad to see him. There are long journeys in north Wales. However, on long journeys the rule is that there must be a stop at least every two hours so that prisoners can get out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.737.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-14", "file": "debates1992-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "45c66dda0cd3ba4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister yet accept that a critical part of any policy for future employment is a good, strong, continuing policy on training? The figures in the Government's White Paper on public expenditure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-14", "file": "debates1992-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "45c66dda0cd3ba4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Prime Minister on his stunning victory at the general election. Will he take this opportunity to congratulate the people of Welwyn Hatfield on getting rid of a Labour administration after 13 years? Will he assure me that we shall not hold the next Conservative party conference in Sheffield and that we shall not close the conference in total darkness with fireworks going off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-14", "file": "debates1992-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "45c66dda0cd3ba4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ith their own forecasts. I have suggested how they might achieve their targets. I remain puzzled by the argument for the reduced 20 per cent. rate band. I will not dig out the papers now, but I have here endless speeches from Conservative Ministers saying that it was a daft idea, which was why it was abolished in 1981. It is not efficient at delivering its objective, which is to help the low-paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-14a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-15", "file": "debates1992-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "14efe5c9307f71d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-15a.864.2", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "the application of speed limits. Reasonable common sense must be used to bring about consistent standards or speed limits will not be respected by the public and the dangers on the road will be increased rather than diminished. Lorries often drive too fast on motorways, as do coaches. The drivers of cars and lorries on motorways sometimes drive far too close behind the vehicle in front for safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-15a.864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-15", "file": "debates1992-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "14efe5c9307f71d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-15a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": " tradition in which to follow. The House will not be surprised when I also say, with no disrespect to the hon. Gentleman, how sad I was about the publicity surrounding our excellent Conservative candidate in Cheltenham, my namesake, John Taylor. I hope that he will soon find a place in the country because were he to come here, he would quickly become an excellent Conservative Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-15a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-15", "file": "debates1992-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "14efe5c9307f71d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-15a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing attention to that important fact, and I certainly endorse it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-15a.885.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.11.6", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the welcome that he gave the passengers charter, which has been a success. It is part of the Government's initiative with the citizens charter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.11.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.21.8", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Yes, a bit slow this morning—this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.21.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"In Sweden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "They may be making contributions elsewhere. That is perfectly true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "road-building programme that is currently being undertaken. Indeed, it is salutary to reflect that even a doubling of the volume of freight traffic handled by rail would be equivalent in a typical year to only one year's growth in road freight traffic. That shows the size of the challenge and the opportunities and demonstrates clearly that we shall continue to need substantial investment in roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I was otherwise engaged. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster made a splendid speech on that occasion. I have done the hon. Member the courtesy of reading his speech with care, and I am about to take up one or two of the crucial arguments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Brian Redhead\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "f the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which is whether he is able to run his Department competently. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is the eighth Secretary of State for Transport to appear at the Government Dispatch Box over the past 13 or 14 years. I had some doubt whether the Secretary of State would continue to have a Department when Brian Redwood said during the \"Today\" programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "think that that is a red herring. However, during the election campaign, I received a letter from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) asking my wife and me to subscribe to the party political activities of the Labour party, so I think that that is 15-all. The management of the Fenchurch Street line is somewhat lacking. We on these Benches believe in strong leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.100.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-05-18", "file": "debates1992-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "9244fb2d5bd57107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.117.6", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 86 (Nomination of standing committees), any Standing Committee appointed for the consideration of the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill shall consist of twenty Members, including not fewer than twelve Members sitting for constituencies in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-18a.117.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.133.8", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shows that he can do joined-up shouting. He certainly cannot do joined-up thinking. I shall consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.133.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.141.6", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "stances surrounding an application for capital and at the local education authorities in question. Those labours are designed to ensure that resources are directed to where they are most needed. As money increasingly follows the pupil, schools able to attract more pupils will inevitably attract more funding. I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees that that makes sense and will be highly productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.141.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Soldiers' Deaths (Gulf War)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does it not show hypocrisy and double standards that, not so long ago, the Bush Administration were demanding that the two Libyans go to America and stand trial, and yet when the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Mr. Speaker Weatherill (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "ught that the motion would be passed in a routine way, but it gives us a chance to express our view now. I do not expect many hon. Members to be in the No Lobby. If we are to change the panoply of this pompous institution, let us make a start now by calling a Division. I assure the House that, even if nobody is in the No Lobby, there will be two tellers for the Noes. As I say, it would be a start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Rachel Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Rachel Squire", "preceding_text": " at Kincardine on its border with that of my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill). My constituency's history is fascinating. This year, we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Culross as a royal burgh. Next year we will mark the 900th anniversary of the death of Queen Margaret. I hope, too, that Dunfermline abbey will begin to be recognised as the Westminster abbey of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "erent speech, I should wish to comment on the way in which the Government's plans for improving the delivery of community care are moving forward at this very moment, in the way she knows. However, she was right to place great emphasis on the importance of the subject. We also heard a pleasing maiden speech from the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms. Squire), who is not currently in her place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "e list of demands which, to my great pleasure, appeared to bear a considerable resemblance to the Conservative party manifesto, thus presenting me with a rather less difficult task than some Opposition Members did. My hon. Friend spoke persuasively, and his was an impressive maiden speech. I think that I am right this time: the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Dr. Jones) is not in her place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-19", "file": "debates1992-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c310e0b2cdbf5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "orner of my constituency, he would offer to have extra men sent in and some officers working overtime. Consumers benefit from that. Now, officers in my local authority and, I dare say, authorities in England and Wales, say that they cannot employ the manpower necessary to protect people. The other day in my constituency, a terrible thing happened. A runaway car was running around a housing estate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-19a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.239.14", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "Having listened carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.239.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.257.5", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me attempt to answer the points of order that have already been raised. As to Scottish questions, I am obliged to call right hon. and hon. Members present at a particular Question Time, wherever they may be seated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.257.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "The Government are denying Scotland its democratic right to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.261.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.264.8", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t quite specifically have no direct effect in United Kingdom law. The content of the Maastricht treaty is well known to the House. The draft of the treaty was debated before Maastricht, and the treaty itself was debated afterwards— a total so far of some 30 hours of debate. What we kept out of the treaty at Maastricht is as important, in the event, as what went into it. There is no social chapter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.264.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "e, I must pursue my argument. The retention of passport and immigration controls is of great national importance to Britain. After all, we have taken more than 30 years to establish our system of immigration controls, and they are the most sophisticated in Europe. We have had to deal with migratory pressures that other European countries have not had to deal with until the past four or five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "first? This is an important issue. Faced with that dilemma, what should the Government do? They should do three things. First, they must make it absolutely clear, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister did at the Dispatch Box this afternoon, to our partners in Europe that it is an essential and important issue for us and that we are not prepared to surrender control over our frontier controls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Secretary, I constantly gave my fellow Interior Ministers that message. They had to understand the importance of the issue for Britain and for British politics, as far as all parties were concerned. It is important that we say, again and again, to our partners that we cannot make any concessions over frontier controls. We must also say that to the Commission and to Mr. Bangemann. So that is No. 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "al immigrants. If one does that, one has to police it. America has tried that to stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico, but it does not work. Large companies observe the law and medium-sized companies do not. What is more, there would have to be a series of dawn raids on employers to detect those breaking the law. So that does not work. The second argument is to introduce identity cards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.291.8", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "he also helped to clarify my mind—when he identified the premise on which his argument and that of the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney was built. He believes in the eternal utility of the concept of the nation state. Frankly, I do not. I do not believe that the nation state is anything other than a relatively recent historical invention. I do not believe that it will always remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.291.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "d to that amendment, the logical consequence is that not only the Bill but the treaty is unacceptable to it. Although Labour Members will be able to get through tomorrow without betraying splits in the Labour party by abstaining, the logic of the amendment is that they must vote against Third Reading of the Bill, because the treaty is unamendable. I merely say to my colleagues in the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on your appointment. I remember a long while ago returning from exile to Pontefract and the first meeting of an education committee under your chairmanship. It is nice to be back with your fairness and firmness once again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "y, but perhaps I may tell the House what happened in the five years when I was on the Council of Ministers and in my six months as President of the Council of Energy Ministers in 1977. A secret Cabinet Committee—we are told that the membership of such committees is to be published and it will be interesting to know whether this one is—in which the Foreign Office played a leading part would decide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ommittee of Permanent Representatives—COREPER, that mysterious animal composed of permanent officials. Sir Humphrey Applebys of every country in Europe have got together, and they say, \"You cannot do that, Minister, because we have agreed with the Dutch that if they do that, the Belgians will not object to what the Italians have said to the people in Luxembourg.\" The Minister has no power, anyway,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "d and skilful negotiators. They have managed to negotiate a treaty that will result in a victory tomorrow night for the Government. It is a true opt-out, although some of us would say that it was a cop-out because the Government are avoiding the real issue and postponing it for another day. Last week I had the privilege to return to the European Parliament. It was an important week—asparagus week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Eastleigh (Mr. Milligan) made an enthusiastic, striking and excellent maiden speech—and without any notes, as other hon. Members have already said. It was a striking reaffirmation of enthusiasm for the European Community. The good thing about that and other speeches is that they provide a balance that reflects the growing consensus in this House in favour of the Maastricht treaty", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I think not.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "and privileges of the House and, through it, of the rights, liberties and well-being of our people. The passage of the Bill would shrink this Parliament and demote the democratic safeguards of our people. Maastricht was a brilliant tactical victory, but the forces of federalism—artificially camouflaged during ratification—have yet to be banished. The heart of Bonaparte still beats in many breasts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "Can I ask my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "of the Community. Our sister parties throughout the EC will expect us not to give our blessing to everything in the treaty, but, with them, to try to correct some of the faults in it and to develop the Community to the point at which it will have the full support of all our people. There are grave divisions in the Tory party and I know that there are some dissidents on the Opposition Benches, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes some valid objections to the treaty, but will he bear in mind that every socialist and social democratic party in the European Community is in favour of ratifying the treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"No, there are two more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "mouth (Mr. Evans), who made his maiden speech, is an English barrister. One can tell them by the manner of their speech. A great English barrister, F. E. Smith, who was also a great Member of this House and a great Lord Chancellor—although he did not have the benefit of being a Scot—7;after a long dinner, which I do not suppose lasted until 5·33 am, was the last to speak, as I believe I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ents at this time. After all, the treaty makes provision for a review in 1996, which gives time enough to reconsider the important issues that I mentioned. I shall therefore confine my remaining remarks to two decisions that must be confronted and taken in the months ahead—the social chapter and the working time directive, and the vexed issue of the free movement of persons and internal frontiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-20", "file": "debates1992-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6b0202551d549498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not his maiden speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "gued that, particularly in the spheres of foreign affairs and interior justice, co-operation will he stronger and more effective if it is entered into willingly by the member states than if it is achieved through the mechanisms of the treaty of Rome. The hon. Member for Hemsworth (Mr. Enright), in what I thought was his maiden speech, talked about trooping through the Lobby on behalf of the Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-20a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "In contradistinction to the situation in Scotland, is there not a clear cross-party consensus in this place between the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democratic parties among others as to how we should proceed with the Anglo-Irish Agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.493.8", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister reflect that there will be disappointment across the political parties, and among democrats of no party, at his closed mind on the introduction of fixed-term Parliaments? It is wholly wrong that Prime Ministers of any party can manipulate the calendar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.493.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.529.2", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, no—unless you own Heathrow, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "policy and I have welcomed the fact that its present leader has brought it into the European Community and acknowledged that this country is there to stay and will develop within it. However, the Opposition amendments are not understood in the Parliaments of our fellow Community members. The word will go across Europe: \"The Labour party has turned again. This time it has voted against Maastricht.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I forgive my hon. Friend his language, because I know how passionately he feels about these things. He has nothing to worry about now. Maastricht means that there is nothing to worry about, because there are other ways in which to deal with the problem. We may now move on and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Irish Republic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "nts. We should be careful about Switzerland. It has been a federal country for centuries, which is very dangerous. We must sit apart so that we do not get contaminated by federalism. One essential point in terms of the new defence situation is that those countries cannot be neutral. If they become members of the Community, they must share the defence of the Community and the cost of that defence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the Father of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Southern Germany has traditionally been more right-wing than northern Germany, but the hon. Gentleman has a point. If a large number of people flow in, putting pressure on housing and jobs, there will inevitably be a reaction on politics. I do not deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "bers, of power-crazed bureaucrats in Brussels. In the 1990s, the EC will face new pressures and challenges, and the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup mentioned some of those. Above all, those challenges and pressures will come from the collapse of the Soviet empire in central and eastern Europe and from the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself. The argument of the anti-integrationists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "elors and those who share his vision even more impetus to push ahead. We may soon find that we have no control over matters over which we have some influence today, as we did when we entered the Common Market. The talk in Europe is that the European Parliament will be the centre of power, and that the other Parliaments of Europe will serve only as small administrative bodies that will have no say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a lawyer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "—welldeserved tribute to his predecessor, Sir Peter Blaker. He also revealed that he entertained some doubts about voting for the Government tonight, but managed to reassure the Whips by concluding that he would do so none the less. It looks as though the hon. Gentleman will spend some time in this place, and he has already started off on the right note as far as his political career is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unelected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " over the levels of taxation and expenditure. It is, however, clear that a single currency—here I approach the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford—involves removing control of monetary policy from national Governments. The treaty proposes that it should be handed, not to a European executive, Government or state, but to a monetary authority independent of all national Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Bullying in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to discuss the important subject of bullying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-21", "file": "debates1992-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "293105bde3b9f1b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Bullying in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "Sadly, bullying in schools casts a blight on the lives of thousands of children. The catalyst for the debate was the sad and tragic death of Katharine Bamber, aged 16, who committed suicide in my constituency on 31 March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-21a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-22", "file": "debates1992-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4ed6cf94733caf6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-22a.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that there will be no cut in milk quotas—another of our achievements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-22a.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-05-22", "file": "debates1992-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4ed6cf94733caf6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-22a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Laura Davies", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "Last October, Laura became so ill that she had to be ventilated on a machine for two months. She recovered, but soon fell ill again. As a result, she now has severe liver damage. It was agreed that Laura was in urgent need of a life-saving operation to rebuild her bowel and to replace her liver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-05-22a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I think that I heard the Minister's reply that, sometimes, restricted documents would be available. May I remind the Minister that, last year, I asked the Secretary of State for the criteria applied to the construction of safe ranges? That information was refused me as it is in a classified document. I was then sent it anonymously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " the construction of safe ranges? That information was refused me as it is in a classified document. I was then sent it anonymously— [Interruption.] Does the Minister agree that it is ludicrous for the information on the safety criteria for ranges to be classified in any way and that it is even more ludicrous for hon. Members to be refused access to that information? Is it not even more ludicrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we have one of the most effective development aid programmes of any country in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "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, as usual, remarkably selective in what he says and looks at. If the hon. Gentleman had looked at what business men have said in the period since the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Canary Wharf", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "he company, and it would be inappropriate for me to make any further comment on that at this time. There has, however, been much speculation in the media about the possible move of civil servants to docklands. I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify the position. As the House knows, my predecessor decided in February that my Department's headquarters at 2 Marsham street should be demolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Canary Wharf", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "ied. In the context of that decision, consideration is being given to the relocation of those of the Department's staff who need to remain in London, but not in Westminster. As my predecessor told the House, the Department was particularly asked to examine the opportunities and value for money of relocation to docklands. It is clear that exceptional value for money may now be secured in docklands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Canary Wharf", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's criticisms are entirely misconceived. I was astonished by the form in which they were made, because, when he held my office, docklands was renowned for dereliction—and for nothing else. Under the London Docklands development corporation, the position of docklands has been transformed, as the right hon. Gentleman knows only too well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Yugoslavia (Sanctions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman). In view of his personal announcement today, may I say how much I shall miss him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "half the saplings are cut down before they can grow into mature trees, and CTT was cutting them down. The Government replaced CTT with inheritance tax. That was important because, once more, business men could give away their assets before they died, but that was not the solution. None of us knows when we will die. People die out of turn. It is dangerous to give away shares to the next generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ack an intervention when he made the point—that special pleading usually comes when 40 or 50 new clauses are tabled by his hon. Friends for the Committee stage of a Finance Bill. I hope, therefore, that he will be a member of the Committee, when I shall ask him to monitor the special pleading with me and my hon. Friends. My hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) made his usual speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. John Redwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. John Redwood)", "preceding_text": "The Government are producing a generous package through the proposals that were announced in the Budget and are confirmed in the legislation. Our proposals will cost £400 million this year, £520 million the following year, and £325 million in the third year—a bumper package of £1,250 million or thereabouts for England as a result of the rate reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "at kind of recipe for small shopkeepers would that be? What would that do to the businesses for Cheltenham? The hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Jones) should do his homework before he pooh-poohs the excellent ideas in our legislation and before he recommends to the House the half-baked scheme that the Liberal Democrats have been talking about outside the House and have mentioned on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "I am drawn to intervene by the preposterous proposal from the Liberal Benches that the level of value added tax should be restored, thereby placing a burden on the community charge payer or, if any other way of raising the money was used, on the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "t that I have described. We want to offer more cash flow help to business, and we have decided to make the terms of the transitional relief scheme, which were always part of the original proposals, more generous. I thought that the two major parties agreed on that, and I hope that the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) will now see that it is reasonable to offer that additional assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e original proposals, more generous. I thought that the two major parties agreed on that, and I hope that the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) will now see that it is reasonable to offer that additional assistance— [Interruption.] I said clearly that the big principle in the 1988 legislation was whether local authorities had the right to increase bills themselves in any way they saw fit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-02", "file": "debates1992-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0e6b28625521e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e that the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) will now see that it is reasonable to offer that additional assistance— [Interruption.] I said clearly that the big principle in the 1988 legislation was whether local authorities had the right to increase bills themselves in any way they saw fit— [Interruption.] That was the principle that the Labour party has tried to establish in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-02a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "tate for having been unable to attend yesterday because of a constituency engagement? Is the Secretary of State now discussing specifically with his counterparts the possibility of the implementation of a naval blockade and air cargo inspection to ensure that sanctions are effective in resolving the problems, especially in Serbia? Has he had any specific discussions with representatives of Greece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Mr. Delors is a highly intelligent and dedicated public servant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems determined to go out with a bang rather than a whimper. He was wholly inaccurate on a central point. He has never heard me advocate, firmly or otherwise, full Turkish membership of the Community. He is wrong about that. I have chosen my words carefully and they have not added up to that. I will tell you why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.823.6", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is rather grudging in his welcome to what is a substantial move forward, although it has not come so fast as he would have wished. So far. I have agreed to the withholding of only one paper —for reasons which have nothing to do with the substance of the Hess question. There are certain records which still pose a risk to national security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.823.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Maastricht Treaty (Danish Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I greatly welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Maastricht Treaty (Danish Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Maastricht Treaty (Danish Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "f 244—an overwhelming majority—and rejected the hostile views which have been put forward again this afternoon. That is a sufficient basis for my right hon. Friend to continue his work. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the suggestion, as I understood it, by the Leader of the Opposition that we should go no further in Committee until we see where other countries are going is really not tenable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.844.4", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I am trying to clarify the situation. When I left the Chamber at the end of business questions last time, I was unfairly and incorrectly criticised by the shadow Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that, given time, the Secretary of State will think of even more instances, but the truth is that what he says is not borne out by the Government's inability over a long period to translate rhetoric into action. The reason is that they fight shy of and stop short of the politics of intervention which come naturally to our side of the political argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " such as rare plants. Perhaps the Secretary of State will say that that is not a problem. However, if it is a problem, I believe that the market force argument might work. If a country has a rare species of plant, for example, it is absolutely right that a company should pay the proper market price for it. I do not understand how we can be wavering about this. We played a key part in the drafting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "terms, which resulted from a United Kingdom initiative to reduce the official debts of the poorest countries. In 1990 the Prime Minister, who was then the Chancellor of the Exchequer, launched the Trinidad terms, involving a proposal to write off two thirds of the oldest stock of bilaterial debt of the poorest, most heavily indebted countries. In 1991 the Paris club began to implement those terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": ", and I shall answer it. Five countries—Benin, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea—have benefited so far. More are in the pipeline. More important is the fact that the United Kingdom continues to press for full implementation of the Trinidad terms. The latest OECD figures, for 1990, show that the net flow of all forms of resources towards developing countries amounts to £26 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "26 billion— [Interruption.] I am coming to the other figure. The United Nations debt figures appear to show that developing countries are paying more than they receive. I am sure that hon. Members have heard this before, but it has to be repeated every time because they will not accept it. The reason is an accounting convention which shows that debt foregiveness is to be incorporated as a payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-03", "file": "debates1992-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c16246c48e8132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"They do not want to understand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "t accounting terms are sometimes laughable. The fact is that when one writes off debt, it is considered to be a debt payment. That is how accountants do it and that is why the figures look as they do. The important point is that, in reality, developing countries are net recipients of resources from the United Kingdom and the allegations made on the point betray a failure to understand the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-03a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-04", "file": "debates1992-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9df1833e7af7665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been cut in half.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman, perhaps uncharacteristically, runs down what this nation has done and is doing to assist with aid. He conveniently ignores the fact that we have the sixth largest aid budget in the world, that it is one of the most effective programmes that the OECD recognises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-04", "file": "debates1992-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9df1833e7af7665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "Before we have the Maastricht debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-04", "file": "debates1992-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9df1833e7af7665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Apart from the importance of the issue which, as the hon. Member for Macclesfield rightly pointed out, my hon. Friend the Member for Perry Barr has promoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-04", "file": "debates1992-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9df1833e7af7665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Jowell", "preceding_text": "e failed to be moved by the report published last week by the Carers National Association, which drew particular attention to the amount of illness suffered by carers. One of the great promises contained in the Bill is that the level, quality and sensitivity of support for carers will be much higher than it has been in the past, but local authorities will require money if they are to achieve that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-04", "file": "debates1992-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9df1833e7af7665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Mauritius Republic Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " the British Indian Ocean territory resident in Mauritius. The answer, again from the present Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was: None. Those concerned were given considerable financial assistance to resettle and their future now lies in Mauritius.\" —[ Official Report, 24 October 1990; Vol. 178, c. 217.] That was a hard answer, and tonight I am really asking the Government to reconsider it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-04a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-05", "file": "debates1992-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f64b642ee730be09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Tenants' Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "It should be made clear that the phrase \"illegally occupied\" means, in that context, that the person whose name is on the rent book may not be the person who is occupying the property, even though that person is paying the rent. It is not the same as squatting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-05", "file": "debates1992-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f64b642ee730be09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Tenants' Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Norwood (Mr. Fraser) was not advocating anything. I hope that the Minister will read carefully in Hansard what he said because he will note that it is a complicated problem rather than a nice simple one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-05", "file": "debates1992-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f64b642ee730be09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1055.7", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Tenants' Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Let me tell my hon. Friends who have rightly raised the issue of threats to London hospitals that many of the people whom I have described—people living in old, cold properties without adequate heating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1055.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-05", "file": "debates1992-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f64b642ee730be09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Tenants' Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "le way to choose a new landlord. My experience as housing chairman in Plymouth while the process was being debated was that the 1988 legislation drove tenants closer to their landlords in an effort to fend off what they saw as an unattractive policy. It has been unfortunate, but if tenants have chosen to stay with their landlord, we must respect that choice and approach the issue on another basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-05a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "by 34 per cent. under the present Government. Under the last Labour Government, it rose by a mere 3 per cent. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is in the best position to lecture us about helping pensioners to share in prosperity. More pensioners than ever before now own their own homes, have savings in addition to their pensions and have occupational pensions. They are sharing in prosperity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Pensions Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "In contrast to the carping comments by the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ter said in the afternoon. There is a very good reason for that: we are in the habit of concerting our pronouncements pretty closely, and we did so on this occasion. Both of us said that we would proceed, as the Prime Minister said again, but neither of us gave a date on which we would do so. The right hon. Gentleman asked a more serious question about ratification—an entirely worthwhile question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Does he agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "That assurance has been given and is now on the official record. My hon. Friend the Member for Redcar (Ms. Mowlam) is a doughty fighter for her fishing constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "appraisal. At first, the Government pretended that the proposals did not exist. There was a full year's hiatus while the Government demanded that the industry put some conservation proposals on the table when the industry had already released a very extensive conservation document. The Government then went through a secondary phase of blaming Brussels for the mistakes in terms of fisheries policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Metres.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "hern Ireland. I do not know why consultation was omitted there when the Bill states that it applies to Northern Ireland. I deal now with the licensing of vessels of under 10 ft. I accept the Minister's suggestion that it was a necessary measure. If we curtail vessels of more than 10 ft, it is clear that we shall undermine what is trying to be achieved if we give total freedom to those under 10 ft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will realise that the enforcement of the days-at-sea rule is of particular concern to ports such as that in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-08", "file": "debates1992-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "520eb1fb00d570cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " as well as to fish stocks. Decisive and early action is required. That is what we are delivering. Our package is a careful combination of payments to the industry and encouragement to voluntary action and regulation. The Government are making a very substantial and clear commitment. That is highlighted by the decommissioning scheme, about which I have not had sufficient time to talk this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-08a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "What I am aware of is that, largely as a result of the inaction of the previous Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.142.9", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "And the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.142.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "What I can tell the right hon. Gentleman is that the possibility to which he has referred is clearly one among a range of others that can sensibly be considered in the uncertain circumstances that have followed the Danish referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.143.5", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I was giving the right hon. Gentleman, I hope, a straightforward and clear-cut answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.143.8", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "It is indeed a strange Government who are categorical to newspapers on one day and evasive to the House of Commons on the next. Does the Leader of the House understand that the time has gone when progress can be made on the Maastricht Bill by contrivance and manipulation? There are many of us on both sides of the House, long-standing enthusiasts for European unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.143.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "or any reason, a Member has cause to take up a matter that affects another Member's constituency, it is the established practice in the House to inform that Member. While I am on my feet, may I say this in general for the benefit of Members of long-standing and, in particular, for the benefit of new Members? In the heated atmosphere of this place, the common courtesies are far too often neglected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ave taken steps to target it better. I shall return to that matter in due course. Let me deal with one or two issues that the right hon. Gentleman raised with regard to specific actions. I do not want to spend too long on asylum and immigration matters because we shall have plenty of opportunity to discuss them this Session when the Asylum Bill reappears before the House, which it will do shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with the first question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the second point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I have already given way far more often on immigration and the primary-purpose rule than I said I would. Going back to the first and most difficult issue, many points were raised. I reassert that, in the other matters to which I shall refer and steadily work through, my main aim in respect of race relations will be to build upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "That is pure education policy. It has nothing to do with ethnic minority policy. It applies because CTCs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis (Battersea)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis (Battersea)", "preceding_text": " constituents, they have problems and they show me the opportunities they have seized. I have worked happily with them. I hope that increasingly we shall not need debates such as this, as people from different backgrounds or from different parts of the world who have come to live here feel themselves part of our United Kingdom. I remember that great Conservative candidate Lurleen Champagne saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "nitor the impact of the criminal justice system on minorities. That will both illumine the right hon. Gentleman's point and show the way to the solution of problems such as bail, which he mentioned. The right hon. Gentleman referred also to the desire of ethnic minorities to be visited by their non-resident relatives, and he spoke as though the natural wish is constantly being thwarted. It is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I am coming on to exactly that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I cannot ensure that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The Maxwell case was certainly a terrible scandal, but the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) sees capitalist plots, scandals and conspiracies everywhere. If he intervenes too many times in my speech and his hon. Friends see the names Lilley and Skinner linked together in the pages of the Official Report, they will think that he is part of a major capitalist enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Nelson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Nelson)", "preceding_text": "o the Select Committee by the end of this month. The hon. Gentleman criticised IMRO and asked whether it was competent, but that is a matter for SIB. Finally, the hon. Member for Redcar (Ms. Mowlam) did not get much change out of the City, which is hardly surprising—it is hardly likely to say to her, \"What a good idea. I'll certainly put £5 million into the kitty.\" These issues are very sensitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker, relating to Standing Order No. 130 on Select Committees. I raise the matter because it has become clear to hon. Members on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber do so quietly and not hold their meetings here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "We do not know what the outcome will be at the next general election. Perhaps I should have said that the present Government have a maximum of five years, although one does not know how the rules will be changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "re discussing tonight, by which they are taking away rights that Welsh hon. Members have had since the beginning of this century. It is not possible for Wales to expect democracy from this institution by virtue of the procedures that are being followed by the Government in this instance. It is not possible, within the institutions of the House of Commons or, for that matter, of the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "Since 1282 Wales has had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "e Minister's speech was an extraordinarily small tunnel dug between the cell in which he is trapped and the outside world to enable him to try to escape from giving such evidence. The Minister is a nice man, but his speech was an insult to the House because he did not try to present a case for taking this controversial Welsh Bill before a Committee which would be dominated by the Government Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-09", "file": "debates1992-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56775316e9496113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "ence. The Minister is a nice man, but his speech was an insult to the House because he did not try to present a case for taking this controversial Welsh Bill before a Committee which would be dominated by the Government Whips. [Interruption.] Some hon. Members find Welsh business uninteresting. It would be polite for them to go to the Smoking Room, which is where they belong at this time of night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-09a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.291.6", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.308.12", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It has been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. On much the same subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.308.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "stment is being deterred by the lack of demand and by high interest rates. Despite reductions of 5 per cent. or 6 per cent., our interest rates are still high in real terms. Industry is looking for lower interest rates. If we achieve higher demand and lower interest rates, investment will follow. Even if capital allowances of 100 per cent. were offered, without demand investment would not be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "That is an utterly predictable and hopelessly outdated response. It must be apparent to the hon. Gentleman that my constituents wanted a Labour Government because they returned a Labour Member of Parliament to represent them in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Except his constituents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "se, during the general election, he was one of the most effective exponents of our case. He exposed the weakness of the shadow Cabinet's argument and helped to ensure that in the end, faced with the choice between the economic policy and Budget proposed by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) and the policies espoused by the Government, the electorate chose the latter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Newbury is not present, but she made a useful contribution. We agree with her on one point at least—the sooner Greenham common is returned to its true purpose, the better it will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "r manufacturing industry—in a constructive spirit. We found support for the amendment from the CBI, engineering employers and the Trades Union Congress. They recognise the extent of the manufacturing crisis. They recognise, although it appears that the Government do not, the depth of the recession. Only yesterday, Government spin doctors were at work in no less a journal than the Evening Standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Prevention of Terrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-10", "file": "debates1992-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "81f8caa8c364b46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Prevention of Terrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "erhaps a euphemism for brief—speech, the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell) asserted that the reintroduction of internment would be counter-productive. We agree that it would be a recruiting sergeant for terrorists in the Province. He then asked why the Labour party was voting against the renewal order this evening. There is not time adequately to answer that question now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-10a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should make himself clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.442.13", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security clearly thought—in my view, rightly—that his position had been misconstrued and that it was sensible to make that clear. I am glad to note that in some quarters journalists have begun to question the interpretation that had been placed on a meeting which had been interpreted as a conspiracy, but which appeared to have Government Whips present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.442.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I do not know how many times I have to say this to get it understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "iry, produced one letter, the final phrase of which was that day-to-day security was the responsibility of the hospital's managers. That is not an acceptable response to such a serious crime. Five hours before the murder, a nurse in the accident and emergency department of the hospital was attacked. These are two more of the growing number of incidents in our hospitals of attacks both on patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Red Routes (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may, for her own purposes, choose to dismiss red routes as a gimmick, but no one who takes an objective view of them will do so. They are a considerable aid to improved traffic management and traffic flow. The hon. Lady knows that the Department views the Hackney-Chelsea line scheme with considerable approbation, and is considering how to advance it as soon as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Science and Technology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": ". It was surely encouraging to those of us such as the hon. Member for Motherwell, South who, in his interesting open letter to me, emphasised the importance of raising the profile of science more generally throughout Britain—which I strongly support—that Stephen Hawking's book sold such a phenomenal number of copies, giving the lie to those who say that there is no interest in science in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Science and Technology", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "preceding_text": "ent in non-price technological competitiveness, there is a substantial risk that the country will face acute balance of payment difficulties around 1996, forcing major increases in taxation, cuts in expenditure, and another major recession in the run-up to European monetary union. If Maastricht or EMU does not go ahead, the risk, of course, is likely to be greater because of the added uncertainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-11", "file": "debates1992-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "11401b035deed15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Science and Technology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": " our present problems, as we worry about pollution from hydro-carbons and so on—are going on strike to be paid the same rate as their German, Swiss and French colleagues doing the same job alongside them. That is typical of the way in which we regard science and of the double standards which exist in Britain. I hope that the Chancellor will look into those problems and take action to resolve them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-11a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "st of the CAP to consumers and taxpayers when put together will fall, and fall substantially. It will fall even if we assume that what we spend now under our existing policies would not have increased year by year as a cost to the taxpayer. It is a major saving even if we say what no one here believes, that there would not have been an increase to the cost to the taxpayer under our present system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ngs do not, except in part, give the farmer returns and support farmer income, which is what we are about. Let me run through the key elements of what we agreed. More details are available in the briefing note that I have had placed in the Vote Office. Hon. Members should be aware, however, that it contains a clear note that it is the detail as far as we have it. Discussions are still continuing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.564.3", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "e and is prepared to fight for the interests of the United Kingdom. It would have been a different story had the hon. Member for South Shields had the opportunity to apply his skimpy knowledge of the industry to the negotiations, which came to a head so soon after the election. We know why the negotiations were concluded within weeks of the election. It is not, of course, a party political matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say that it is the way the Minister tells 'em, but perhaps I should not. I begin by protesting about the fact that we are having this debate on a Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "We have made it plain where we stand. We believe that proper environmental management agreements should be made with farmers, which obviously will be funded by taxes, but no extra money will be spent on agriculture because, under the present ludicrous system, for every £3 that is spent on agricultural support only £1 goes to the farmer. The Minister agreed with that earlier today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No—the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "In \"Rural Socialism\", which is not a magazine that I normally read, you are quoted as saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's logic is impeccable, but we argue that that is not the way to tackle surplus cereal production and that it should be more dependent on the market. Perhaps I can spell out my argument more graphically by quoting an honest straightforward arable farmer, Oliver Walston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-12", "file": "debates1992-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e578535a84e0c27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "try and Europe pay much more attention to that problem. In his statement on 22 May the Minister gave little information, was self-congratulatory, and was contratulated by his hon. Friends. Today he said that he had not prepared a shopping list for the negotiations because it was not good policy to reveal the bottom line. As a former shop steward who had to engage in negotiations, I understand that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-12a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " Some of those fans who can be proved to have committed criminal offences are being charged in Sweden. If convicted, they could be prohibited from entering football grounds in the United Kingdom. Even if they are not convicted, if they can be identified, their names can be provided to other countries which may be hosting football matches. If those countries see fit, they can exclude those players—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.641.6", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.641.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Well, the Prime Minister is part of a collective responsibility, so it applies to the whole collective responsibility, does the charge of hypocrisy, Madam Speaker. There is no question about that. They are all in it together, and it is hypocritical of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Earth Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "Judging from his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), the Prime Minister appears to be unaware of the fact that, when a commercial bank writes down a debt in this country and claims corporation tax relief as a result, it does not at the same time have to cancel the debt to the developing country concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.668.5", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Boundary Commissions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bye bye!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way so early and I understand the point that he is making—but it is not just a matter of numbers. They may be the concern of the boundary commissions, but it is also a fact that in constituencies such as mine, where the electorate is down to 46,855—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.668.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Boundary Commissions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " in mind with the other parties\"— was exactly this sort of review. It was a review of the period over which the boundary commission should revise the boundaries. Because of the new arrogance of the Tory party, such consultations have not taken place in the past 13 years on any of the matters which are appropriate for consultation between the parties in ademocracy. I must say to the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Boundary Commissions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Of course not. The hon. Gentleman is simply extending the point that I have made, and I am pleased to have his support. We have always accepted that constituencies should be of different sizes in Ireland and Scotland, England and Scotland, and Wales and Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Boundary Commissions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "rent parts of the constituencies connect with each other, but across fields only, so we have to ride or walk from one part to another as we cannot go by road. That should answer any question that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr may ask. Like almost everyone else, I understand the position of hon. Members representing the Scottish isles or constituencies such as Caithness and Sutherland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-15", "file": "debates1992-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bbfd8f78db4a6dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Boundary Commissions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "n number at birth that can be activated at whatever age we decide people should be eligible to vote. At the moment that is 18 although, at some point, it may be reduced to 16. Instead of going to the clerk in the polling stations who has to thumb through a book, one's number and address would be fed into a computer terminal. It would then be easy to discover whether someone had been moving around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-15a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " cent. a year ago; it is now 60 per cent. and rising. Better patient information is produced and more is planned. There are improvements in the accident and emergency department; there are improvements in the out-patients' department; there are improvements in the numbers of patients whose appointments are not being cancelled. There are further projects to improve the intensive therapy facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the British Dental Association's withdrawal from the dental rates study group is an act of folly? Whatever the disagreements between the Government and the profession about fees, surely it is better for dentists to be fully represented in all negotiations over fees. If they disagree about the figures, is not the DRSG the correct way to discuss it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "National Economic Development Council", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "Development Council and the National Economic Development Office were established in 1962. In the 1960s and 1970s, they provided a helpful forum in which the overall economy and the performance of individual sectors could be discussed and debated. Much useful work was done then, and successive Governments in that period valued the role that NEDC played. But the era of corporatism has long passed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "National Economic Development Council", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "xically, the continued existence of the NEDC in those changed circumstances may actually have inhibited, rather than encouraged, the development of direct contact on specific issues between the Government and trade unions and other employee associations. Accordingly, and after careful consideration, the Government have decided that the National Economic Development Council should now be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not well known for his patience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many do the Government have?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I do not mind being patronised. I have broad enough shoulders to take it. I shall refer to the level of salaries later. The Opposition always complain that they do not have enough Supply days. This is only their second this Session and they have a paltry 25 Members present to launch their attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "at schemes would she cancel—which of the 595 on-going projects in South West Water area, which of Anglian Water's 210 sewage works that are being improved? How about the Severn Trent £20 million scheme at Stoke Bardolph, which is an investment of £40 for every adult and child in the Nottingham area? Perhaps she would have stopped the £30 million refurbishment of the Knostrop sewage works in Leeds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "are certainly not making light or the increases that are necessary in water charges or the difficulties they may, perhaps, cause for a small minority of customers. The fact that water charges are increasing may well have contributed to the increase in complaints about water companies received by the director general, and, possibly, to the rise in disconnections of customers, which he has reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "e that are not rationed by price. For years, we had a lack of rented accommodation in the private sector because the Labour party said that we should not have private-sector housing rationed by price. Instead, we were told that rents must be low, with the result that there was no private-sector rented housing. The same applies to water. Without a pricing mechanism, there are bound to be shortages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, from a sedentary position, talks about people dodging taxes. I find that rather rum coming from a Scottish Labour Member, when a number of Scottish Labour Members told the people of Scotland in the 1980s not to pay the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": " Labour Members told the people of Scotland in the 1980s not to pay the poll tax— [Interruption.] —and I think I hear the hon. Gentleman saying, \"Quite right.\" Obviously, he thinks that it is right for people to try to dodge that tax. It shows that he is a member of a party which favours tax dodging and fiddling. It shows how responsible the hon. Gentleman is. He is not fit to be a Member because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": " House. That record shows just how much more efficient the private water companies are than their predecessor authorities. I think that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will be pleased that companies are showing record profits. It is only if companies show record profits that people pay record tax demands, which allow for record sums to be spent on the national health service and other sectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "There have been 22 speakers in this debate, which has been characterised by some good humour, a wide range of points and, sad to say, a paucity of Members for most of its duration. I congratulate the hon. Member for Oldham, Central and Royton (Mr. Davies) on his recycled speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "by the hon. Member of Alyn and Deeside about Wales. Will he please inform his hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael) that, in the past year, investment in the Welsh water industry has amounted to £189 million. Next year, it will be £200 million. Let us compare that with the level of investment in 1978–79, the last year in which Labour held office. In real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-16", "file": "debates1992-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d480a33ac4a762d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Donohoe", "preceding_text": "Thank you for calling me this evening, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-16a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "It is good practice to include quality clauses. I am pleased that independent research has not shown any deterioration in quality as a result of competitive tendering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman understands that if one were to allow local authorities to spend their own capital receipts, that would directly reduce the amount of money that my Department could lend to other authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR FRIDAY 3 JULY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Ballot Book has been open since 2.15 pm. There can be no more signatures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "argument —it was long overdue. As the Secretary of State said, the Scots statute of 1621 was then the basis of the law. Whatever respect I have for the work of the 17th-century Scottish Parliament, I am not such a purist as my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, East (Mr. McAllion) and believe that mistakes may have been made in 1621, especially when we look at the circumstances that prevail today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "er and enabled people to keep up with their payments because they budgeted on a weekly basis. That is how people on these estates live. When I was a boy, Lawson's of Dundee went around the streets of Dundee picking up people's weekly payments. That form of debt collection was geared to suit the budgets of people who lived by budgeting from week to week. Removing that system introduced instability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) listed several contacts. He talked about the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, local accountants, Drumchapel law centre, citizens advice bureaux and money advice centres. He omitted the Scottish Consumer Council. That organisation took account of creditors. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman omitted it. Perhaps he would like to comment on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I have taken much time to examine all the consultations in detail. Further, I have met representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "nsbury causes some local concern, which is rightly reflected in my hon. Friends' contributions, should not alter the fact that some of us would welcome facing the sort of problems about which my hon. Friends have complained. I now refer, before he has even opened his mouth to make it, to the speech of the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes. The hon. Gentleman has the Adjournment debate tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-17", "file": "debates1992-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f18319499425ab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Jonathan Aitken)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Jonathan Aitken)", "preceding_text": "tutory basis for discipline in the three services. The House will be aware that it is a long-established practice for service discipline to be fully reviewed every five years by means of the consideration of an Armed Forces Bill and for the disciplinary code as then enacted to be reviewed annually in the intervening years by an order in council which is itself approved by resolution of each House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-17a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-18", "file": "debates1992-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8296b01d8b29546b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on that wonderful answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-18", "file": "debates1992-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8296b01d8b29546b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": " am on Wednesday 24 June to consider European Community Document No. 7857/91 relating to vehicle noise. There is one further piece of intelligence, possibly rather more welcome, which I can communicate to the House. The House will wish to know that, subject to the progress of business, it is proposed that the House should rise for the summer Adjournment on Thursday 16 July until Monday 19 October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1041.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-18", "file": "debates1992-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8296b01d8b29546b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1077.7", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "I notice Ministers shaking their heads. I know that it is a lot to ask, but perhaps when the Minister replies he will give us some elucidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-18", "file": "debates1992-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8296b01d8b29546b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I leave that to the hon. Gentleman's imagination. Knowing the twisted way in which he thinks, he will expect me to be going down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-18", "file": "debates1992-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8296b01d8b29546b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "preceding_text": "tenance and improvements that save lives and reduce accidents. I am currently considering road maintenance and I am conscious of the concerns expressed, although I must tell the hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friends that to travel on some of the roads in Northern Ireland as I have done recently, with the sun shining, is an eye-opener. I wished only that I had an open car and a pretty girl by my side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-18a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-19", "file": "debates1992-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "31f738bb069e8012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Recycling", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "s. I should much prefer to see pressure put on the supermarkets to make greater use of many-trip bottles, as the hon. Member for Blaby suggested. I teased the Minister slightly at Question Time on Wednesday about what washing-up liquid he used. I am not sure whether he has worked out which washing up liquid he uses at home. A product called Ecover makes great claims to be environmentally friendly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-19", "file": "debates1992-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "31f738bb069e8012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Recycling", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot largely because containers are not reusable. I cannot tell the hon. Gentleman what would happen if everyone used reusables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-19", "file": "debates1992-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "31f738bb069e8012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Recycling", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "ransport or nuclear power. I see from its recently published review that the pressure that it put on the Government over recycling led to movement by the Government, particularly over recycling credits, which were not included in the first two drafts of the Environmental Protection Bill. Only after Friends of the Earth had put pressure on the Government were recycling credits included in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-06-19", "file": "debates1992-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "31f738bb069e8012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1216.2", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN UNION (PUBLIC INFORMATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-19a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ned Friend the Home Secretary, not me. It would be helpful if the hon. Gentleman and, more particularly, his hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) could give the Labour party's view on holding county council elections next year. It would also be helpful for other parties to do so, as they would aid my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and me in reaching a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Yes. First, may I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who made strong representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.8.7", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Roger Evans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.8.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recognise that, following the Earth summit in Rio, ecological sustainability is now fundamental to all economic policy and that that has implications for economic development in Wales? Does he further recognise that west Wales has considerable potential for green developments, not least in renewable energy? What plans does the hon. Gentleman have for promoting such developments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Secretary of State for Education, who has just walked in, is showing such interest in these matters. It is always interesting to see. Perhaps other members of the Cabinet will soon walk in and instead of gossiping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": ", who has just walked in, is showing such interest in these matters. It is always interesting to see. Perhaps other members of the Cabinet will soon walk in and instead of gossiping— [Interruption.] I am willing to give way to the right hon. Gentleman if he wishes. He continues to make his remarks from a sedentary position. I hope that the Home Secretary can advise me. If the amendment is opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "he commission and should be taken into account in the forthcoming review. In an inner-city area where there is a considerable amount of demolition following compulsory purchase, there will be consequen-ces for the number of electorate who will be in that area when the constituency comes into force. The converse of the coin, which is equally important, is an area where there is continual new build—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am a little annoyed with the Home Secretary. He had a go at me when I was not in the Chamber, and he had another go at me a moment ago. I can survive that, but, as we are in Committee, I should be grateful if he would allow me to intervene now. I realise that the Home Secretary is a great Secretary of State and I am only a grubby oik—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-22", "file": "debates1992-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7124de630949c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I shall try to keep my remarks brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-22a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Dicks) is not in his place, I think that I can risk saying that if schools want to specialise in ballet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.125.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.131.8", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "Although I warmly welcome the increase in expenditure and the diversity in recent years in nursery provision, whereby we are now spending about £740 million a year on the under-fives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.131.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Madam Speaker, I suspect that the Secretary of State did not hear. I asked, will the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.137.4", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"June.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall that in February the Government announced a settlement of RECHAR and promised action with all expedition? It is now July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "Now that the Prime Minister has returned from Rio, where I hope that he learnt a lot about the environment, will he support moves in this Parliament to ban the hunting of animals, with dogs, for the pleasure of people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ion to what constitutes London and whether the present boroughs are satisfactory. Suggestions will always be made about whether a boundary should be down one street or another. The hon. Member for Hertfordshire, West said that changes are contemplated all the time. When the Government say that they are not planning anything, it usually means that they are planning something but do not want to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the numbers game which was a central part of the argument of the lion. Member for Edinburgh, Central, who asked: why had people gone from the register? I am explaining that many of them have disappeared from the register because, at least in my constituency and in Ealing as a whole, many of the housing units have been taken over by asylum seekers who are not registered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "February 1974 was not the natural next election. Those boundaries should have come into operation at the 1970 general election, but we remember why the then Labour Government decided to put off the alterations, by which time the natural bias of which I spoke had started to erode. If those boundaries had operated in the 1970 election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "My worry is that the boundary commission is planning to take the same corrupt approach to boundaries in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": " anybody in the Chamber. A series of boundary reviews of the boroughs is occurring, and the parliamentary boundary commission faces a problem. If it reduces the London seats to exactly the number that the area should have in relation to its population, the majority of seats lost would be Conservative seats. Many Tory boroughs which, unjustifiably, held on to their seats at the last redistribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "As the Member whose borough covers Thamesmead, may I point out that the hon. Gentleman is overlooking the voice of the people? Conservative Members believe in what the people want, not in what looks good on a map or in what the bureaucrats may think is a good idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "the case for some delay. This debate has been partly a London debate, but the two Ministers do not represent London constituencies. I make no complaint about that, but they should realise that in London the link between the function of a Member of Parliament and the function of local government is, I suspect, rather more intimate than in other parts of the country, not least because the functions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "preceding_text": " shall be substituted the words \"district electoral area\".'. After what we have listened to for the past couple of hours, it is interesting to arrive at the debate on this amendment. We have heard about the inviolability of London borough boundaries and about the difficulties that arise from sticking to borough and county boundaries in any revision of parliamentary boundaries in England and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-23", "file": "debates1992-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "37b311b515aeb34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "What actually happens to that money? Is it used for a specific purpose or does it just go into the fund?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-23a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.245.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—comprehend the hypocrisy of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "sside, may I point out to my hon. Friend that when a steel plant closes and a massive slimming exercise takes place, as has happened in our part of the world, where 56,000 people lost their jobs during the early 1980s, it does not necessarily mean that that is the end of the road for the communities concerned? The work of British Steel Industries and other support agencies that came into the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "do not see ballots, either within the hospital concerned or in the broader locality, as a basis for determining trust status. The public consultation phase lasts three months and provides ample opportunity for the views of staff and public to be known. The hon. Gentleman referred specifically to the Victoria infirmary and may be interested to know that I saw four consultants last Saturday morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "the authority of a rave promoter at a time when raves are going out of fashion. If attendances at his raves continue to fall at the present rate, he will soon be able to hold them in his back garden. The Government had the guts to face the electorate in a general election. That was our multi-option referendum—and the electorate of the United Kingdom turned their backs on separation and devolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, during the general election campaign in my part of the country —where there is not a single Labour Member—the number of people in my constituency, including a large number of Scots who had taken advantage of the historic Union to come south and make their fortunes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McAllion", "preceding_text": "he Standing Orders of the House because it involved legislation or expense. That ruling was given to me only yesterday. Is not that a new element of urgency, because it is important that the House has an opportunity to hear the case for a referendum on a Scottish Parliament? It may not be especially urgent for hon. Members who represent English constituencies because this is an English Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "the number of bills. Many people who are now liable for the community charge will have their liability removed under the council tax. The new bills will be based on properties, and collection difficulties should therefore be minimised. s The council tax also has the considerable advantage for local authorities of not requiring them to compile and maintain a register of those who are liable to pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " will have to make an application. But that is a fat lot of use to the authority that is planning for how many people it will have to assess as living alone. It is a fat lot of use in determining exactly how grant, business rate and local council tax revenues are to be balanced to ensure that authorities can balance the books in the financial year ahead. It is a fat lot of use, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "It is clear from the legislation that for those in the lowest band, particularly the disabled, the necessary adaptations that go to make up the valuation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.283.4", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "must prove, we should not be blind to other information available. The community charge register already exists. Just because we shall no longer apply that charge, it does not mean that we should not use the register for it. Why not use the electoral register, which exists as a method of proof? There is no need for a separate council tax register, and arguments for one are spurious. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "nt of additional information will have to be made available if the practitioners are to be able to sort out the proposed system in time for its implementation. I went some of the way with the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) when he made his measured remarks about non-payment and the aftermath of it. I do not think that any of my hon. Friends ever advocated non-payment. It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevenson", "preceding_text": "e to levy a poll tax—and that is a good Labour authority. We must examine how the Government are applying the formula for the introduction of the council tax. If the formula is as discriminatory as the SSAs, local authorities —I suspect that they will be mainly Labour-controlled authorities—will be in greater difficulty, as a result not of their inefficiency but of the Government's discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.309.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, the Government have not.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities (Mr. John Redwood)", "preceding_text": "is capped if it budgeted at or below its standard spending assessment. To those Labour Members who dismiss SSAs as inadequate, I emphassise that, in total, they increased by almost 7 per cent. this year—well above the expected rate of inflation —which built on a substantial 19.4 per cent. rise in 1991–92. We have listened to local authority representations on those issues and we have acted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. Interventions are getting longer and longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "all the other available relevant information before taking his decisions. In the case of five authorities—Cheltenham, Gloucester, Greenwich, Hillingdon and Lambeth—he decided that caps should be set at the level originally proposed. For the remaining three—Basildon, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire—he has decided that, in the light of their particular circumstances, some relaxation was justified.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "re of the local theatre. For the Billericay and Basildon tendencies theatres are persona non grata. The idea of culture has not yet filtered down to Basildon from the Department of National Heritage. Perhaps the new Secretary of State will step in to ensure that the measly £3,000 which would have kept the theatre open for an extra week to allow a children's production to be held is made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Austin-Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Austin-Walker", "preceding_text": "ur under-fives. I was struck by the statement yesterday by the Under-Secretary of State for Education. He claimed credit for provision for under-fives and said that that was important in terms not only of nursery education but of the Government's record in providing day care for the under-fives. That day care is provided by Labour local authorities in areas of acute social need, such as Greenwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "re for local authorities under a Conservative Government who attack them? Of a total of 650 Members of Parliament, 266—or 40 per cent.—are former members of local authorities. One hundred and fifty one members of the Opposition and 111 Conservative hon. Members have all had experience of local government. All those 266 Members know the evil and devastation brought about by poll tax capping orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-24", "file": "debates1992-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "98bfadec2ee956d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.359.2", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Mentally Ill and Handicapped Prisoners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "I first raised these matters on an Adjournment debate similarly entitled —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-24a.359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend said on 26 March 1991 about the foundation for the whole process of the talks. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is required, when he thinks the moment is right, to propose the transition to strand 2 after consulting the parties. I do not yet think that that moment has arrived. I look forward to it arriving and I wish it to arrive as soon as possible, but I shall not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "involved in housing matters on a local authority, I know only too well the importance of small local housing associations. They fulfil a particular need in a particular area. At this stage I am not prepared to give an unequivocal assurance to the hon. Gentleman along the lines that he requested. However, I understand the sentiments that he expresses and I am, as they say, minded to agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.379.6", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The question relates to the Home Office guidelines, and reviewing them is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, not for me. On the Nelson case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.379.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.379.6", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The question relates to the Home Office guidelines, and reviewing them is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, not for me. On the Nelson case— [Interruption.] If the hon. Lady's attention could be directed to the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.379.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.380.5", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "May I wish my right hon. Friend well in the United Kingdom presidency of the European Community? Will he ensure that Ministers work hard in the coming months to explain the immense benefits of the Maastricht treaty to the interests of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.380.9", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Since I take it that that answer is as far as the Prime Minister's reserves of courage are liable to go towards the answer yes, will he give Mr. Delors the Opposition's congratulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.380.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Fishing Incident (Scilly Isles)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "(by private notice): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will make a statement on the action by French fishermen against Cornish fishermen and their nets off the Scilly Isles last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman still does not understand the problem facing the many people who want the Government to be clearer in their language. There should be clear targets and binding commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "y from the subject of population growth at Rio. People who are opposed to abortion confuse that issue with family planning. The prevalent lobby in the United States of America is behind that view and that explains why the US has withdrawn all funding to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. We cannot ignore the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church. I make no criticism of that church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hartley Booth (Finchley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hartley Booth (Finchley)", "preceding_text": "forward. We have accepted that 0.7 per cent. of gross national product will go to help the third world, which is also important. What is rarely said is that people in this country who give voluntarily to the third world should have their gifts aggregated with the 0.3 per cent. of GNP which we already give. If one aggregates the two parts or our donations, we already meet the United Nations target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "t deliver and the conventions are to be breached, the environmental movement should consider a policy of publicly identifying those who are culpable. I would call it an exercise in environmental \"outing\". If that was adopted by the environmental movement, it would send a shiver down the spines of all those who are so readily prepared to turn a quick buck, regardless of the cost to the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "If we take the aggregate of bilateral and multilateral allocations between 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-25", "file": "debates1992-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cf7f3e8a65e672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.478.10", "colnum": "478", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I must make progress, especially as I am about to deal with an area of interest to Opposition Members. As Opposition Members know, we accept the target of 0.7 per cent., and are committed to reaching it as soon as possible. In recent years the United Kingdom aid programme has increased in line with our economic growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-25a.478.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ely how far we shall need to go. This is largely because we do not yet know what contributions might come from the United States, from Japan, from Canada, and perhaps from other sources. I anticipate that that will be discussed further at the Munich summit in a few days' time. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we agree with the social dimension, but we do not agree with the social charter itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On an issue that is so vital to the sovereignty of our country, why is the Prime Minister so reluctant to allow a free vote on this side of the House? Is the reason because he is fearful of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that the whole House would wish to thank him and his right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.593.5", "colnum": "593", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Or she.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was only one candidate for the presidency of the Commission. There was no other candidate around who was credible and who would have been likely to have the support of any other nation state at the summit. It would have been perfectly possible. if we had thought it desirable, for us to put forward a different candidate. He—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.593.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.619.5", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " pay back the money. Every Tory Member should demand that the ex-Tory Cabinet Minister pays the money back into the pensioners' pockets. I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, have constituents who were part of the mighty lobby a few weeks ago when the Maxwell pensioners pleaded for justice. I am sure that you agree that Peter Walker should put his hand in his back pocket and send the money back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.619.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "tish Coal and British Rail to get the necessary advice to enable them to prepare themselves for privatisation. He knows as well as other hon. Members that the time for detailed and legal consideration of matters relating to pensions and other matters relating to privatisation is when the House considers the main Bill, yet he goes around the country and repeats again today, and he will do it again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Particularly you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Minister has accused me and, I suspect by implication, a number of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.632.5", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "e all our discussions and despite long debates in Committee, the word \"safety\" does not appear anywhere in the Bill. I hope that both the Ministers will ensure that that obvious omission is remedied when flesh is put on the bones of privatisation for both the coal mining and the railway industries. Those of us who have worked in the railway industry are aware that safety was always a top priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.632.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.635.5", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I agree that there have been private railways in Japan for many years. Presumably those private railways themselves installed the infrastructure many years ago, and presumably they are responsible for costs of the type about which I am talking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.635.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ts such as continuous brakes on trains, proper signalling systems, the abolition of gas lighting in railway rolling stock and better hours of work came about because of pressure by workers. Those improvements cost a great deal and were consequently opposed by the private sector managers of the day, many of whom, bewhiskered and top-hatted, sat on the Conservative Benches, as some of them still do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "needed to ensure that, when decisions are taken on hauling freight, they are taken on the basis of a level playing field in terms of charging and the fiscal regime. I was asked about what is in the White Paper. I put myself firmly in the school of pragmatists within the Tory party and I want to ensure that our proposals are workable. I believe that this White Paper is rather like a Stilton cheese—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-29", "file": "debates1992-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f2fa7cad82b2d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travellers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "cestershire, West (Mr. Marland), for Taunton (Mr. Nicholson) and for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Evans). In the short time that is allocated to me, it will be impossible to accommodate all or perhaps any of my hon. Friends who may wish to intervene. However, the House will wish to note their interest and that of my other hon. Friends. It certainly suggests the need for a full debate in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-29a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Labour party is yet again up to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Labour party is yet again up to—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] When it comes to discussing the estimated cost of Trident, the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.700.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "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, as he did last year in respect of another matter, is seeking in a truly disgraceful manner to spread blame where it does not belong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.710.8", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " about crime and that no Government have provided more resources to tackle crime than the Conservative Government in recent years. He should also acknowledge that the Government have consistently ensured that the police have adequate resources. We have provided almost £5.5 billion on police services in England and Wales, which is a rise of three quarters since 1979. Total manpower is up by 30,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.710.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": " suggested by the hon. Lady. The difficulty is that were we to set the matter out in line-by-line terms, we might find that we were excluding women who had got themselves into situations of equal distress or fear which were not covered by, or set out in, a regulation. The purpose of keeping it flexible is to enable us to deal precisely with the point that the hon. Lady raised. Of all lone mothers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The noble Lady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "We are now considering the benefit side of son of poll tax—the council tax—which was introduced to save the Government's bacon after the demise of the former right hon. Member for Finchley. Should I say right hon. Lady? I must get my terms right. I do not know whether I should change the term I use, because I believe that the right hon. Lady is in the other place from today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "ined in income support. I understand that that element will be preserved and I welcome that. However, as I am perhaps unduly suspicious, the Minister might reassure us that the element in income support will continue to be paid in future and that it will not be frozen as a way of recouping money to the Exchequer. I hope that it will not be reduced in the next uprating or in any uprating in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-06-30", "file": "debates1992-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0605ee2fc484e7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "to him than that the Government's position on the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is well known. In principle, a Select Committee concerned solely with the work of the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments may be desirable, but we believe that the right way to carry forward consideration of that matter is in the context of the talks which are continuing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-06-30a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-01", "file": "debates1992-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ac95f0befa0de8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "r responded that we were suggesting interference with the free play of market forces by proposing additional legislation for care plans and a range of other issues that we felt should be covered by statutory provisions in the Bill. The Government's philosophy is clear from their record on community care. It entails abandoning vulnerable people to the free play of market forces. We are not talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-01", "file": "debates1992-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ac95f0befa0de8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I want to say a few words on the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-01", "file": "debates1992-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ac95f0befa0de8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "pendent body. The practice has been allowed to grow like Topsy. The Government intend to allow it to continue and to shift the blame to local authorities from next April. We did not intend to vote on any of the amendments and we are not complaining about the Bill, but the Minister has made me so angry that I shall be happy to hear whether my hon. Friends wish me to withdraw or press the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-01", "file": "debates1992-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ac95f0befa0de8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "preceding_text": "reminded by the business that has just been transacted, the Government's long-awaited plans for community care based on the Griffiths recommendations are to be implemented on 1 April 1993. Henceforth, social services authorities will assume full responsibility for community care of the frail, the elderly, the disabled and other vulnerable groups to enable them to live as independently as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-01a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am asking——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.956.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am asking the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.956.8", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am very reluctant to use the authority that the House has given me and I again ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw his remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.956.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.957.5", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "There are proposals for food labelling before the Council of Ministers, covering a variety of matters. We expect further proposals from the Commission on statements claiming that food stuffs have particular properties. I expect to announce shortly my decisions on the recommendations of the Food Advisory Committee's review of food labelling in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.957.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Schoolmasters\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. French", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the remarks by Mr. De Gruchy, the general secretary of the National Association of Headmasters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.959.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.960.2", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. French", "preceding_text": "It is the same Mr. De Gruchy who said recently that spelling does not matter very much. Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is just another example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.960.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.960.11", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Many people would agree with my hon. Friend that Shakespeare's works should be an important part of the school curriculum. \"Much Ado About Nothing\" is something with which the House is often familiar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.960.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ed for Albania until that country ends the abomination of public hangings. Since the Secretary of State announced today that he will visit Tirana shortly, I hope that he will make clear to the regime our disgust at its barbaric public executions. During the United Kingdom presidency, the Community should have, as a priority, agreement on positive policies for economic divergence—I mean convergence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "immediately with the parliamentary process. We have had the Second Reading of the Bill associated with the treaty which, in effect, was a preliminary ratification. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is right to say that we should wait and see how others handle the matter. I fully support that policy. Given Britain's presidency and its towering position of intellectual strength—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "nt of the European Court of Justice, that the treaty definition is a rich and prime example of gobbledegook embracing simultaneously two opposed concepts of subsidiarity. To regard the chosen formula as a constitutional safeguard shows great optimism. That opinion must be taken seriously. I quote also from today's edition of the Financial Times , which is usually fairly friendly to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "I fear that my hon. Friend was not listening; I suggest that he read Hansard . My point was that, when we were tied to the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, no one accused us of losing sovereignty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": " two years at the end of the next two years? I was amazed when I heard that Mr. Delors was our choice. I do not blame the Treasury Bench. It was a fait accompli in Lisbon. There was no other candidate for one of the supreme jobs in Europe. My protest goes no further. I know now that there has to be a pulling together behind the Prime Minister while we have the presidency of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " itself to a central currency?\" We are supposed to rise up and cheer, to say, \"Hooray! Isn't that great!\" If we are tied to a single European currency by the narrow band of the exchange rate mechanism, what freedom shall we have? It will be the same silly freedom as was provided by the Scottish pound note. Where is the freedom of the Scottish Treasury? There is none. The idea is a load of rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " A lasted for one year—and now look what has happened to it. All the Euro-sceptics are out. They have all been kicked out of the door—I am one of them. The Committee now consists of people who are basically of one point of view. I am sure that they are nice, genuine people who are kind to children and dogs—but that is not democracy. It is totally wrong. The same applies to parliamentary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ich we were told would be the direct, inevitable result of a Conservative election victory. As he contemplates those woeful circumstances, the Chancellor's mind may go back to his first significant statement as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In November 1990, he informed the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee that the recession would be—I use his well-known words—\"shallow\" and \"shortlived\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to continue? I am short of time, and I have given an undertaking as to when I shall finish. Another side effect of the opt-out strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-02", "file": "debates1992-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c55f4f4c34c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "European Community (United Kingdom Presidency)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ed a positive approach to Europe. He thought that that approach should be borne strongly in mind. It is also a great pleasure to welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Mr. Malone) back to the House and to hear him speak again. He reminded us about the dangers of centralisation and growing bureaucracy in the Community. My hon. Friend the Member for Warwickshire also made a maiden speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-02a.1053.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-03", "file": "debates1992-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "ae1aea19d2e88e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-03a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "No. [Interruption.] All right. I shall be fairer than that to the hon. Lady, since she has been very kind to me today. We hope that the White Paper will come out either soon or shortly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-03a.1131.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Dentists (Ballot)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "HS? The Secretary of State mentioned salaried dentists. Is she aware that last week we were told that there are precisely nine salaried dentists in the whole of England outside London? How far does she think it is reasonable for a new patient to travel in search of a salaried dentist? May I remind the Secretary of State that before polling day we were assured that the NHS would not be privatised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Dentists (Ballot)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "tists have always been indepen-dent contractors who could be selective about the patients whom they took on. Concerns about that should perhaps rightly be the subject of the fundamental review. Substantial resources go into NHS dental services. Last year, 30 per cent. of dentists earned more than £100,000, and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that 40 dentists earned more than £200,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Lady has informed the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn) that she would raise the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "t, however, that a persistent characteristic of the Labour party is always to resist changes that are designed to pursue competitiveness. To take the most significant of them all, the battle against inflation: inflation fell from nearly 11 per cent. in 1990 to 4·3 per cent. in May 1992, yet the Labour party resisted at every turn the steps that were necessary to get inflation under control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "creased productivity and increased performance of our work force, companies and managers are not the real world in which we must make a judgment. I ask the House to consider whether the shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is more likely to bring a dispassionate account of performance of our economy than, say, a rather more perceptive observer such as Jacques Delors, who has described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ry an opportunity to trade successfully on a scale not available in the rest of the Community. The House will also perceive another significant change about which we heard nothing from the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East, which is the performance of British exports. For the first time since the end of the second world war, Britain's share of world trade has stabilised and even improved slightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "m. Exported goods account for more than 18 per cent. of our GDP, compared to 9·6 per cent. for Japan and 7·1 per cent. for the United States. It is therefore unthinkable to argue that we arc not capable of winning world markets, because we do so with a larger proportion of our GDP than almost any other equivalent economy in the world. In the three months to May 1992, British experts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tim Sainsbury)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tim Sainsbury)", "preceding_text": " party have always been addicted to quick fixes. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) called, as he often does, for a regional policy. He never says what a regional policy is meant to be, nor does he recognise what our regional policy is now doing to help the various areas. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Central (Mr. Caborn) also referred to that point. The current assisted areas map—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.69.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "Where there are no physical symptoms. the cow is a healthy cow. If it is a healthy cow, it is slaughtered —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "y. The prize went to the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Wiggin), who joined the farmer and the butcher. Of course, he is a failed Agriculture Minister. He was sacked from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and now he has been put in the chair of the Agriculture Select Committee. He had the audacity tonight to speak against the many recommendations of his own Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, he had the opportunity to make his speech. He made a number of comments which my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) bitterly resented. That should not come as a surprise to Opposition Members, because I had a look at \"Dods\" and I saw the hon. Gentleman's interests. I found that he is a member of the Beefsteak club. That should not surprise us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " address it in the House of Commons. If the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has a press office which takes cuttings for him, he will know that scarcely a week goes by in which specialist journals or our quality press do not mention BSE and consumers' real fears. Tim Lang, who is the director of Parents for Safe Food, is a very well respected nutritionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "d the farmers of his constituency. The hon. Member for Hexham still has not had the courtesy to return to the Chamber. I say to him that the only debates in the House of Commons on BSE have been those initiated by the Opposition. The only action on BSE has been that which we have demanded. When we have specified what action must be taken, the Government have acted months and sometimes years later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t have acted months and sometimes years later. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) did not remain in the Chamber for the debate. I do not know where he has been. I suggest that he takes the time to read the record in Hansard . The information that we have on BSE has been obtained only as a result of the vigilance of Opposition Members who dragged it out of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nicholas Soames)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nicholas Soames)", "preceding_text": "hall make sure that my hon. Friend's message is carried to the industry when I attend the royal show tomorrow. The hon. Member for Workington treated my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Gill) in a most disagreeable and uncharacteristic manner. He showed a want of chivalry that was quite unlike him. However, he raised the serious issue of how the BSE agent is passed from the gut to the brain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "We want to know the turnover of staff and what are the problems. We want an analysis. If the Government can be judged by the arguments that they made in Committee, this was to be an experiment for learning about how the system works. It is an interesting experiment from which only the Government can learn because the public and public representatives are excluded from proper knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ly, that that is the direct responsibility of the state, the Government, and the House—just as they assume that the defence of the realm will be handled by officers of the realm. We would no more think of sending a brigade of mercenaries to teach the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines how to do their job than we would of expecting the private sector to tell the prison service how to run its affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "No; I shall not give way because there are only 15 minutes left, and I am not about to finish my speech. A prison will have to publish its own report and accounts to show how it has used public money, whether it is in the private sector, receiving fees for handling prisoners, or in the public sector, as now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-06", "file": "debates1992-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b30ab8bad91f8312", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Parole Board", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "angements, I think that it is worth spending just a few moments on the existing parole scheme. At present, prisoners serving more than a year must serve one third of their sentence, or six months if that is greater, before becoming eligible for parole. Every case is considered by a local review committee and the more serious cases—those serving four years or more—are also seen by the Parole Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-06a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.165.13", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that the Trades Union Congress voted last September to oppose employment action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.165.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.168.9", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The Government's record on the low paid is second to none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.168.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.175.6", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the next time my right hon. Friend meets her colleagues in Europe she will express my concern that, having been a Member of Parliament for more than five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.175.6", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the next time my right hon. Friend meets her colleagues in Europe she will express my concern that, having been a Member of Parliament for more than five years— [Interruption.] —I have yet to receive a single letter from a single constituent complaining that he has too many hours to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.179.9", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "Why don't you shut up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.179.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "ing for, there is no point in looking at the document. Perhaps the position is simply part of a muddle. Perhaps the Government have not taken the matter seriously. But I believe that the Government did not want people to know where to go to see the art treasures. Comments have been made that some well-known parliamentary names from the past appeared in the document. I will not go into those names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent bargain. I hope that anyone within a coach ride of Hartlepool will find his way to the barbecue. My hon. Friend is lucky to have rural idiocies to enjoy in his constituency at a weekend. I do not have very much in the London borough of Newham. Last Sunday we had a walk along the northern sewer outfall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "nd the separate issue of the confidentiality of dealings with the Inland Revenue. It is not necessary to break that relationship of confidentiality to have, and improve, access. They are separate matters. One is sometimes driven to the suspicion, as Opposition Members press the matter, that they are really talking about the identification of accumulated wealth and the circumstances of individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "I shall suggest some ways in which access can be improved, and discussions are taking place about that. But we need not disrupt the basic principle to which I referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "preceding_text": "has enormous difficulty in balancing the various competing claims. At the end of the day, my right hon. Friend and his Treasury Ministers must judge exactly where they can best use the resources that are available to them. I shall have no difficulty in accepting what my right hon. and hon. Friends have to say in making their judgment. They are in possession of all the facts, and they know exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "y think that that is a one-off figure but the figures for the preceding months are April: 91,000; March: 90,000; February: 89,000; January: 79,000. So if we consider unemployment in the construction industry and property transactions, the picture is bad. Unemployment continues to grow generally. Unemployment in the construction industry continues to grow and property transactions continue to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valuable point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "nt than reducing or abolishing stamp duty. That is a fundamental factor in the confidence equation. If my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary tells me in his winding-up speech that the purpose of cancelling the moratorium is not merely to fritter the money away but is a fundamental means of reducing interest rates, I shall happily support whatever he advises on the new clause. Whatever he proposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "ons show substantial increases in the turnover of property transactions as well as prices in the remainder of this year. 9.45 pm The hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) accused us of a cynical political ploy. It would have been a cynical political ploy if the Chancellor had announced the abolition or the substantial raising of thresholds permanently, won the election and then reneged on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ing £220 million—such as helping manufacturing industry or, if possible, reducing interest rates. The Government either cannot or will not do that. Because of that attitude, the new clause would help when the economy eventually begins to move out of recession. That has not begun yet, which is why the exemption from stamp duty has not really been successful—but it would be when we do begin to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel (Tweddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel (Tweddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale)", "preceding_text": "rage debt reduction. Two years later, we are asking the Treasury to take a similar step. I know that the Financial Secretary, who will respond to the debate, was a member of the board of Christian Aid, and I know also that he is genuinely concerned about the issues which have been raised. Perhaps he is more concerned than a standard Treasury Minister. I hope that he will respond positively. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.281.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the clause be read a Second time. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. To the contrary, No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne is a sponsor of the new clause. He has apologised for not being able to be here for personal reasons, which will probably appear in the newspapers tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Coe) will be grateful to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) for the retraction of his ill-judged comment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.304.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-07", "file": "debates1992-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c96eadf6ea130901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hoey", "preceding_text": "ent, and a wish to find a way forward. I realise that the issue is complicated; we all realise that. What I do not want, however [and what sports governing bodies do not want—is a continuing failure to consider the matter seriously because of the gobbledegook of Treasuryspeak. I shall take up the Financial Secretary's offer, and hope to see him next week. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-07a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.321.10", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. As the Minister is responsible for the deregulation unit, the question was probably appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.321.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.323.6", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister tell us what the reaction of the Department of Trade and Industry is to the fact that the privatised electricity industry has virtually abandoned its formerly substantial research and development commitment? What impact does he think that will have on our engineering imports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.323.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend will know, my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade played an important part in getting the docklands project going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.346.7", "colnum": "346", "heading": "\"Health of the Nation\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "To establish health targets, there must have been a great deal of departmental research and statistical estimating. Would you be able to estimate how many people will die by the year 2000 because of your inaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.346.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.372.6", "colnum": "372", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "category most likely to suffer and to be treated unfairly in the way that the Revenue pursues these matters. Other people are driven home if they work late at night—for example, the Financial Secretary. We discussed these matters in the early hours of the morning, when we considered the Bill in Committee. I walked back to my flat, but I saw the hon. Gentleman being driven home in a Government car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "at the Government are doing has been conveyed to the House by Opposition Back Benchers. I am in a charitable mood this evening, because the Paymaster General answered the debate honestly. I have been in the House for a few years now and in my time on the Finance Bill I have seen and heard Paymasters General who have been decidedly shifty in their replies on clauses. That is not the case this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "I would be the last Member of this House to accuse the Paymaster General of being shifty or dishonest at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.412.6", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "We last considered this issue at 4.35 am on 30 June. My comments were brief then because of the lateness of the hour, and I do not intend to speak at much greater length now. The amendment is intended to make the law clearer so that the clause says what we think the Government want to say and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Clause 64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " in itself would be a strong enough reason for me to vote against the Bill. Much of the rest of the Bill is innocuous. The vast majority of its provisions are totally uncontroversial and are not contested by any party. However, there are many missed opportunities. No provision is made for child care. Interestingly, that is the issue that the Opposition Front Bench abandoned in their shadow budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-08", "file": "debates1992-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "10adb324996d1bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Clause 64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Betts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Betts", "preceding_text": "of houses being built for them to rent. That would be important, but our argument is clear: the business expansion scheme was the wrong way to stimulate housing provision. The release of capital receipts for local authorities to spend would have been the right way. I shall not repeat the lecture that I gave the Minister at 5 o'clock one morning about the failure of the Government's housing policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-08a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.477.8", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am a most tolerant Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.477.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "re are little or no such signs. Indeed, there appears to be a correlation—the more that Ministers talk of economic recovery, the more the economy takes a nose dive. If that connection is right, if Ministers started talking pessimistic-ally about the economy, there might be some small sign of recovery. Due to the local election results on 7 May, the Tories, with Liberal support, now run my council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "shouts of \"Hear, hear\" from Conservative Members will not be echoed by the 68 gardeners employed by the council who have been given the sack. They will not be echoed by the council's direct service organisation, whose workers face redundancy because of the determination of the Tories, with Liberal support, to break up the organisation. A great deal of maintenance and repair work will go elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "ecommend hon. Members to start re-reading the Conservative election manifesto. I found one phrase which has particular resonance in the light of today's debate. Under the section headed \"Your choice at this election\", it says: We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again, lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for this opportunity to raise the subject of homelessness at this stage in this series of today's debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks why. The Government have been in power for 13 years and the private rented sector has continued to decline throughout that period because nothing that the Government can do will reinvigorate it. A measure of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "preceding_text": "ly required in order to prevent a crisis becoming a catastrophe\". None of that has been done. Last year there was a national inquiry into British housing in which the Duke of Edinburgh was involved. On the renewal of housing, it said: So little housing has been demolished that every new home built today in Britain will have to last 2,700 years if present trends of repair and demolition continue.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "ad had to leave home because the domestic situation was unbearable and untenable, and three had been in care all their lives until now. Each and every one of them said that they had nowhere to go but the street. They were sleeping on pavements or in doorways. The severe hardship payments which the Government usually produce to explain that those young people are not without any financial support —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "rough council? Imagine what it could do, if it collected those rents, to bring those unfit and dilapidated units back into occupation. Labour inefficiency is depriving the people of that borough of decent homes in which to live. Instead of trying to beat the Government with a big stick, Opposition Members should describe the position in the borough of Newham, which has rent arrears of £11 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Student Hardship", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "preceding_text": "is proof positive that our financial arrangements for student support have not deterred an increasing number of people going into higher education. In 1979, only one young person in eight entered higher education. It is now one in four. And, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made clear at Portsmouth recently, we now expect participation to reach one in three well before the year 2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Latin America", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "preceding_text": "ngdom—the chattering classes generally and the media—to light upon every far-out, left-wing organisation that appears on the scene and to invest it with a haloed, sanctified status as the defender of the people of Latin America against a cruel and oppressive dictatorship. That has happened in the past, but much more often than not, and certainly in recent years, that has not been the true picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Occupational Pension Schemes", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Nelson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Nelson)", "preceding_text": "s by which auditors pass relevant information to the Financial Services Act regulators; and arrangements to ensure effective communication between supervisory authorities. It is to the credit of the SIB and IM RO that they have carried out this self-critical examination of their performance, published the findings for all to examine and presented positive proposals to improve regulation in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": " control. That has led to more legislation. The circle goes round and round. There are appalling relations between local government and central Government and a lack of affection for local government by the public. This adds up to a shaky future for local government. That is why the subject needs an airing, but why does it need one at 4.30 am, shortly before Parliament rises for the summer recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "to breathe a sigh of relief. There are other local authority activities that could benefit equally from the improved levels of service, greater efficiency and better value for money which can be realised through competition. Many authorities have already recognised that and have gone beyond the requirements of legislation to try novel approaches to the delivery of a much greater range of services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.666.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-09", "file": "debates1992-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "45f6f4661fd9ae35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "twithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 (Exempted business), the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion in the name of Mr. Secretary Patten relating to Education not later than one and a half hours after the Motion has been entered upon; and the said Motion may be proceeded with after the expiry of the time for opposed business.— [Mr. Wood.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-09a.704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-10", "file": "debates1992-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "05b5f80de7aa8332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.730.7", "colnum": "730", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "May I make it perfectly clear to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.730.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-10", "file": "debates1992-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "05b5f80de7aa8332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "es who feel uneasy by referring again to the Basel convention on the movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal. The treaty sets up a secretariat to supervise and facilitate implementation. It appears that the secretariat will be in Geneva. The treaty asks that less hazardous waste be generated and that what is generated be disposed of as close to its source as possible. To come to the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-10", "file": "debates1992-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "05b5f80de7aa8332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": " for Torfaen does have genuine concern, but I am slightly uneasy about the arguments that have been advanced by Labour Members. Many of their arguments are based on Labour or socialist dogma. The Labour party will always support an enterprise or business, or any other form of development, that is labour intensive. It will always argue the case against enterprises that are capital intensive. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-10", "file": "debates1992-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "05b5f80de7aa8332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "nister with responsibilities for Merseyside, the hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Squire), to the Dispatch Box to answer the motions tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Broadgreen (Mrs. Kennedy) and myself. Had you been present throughout this morning's proceedings, you would have noted, first, that my hon. Friend the Member for Broadgreen and I have received the utmost co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-10", "file": "debates1992-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "05b5f80de7aa8332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.757.5", "colnum": "757", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "I welcome the fact that Sweden decided to send its waste over here, because Sweden did not have the right facilities. ReChem is one of the few companies in the world which can deal with the high incineration of noxious wastes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.757.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-10", "file": "debates1992-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "05b5f80de7aa8332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "I apologise for my poor Welsh pronunciation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-10a.764.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "hip. I remember that time clearly, because I was then probably the most junior Government Whip. I learned a great deal from my right hon. Friend. He now joins that select band whose name becomes so firmly associated with a report that almost no one can remember its formal title. Indeed, if all goes as he would wish, there may even be pressure to erect a statute to him in some part of the building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Harder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "Some of us are getting heartily sick of the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) constantly talking such rubbish. Most Conservative Members work just as hard as he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ence precluded our considering the actual size of the membership of the House. Having 651 Members of Parliament makes us the second largest democratic national parliamentary assembly in the world—second only because Germany has brought together the east and west German Parliaments, but it is now taking steps to reduce its size. This House is too large, and there are too many Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "the House. Having 651 Members of Parliament makes us the second largest democratic national parliamentary assembly in the world—second only because Germany has brought together the east and west German Parliaments, but it is now taking steps to reduce its size. This House is too large, and there are too many Members of Parliament— [Interruption.] People say that it is impossible for the work load—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "t the work load of a Member of Parliament, it is interesting to consider the work loads of the leaders of the two main parties. The Leader of the Opposition has an electorate of 55,000; my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has 93,000. If we took my right hon. Friend's electorate as the average, we could reduce the membership of the House by almost 200. Many of our problems would then disappear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "osal. I wish to discuss the recommendations as a whole. My right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling) has dealt with them seriatim. I wish to consider them as a package because there are balances and counter-balances within that package. There arc ways in which the Opposition would benefit. When there is timetabling, the Opposition can call the tune on what is debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Honiton painted a wonderful picture of how much more acceptable life would be if there were fewer Members of Parliament. He compared the electorates of the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister. The logical conclusion of his suggestion that life becomes much easier the larger the electorate is that, with one person representing everybody, there would be no need for debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "days. There do not appear to be many days of tough Government business on a Friday—I can hardly remember one. The report says much about when and how often we vote, but nothing about a reduction in the time it takes to vote—that is, the mechanics of voting. I applaud the idea of putting money resolutions in substantive motions, but it is extraordinary that we have not considered electronic voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " House. Last month, we had a debate on Maastricht, when I was called at about 6.30 am. I was delighted to be called then and to have that opportunity to take part in the debate. I am only too well aware that, had I not been called at 6.30 am, the alternative for someone like me, who is not a member of the Government, a Privy Councillor or similar grandee, would have been not to participate at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Until the Whips told you to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "Originally, I had no intention of speaking in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "bution by the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth (Mr. Tredinnick) and by what I detect to be a relentless pressure from some quarters to change the procedures of the House for social rather than for good procedural reasons. My hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth, who has temporarily left the Chamber, referred to the new boys perhaps needing more time to consider the changes proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " the message got through to the Minister and his hon. Friends that it would be a long and difficult Committee unless some co-operation were established and unless some concessions made. Concessions were produced, the Committee proceedings were good and the Bill was much improved after the Committee stage. That is an important point. People accuse me—I wince at this—of being a good parliamentarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "y of 150 over Labour and 110 overall, it is very difficult to make any indentations on their political progress, but we can do so if we keep up the pressure and keep our wits and eyes about us. We will not do so if we hand an important power to the Government. Conservative Back-Bench Members will then use up the available time under the guillotine and we will lose one of our most important powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "As a new boy coming to the House for the first time, I was struck by one rule at an early stage: the 10-minute rule imposed while I made my maiden speech. As a result. I did not have an opportunity, which I intend to take now, to say a few words about my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.900.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.908.4", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Then I shall put them separately. The Question is the next motion on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.908.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.908.6", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The motion must be put forthwith. I can accept an objection. Is there an objection to the motion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "For the benefit of our new colleagues, I must explain that it is nothing new for me to be standing here occupying a bed of nails. Since I took over about eight years ago, it has been just that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "For the benefit of our new colleagues, I must explain that it is nothing new for me to be standing here occupying a bed of nails. Since I took over about eight years ago, it has been just that— [Interruption.] Opposition Members have helped to make it worse. May I remind hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "tee—some seek to blur it, for obvious reasons. I want to make it clear that the Government names on the motions are the total responsibility of my four colleagues and myself. I understand that there is a phrase going around—I think that it is a figment of the press's imagination—called the \"Whips' rules\", which is something to do with only serving in three Parliaments. That is not how it happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.916.4", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "e of Selection. The way in which the Opposition select their members of the Select Committees is entirely a matter for them. I repeat that it is entirely a matter for the five Conservative Members of the Committee of Selection as to how we select people. The quote that I read out from December 1987 made it clear—obviously some colleagues do not listen—that we do not have to explain our procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "1931 at any rate, the function of the House of Commons has not been to make and unmake Governments, although Prime Ministers can certainly be made or unmade by Members in this Chamber. Rather, the House has witnessed the unfolding of general election campaigns. Both sides have set out their wares over four or five years, trying to present to the voters what the issues at the next election will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "man of the Select Committee on Defence, the hon. Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates), who may laugh and joke during this debate. He would be walking the plank under this parliamentary rule if he had not gained Government office. The major opposition party has failed to win in four general elections, and there is now a question mark over our ability to win. That changes the function of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "tee of Selection, that I have served on Select Committees of the House for 18 years, and I am proud of it. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, North (Sir J. Wheeler), I am proud of the contribution that I have made as a member of the Select Committee. Unlike my hon. Friend, I chaired the Health Select Committee for only some 15 months, but it is an experience that I shall never forget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Miss Ann Widdecombe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Miss Ann Widdecombe)", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Mr. Evans) on obtaining this Adjournment debate and I welcome the opportunity to talk about the Government's approach to tackling social security fraud", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-13", "file": "debates1992-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2aeb98dab32bb806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "No, in the traditions of Adjournment debates, I shall not. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said in the debate on public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-13a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has just written congratulating the profession on the centenary of the education nursing service. In \"The Health of the Nation\" White Paper we emphasise how important the establishment of healthy lifestyles in childhood is to health promotion. School nurses have much to contribute here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware of the case", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.966.9", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: He's going to resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall turn to the right hon. Gentleman's point in a moment, if I may, for this is the last occasion that we will be able to exchange comments over the Dispatch Box in this fashion. We have done so on many occasions in the past 20 months. We have often disagreed, sometimes we have agreed, but I should like to thank the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.966.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "British Rail (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": " needs of an economy which is increasingly plagued with mounting congestion and environmental costs. The White Paper is no passengers charter, judged even by the Government's limited standards. It is more a cherry-pickers charter—ripe for exploitation by property speculators, by route operators bribed by public subsidies and, inevitably, by Tories' City friends growing fat on commissions and fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "British Rail (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement today, representing as I do a constituency which has the worst commuter line in western Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Water Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Ofwat met at Aberystwyth and urged upon Welsh Water the need for a reappraisal of the methods of payment, and a more sensitive approach to disconnection. I reiterate that there is a crisis in Wales, and I suggest that the situation is also serious elsewhere. What is a person whose water has been disconnected to do? As Aristotle put it \"When water chokes you, what are you to drink to wash it down?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "overnments are in the habit of saying that the drafting of an amendment lacks something so they cannot accept it—but the Bill has a long way to go. My hon. Friend could accept the amendment, or he could accept the principle behind it and incorporate it in legislation in another place. I know that he wants to be helpful, so can he assure us that he accepts the principle of the amendment? Otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trotter", "preceding_text": "s agreed to tonight. I hope that this country will take the opportunity presented by our presidency to ensure that similar action is taken by other countries and we have an equivalent footing against which our industry and the Government's measures can be judged. On the basis of the undertaking to amend the Bill during its passage through the Upper House, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1032.6", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The amendment deals with the inshore fleet and, in particular, with a group of fishermen in Leigh-on-Sea in my constituency and in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Sir T. Taylor). This is the first occasion on which I have intervened in a fishing debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": " the Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon) about the 17 m boats. I do not know whether we can be described as riparian Members of Parliament, having constituencies on an estuary, but on a fine day I can see my right hon. Friend's constituency and he can see mine. He has 17 m boats but most of mine are under 10 m. None the less, in a couple of weeks' time they will be competing in a trawler race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "e House as to whether it is only then that the Bill will be brought back for affirmative action. Before we vote on Third Reading, my hon. Friend the Minister should spell out, for the benefit of hon. Members on both sides of the House, exactly what the concessions are. The whole House ought to know on what it is voting. That is the only contribution that I want to make to the Third Reading debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office Costs Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am aware that comparisons are sometimes drawn with Members of the European Parliament, both in this and in other ways. I have two points to make about that. First, their working patterns and methods are entirely different from ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office Costs Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": " us not fool ourselves: whatever the rights and wrongs of the issue, it is being observed by the public out there, and the public are about to undergo an economic phase in which they will have not inflation-plus rises but perhaps inflation-minus rises. They will ask themselves why we are behaving like a 1970s trade union and awarding ourselves increases for reasons that they will never understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-14", "file": "debates1992-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "498987758f20959a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office Costs Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition on behalf of my constituents and the Hedgehog Protection Campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-14a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-15", "file": "debates1992-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "4a397e8bdda1942c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1121.8", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Even worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend the Minister remind my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State—who is not only a decent chap but a well-known Euro-sceptic and also a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1121.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-15", "file": "debates1992-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "4a397e8bdda1942c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Disclosure of Information) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "am concerned only about the interests of the parents and that they are the custodians of the true interests of the child—the hon. Member for Spelthorne got up and asked me how on earth I could have got that idea. We know the answer now from the hon. Member for Congleton (Mrs. Winterton). I shall not respond, however, to her point about abortion. I want to deal with my concerns about the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-15", "file": "debates1992-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "4a397e8bdda1942c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Disclosure of Information) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ces, the feelings of a woman who might want to have a child in this way and have it remain a secret. However, I cannot entirely accept that her feelings are more important than the child's rights. There are some women who do not want to have a husband. I can understand that in some circumstances, but I cannot accept that such a woman's rights are greater than those of the child she wishes to bear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-07-15", "file": "debates1992-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "4a397e8bdda1942c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lidington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lidington", "preceding_text": "n authorities, to head teachers and to other members of the teaching profession, is why individual parents opt for places under the scheme rather than for the places available to them in neighbourhood schools. I have the good fortune to live in and to represent part of Buckinghamshire. I know that our system, in which we still have both grammar and upper schools, formerly secondary modern schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-07-15a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the motion on United Kingdom economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the motion on United Kingdom economic policy— [Interruption.] Order. I am delighted to note that the House has returned in a good mood. Before we begin, I must announce that I have selected the amendment standing in the name of the right hon. and learned Member the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.2.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.6.11", "colnum": "6", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Europe would reach the right economic conditions to support a single currency. I have never believed—I have stated it frequently—that Europe would reach the right convergence by the mid-1990s. That is why I refused to commit Britain to a single currency. In the light of the continuing economic problems throughout Europe and of the currency turmoil of the past week, I must say that I was right and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.6.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the general agreement on tariffs and trade round. During recent months, our concerns about the Community have been mirrored across Europe. The British agenda is now on the table in every country of the Community. It is worth reminding ourselves why the Community was built and why we joined it. Its founders wanted lasting peace in western Europe, and they achieved it. But they wanted something more", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will understand the purport of my comments in a minute or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ment remorselessly increased, the Government did nothing—absolutely nothing. The continued weakening of the British economy that I have just described coincided with the predictable pressures on currencies arising from the uncertainties of the French referendum and higher German interest rates. The position called for prompt and decisive action to initiate and co-ordinate a Communitywide response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "billion. We used to hear great diatribes from the Conservative party about borrowing. When anyone else borrows money, it is a total economic disaster; when the Conservative party borrows money, somehow it is an economic triumph. However, on this occasion, given the underlying fragility of the British economy that move, not surprisingly, was interpreted by the markets as a further sign of weakness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " an economic triumph. However, on this occasion, given the underlying fragility of the British economy that move, not surprisingly, was interpreted by the markets as a further sign of weakness— [Interruption.] It was, so there is no point in the Chancellor shaking his head. We can all read the newspapers, perhaps better than he can. We read them and that is what they said. As the crisis developed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Chaplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Chaplin", "preceding_text": "My understanding has always been that a Leader of the Opposition does not say anything that jeopardises sterling in the markets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " for the devaluation last week. The hon. Lady has not disappointed me. Of all the charges that could have been laid against me and of all the comment that there has been in recent weeks, the argument that I have been undermining sterling is the most far-fetched that I have ever heard. It just shows that, whatever one says or does not say, some on the Conservative Benches will find it unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "nk you for your letter of 6th August. I apologise for the delay in replying. I appreciate your concern about 'The Guardian' article quoting correspondence between ministers on the possible privatisation of the Forestry Commission. You may be unaware that the commitment given by the Prime Minister on this matter was drafted incorrectly during the frenzied activity of the general election campaign\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "kept, no commitment honoured. I do not understand how a Prime Minister who gives his word in such an uncompromising and unqualified fashion can thereafter contradict it so spectacularly. There is clearly no more devalued political currency than a Conservative election promise. In their frenzied re-election campaign, the Conservatives were prepared to say anything and do anything to get re-elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " same speech, said that there was going to be \"no devaluation, no realignment\"? This is a Government whose economic policy is in tatters, whose credibility is blown, whose incompetence has been exposed. It will no longer do to blame others and it will no longer do to say that their policies will, given time, come right. They have been in power for the longest continuous period in post-war Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I cannot give that away. It was not an Arab—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady overlooks my right hon. Friend's other two propositions. He suggested that a clear statement be made about our intention to establish an independent central bank, and that we should immediately take steps in that direction. That would have reassured the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Watts", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Watts", "preceding_text": "but as a sensible and pragmatic position to adopt. If one is facing a wall, it is not sensible to bang one's head against it; one turns around and finds another way out of the problem. The Leader of the Opposition seemed to offer a two-part solution to recent events, the first part of which was the oft-rejected Labour package of spending more taxpayers' money and borrowing a great deal more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": " agree with him. People invest into exchange rate systems a degree of intensity and passion which is not needed. One should address the problems of exchange rates drained of passion, with a cool realism, and see what is in the best interests of one's country. That is really the job of the Chancellor of the Exchequer whom I therefore congratulate on withdrawing sterling from the ERM last Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "aken that cement will effectively end the United Kingdom. We should never forget that. We should remember that the past attempts of British Governments to enter into fixed single-currency arrangements have always ended in tears, and the most recent example is no exception. I agree with other hon. Members that the British people were humiliated last week and will not forget that quickly or readily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " Kingdom. We should never forget that. We should remember that the past attempts of British Governments to enter into fixed single-currency arrangements have always ended in tears, and the most recent example is no exception. I agree with other hon. Members that the British people were humiliated last week and will not forget that quickly or readily. [Interruption.] It was the flaws in the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ssion? When asked: Are there any circumstances under which you would consider leaving the ERM?\", the right hon. Gentleman's answer was No. As I have said, devaluation is fool's gold. Why is it that the policy that the Chancellor thought foolish— the policy that would bring about a collapse in confidence, that was pure illusion and that, in one month, was fool's gold—is good for Britain this month?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I have answered that question. I have said that a unilateral German—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-24", "file": "debates1992-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "1799aff40df3943c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I have answered that question. I have said that a unilateral German— [Interruption.] That is what the word realignment means. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East shows that he does not know what he is talking about. I cannot disclose confidential discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-24a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-25", "file": "debates1992-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4dbd8a230bfdf90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-25a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "don—that Bosnia Hercegovina is a state with established frontiers. There is Croatian military activity in Hercegovina, just as there is Serbian military activity in other parts of Bosnia. There have been previous stories in the press about partition, but both the Governments involved have ruled that out—it is important that that should be so or we face the prospect of endless civil war in Bosnia.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-25a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-09-25", "file": "debates1992-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4dbd8a230bfdf90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-25a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. King—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-09-25a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "May we tell the Secretary of State exactly what his achievements have been since he became Secretary of State. Unemployment has increased by 46,500. That is his achievement and every one of us feels that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That was somewhat remiss of the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman criticises me for making a statement but I must refer him to his question: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what are the latest employment figures for Wales; and if he will make a statement. At nationalisation, Wales had 220 pits and the coal industry employed 123,000 people. Before last week's announcement we were down to two pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Have not the Society of Black Lawyers and the Commission for Racial Equality spoken in favour of multiracial juries? According to the CRE, An all-white jury may have no members capable of challenging prejudice. Are not the lists of juries predominantly \"white male\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. I did not hear all of his question, but I shall do my best to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in each of my surgeries an increasing number of wives and young children are being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in each of my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "g neither wasteful overlaps nor damaging gaps. For this reason, I have decided to appoint a distinguished national figure, who will be an adviser in my Department, to act as co-ordinator and facilitator at the national level. He will also assist my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. I am pleased to tell the House that Lord Walker has agreed to accept this important responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The decisions which I have announced today have been difficult. I understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": " the future, that colliery is important, and in saying that I am not taking away from the arguments of my hon. Friends. The Minister is slashing the pits, saying that they are uneconomic. It is the old, old story: anyone can make anything uneconomic if he wants to. I hope that the Minister will reverse the decision because many other assets are being stripped. I know that some of my ex-colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I hope that there is not a scorched earth policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.215.2", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ach that the hon. Gentleman has taken and the dedication that he has shown in the interests of the industry. He obviously has an experience of the industry that I could not begin to equal. Because I know that the hon. Gentleman is wholly sincere in his approach, I want to respond in kind. I am prepared to look at the points he has made, but I want to share with hon. Members the danger that I face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Well, stop being so plain bloody stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I looked particularly at the problems of Grimethorpe colliery. However, as the hon. Gentleman will know better than I, it shares facilities with Houghton Main, which loses money. If we aggregate the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.228.6", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Boyce", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Boyce", "preceding_text": "I wonder what the people of Britain will make of the statement of the President of the Board of Trade today. First, he takes sole responsibility. Perhaps that is because there is no longer any collective Cabinet responsibility. The right hon. Gentleman also tells us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman will be more aware of the precise details than I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ent before, during or after the review. As I said to one of my hon. Friends, those matters are deeply controversial within the energy industry, every part of which has a vested interest that it will not abandon, whatever the evidence put before it. Ultimately, I am responsible for the Government's energy policy, which I shall set out, and I shall make clear the basis on which we intend to proceed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.237.4", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "alist sector—the House already has the benefit of an enormous degree of scrutiny and careful consideration. That will inform our deliberations in Committee as well as any Standing Committee would. Therefore, I am not minded to accede to the hon. Gentleman's request for a Special Standing Committee on this occasion, although I acknowledge the potential role of such Committees in some circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " 600 individuals are mainly minor offenders, not hardened criminals. The Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders states: To add the parole requirements contained in this Bill without providing funds for increased staffing levels would make a mockery of implementation. My experience has provided dreadful evidence of inadequate individuals in prison who ought not to be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "four years will be automatically released halfway through their sentence instead of at two thirds, as at present. It is right that prisoners should be released only if they have been well behaved while in prison. I no longer have a prison in my constituency, but before the boundary changes of 1983 Perth prison was in my constituency. I was a regular visitor to Perth prison and it always struck me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-19", "file": "debates1992-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "07ba72731d800636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McFall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McFall", "preceding_text": "tention of everyone, particularly when he mentioned Govan Rangers. By doing so he aroused passionate feelings among some Back Benchers. My hon. Friend said that he was a big fish in a small pond there, but I am sure that here he will use the same skills as he used in Strathclyde regional council and that he will show the same sensitivity towards education and other issues as he did in Strathclyde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-19a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.311.6", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.311.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.313.4", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "That is rich coming from the Labour Benches. The hon. Gentleman has obviously forgotten, if he ever knew, that the last Labour Government inflicted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "European Council (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I shall make a statement about the European Council in Birmingham on Friday last. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I represented the United Kingdom. I should like to thank the city of Birmingham, its leaders and its people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "European Council (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Birmingham summit was called not for that purpose but for the purposes I set out. European union—depending on its definition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "European Council (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. On that note I am drawing this session of questions to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "urther to the point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick). There is a story going around that members of the public will be admitted to Parliament square tomorrow—Parliament square, not the precincts of this building—only if they are in possession of a letter from a Member of Parliament saying that they have an appointment to lobby that Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.396.3", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The river.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "nforces his view. As soon as the water is impounded, water levels will rise. Initially, it was said that there would be no ground water impact in Cardiff, but Hydrotechnica now proposes to set up a pilot scheme to dewater the ground water, before building some 64 bore holes that will need to pump water continually to carry out that task. I do not know where it will go; water tends to come back in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-20", "file": "debates1992-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0af746ae6a22143", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jon Owen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jon Owen Jones", "preceding_text": "one. It must involve Cardiff and Swansea as well as the valleys. As long as we allow the Government to set communities against one another in the sort of debate that we have been having until now, we are doing our home communities and our party no good. A few comments have been made about deprivation in the valleys compared with that in Cardiff, which, it has been implied, is a wealthy yuppy area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-20a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.432.4", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Aircraft Noise (Control)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nirj Joseph Deva", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nirj Joseph Deva", "preceding_text": "t. My Bill recognises that, since the introduction of the jet aircraft about 25 years ago, communities and families living near airports have had to suffer high and unacceptable noise nuisance. Speaking as an aeronautical engineer, I know the efforts that have been made over the years by manufacturers and operators to reduce the impact of noise on the local community. Their efforts and endeavours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman flatters my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the Opposition too highly by suggesting that in the few months that he was a member of the last Cabinet quite so many pits were closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: -A promotion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has just joined us in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is referring to power stations that have been written down and are therefore producing cheaply. A power station that my husband went round the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman and the whole House know, British Coal has advised me that these pits are uneconomic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has asked the question to which I have already, in part, given the answer. The distinction, for which the House is fully entitled to ask, is that those 10 pits are actually losing money now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ady, in part, given the answer. The distinction, for which the House is fully entitled to ask, is that those 10 pits are actually losing money now— [Interruption.] They are losing money now, at the prices that prevail now—and British Coal knows that from next April it will not obtain those prices. That is why those 10 pits will be subject to the procedures that will make it possible to close them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should not persist. The Minister is making it clear to me that he is not giving way at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.8", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I am sorry to interrupt now, but I have been trying to intervene and refer to the question asked by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.8", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I am sorry to interrupt now, but I have been trying to intervene and refer to the question asked by— [Interruption.] I have been trying to raise a point of order, subsequent to that raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Clydesdale (Mr. Hood)—a point of order about the resolution itself. The question is whether the resolution is in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.8", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ble to the President of the Board of Trade under commercial confidentiality could be used by him to overrule the Select Committee, surely it cannot be in order now, because that information undermines the basis of the amendment. That is what the President of the Board of Trade is trying to present to the House. He will overrule it on the basis of information that is not available to the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.452.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is fully aware that we have considered all those things, but the House wants further and better details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is fully aware that we have considered all those things, but the House wants further and better details— [Interruption.] It is because we are persuaded that that is the right way to go that I have promised the House that I will set out these issues and that the House will have a full opportunity to consider them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "And nothing more clearly revealed the hypocrisy behind the views of the Labour party than the behaviour of Leeds city council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "nothing more clearly revealed the hypocrisy behind the views of the Labour party than the behaviour of Leeds city council— [Interruption.] Yes, which actually cancelled its contract with British Coal in order to import coal. So can I understand from the right hon. Gentleman why it is right for a Labour-controlled city council to buy coal in a competitive market when it is wrong for the generators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.8", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State give way, please?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.12", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman what opportunities he has got—get on the phone to Leeds city council and ask it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.456.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.4", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) has asked to intervene and the President of the Board of Trade has refused to allow his intervention. May I tell you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.10", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Trade has indicated to an hon. Member from Leeds that he wishes him to refer to a piece of paper that he wishes to be held up in front of the television cameras, and he has agreed. As I sit down he will give way to his hon. Friend and former campaign manager from Leeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.11", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman and the House know full well that it is a matter for the Secretary of State to decide to whom he gives way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.14", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I give way to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.15", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "ening only because he raised a point of order to point out that the leader of Leeds city council—I am pointing it out to my right hon. Friend—Councillor Trickett, in the Yorkshire Evening Post, has apologised to the mining community of Yorkshire for the fact that the Leeds city council took a contract for Colombian coal because it was £600,000 cheaper than the equivalent contract for British coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.457.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I thought that the Labour party wanted a full and open inquiry into these matters. I thought that it wanted to reveal all the things that were going on, not just the things that suit the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.458.9", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "There you have it, Mr. Deputy Speaker. That is exactly what the Labour-controlled councils want—freedom to build their empires, regardless of the cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.458.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.459.6", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ouse that the review will be genuine. I will listen to the representations. I will present the Government's views. The House will have an opportunity to debate the matter. It is apparent that the Labour party is not prepared to indulge in a proper examination this afternoon. It is more intent on shouting down my argument. Labour Members are letting down the miners they have come here to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.459.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.459.7", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.459.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.459.9", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House can now debate the substance of the big hole in the Government's energy policy rather than the ritual exchanges that we have just witnessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.459.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Permanently diverted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State had given way to me earlier I would have raised this matter. The moratorium should include opencast coal, because the relationship between opencast and deep-mined coal is close. The Secretary of State is diverted for the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry but I am short of time. In their heart of hearts, many Opposition Members know that the easier British coal seams were worked out long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "nd that will continue to be so, but two other matters arise. One relates to imports and was dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Mr. Oppenheim). Imported coal has a 1 per cent. sulphur content, whereas local coal has a 1.5 per cent. sulphur content. That is why power-producing companies are turning to gas. They are turning to imported coal because of the lower sulphur content.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "When Labour were in government they closed pits twice as fast as any Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "tion. We encouraged 42 million tonnes of extra capacity to be found. Selby was opened and there was an assisted burn scheme. We recognised that the then Central Electricity Generating Board needed a small grant to change the merit order of the power stations so that more coal could be burnt. We introduced earlier retirement for miners, something for which they had pressed for a long time. We then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "part when they were last in office? It was uncharacteristically modest of the hon. Gentleman to suggest that, when he walked past the Royal Garden hotel, he was less of an attraction than Arthur Scargill. Perhaps we shall see more of that modesty in the future: if so, it will be welcomed by the whole House. On Monday, I had quite made up my mind to vote with the Opposition, against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "r about the success of the industrial development of the Forest of Dean, and the way in which it has rebuilt hope. In the heat of today's debate, however, it is important to remember that developing businesses need cheap and reliable energy. We must not lose sight of that. I have observed it at first hand in another industry, in my capacity as parliamentary adviser to the British Scrap Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Is it not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "Something will have to be done about spurious points of order. I hope that the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, as that is a valid question. There is confusion. There are two 90-day procedures and we are not clear which of the two is being applied. It is fair enough if we are saying that there is a review procedure which is totally independent of the redundancy payment requirements, but that matter should be clarified during the right hon. Gentleman's winding-up speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is the statutory period under the employment legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about today?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": " who had closed most pits. He is wrong. I have the figures. The Government who closed most pits and put most people on the dole were the Labour Government between 1964 and 1970. It is about time we had the facts in this debate. Between 1967 and 1968 there were 59 colliery closures. I have a list of every year since 1946, and there have never been as many closures as that in one year since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.522.4", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I shall reply directly to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.522.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-21", "file": "debates1992-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b7d5213a5d4c35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.524.6", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Without any qualification, I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-21a.524.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.558.12", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the fact that interest rates are significantly down and that car production figures and even retail sales figures are up? In welcoming the Government's renewed commitment to economic growth and job creation, may I ask my right hon. Friend to tell the House more about his strategy for recovery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.558.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.586.4", "colnum": "586", "heading": "BCCI (Bingham Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Bingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "What Lord Justice Bingham says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "The Health of the Nation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": ". Two weeks ago, I announced a further 128 trusts, and more are waiting in the wings. Family doctors are queueing to take control over their own budgets. Health authorities are discovering the immense potential of their new role as commissioners and purchasers of health care. The GP contract is delivering better health care and better health, and public confidence in the health service is growing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "The Health of the Nation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " wanted a serious answer to his question, he would have been in touch with my office with the details. I have consistently and unequivocally been committed to an NHS available to all and free at the point of delivery. The hon. Gentleman can easily give me the details and I will look into the case immediately. I should very much like to know what lies behind the circumstances that he has described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Health of the Nation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "pposition were in power it was a much higher figure, as the hon. Lady will be well aware. There has been great progress in the percentage of prescriptions without a charge. There are benefits—no pensioner and no one on a low income pays the prescription charge. I hope that I can come back to the hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) at a later date about the timing of the review that she mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.606.5", "colnum": "606", "heading": "The Health of the Nation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I have remained unprovoked until now, but if the hon. Gentleman would like to visit my NHS dentist, I shall be glad to take him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-22", "file": "debates1992-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d74c1188fd799b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.606.6", "colnum": "606", "heading": "The Health of the Nation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "hat—rather than being speeded up—the report was sent back for rewriting so that it would contain a lower, more acceptable figure than the 8 per cent. drop in smoking that, according to the original report, would be achieved by a tobacco advertising ban? Opposition Members want to hear no more of this nonsense about reports being \"speeded up\" when, in fact, they have been sent back to be rewritten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-22a.606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Met?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "to take a fresh look at my own powers and at the role and composition of police authorities, and to come to judgments about responsibilities and accountability. Chief constables should be clearly responsible for managing their forces effectively in the light of local needs. I expect them to be called to account by the police authorities, and on some issues by the Home Secretary, on how they do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.676.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Yes. My one regret about the GLC was that we delayed so long before abolishing that totally ridiculous body. I certainly would not wish to see any feature of it being revived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will refer to the terms of police manpower and the cost to the taxpayer of demonstrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "That is an absurd point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "d the reporting and assisting in the detection of crime. My hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Ms. Ruddock) will deal with that matter in slightly greater detail. She will aslo deal with racial attacks in London. Those matters are still deeply serious and there is growing evidence that on certain estates in London such attacks are increasing. John Smith, who is the deputy commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "tutions potentially most affected to discuss at first hand the ideas set out in the report. When we are satisfied that we have heard all points of view, we shall respond by setting out our detailed proposals on changes in the NHS. I anticipate that that will be early in the new year. In bringing forward proposals, our prime consideration will be to safeguard and improve health care for Londoners.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "ely with the four Thames regional chairmen. Further details of its remit and membership will be announced in due course. I stress that the group will be concerned with implementation of the policy, not policy-making. I decided that it would be wise to establish the group beforehand, so that it does not start cold from the date that I announce my decisions. There is work it needs to do before then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "the problem with which the statement deals? Will she extend the totally inadequate consultation period to allow real participation by the people whose voice is seldom heard in the clamour of professional experts and vested interests—the voice of the people of London themselves? Does the Secretary of State understand that, although Opposition Members understand that the status quo is not an option—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": " published. There is no doubt that during the consultation period my right hon. Friend will be lobbied by those who are affected by the proposals. However, I ask her to bear it in mind that in my Hertfordshire constituency there has been concern for many years that our local hospitals have been disadvantaged because London hospitals have been demanding too great a share of the resources available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not having those remarks. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will withdraw them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must now proceed with the Adjournment debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Since I was elected in 1983, I have attended and spoken in every one of the debates on the policing of London. They all follow the same pattern. The Home Secretary comes in, makes a speech and disappears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-23", "file": "debates1992-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c413306f82bf5aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "that has come to pass. Beyond any shadow of doubt, it is an appalling social problem. there are a mixture of social factors, which apparently include care in the community for former occupants of mental hospitals—the most wicked form of care in the community imaginable, tossing them on to the streets to sleep rough. As the winter comes, anger is mounting among my constituents when they see people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-23a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-26", "file": "debates1992-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "91535ab541288bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Peter Snape—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-26", "file": "debates1992-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "91535ab541288bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "As Dan-Air has become the latest victim of the recession, does the Minister think that British Airways' replacement aircraft will lead to a reduction in aircraft noise and, indeed, a reduction in noise from the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel), who I notice is not with us now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-26", "file": "debates1992-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "91535ab541288bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "onder that the public wonder whether the only purpose of the bankruptcy laws in Scotland is to pay money to accountants and to meet the running costs of the accountant in bankruptcy's office. Our bankruptcy laws seem to do little for people who are made bankrupt. 6.15 pm The second problem with the Bill is created by clause 9, which defines the remuneration of permanent trustees. It is clear that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-26", "file": "debates1992-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "91535ab541288bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "nal to me. The regulations proposed under clause 9 are causing the difference of opinion between the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Government. How much will those who act as trustees be paid? It is argued that the Government are not offering enough to attract people to act as insolvency practitioners. Members of a firm in east Scotland tell me that they are extracting themselves from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-26a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Banks", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Banks", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend will know the difficulties with dismantling nuclear weapons. Is he aware of the discussions that took place between members of the Russian Government and members of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for what he has had to say. Let me say this on the European Community and the Government's policy. I believe that we have had three historic mistakes over the last 30 years in European policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.864.2", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.864.6", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "irm that doubts about the future of the hugely important A1 Yamamah defence deal, which the British Government have signed with the Saudis, increase day by day and parallel the decline in the influence of his predecessor, Baroness Thatcher? Will he confirm that interest in that deal increases as it looks as though his predecessor may be making a comeback, along with that grease-palming son of hers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.864.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.864.7", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.864.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Child Care Inquiries (Orkney and Fife)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Ian Lang)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Ian Lang)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Child Care Inquiries (Orkney and Fife)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butcher", "preceding_text": "ts at the time? They pointed out that, in the United States, there was a sudden interest among social workers in the link between satanic rituals and the abuse of children. Among some social work circles here, that interest seems to have crossed the Atlantic, yet there has subsequently been no proof whatever of any link between so-called satanic worship and child abuse. How do these things happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is certainly not shocking. I shall respond to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "y and others will also agree—it is also no use agreeing to laws, and criticising others for not applying them, when our own application of those laws is selective. The habitats directive is a clear example. The hon. Gentleman chose one figure; I understand that, in a single calendar year—last year—we lost 500 sites of special scientific interest in this country. It is no good delaying legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "itats directive is a clear example. The hon. Gentleman chose one figure; I understand that, in a single calendar year—last year—we lost 500 sites of special scientific interest in this country. It is no good delaying legislation— [Interruption.] It is no use the Minister muttering, \"Rubbish.\" I should be grateful if he would tell us how many sites have been lost. Those appear to be the statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-27", "file": "debates1992-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2801fdb34b7ca01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " figure; I understand that, in a single calendar year—last year—we lost 500 sites of special scientific interest in this country. It is no good delaying legislation— [Interruption.] It is no use the Minister muttering, \"Rubbish.\" I should be grateful if he would tell us how many sites have been lost. Those appear to be the statistics. [Interruption.] The sites were damaged, certainly, if not lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-27a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not agree that the South African rugby tour of this country should proceed, despite the sudden and unfortunate opposition of the African National Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I have good news for my hon. Friend. The ANC yesterday publicly confirmed that it had not withdrawn its support for the tour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may well be a pioneer in asking that question—if so, I congratulate him—but he must have had a similar answer over and over again. The answer is the one in the treaty and I answered detailed questions about it the other day in the Scrutiny Committee. I am not sure whether I satisfied all hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1009.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "London Ambulance Service", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "k. Full details of this inquiry will be announced as soon as possible, but it is envisaged that it will be headed by a chief ambulance officer from another metropolitan region. The inquiry will identify lessons to be learnt for the operation and management of the service. The House will want to know that, as a result of recent difficulties, staff levels in the LAS control room have been increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "London Ambulance Service", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "r, I am concerned that the problems with the computer-aided despatch system are solved and that, in the meantime, the support system that I have already described is functioning properly. Mr. Gorham will be reporting regularly, on behalf of the board of the LAS, to Chris Spry, the chief executive of South West Thames RHA. In turn, he will be reporting to Duncan Nichol, chief executive of the NHS.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "London Ambulance Service", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": " be reporting regularly, on behalf of the board of the LAS, to Chris Spry, the chief executive of South West Thames RHA. In turn, he will be reporting to Duncan Nichol, chief executive of the NHS.— [Interruption.] This reporting system will ensure that Ministers are kept in proper and regular touch with progress. The problems in the London ambulance service do not result from a lack of resources.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "agreed that this was an opportunity to raise political points arising out of the reports. I am therefore surprised that the Scottish National party, which has made great play of the possible sale of water in Scotland—it is to be the party's next great political issue—is not represented here this evening. Nor are some of my own colleagues who are members of an organisation known as Scotland United.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Dorrell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Dorrell)", "preceding_text": "Not the least of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's achievements seems to have been to turn the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) into a Thatcherite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The answer is yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "Although I have acknowledged that that tale is a very sorry saga of mismanagement, it is also important to be clear about the extent of the ultimate financial cost, because the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-28", "file": "debates1992-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8323473ffd54b2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1111.5", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I apologise. I shall not be able to answer the specific points on Land Travel if I continue to give way to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-28a.1111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the point about rural matters. Clearly, we shall be keen to encourage the use of rural houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "Yesterday afternoon I spent two hours with miners from the Point of Ayr colliery in my constituency, one of the 21 on the moratorium list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "NHS Trusts (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "s and 25 per cent. more out-patients in the first four months of operation. That is the truth. The hon. Lady referred to strategic planning. The national health service in Wales is proud to have not only the finest people working in the service but the finest executive of any service. It has published a strategic intent which I believe is the envy of many other parts of the United Kingdom, Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "NHS Trusts (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recognise that the splendid decision that he announced today will be welcomed by everyone in Clwyd —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "eman's suggestion of leasing through the private sector for a publicly owned undertaking has one extreme disadvantage. Inevitably, that leasing must be guaranteed by the public sector—by the Government. At that point, it scores as public expenditure. It was clear from the exchanges that took place before the election that Labour had to accept that. It was said very clearly in exchanges on housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "sector supply side and shape franchises and the franchising process so that they take into account market concerns. We have deliberately not prescribed a universal blueprint for franchises. They can vary considerably in size, length and the amount of risk transferred to the private sector. We intend that as much risk as possible, including revenue risk, should be transferred to the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " to be the engine and motive that produces a railway system. There may have been wonderful steam trains in the days that the hon. Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Hawkins) mentions —and even the Prime Minister has been talking about bringing back the chocolate and cream carriages on the Brighton line, and about new regional railway systems. We shall be back to coal fires and close encounters next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "rn railway system. The truth about the railways in those days is that they did not make a profit. There were under-invested. Outside the network of main lines which the hon. Member for Blackpool, South mentioned, the companies failed to maintain a good railway system. They were the ones begging for compensation and a takeover. They did not want to retain the system and continue to run the railways", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ther British Rail staff also have high standards but—no doubt like Opposition Members—I am nevertheless besieged by complaints. As the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill) said, we know who to complain to at the moment—and we often do complain—about the British Rail staff who let the side down, who are seen leaning on brooms instead of doing their work and who cannot answer passengers' complaints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ts. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"] Opposition Members may make scornful remarks but I am sure that they have to answer the same complaints in their surgeries as I do. When I was in the United States with a number of Opposition Members, including the hon. Members for Thurrock (Mr. Mackinlay) and for York (Mr. Bayley), we saw a shining example of the benefits of the private sector in rail transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1225.2", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He got elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "t point before and we all know why—he must look over his shoulder. I shall go to Blackpool again shortly and when I meet the local branch of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers—the RMT—I shall say that the hon. Gentleman expressed concern about its members' welfare and job prospects. I have no doubt that they will give him the same support as they have given him in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1225.2", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "of CBI members is not primarily one of ownership but one of how the quality and level of railway services can be improved. I am sorry if all this bores the Secretary of State, who is yawning. If he had listened to more of the debate, he might be a bit livelier. He has probably been travelling on Stagecoach, which I understand is a pretty unsuccessful way of travelling between England and Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "rstand how one could argue against the privatisation of rail freight services. We have the evidence of the National Freight Corporation, and we know that every other mode of transport carrying freight is in the private sector. I am not sure that the House will be persuaded by his scepticism. We have said that the infrastructure will remain an integrated public sector obligation and responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "adualist. We shall not franchise all rail services overnight. That is impossible; we do not have a private sector. We shall respond as fast as the private sector wants and introduce new franchised services. That seems a cautious, sensible and pragmatic approach. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch is interested in the Japanese railway system. I recently visited Japan for a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interrupt ion.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I was much encouraged by the experience. The railway companies may be different, but I assure my hon. Friend that there has always been a private sector in Japan, despite the fact that about 70 per cent. of rail services were nationalised some years ago. The Japanese Government will move to privatise the services fully when the stock market permits, but there is nothing in the experience of Japan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-29", "file": "debates1992-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "8eda8defe6ef1cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "That is not an unusual occurrence, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I welcome your protection. My hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Mr. Dunn) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-29a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-10-30", "file": "debates1992-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "e4c17d17b301cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-30a.1247.2", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had listened to me instead of talking to the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-10-30a.1247.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.6.9", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "take of the household below average income statistics from 1979 to 1989, which show that people in the lowest tenth of income distribution saw their real income, excluding housing costs, fall by 6 per cent., whereas the national average in that period was an increase of some 30 per cent? Surely, that must have some bearing on the annual uprating statement, which we anticipate in the next few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.6.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Yes, at the apposite time. My right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.22.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The only people who can have the notice served on them personally are those in detention at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " I am becoming pressed for time. For visitors and short-term students, I have decided that it is necessary to make changes in order to get a prompt and just system in place to deal with applications for settlement. Although the issue is important to the people involved, it is not important enough to justify the full panoply of judicial consideration and publicly funded representation by legal aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I see that the Minister is nodding. That is set out in paragraph 4 of schedule 2. That, however, does not affect the 48-hour rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Then let me deal with that point. We are now beginning to tease out of the Secretary of State the misunderstanding that Ministers have. First, not everybody who is in detention is a bogus applicant. That is absurd. There are people who have been in detention whose claims were accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.40.9", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have said that we shall serve these notices on people who are detained on manifestly unfounded cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.40.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "All that I am trying to do is to understand the basis on which we are legislating. I think that we are entitled to know what the legislation is that we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-02", "file": "debates1992-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf1fee6be449a98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "preceding_text": "they are guilty and that they have made a bogus application. At present, the only people who can be fingerprinted under the law in Britain are those who have been charged with an imprisonable offence. The measure breaks entirely new ground and for that reason it is worrying. It is not—at least not yet—a criminal offence to apply for asylum in Britain, but it will become so if the Bill becomes law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-02a.85.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "If anyone should withdraw anything, it is the hon. Gentleman. My right hon. Friend made no assertion that people were working for pin money in any letter, as the hon. Gentleman well knows. Of the people who are subject to low pay, 80 per cent. are in households where there is another source of income. The hon. Gentleman ought to recognise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.130.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "x2026; Community\". His idea of taking a leading role now is to hide behind the Danes or anyone else to hide the split in his own party. The reality is that this country exports £60 billion worth of manufactured goods to the European Community. It receives £17 billion worth of inward investment as a result of our membership and last year an independent survey showed that two thirds of non-European—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.143.7", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must come to order so that we can hear what the Prime Minister has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.143.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.143.8", "colnum": "143", "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/1992-11-03a.143.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Time is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I hope that that intervention from my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Mudie", "preceding_text": "o is willing to invest against the present economic backdrop, even on a prime site? If such a developer can be produced, he will have an immediate invitation from me to come to Leeds. The lack of volunteers tells me that there is knowledge in the House that developers are not queuing up for prime sites. So why the urgency to attract them to derelict sites? I am not seeking to score debating points", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "he inner city —often three times the number in the outer suburbs—and the need to ensure that we have a sufficiently skilled work force to protect future growth, it would be more sensible to direct the £250 million away from the less urgent land reclamation to a person-oriented programme of employment and training. I commend to hon. Members an article in The Guardian last Thursday by Edward Pearce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.194.6", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "n and longer. As it stands, we have not completed the process. Part II of the Bill deals with compulsory competitive tendering, social housing and housing management. The Bill compounds mistakes that the Government have made possibly since 1979–80, but most certainly since the mid-1980s. The Government mistakenly assumed, probably because very few Conservative Members represent urban areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ealing with a bizarre interpretation of reality. The right-to-repair initiative, as we have already heard, has been a disastrous error, the statistics had to be withdrawn as the figures were so embarrassing—only nine people availing themselves of it in the past year. But here is a serious point. The scheme failed because it was introduced by regulation; it was not subject to scrutiny in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "es that the urban regeneration agency will be holding a big stick behind its back in its dealings with local government. Even if the Government claim that they are the powers of last resort, the very existence of the powers will damage the relationship with local government and deprive local authorities of their proper democratic planning role. Heading the URA will be none other than Lord Walker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": " sweeteners, the man who will mastermind the minimal help that is to be given to mining areas once the pits are gone. The best thing that can be said of Lord Walker is that he knows all about pay-offs and how to get the most out of them. Last April, he got £100,000 after a few months' work when he quit as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation. The former Welsh Secretary was allowed to buy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.238.8", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": " mortgage-to-rent scheme? It would be much more appropriate. The decision to amend tenants' rights to consultation in the context of compulsory tendering has proved highly unpopular with housing organisations and tenants' bodies. Why do the Government not recognise that they have no mandate for CCT from those who are living in the homes that will be affected by their proposals? On right to repair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.238.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "e Lord Chancellor's latest figures for repossession orders confirm an encouraging fall. Leasehold reform is an important reform. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington on a remarkably good speech. He spoke without any notes. My parliamentary private secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis), passed a letter to me during the debate from one of his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "ouraging fall. Leasehold reform is an important reform. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington on a remarkably good speech. He spoke without any notes. My parliamentary private secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis), passed a letter to me during the debate from one of his constituents— [Interruption.] —who said that the Bill is fair and popular legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington on a remarkably good speech. He spoke without any notes. My parliamentary private secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis), passed a letter to me during the debate from one of his constituents— [Interruption.] —who said that the Bill is fair and popular legislation— [Interruption.] —that must go through. I say also to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you read it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "No, it is not in there because it is untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall detain the House briefly", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall detain the House briefly [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".] Conservative Members will have to be tolerant tonight—a lot may depend on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-03", "file": "debates1992-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "19829cb2ad36c5a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " One of the consistent complaints about the way in which central Government and Parliament fund the activities of local government and quangos—such as the proposed urban regeneration agency—is that we impose duties on them without necessarily giving adequate funding to carry them out. I fear that that may be the case with the Bill. I have alerted Ministers that I should be grateful of a specific —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-03a.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I constantly hope that one day I will hear someone from the Opposition Front Bench say something complimentary about the achievements of British industry. I remind the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "As I have explained to the House before, there is no market for the coal that the hon. Gentleman is asking me to produce. The miners know that the coal produced in the past has been added to the stocks at the pitheads and the generating stations, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Privatisation of Gipsy Sites", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "ntimidate others in self-righteous pursuit of their chosen way of life—at the expense of all other people. At the same time, the Bill seeks to protect and enhance legitimate gipsies who lead a traditionally nomadic life by selling them local government-owned sites for them to control and manage in their own way. The Bill seeks to put the citizens of this country on an equal footing before the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Privatisation of Gipsy Sites", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "val of huge numbers of shiny and expensive caravans, hauled by Range Rovers, Jaguars and other expensive motor vehicles, on green belt land near the town of Hertford and near other villages and towns in my constituency. These people then encamped illegally, without sanitation, and in full view of a council house estate, many of whose residents had waited months and years to gain a council tenancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "dd amendment from an allegedly pro-European party. The amendment in the name of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) might usefully be called a \"Napoleonic\" amendment. \"Not tonight Josephine,\" is the message from the right hon. and learned Gentleman, \"we'll debate it at some other time.\" That is not the politics of principle. It is the politics of political expediency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Almost every intervention from Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " says, \"Delay—don't hurry. We didn't want the treaty in the first place, so just concentrate on the economy and push it to one side.\" But the fact is that our European policy and our economic well-being are inextricably linked, and will remain inextricably linked in future. The EC receives £60 billion-worth of manufactured goods and 54 per cent. of our total trade is now with the EC. An estimated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " on 24th September; and believes that these conditions cannot be satisfied until the Edinburgh European Council at the earliest and that therefore further consideration of the Bill should await the outcome of that meeting. Before I enter on the merits of the debate I think that it would be appropriate to congratulate Governor Clinton on his tremendous victory in the American presidential election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "or Clinton on his tremendous victory in the American presidential election—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear] He fought a positive campaign, which set out a new agenda for America's future, and he eloquently and effectively made the case for change. He deserves his victory, and we in the Labour party wish him well. I add that we are delighted that a major battle has been won against negative campaigning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I take it, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. A bit of fun is all right, but we want to make some progress now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I take it from Conservative Members' reaction to what I said that the two Tory strategists who were sent to help President Bush will not be welcome when they come back to this country. What the Conservatives have done seems an odd way to start off a relationship with the new President. The House will remember that the roots of the motion and the debate go back to 24 September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.7", "colnum": "297", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.297.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.301.9", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. A reference was made a short time ago to a document that is apparently in the Library. When I went to ask Library staff they did indeed produce a document, but it seems fundamentally diferent from that to which the Prime Minister referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.301.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.301.9", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "y in the Library. When I went to ask Library staff they did indeed produce a document, but it seems fundamentally diferent from that to which the Prime Minister referred. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] The document that the Library gave me is a letter from Poul Schlüter to the Prime Minister covering Denmark and Europe. Whatever else it is, it is not recognisable as a report to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.301.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.301.11", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is waving a document. I think that I have the same document before me. It is a letter from the Prime Minister of Denmark enclosing a document entitled \"Denmark in Europe\". It is merely the Danish proposals, yet the Prime Minister pretended to the House that it was a report given to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.301.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "Yes. Further to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), Madam Speaker. The documents available in the Library are a letter from Prime Minister Schlüter, a copy of the document issued by the Danish Parliament and a memorandum from the Foreign Office commenting on the Danish document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.302.7", "colnum": "302", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh. It has not been tabled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that it is not the document that has been tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes. The Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ht which, by not mentioning the subject, hoped to persuade the Tory rebels to back it. By the time you read this the situation may well be different again. After that series of events—and we all watched them unfold—is there any hon. Member in the House naive enough to believe that the motion is only about the timing of the start of the Committee stage of the European Communities (Amendment) Bill?.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is hardly a point of order for the Chair. The hon. Gentleman knows that formal proceedings on the Bill will not be affected by the outcome of the result today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "t not used to consider urgent Community-wide action to promote recovery and investment, instead of the Prime Minister's game of words over subsidiarity—a principle which he lauds for Europe but which he denies here? I have a direct question for the Prime Minister: why did he refuse to put growth and jobs on the agenda for the Birmingham summit although he had been asked to do so by the Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ed industries and devastate whole communities throughout the coalfields. Next week, in the autumn statement, we will be told who is next to pay the price of Government incompetence. I suspect that it will be teachers, nurses, the low paid, the sick, the elderly and the poor. Because of Government incompetence, public services will be undermined even further and the recession prolonged even longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "his experience as a football supporter hits the truth with uncanny precision. He wrote: After all, I have nearly 30 years behind me of high hopes at the start of a season fading into disappointment with a string of disappointing results by January. As we have repeatedly made clear, as recently as our last annual conference, our commitment is to closer economic and political co-operation in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ealised here is that those people in Parliaments in the European Community have no comprehension whatever of what is going on with a manoeuvre of that kind. That is the damage that is being done by what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has said today. The damage is widespread, because we must face the fact that, in the Community as well as outside, Britain's position has become widely suspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In French!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Australian\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister referred— Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Finland—want to become members. The campaign by The Sun against Jacques Delors, urging people tomorrow to put up posters and speak of \"Fawk Delors\", is sordid, filthy and unworthy of any British newspaper. In fact, that newspaper is American owned and American directed. It makes me ashamed to be in a country in which it is published. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman wants to get out of Europe in any event. We must recognise that the Community is essential to us and that we must work in it and with it. We no longer run the world, although some behave as if we do. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Once again, I find myself following the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir. E. Heath) in a European debate. By and large, I could not find a single point of disagreement with what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "s often the case that on specific issues one can agree with those from other parties. Indeed, it is often the case that, when that happens, the nation benefits. The right hon. Gentleman expressed sadness about the position adopted by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) and the many others who showed great courage in 1972 but who have now decided to change their minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "n with which we have dealt in recent years. It is about Britain's future in Europe, not about the survival of the Government. That is the central issue at stake today. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has a deservedly fine reputation as a parliamentary debater. I believe that, when he looks back on his speech today, he will find that it did not enhance that reputation. The whole of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " issue at stake today. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has a deservedly fine reputation as a parliamentary debater. I believe that, when he looks back on his speech today, he will find that it did not enhance that reputation. The whole of his speech— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) says from a sedentary position that we are frightened of losing our seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.314.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "preceding_text": "he debate is taking place because the Labour party and many of my right hon. and hon. Friends wanted it. If we proceed to debate the Maastricht Bill, either now or in a few weeks' time, we shall still have the opportunity to amend it, throw it out or do whatever the House wants to do. All the fuss and debate revolve around a Labour amendment to delay the proceedings of the Committee for six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "preceding_text": "on may be needed on textiles, to which he referred. There are both undesirable and desirable provisions in the treaty. If I believed, for example. that ratification of Maastricht would lead to Mr. Martin Bangemann's view of affairs prevailing, I should not be in favour of it. It is interesting that no one has mentioned Mr. Bangemann, which shows that no hon. Member takes his predictions seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton (Mid-Sussex)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton (Mid-Sussex)", "preceding_text": "tive. He wanted to turn the clock back. He assumed that life could go on as it had in pre-Delors days; no Maastricht treaty, no change, just an economic area. But it is not like that. As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said clearly, the other 10 countries will certainly ratify the treaty before Christmas. We have no reason to believe that the Danes will not ratify too within the next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " fought the election as ardent Europeans and our conference heartily endorsed that stance—which perhaps some of my colleagues ought occasionally to remember—I now expect the parliamentary Labour party, and its Front-Bench spokesmen in particular, to support strongly the progress of the Maastricht Bill. There must be no erosion of our European position. There must be no obstructionism in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": "I do not care. The Opposition are a classic case of chickening out. They have been talking Europe, promoting Europe and wanting Europe, yet tonight they intend to record a vote against Europe. I shall vote against them and against the Government and for a referendum —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "preceding_text": "eating a genuine democratic Europe, but that is not what is on offer to the people of Europe. Maastricht is about winding down our democratic rights. It is about a major shift of power from ordinary people to great and unaccountable financial institutions. We shall be reduced to a body of no more relevance than the average county council subject to rate capping. That is not what I came into power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did she say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "embers on both sides of the House have said that they are in favour of Europe and yet against Maastricht—or that they are for their party but do not intend to go down its main line. It has been a case of tip-toeing not so much through the tulip fields of Maastricht as through the poppy fields of Ghent. Hon. Members will be grateful to hear that I have consulted the people of Finchley on the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": ", as happened in France. But in France, one of the main parties argued against Maastricht, whereas in this country all the main parties are in favour of it. Some of the people who oppose a referendum say that the question is too complex. That is an insult to the British people. Are we really saying that our people are less intelligent than the Danes, the Irish and the French? Of course we are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "are less intelligent than the Danes, the Irish and the French? Of course we are not. [Interruption.] Some say that there may be drafting problems with a referendum. We had one before in 1975, so why can we not have one again? It is also said that to have a referendum would involve a U-turn by the Government. I and many other hon. Members go—or at least, used to go—to the Court of Appeal every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.366.6", "colnum": "366", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "uropean socialists, at any rate—views that they simply do not hold. I asked him to withdraw what he said. He did not do so. I repeat that he was wrong to say it. I understand that Conservative Members are somewhat sensitive about the Opposition's charge that the motion is a motion of confidence in the Government in disguise. I can only say that any suggestions of that nature have not come from us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.366.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "This is the humble petition of the residents of Halifax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-04", "file": "debates1992-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d02490cbdc01c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.386.6", "colnum": "386", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "The petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-04a.386.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his election to the shadow Cabinet. I know that we shall have some sharp exchanges, hut they will be fair and honourable and I welcome them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.406.8", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Why is it that, in the midst of all our present miseries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.406.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.408.8", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.408.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.408.10", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I say first to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.408.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I say first to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. May I say to the right hon. Gentleman that the price of principle is often abuse, but he was right last night in the vote that he cast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Yugoslav Nationals (Visas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " describes the present position in which those who seek asylum are entitled to be given priority as unintentionally homeless. There are authorities in which it is almost impossible to house a long-standing resident because all the housing has been taken by refugees. That underlying problem will be addressed in the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill, which had its Second Reading earlier this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "GATT (Uruguay Round)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I certainly know of my hon. Friend's interest in textiles, and in other industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "If I were allowed under the rules to read the passage, I should be delighted to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.468.3", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "ce. To put the Bill in context, I want to refer to a paper that was circulated to all Departments last year. That paper was entitled Selling Government Services into a Wider Market. Paragraph 2 said: The Government's policy is to restrict the size of the public sector and in general the presumption is that services should wherever possible be provided by private sector rather than public sector.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.468.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Is the purpose of the civil service to provide a good service to the public or is it to employ large numbers of people doing rather inefficient things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John G. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Selling more weather?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John G. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ertheless, we shall continue to seek the relocation of civil servants and their managers to our area. I believe in private enterprise, in market forces and in value for money. I am very pleased, for instance, that the meteorological office has at last started to believe in those things too. In the past two years it has generated 17 per cent. more revenue by selling its services. That is marvelous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-05", "file": "debates1992-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ca8e906d4dbf5e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.488.2", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " a huge amount of competitive tendering had proved very beneficial for English voters, competitive tendering had not begun in Scotland. It was thus very difficult to explain its benefits to the Scottish people. Since 1987, competitive tendering has been widely introduced in Scotland, saving millions of pounds, and I am pleased to say that at the last election we started to win back Scottish seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-05a.488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-06", "file": "debates1992-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "52b7d3fccb94f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-06a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "an authorised bank. The fact that BCCI was not given full banking status at that time reflected the Bank of England's concern about it. The bank became a licensed deposit taker. The report's criticisms of the Bank's actions at that time acknowledge that there were arguments on both sides, and paragraph 2.21 sets out grounds for the Bank of England believing that its action at that time was proper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-06a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-06", "file": "debates1992-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "52b7d3fccb94f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-06a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "ead earlier and that options other than closure were available. I acknowledge that, because restrictions and measures short of revocation of authorisation can be imposed by the Bank of England. As I said in my opening speech, the Bank did that in other cases, to the advantage of employees and depositors alike. Like many hon. Members, the hon. Gentleman called for the resignation of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-06a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.615.8", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that answer, of which I was, of course, aware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.615.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.619.5", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "Although the right hon. Gentleman makes that reply, he must be aware that there is an EC directive that is applied completely unfairly and results in the House tending to buy foreign goods even though there are English goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.619.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.628.11", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you want him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " framework provided by the local education authority. That was on 2 April 1992, and the hon. Gentleman waited slightly more than one month before committing his first U-turn and stating in the Bath Evening Chronicle on 6 May 1992: We would be very keen to see the benefits of grant-maintained status passed to all schools … Maybe what we should do is to have all the schools opt-out instantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.628.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "rventions on my speech—and I do not want to start any more hares of that kind. I believe, however, that the introduction of the national curriculum has been an astonishing success, thanks to the work of my right hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley and his successors. Nobody now can imagine the country's schools without the national curriculum. I have never met a teacher, in the 57 school visits", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ll ensure that the Bill offers no hiding place for those people. I should like to take one case study of how the Bill might work on the ground in a named education authority. Why do not we look at what is going on in Birmingham, England's second city? Nowhere have some parents and some school staff who have wanted to opt out been subjected to more vilification than in Labour-controlled Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ry of State does not seem to have put up much of a fight for any education sector. However, it is probably just as well for the Government that this debate is taking place after last Wednesday, given the Secretary of State's treatment of the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster). The Minister might not have persuaded some hon. Members into his Lobby last Wednesday, if this debate had already happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "alves will do much to improve the quality and standard of state education and will give real local control. There will be no third party to interpret or distort the intentions of national Government as they apply to schools. I welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to small primary schools, especially those in small rural areas. I am pleased that they will be able to come together in clusters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "in the wake of the substantial numbers of secondary schools which have done so. The hon. Member for Dewsbury and other Opposition Members have been keen to play the numbers game, but they will lose. The number of grant-maintained schools is increasing all the time at an accelerating rate. At the time of the general election, there were 217 and there are now 330. There are 150 more in the pipeline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "n accelerating rate. At the time of the general election, there were 217 and there are now 330. There are 150 more in the pipeline. [Interruption.] By deriding those figures, Opposition Members deny the right of parents to exercise choice. Opposition Members stand in the way of a great tide of parental opinion. Parents have seen the success of grant-maintained schools, which have raised standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ns of hope are needed in Labour LEAs. Opposition Members will be aware that almost invariably the schools which prop up league tables—drawn up on any basis of academic performance—are in Labour LEAs. Parents will have noted the light-hearted way in which Opposition Members treat standards and choice. To Opposition Members it is a matter for laughter. Higher standards, greater academic achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "Before I turn to the substance of the Bill, I should like to deal with what the Secretary of State said earlier, when he made yet another of his repeated attacks on Birmingham's education system. He was not sufficiently well mannered on that occasion to let me, a Birmingham Member, answer him, so I shall take this opportunity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "preceding_text": "t with a national system nationally administered, and I would say it if it did not overstate the coherence of the Government's proposals. The proposals are deeply dishonest. The Government have not even had the courage to set about creating the kind of system that they would really like to create; instead, they are legislating in a mean, sordid, shoddy and dishonest way. Let me conclude my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Sir Wyn Roberts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Sir Wyn Roberts)", "preceding_text": "y) and for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones). Before dealing with any detail, I have a question to put to both hon. Members about crumbling schools. If that is the position under the existing local education authority regime, why have local education authorities underspent their capital allocation this year by no less than 15 per cent? I hope to deal with some of the other issues that have been raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "heir lives. We have established a separate Curriculum Council for Wales. The hon. Member for Torfaen seems not to know that the body is already in existence. In fact it is. It advises the Welsh Office on curriculum matters. I hope to say more about it in a moment. More recently, we have taken steps to establish a separate and independent office of Her Majesty's chief inspector of schools in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-09", "file": "debates1992-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "71753d2226b1e232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "wn in grant-maintained status by the primary school sector in Wales. We have a large proportion of primary schools, and almost 30 per cent. of them have fewer than 100 pupils. I am keen to emphasise the benefits to them of grant-maintained status. I assure Labour Members that those schools are certainly taking an interest. We are witnessing a tremendous upsurge in grant-maintained status in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-09a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " of November. We have fairly discharged that responsibility. As ever, the hon. Gentleman, who is sponsored by the National Union of Public Employees, thinks always of the public sector providers and not of the voluntary and private sectors. We have made it clear that money must be spent by the independent providers if we are to safeguard choice. Choice always means very little to the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Matrix Churchill", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Invite?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his welcome in this matter. I can tell him that the inquiry will not be limited to matters of policy; it will be able to look into all relevant aspects of the matter, and to invite such witnesses as it thinks fit to appear before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Matrix Churchill", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "y the inquiry is being set up: so that those circumstances can be looked into carefully, impartially and independently. Secondly, let me say this to my hon. Friend, and to other hon. Members who have said, \"What about an apology?\", and that sort of thing. I hope that I have made it clear already that I recognise what an invasive action prosecution of anyone is. I fully recognise, and I sympathise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Matrix Churchill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House. knows that these are very serious and important matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Matrix Churchill", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"But will he be allowed to publish what he likes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ned Gentleman will fully recognise that, in those circumstances, it would not have been proper to proceed. The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked who on the inquiry would decide the issues to which he referred. I am sure that the right hon. and learned Gentleman realises that the point of having an independent inquiry by a learned Lord Justice is so that the Lord Justice will decide the issues", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Matrix Churchill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.762.6", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "preceding_text": "o bear on less effective schools and increase standards for all; parents have a right to good information about schools so that they can make informed choices in the best interests of their children and keep school performance up to the mark; parents have a right to good information about how their children are doing at school so that they can form a genuine partnership with the teachers and staff", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.762.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "The Government have had 13 years and they have not managed to do much yet. I congratulate the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Forman) on what I understand is his first performance in an education debate. I am sure that he will be glad to have that ordeal out of the way. This is my first opportunity to take part in an education debate, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "re is much need for reform, but the Bill is not the jewel in the crown. If there is need for reform in our education service, it was identified by my hon. Friend the Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) yesterday when he referred to the £1·5 billion underfunding in the education system. We can see it in Wales, where capital expenditure on school buildings has been cut by 35 per cent. since 1981.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making an absolutely excellent speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "authorities for supposedly indulging in political interference in discussing the future of their schools. What a pity that he had not first had a word with his Parliamentary Private Secretary. As my hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury (Mrs. Taylor) rightly pointed out, the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. Carrington) had been engaged in an exercise of arm-twisting of a voluntary-aided school in Fulham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "dren in LEA areas are examined. Our objective will be to recreate the educational planning role of the LEA and the self-management role of schools. Successful management models can be seen in both Labour and Tory authorities. My hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire, West quoted the Conservative chairman of the West Sussex authority. I should like to quote the chairman of the East Essex authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nment introduced their last huge Bill on education, they had to table nearly 600 amendments in the other place to try to put right their first thoughts. They presented this Bill as an even greater Bill than the great Education Reform Bill. I would not mind betting that even more amendments will be tabled by the Government in order to put right the rush to judgment that they have made in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "maintained schools under regulations and guidelines made by the Secretary of State. It goes on to say later: It is expected that the costs of the funding authorities will be offset over time by savings in the running costs of the Department for Education and the Welsh Office\". What is the time scale? When the transfer of funding takes place, there will be a gap between the new funding authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "House should know something about the sums that the Secretary of State has in mind to spend. It would be very unfair if he intended to hand out to parents who want to undertake balloting large sums of cash, simply on a propaganda exercise, without both sides of the argument being presented to those who wish to vote. It seems fair and reasonable to ask the Secretary of State what is to be provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": ". People would not accept that the Government should use taxpayers' money under the balloting provisions for Tory propaganda in support of the Government's cause. That is what it seems like to me. I hope that the Minister will prove me wrong. Another point causes me extraordinary concern. On the Tory Benches. we have a collection of merchant bankers, Lloyd's members, estate agents and all the rest", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your hon. Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "his nature, which gives widespread powers to Ministers. It is inconsistent of them to worry about the sovereignty of the House but not to worry about handing over unqualified, unquantified powers to the Secretary of State, to spend as he likes. That is why I have raised these issues, against a background of noise emanating from indifferent Conservative Members standing beyond the Bar of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.845.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-10", "file": "debates1992-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2453637006fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He lost it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Further and Higher Education (Mr. Nigel Forman)", "preceding_text": "As one who has been in the House for quite a long time—perhaps not as long as the hon. Gentleman, or perhaps even longer—I can tell my younger colleagues that we have just heard a characteristic speech by the hon. Member for Keighley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-10a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend congratulate the National Rivers Authority on its wonderful job of cleaning up the River Thames? The River Thames is now a beautiful river—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "That is nonsense. The hon. Gentleman has been Liberal Democrat environment spokesman for some time and he should know better. We made it crystal clear that we considered the ratification of the climate change and biodiversity conventions to be important. We have always made it clear that we hope and intend to complete our ratification by the end of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "We are grateful to the Minister for his candour. What occurred was a legislative cock-up of the most monumental proportions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ibility for the Bill. That marks a considerable step forward, perhaps even to the avoidance of the kind of difficulty in which the House now finds itself. However, it raises other questions. We are clearly not debating simply a slip of drafting. A whole circumstance has been overlooked. It suggests that the Children Act was drafted in too much of a hurry and was not subjected to the usual kind of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.903.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.920.3", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registered Homes (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The Minister is now admitting that for six months he has been trying to get representation on these boards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registered Homes (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman had his say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.953.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registered Homes (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": ", the Registered Homes Act 1984, was apparently not voted upon in the House. The Registered Homes (Amendment) Act 1991, the other Act upon which the order is based, was also not voted upon and went through almost formally. It is interesting, therefore, that the Opposition intend to vote against the order tonight. I shall return to the impact of a defeat, which I would take as a vote of —confidence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-11", "file": "debates1992-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "9175ff3f6753787d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registered Homes (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": " during his speech. I was not laughing; I was wincing. At the moment that I winced, the volume control in some part of the House had clearly developed a fault. It was one of the speakers, I think—the speaker at the time, perhaps. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that nothing that he said was a laughing matter. To the hon. Member for Normanton, the answer is no. These are medically qualified people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-11a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.980.4", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. I acknowledge that negative equity can be a problem for some borowers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.980.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan-Smith", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree with me that it is quite appalling for right hon. and hon. Gentlemen to go on the media and accuse my right hon. Friends of dishonourable conduct before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.990.4", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have replied to the right hon. Gentleman's letter and the many media appearances that he has made. As he will see when he receives my letter, his second letter shows that he has completely misunderstood the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " that, having been driven by events to signal a change of policy against his will, the Chancellor has not only failed to admit the scale of the mistakes of the past but has failed to measure up to the extent of the problem which the country faces. He has failed to give us an economic and industrial strategy for the future. With regard to the credibility of the Chancellor's forecast this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "advantage\"? Given that the Chancellor has also announced new road taxes from next year, does that include road pricing? When there are 1 million children in school classrooms built before the first world war; when two thirds of hospital wards are hangovers from the days of charity hospitals; when roads need repair and when the rail infrastructure needs not a pilot scheme, but proper and sustained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": ". That is the point. The hon. Gentleman thinks that the only way to improve services is with money rather than with efficiency and with having a limit on wages. The hon. Gentleman referred to the budget for the Department of Employment. Again, contrary to what he says, there will next year be a real increase in that budget. The training and enterprise councils' budget will remain virtually intact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks and I am glad that he welcomes the reduction in interest rates. However, I must make the cautionary point that the PSBR, at some 6 per cent. of GDP, is, on a medium-term basis, far too high. When I look at what is happening in other countries, I am sure that it is in the best interests of everyone that it is brought down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "Public sector wages in the last two years have done better on average than those in the private sector. Many public sector workers also have greater security of employment than is the case in the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am happy to tell my right hon. Friend that I am pleasantly surprised by his autumn statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say that I am pleasantly surprised by my hon. Friend's remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Lady looks at the published documents in the Table Office, she will see the provision in the programme of the Department of Trade and Industry. I hope that it does not sound too Irish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1014.5", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "Several of those projects were not in the south—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "aud. It is the Labour party that does not distinguish between the two. Let me remind the hon. Gentleman of a paper that was submitted to the Labour party's national executive committee by his hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett). According to that paper, one of the disadvantages from which the Labour party suffered was the fact that it had linked itself with freeloaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I add my congratulations to my right hon. Friend on the full uprating of all social security benefits. Does he agree that it is a bit rich for the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) to spread fresh rumours about the erosion of the value of pensions in the future when the only Government ever to massage the real value of pensions downwards was a Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Robert Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Robert Spink", "preceding_text": "h (Mr. Corbyn) can understand—the Government's continued commitment to basic state pensions and child benefits, which has been demonstrated by his statement? Does my right hon. Friend agree that the only party which threatens universal benefits with means testing is the Labour party, which proposes a commission on social justice? Such a commission would produce not social justice but the opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-12", "file": "debates1992-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5c3b1667a3c2f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Robert Spink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Robert Spink", "preceding_text": "sic state pensions and child benefits, which has been demonstrated by his statement? Does my right hon. Friend agree that the only party which threatens universal benefits with means testing is the Labour party, which proposes a commission on social justice? Such a commission would produce not social justice but the opposite— [Interruption.] —and would threaten the basic pension and child benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-12a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-13", "file": "debates1992-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "358abec0491d5384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-13a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner (Bolsolver)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner (Bolsolver)", "preceding_text": "C courses have not been found a job. That was before the announcement. Can hon. Members imagine what life in coalfield areas will be like if those pits close? It is high time that we examined what is' really happening in Britain. Not only have we had a recession followed by a deep slump, but some measures announced yesterday showed that the Government will not do a great deal to solve the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-13a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-13", "file": "debates1992-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "358abec0491d5384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-13a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "y. He knows that small-business-type Tory Members will be shuffled on to the Front Bench. About five Cabinet Ministers will get the chop. I think that they should all go, but it is generally reckoned that about five of them are in serious trouble. There is a battle royal between those who want to get rid of the right wing of the Cabinet and some who want to get rid of the left wing of the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-13a.1100.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that the hon. Gentleman intends to remain Labour spokesman for many years to come. I am pleased that the game of musical chairs has stopped, and I wish him well as Opposition spokesman for many years to come. Since I became Secretary of State, wages in Wales have risen faster than the average in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would welcome the privatisation of British Rail and franchising, because it is possible that the north Wales coastal services will do considerably better. The hon. Gentleman knows only too well that direct services from London to Holyhead are to be reduced from three to two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": " Atcham (Mr. Conway), I clearly heard through the media at the weekened the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown), the leader of the Liberal Democrats, say that he was forced to have a debate on those subjects and not on Iraqgate as he wanted. May we have your assurance that no pressure has been put: on you to prevent a debate on Iracigate? That will expose the scandalous lies that have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "preceding_text": "Government. We were also told that the recovery—I am tempted, Madam Deputy Speaker, to insert the word \"sic\"—in the housing market would be devastated, just as it was getting under way. The Secretary of State for the Environment was echoed by the Prime Minister on 31 March, when he said: We're going to make life easier for people buying their home. Our policies will mean a stronger housing market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " into better use. One factor that must be borne in mind when we consider the Opposition's figures is that the Government have given substantial support through the housing benefits system. I note the point that was made by the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey, but, according to figures that I obtained from the Library this morning, in the past year £5·9 billion in support was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "e, Cumbria, Scotland and in my home area of Cornwall. It is clear to me that we must have a continual programme to provide rented accommodation of all sorts for those communities. In recent years, the Minister has not shown himself to be dogmatic about the split between the rented and owner-occupied sector. He is a man of great stature, because he listens to both sides of the House on this subject", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-16", "file": "debates1992-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e97864e313cf04c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "for Rhondda was right: the action that we are taking is not the action of a country which is rightly proud of its civilisation. The 186 people in buses, of which we are letting in six, who have been mentioned sum up how disgraceful this all is. Rightly, the debate has focused on such people, but they are a tiny drop in a great ocean of misery. My right hon. Friend the Member for Fife, North-East —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-16a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that there have been two ballots in my constituency where parents voted not to opt out. He will also know that those two thrusts for opting out were led by the head teacher and a small coterie of ill-motivated governors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.135.10", "colnum": "135", "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. and learned Gentleman is being extremely silly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.135.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Bosnian Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "mmunity in giving humanitarian assistance inside Yugoslavia to those people. We have joined in, making our offer to take a share of those referred to us by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The hon. Gentleman gives no indication as to whether he would refuse any of those 2 million if they presented themselves to come to this country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Bosnian Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is exactly the same body.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "dentify for us the first 600 or so people from the detention camps, is the International Committee of the Red Cross—a large international organisation based in Geneva with many people active on the ground in the areas affected by the fighting in the former Yugoslavia. There is a perfectly reputable body. The Ljublijana branch of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.143.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Water and Sewerage (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "I welcome the report, which looks in detail at the intricacies of the water system. Opposition Members may not experience problems in their constituencies, but believe me, there are problems with sewage in the Clyde, and it is about time that they were addressed. The report offers a wide range of options. It is a consultation document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.155.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Water and Sewerage (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "On the question of writing off debt, the hon. Gentleman knows that that is an issue that would arise only if it were decided to privatize—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "ation about how union leaders spend the money which their members provide through their subscriptions, not least, information about the salaries that their leaders are paid. The House will recall how difficult it was for members of the National Union of Teachers to discover how much their general secretary was paid and how surprised they were to find that he had been given a 46 per cent. pay rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "We are discussing the arrangements as they will apply under this legislation, but we always keep such issues under review, and safeguards are being introduced for union members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can clarify the matter for the hon. Gentleman. Union members covered by a collective agreement may have deductions made from their wages under the check-off arrangement, even if they have not given their individual consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "No, I should like to make a little progress. Even where collective bargaining persists, pay determination has become increasingly decentralised to local level. These are all healthy and necessary changes, if the British economy is to be competitive and obstacles to the creation of new jobs are to be removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.184.8", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Labour party will introduce a statutory national minimum wage. We shall then need to consider whether any other special protection should be offered people in what are called the sweated trades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.184.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend—I shall refer to him as that rather than as the hon. Gentleman, which is how he referred to me—were to pay me the courtesy of listening with his ears rather than his mouth, he would discover that I have said that I am willing to concede that without wages councils some more people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": " do not challenge that. When it comes to rights in the workplace, that is to be denied. If we extended that principle to national defence, it would seem that we should make the army, the air force and the navy redundant and supply every household with a pea shooter. Although it might be a frightening thought, let us assume that the Cabinet is the employer and that the Bill is law. Let us consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": " that the service that he wants performed is worth a certain sum and someone finds it attractive to perform that service at that price, a sensible wage is fixed. Earlier in the debate a sedentary intervention was made which was probably lost because it was not responded to. It was a fair point. Someone asked whether we would work for £2·50 an hour. Many of us have worked for less than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "mme of legislation. That legislation has proved to be a great success. The worst excesses of the 1970s and the abuse of power by unrepresentative and irresponsible trade union leaders is well known. In addition, the Government had, and still have, a dual role—to protect society from politically motivated trade union barons and to assist ordinary trade union members to gain control of their unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": " increased freedom of choice —not only whether to belong to a trades union but to which trades union they wish to belong. There must be no coercion to join one union. That is in line with Conservative philosophy of choice. We know that it is anathema to Opposition Members, who do not believe in choice in anything. The Government are determined to increase choice for ordinary citizens, and that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a large mouth and nonsense keeps coming out of it. If he listened for once he might learn something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "to the family now than they did in 1978. We are talking about family poverty. The Government say that overwhelmingly people in poverty do not have a job. They are experts in increasing the number of such people. They are now going down the road of increasing the number of people who are in poverty despite having a job. They are adding to the poverty of unemployment the poverty of the working poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.227.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ame, North (Mr. Wilson)? Would there be more bureaucracy followed by more bureaucracy? The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras should tell the House what the Opposition's policy is exactly—it is all rather vague. The hon. Gentleman refused to give an undertaking that a Labour Government would bring back wages councils. I shall happily give way so that he can give that undertaking to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-17", "file": "debates1992-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a746e951017f6624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ting poverty. The Opposition ignore improvements in living standards and the changes in the work force. They ignore the existence of targeted benefits and the fact that the majority of workers covered by councils are in two-income households. There are almost as many low-paid workers from the richest 10 per cent. of households in this country as from the poorest. The biggest cause of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-17a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ing at changes in medical practices and in population would concede that it was sensible to look at the options. We are moving from the stage at which we invested massively in district general hospitals in peripheral areas to a strategy of massive investment in district general hospitals in urban centres. I should have thought that the hon. Lady, representing Glasgow, Maryhill, would welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.280.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to publish the report by the consultants Quayle Munro on the future of water services in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should count up to eight rather than to 10 and he would realise that there is a great deal of valuable information in the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State either forgot or deliberately did not mention subsidiarity. When he gets from the Prime Minister a definition of subsidiarity, will he relate with clarity to Charity McGarrity from Inverarity that she will not have subsidiarity, but that she, like the rest of Scotland, will have to remain in the mode of subserviarity? Does he realise that that breeds subversivarity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.285.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.289.8", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": " that is that the unit of alcohol in Scottish whisky is charged at double the rate per unit of alcohol in French, Italian, Spanish, or German wine? Bearing in mind the fact that the number of people employed in the Scottish whisky industry over the past 10 years has declined by 40 per cent., does he agree that our job in Britain is not to create jobs in Europe and France, but jobs in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.289.9", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The reaction to my hon. Friend's question shows the popularity of his views on all sides of the House. As my hon. Friend will appreciate, taxation is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.289.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oath of Allegiance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And to Brussels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " and faster method of citizenship application. Secondly, why should an oath of allegiance be restricted to the Crown? If we were going to insist on such a thing, it would be far more appropriate to take an oath of allegiance to the country. Most of the powers of the Crown, especially in respect of the royal prerogative, have long since passed to the Government of the day and to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would be amazed if I gave the full details; indeed, it would be amazing if I were able to do so. What I said was that the cost of the motor tax abolition would be recouped, and I think that it would be reasonable to expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "eman says that we have not spent enough. Again, he would like more. However, when it comes to borrowing, the hon. Gentleman says that it is too high and should come down. On taxes, he says, \"No, not today.\" It does not even begin to add up. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East does not know how much he would spend; he does not know how much he would tax; he does not know how much he would borrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.309.7", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "of wage control in the wages councils is completely unacceptable and would even have been offensive to Winston Churchill who brought them in. It is obscene that Conservative Members continue to tell us that there is no floor below which wages should not fall, while they have been absolutely silent when some executives in British industry have awarded themselves huge pay rises above £10,000 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.309.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ut the measure has to be part of a full national recovery programme. The measure will cost the Treasury £750 million. The motor traders predict that, such is the recession in the economy, only 70,000 additional cars will be sold next year as a result of the initiative. That means that the cost to the Treasury of each additional car sold will be £10,500. Yet the average car costs less than £10,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "f the initiative. That means that the cost to the Treasury of each additional car sold will be £10,500. Yet the average car costs less than £10,000. [Interruption.] It is absolutely right. As the Chancellor has failed to contemplate additional measures to ensure industrial recovery and make it possible for people to afford to buy cars, it would have been cheaper to give cars away to 70,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rs may laugh but if 70,000 additional cars will be sold in the next year as a result of the expenditure of £750 million, it works out at almost £10,500 per car sold. The Chancellor would have been more sensible if he had spent the money on the first hand-out from the national lottery. That would have been a more sensible central element of his recovery programme. The point that I make illustrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor does not understand that the public sector borrowing requirement is rising because of the recession and unemployment. Policies for growth will bring it down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ke to see a lot of short-service commissions, along with training for other ranks before they move into civilian life. I mentioned the underground earlier. I think that a general should be put in charge of tube trains: he could be told that he will be made a lord if he makes them run in a year, and that if he does not his head will be chopped off. That, I think, would be a very effective sanction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-18", "file": "debates1992-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "591fe052f28555ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "n obsession with sterling M3, medium-term financial strategy, shadowing the deutschmark, being obsessed with a public sector borrowing requirement figure which had been set years before in different circumstances and which cannot be changed and changing over to the traditional policy of the Chancellor's judgment. If the Chancellor does not have good judgment, then the Chancellor should be changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-18a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend pays proper tribute to the excellent work achieved by Operation Bumblebee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.403.9", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ing deported that girl from Manchester airport at 6 am today, will the Minister confirm that she had lived in Switzerland for three years, that she had a return ticket to Switzerland dated 21 December, that she had £700 in her pocket, that she had credit cards from Swiss banks, that she had a full-time job in Switzerland with an employer who had given assurances that she would stay in Switzerland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.403.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman, who gave the House a long list of circumstances. I do not normally comment on a case, but he omitted to mention that the lady concerned told immigration officers that she was aware that former Yugoslavs needed a visa to come to this country but said that she understood that it was required only of ethnic Serbs. The refusal was mandatory. Had the case not been treated as it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "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. and learned Gentleman is seeking to hide the fact that he and his party want a cover-up on these statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "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. and learned Gentleman is seeking to hide the fact that he and his party want a cover-up on these statistics— [Interruption.] If there are errors in the statistics, the Department will correct them. The main point is that it is right to give this information to parents and astonishing that the Labour party should wish to hide this information from parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Members must come to order instead of bawling and shouting all the time like this.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.7", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ntinue to provide this information, and next year we shall go further with the information. This is the biggest exercise of its kind ever undertaken by a Government: a quarter of a million statistics in one complete set of tables. Every school had a chance to check its figures. In addition, some complaints may have originated in the information wrongly presented in the media, based on our figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.7", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "gest exercise of its kind ever undertaken by a Government: a quarter of a million statistics in one complete set of tables. Every school had a chance to check its figures. In addition, some complaints may have originated in the information wrongly presented in the media, based on our figures—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] It is hardly surprising that there are some errors. We shall correct them. Next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.407.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.410.4", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "On 16 November the Prime Minister wrote a letter to the National Union of Mineworkers saying that the 10 pits in the review would have to close because they were not making a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shadow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "May I first welcome to her new position the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman)? She is speaking for the first time today in her role as Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.431.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.440.7", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "increased. We have explained how our measures would be achieved. We have said, for example, that we do not believe it right to lift stamp duty on share dealing or that the recently privatised utilities should sit on billions of pounds in the bank when that money could otherwise be available for investment. We have set out clearly our programme of what needs to be done and how it would be financed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.440.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.445.5", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "to that of civil servants. That decision was right—our salaries should be pegged to civil servants' pay levels. I should like to ask the Chief Secretary whether he and his hon. Friends who are baying for a pay freeze for Members of Parliament will accept that their directorships, consultancies and other jobs are to be kept within the 1·5 per cent. Do they want to have a spiralling increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.445.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.447.6", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have made it clear that I have had no requests for any statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.447.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Anderson", "preceding_text": " billion of existing capital receipts to fund new housing. The builders in my constituency will not forgive him for that, either. The Chancellor talks about growth, and the need to boost consumer confidence, yet he imposes a 1·5 per cent. ceiling on pay increases for some of the lowest paid workers in the country. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State for Employment—I am sure that by rights he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "Denmark. Strikes are now a thing of the past, and this was so even before unemployment began to rise. Even though repossessions are very bad, fewer than 1 per cent. of owner-occupied houses are being repossessed. What caused the world recession? I have asked economists this question many times, and the consensus seems to be the bubble economy in Japan and the enormous deficit in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was his copy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "r have confidence in a Chief Secretary whose idea of reading around the debate on the autumn statement is to study thoroughly, \"Thomas the Tank Engine\"? I see that the hon. Member for Bridlington (Mr. Townend), who chairs the Conservative Back-Bench committee on such matters, thinks that that is a laudable way to prepare for a debate, and that may tell us how Conservative Members prepare for them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-19", "file": "debates1992-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed86e65fca1179dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.500.6", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says I am wrong. According to the Law Society, about 7 million people will fall out of eligibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-19a.500.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I, through you, ask for a message to be sent to Ministers to let them know how seriously the announced job losses are taken in my constituency, which could be absolutely devastated by job cuts of that magnitude? Yesterday when I told Roger Freeman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "r visited us. I forget the Minister's constituency, and his name, but I remember that he was involved in a fracas with a taxi driver at the Tory party conference. His successor as the Under-Secretary of State for Employment, who is in the Chamber, will know to whom I am referring. That Minister visited the Llynfi training workshop to open a new section. He was told by the management and the staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the hon. Gentleman something else. The statistics show that things were immeasurably better in 1976–77 than they are in the 1992–93 tax year. Between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ve known him for many years—since the days when he was on Lambeth council, together with the Prime Minister. That council provides a distinguished training ground for Tory politicians. I say thank you to the Under-Secretary of State—I will always thank a Government who provide jobs and initiative in my borough. I am not sure that city challenge is the way to do that. The trouble with competitions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "llion a year. The hon. Member for Norfolk, North was right to refer to wasters of last resort because that is the most atrocious kind of waste. It is dreadful that the nation should throw billions of pounds into propping up unemployment. We see little for that money, considering, for example, what employment training achieves. Indeed, I fear that employment training has become something of a joke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ayed in his vow of silence, since he expects his Minister to speak for him. Employment training is now in such a poor state that the probability of someone finding work after being on an employment training course is almost no better than the probability of someone who has been unemployed for six months finding work. Only 19 per cent. of those who have been on employment training schemes get jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-20", "file": "debates1992-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "97cd362e492e6681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.580.7", "colnum": "580", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "I listened carefully to the point of order of the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-20a.580.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.599.7", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister reconsider his previous refusal to meet traders in my constituency who view the imposition of red routes in Finchley road as catastrophic? I quote from what they say: \"If they are—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.599.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.599.10", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "ed out that way—I take very seriously indeed the idea that businesses might have been adversely affected by the introduction of the priority routes. I have examined with the greatest care all the evidence that has been submitted to me in an effort to demonstrate that proposition. There is not the slightest evidence that priority routes have had any impact on businesses in the priority route areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.599.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Windsor Castle (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I do not know precisely where responsibility lies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Windsor Castle (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "I have not lost one second's sleep over this tragedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.631.5", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman think that it is wise that he should heed the old legal maxim that he who comes to equity should come with clean hands? Does he agree that he is presently serving time on the Opposition Benches for his economies with the actualité some time ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.632.7", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "d their authors of cynical conduct. Having read them, it was not Ministers' cynical decisions that impressed me, but their stark naivety in thinking that they could arm a brutal, unstable dictator and that he would not use those arms. Why did Ministers not ask in those documents, \"Why does that man want such sophisticated weapons in such vast quantities?\" They knew what the machine tools were for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.632.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The answer is that, for once, we were naive enough to trust what we had been told by the hon. Gentleman's colleagues on the Front Bench", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "s that, in many cases, a judgment would have to be exercised as to whether or not certain potential exports came within the rules. I draw attention only to the words \"significantly enhance\" or \"prolong or exacerbate\", so that the House may appreciate the detail of the judgment that was bound to be necessary. I make two observations. First, by no means all our major competitors were so constrained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " That same group of Ministers also concluded that any change should be announced to Parliament. The hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) made a number of grave allegations today, one of which was that when the facts were fully revealed it would become clear that Ministers had no intention of announcing the change to Parliament. I merely wish to tell the hon. Gentleman that he is absolutely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State has now said that he is quoting from a state document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have given a clear ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "n Office building, are sent out in the name of the Foreign Secretary. All that the debate reveals is that Labour has been out of office for a very long time. It no longer knows how government works, so Labour Members make it up and trust to luck. The hon. Gentleman got it wrong. The headlines faded—the six-inch banner on the front page subsided to an inside column headed, \"Cook fails to convince\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.647.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "akes two extremely serious allegations. The first is that Lord Justice Scott could have his independence constrained by negotiations with the Government. I utterly refute that charge. I urge the hon. Gentleman to confirm my understanding of Lord Justice Scott's independence. Does the hon. Gentleman really believe that Lord Justice Scott would allow his independence to be constrained by Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.650.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you ask the right hon. Gentleman to speak a little louder? I cannot hear him. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "I will come to that point later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.661.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.661.8", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Gentleman has had a good go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.661.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "amine that matter. It is all too easy for business men in a very murky world in that neck of the woods to claim that everything is excused because of connections with the intelligence services. I want the Scott inquiry to consult the intelligence services and state clearly whether the intelligence services found Mr. Henderson reliable; whether he really was collaborating and on what sort of scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "or our service men—and his concern for me, for which I have expressed my gratitude—in the light of his past position in regard to defence. We must bear in mind his determination to do away with our nuclear weapons: only last year he described himself as a unilateral nuclear disarmer, not nine months after we had needed our deterrent to keep Saddam Hussein and his potential nuclear weapons from us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "sters are involved; secondly, that Foreign Office Ministers and DTI Ministers have no power or control over prosecutions. The strength of our reputation as a decent society is precisely based on the fact that the prosecuting authorities and the judicial authorities are not influenced by political convenience. Customs and Excise was the prosecution; it saw all the relevant documents and statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "at public interest immunity certificates were invented by the present Government, but the Leader of the Opposition knows perfectly well that they have been used for the past 50 years and that members of the Government of which he was a prominent member were not slow to use them. I will share with the House one excellent example of that. A case in 1977 of Burmah Oil Company v . the Bank of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We will not have running commentaries from hon. Members, particularly Front-Bench Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a civil case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The case occurred during the period of office of the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-23", "file": "debates1992-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5f5c5b00777a54e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears to imply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-23a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "of State's intemperate reply to yesterday's debate? Is the Minister aware that our support for EFA is aimed not just at the jobs of our constituents, but at securing the best possible fighter aircraft for the Royal Air Force, and for the air forces of our partners and of all other democracies? Our arms sales policy, however, excludes the sale of arms to military dictatorships. Will the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.730.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.734.8", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "stion. She is right that hon. Members have written constantly to Ministers in my Department urging us to take more and more vigorous steps to support defence exports to all sorts of countries, by no means all of which are democracies. To illustrate and amplify my hon. Friend's point, I can do no better than to quote from the distinguished commentator Hugo Young in today's edition of The Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.734.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is attending a lunch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is attending a lunch— [Interruption.] given by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Her Majesty the Queen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.737.8", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is making plans for a series of visits to all parts of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.737.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. In congratulating my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, perhaps we should also recognise the contribution made by Mr. Andriessen, Mr. MacSharry from the Community, Mrs. Hills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "British Broadcasting Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "y things that gave it its unique stature and strength destroyed. We shall guarantee the funding of public service broadcasting by the BBC, and believe that the licence fee should continue as the basis for financing the BBC. Will the right hon. Gentleman join us today in making that commitment? Will he support index-linking the licence fee for at least 10 years—the same period as the BBC's charter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "British Broadcasting Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "al Lives\" and the Zircon programme? Does he agree that the Government have debased democracy by their handling of such programmes? Is the right hon. Gentleman conscious of the fact that the BBC board of governors has come in for many legitimate attacks from various quarters? It has too often rolled over at the whim of politicians and retreated at the first whiff of displeasure from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "British Broadcasting Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "he BBC to seek to maintain revenue by taking limited TV advertising, that would compromise the editorial independence of the BBC and imperil the financial base of the new Channel 3? If the BBC is to get less of the licence money through the PSBC, is it then expected to sustain programme quality and diversity at regional and national level, and its paramount contribution to live music and the arts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.761.8", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there was an authoritative leak in The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.761.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "ure being exercised on individual Members, the smell will get abroad, and those outside will say, \"Parliamentary democracy is not exercising its judgment properly. There can be no proper exercise of the judgment of individual Members of the House of Commons. Let the people decide.\" Grave risks were taken in the way in which the Whips dealt with 50 or 60 right hon. and hon. Members a fortnight ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.779.7", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "It is believed that that was done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.779.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "preceding_text": "The discussion in Edinburgh will focus on the matters that I have just discussed. Member states are examining those matters. Measures are also being taken at Community level. The co-ordination and development of actions of member states are most important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "preceding_text": "red to the extra spending on the structural funds, which is within the expenditure to which I have referred. Yesterday, we made it clear once again that we would not accept an adverse change in the abatement. An intervention from the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) in the speech of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary suggested that Labour would put the abatement up for negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-24", "file": "debates1992-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "8457b784cf12d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-24a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Citizens Charter (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "glossy document full of regurgitated facts, many of them published a number of times already. The Government have already spent £7,500,000 on the publication of the citizens charter and its departmental progeny, and I seriously question whether yet another glossy document represents value for money. The Minister got one thing right in his statement—that consumers' and citizens' rights are crucial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Citizens Charter (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "use legal aid to appeal for their rights. The Government have cut the funding of citizens' advice bureaux and of voluntary centres that give people the chance to appeal and make complaints. That is the reality of what the Government have done. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the public's sceptical view of the charter is a sad outcome because, as I have said, the basic idea is a good one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Either the hon. Gentleman was not listening or he did not understand the purport of what he heard. Local authorities are already underfunded for the pay settlements that have already been awarded and are now in payment. They will have a horrendously difficult job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ve which I presume, from his remarks, the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) will not support, the Government are moving towards abolishing even the wages councils, the only protection still available to 2 million low-paid women in work. At the outset, I reminded hon. Members that this was a matter for the House and individual Members. Each hon. Member has a duty to make up his or her mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "That is a pathetic question. When we left office, the economy was in good shape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "ber for Chertsey and Walton (Sir G. Pattie) will feel the pinch. He signed the early-day motion. He has directorships with Nexus Marketing, Fairey Group, Leica plc, GEC Marconi and Carroll Group. He is a partner in Terrington Management, and he lists other clients. I do not think that he will go too short in 12 months. I now refer to the hon. Member for Wirral, South (Mr. Porter). At least he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.905.5", "colnum": "905", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much do you earn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I start by declaring my interest in the Hill and Smith Group, the Federation of Associations of Specialists and Sub Contractors, Port Enterprises Ltd, the Waterfront Partnership, Howard de Walden Estates, MinOtels and Dunn and Baker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.905.5", "colnum": "905", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "to make some judgment. Debates on Members' pay tend to follow a ritual pattern, as those who have listened to them over the years know. One idea, as expressed by the hon. Member for Derby, South and the hon. Member for Warrington, North (Mr. Hoyle), is that there is something hypocritical in a Member of Parliament with outside interests taking a view on the matter, or signing an early-day motion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "eness. They would also know—I put it no higher than this—that when people speak in the House of Commons they are either free men or less free men. They would also know—it is the nature of life, and let us accept it as such—that, if people are receiving £100,000-a-year directorships, they might try to act in the interests of those directorships. If that is the case, the public have a right to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "the public have a right to know. [Interruption.] If Conservative Members say, \"No, it doesn't happen,\" let us open the system and see what does happen. The key to my proposal, which is obviously beginning to attract support among Conservative Members, has the support of the Prime Minister himself. I have not discussed the detailed amendment with the Prime Minister, but I know that he is in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "g Cross station or here. I find it distressing and disappointing that any hon. Member would vote against the motion. Opposition Members should consider their consciences. We all know that Members of Parliament are not overpaid. I have only been a Member for about seven months, and I am astonished at how hard I have worked. I never thought that it would be like this—I find it extraordinarily hard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ime to do other things. Opposition Members are pointing at the Conservative Benches, but when the hon. Member for Warrington, North (Mr. Hoyle) talked about the \"stench\" from our Benches, I thought that that showed some hypocrisy on the part of Opposition Members. I have the Register of Members' Interests here and I have made one or two notes. I shall not mention names, as that would be invidious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may scoff, but perhaps that is because the Liberals know nothing about leadership. The country is looking to us for leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.917.5", "colnum": "917", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "ssary. The Opposition may expose their bleeding hearts to public view when they say how they would deal with nurses and teachers, but tonight we are dealing with our pay, not that of teachers or nurses. We must set an example—that is not a dirty word—and show leadership, for that is what we are paid to do. I am absolutely astonished that the Opposition have never heard about leadership or example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.917.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and I represent Leicestershire. Has he taken the opportunity to read the Leicester Mercury in the past month, which has singled him out for leading the campaign in the county in favour of the motion? Does my hon. Friend accept from me that the readers of that newspaper, who number several thousand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "House of Commons (Members' Salaries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Etherington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Etherington", "preceding_text": " trying to acquire wealth. That seems to be their main reason for existing. They do not want to distribute wealth; rather, they want to exploit those who create it. That is what the motion is about. If I were to vote for the motion, I should be betraying the people in the public sector who are poorly paid, those who support the policies that I support, because they are the people who would suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-25", "file": "debates1992-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c7003b60d08cc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "many of them live as the base on the Clyde. That matter must be taken into account. It is equally true that the service fleet is largely based in the south of England. The sailors who man the surplus ships have their homes in the south of England, so it makes sense to have the ships serviced in the south of England. That must be another important matter. I now turn to yet another important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-25a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "in the past two months is a good sign and should be welcomed. My task and that of my ministerial colleagues is to ensure that we attract companies, that we expand existing companies, that we create new jobs and that, above all, we encourage extra trade between the north and the south. The hon. Gentleman referred to the Irish Government. I have had conversations with my erstwhile counterpart, Mrs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Sunday Trading", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "d to the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), that the vote will not be all that free. I should like a free vote when we debate my Shops (Amendment) Bill on 22 January. I would be happy to give a copy of that measure, which has been examined by legal experts, to the Home Secretary so that he may read it and do further research tonight. The Keep Sunday Special Campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "k should be provided to local authorities next year? Has he cleared any figure that he might have in mind with the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman)? How would he raise that extra money—through income tax or through higher borrowing? The hon. Gentleman suggested that the figures that I gave of a 3·7 per cent. increase in funding and a 3·1 per cent. increase in spending were bogus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. A point of order to me is one thing, and the hon. Gentleman raised a reasonable point; however, he must not use that as a platform for continuing the exchanges. Of course, it has always been the practice that documents should be made available in the Vote Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Public Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ly unknown for the public sector more broadly—I am not talking about the Inland Revenue—occasionally to leak things. Nobody is criticising the standard of confidentiality in the Inland Revenue. None the less, it is right to look at public services and to see whether the same quality can be achieved at better value for money for the taxpayer. That is the right thing to do in that area as in others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Public Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I have no difficulty in looking for quality and efficiency of service using quantitative and qualitative indicators. I am not satisfied when market testing is put in the context used by the right hon. Gentleman today, which is in preparation for competitive tendering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Public Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "We have discussed matters of this type time and again. We want a national civil service that is part of the nation's heritage. We want it to be efficient and to deliver what the people need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Public Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "he royal household. Therefore, the fire at Windsor castle provides the prime example of where, if the property had remained in the public sector and the Property Services Agency, pre-privatisation, had been responsible, there might—it is difficult to prove—have been a different outcome. The Government closed the Crown Suppliers, which was responsible for providing expert advise on fire protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Public Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "preceding_text": "e I shall be in a matter of hours—is currently located in a Portakabin. That is not a temporary measure; it is to remain there for a couple of years. Would hon. Members fly on an airline that made them buy their tickets from a nissan hut? No: they would feel a certain lack of confidence about the validity of their tickets. The city of Chester is historic; it is the jewel in the crown of the north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-26", "file": "debates1992-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b9b5804bbbe9acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Public Service", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": ". The Government have been developing that policy for the past four years and when they began, the amount was only £25 million. We should congratulate the Government on extending that commitment fiftyfold. It is essential for all competing services to offer better value for money than the civil service. If work can be done cheaper outside, without any loss of quality—we set great store by quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-26a.1070.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-27", "file": "debates1992-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f593072d1b0ba222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-27a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 999 Service", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "idea to tackle what is perhaps the real motive behind the changes will be accepted by the Minister. I must warn the Minister that this issue will receive full support from not only Labour Members. We have support from the Liberal Democrats—the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Simon Hughes) was not able to be here today. Many sleeping Conservative Members are also concerned about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-27a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The present target for the Benefits Agency is to clear 60 per cent. of claims in 30 days. Half the disability benefit centres are meeting that target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary must be aware that the administration of justice in poll tax cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Solicitors (Payments from Public Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is no need to worry about anything but hearing the Speaker at the moment. I have listened very carefully to what the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) has said. As the House knows, I have to give my decision without stating any reasons. I am afraid that I do not consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.40.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How do you know that?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Madam Speaker. Is it not a fact that the then permanent secretary to the Treasury authorised the payment of £4,700 without any application to him for that funding from the Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.43.7", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I need your protection, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.43.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.45.6", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Not to the hon. Gentleman, if that is the correct epithet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.45.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.50.4", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rule out means-testing, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "as that there would be an open-minded approach to the evident problems of the current benefits system. How that claim to such an approach could then be translated into the type of charges made by the Secretary of State—except through malice—passes my imagination. The right hon. Gentleman is guilty of stirring of the lowest and stupidest kind, and I like to think that it will be counter-productive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.50.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "heme is available only for the private personal plan and not for COMP schemes, which are excluded. That has been a matter of concern to the occupational pension scheme's joint working group, which has been in correspondence with the Secretary of State. I carefully read the bits of that correspondence available to me, and I must confess that I was none the wiser about why that change had been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Thank you for calling me to speak in the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, which is especially apposite as it takes place on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Beveridge report. I congratulate whichever powers in Mr. Speaker's Office or the usual channels managed to arrange for the debate to take place at such an apposite time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "t for the opening speeches, because I wanted to compliment both spokesmen not on their performances in the House today but on their performances on another day, as the Bill is a consequence of the autumn statement. The autumn statement was a success for the Secretary of State. When questions are asked it is difficult to put on the record the extent of one's feelings and the extent of that success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "ction of flexibility into pension provision—of which contracting out of SERPS is a good example—and through the tax discounts available to those who invest money in a pension. It is wise to give someone a tax break during his working life, so that the next generation will not have to pick up even higher bills to support him in retirement. Labour Members have a rather wry expression on their faces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "f pensions but about the way that the Financial Services Act 1986 has been implemented through the devolution of power to the Securities and Investments Board, LAUTRO, FIMBRA and others. If self-regulation is to work, people must be able to trust the advice they receive from financial advisers. I am encouraged to learn that my right hon. Friend intends to produce a leaflet giving further guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Day", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Day", "preceding_text": "of living that I enjoyed when I was a young man and that the wealth that created it will always be there. The debate on this issue never addresses that point. People are never told that the countries of the west face a major problem. No Opposition Member has ever addressed that fundamental shift of economic power. Whether we like it or not, the truth is—my perception of the truth is—that economic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Certainly, both the amount and the nature of the commissions—for example, front-loaded commission—will be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-11-30", "file": "debates1992-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0a5fa98cb4ec818d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "their incomes of 3 per cent., but what their overall incomes would ultimately be when they had to rely on state pensions. They are not interested in theoretical links to something that does not deliver the goods. The issue of new-age travellers was, for a while, hotly debated across the Floor of the House. I am not sure how they come into these matters unless they have personal pensions. It seems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-11-30a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.140.12", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. I refer the hon. Lady to the answer I gave some moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.140.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Morris. I have three brief, genuine points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I will deal with points of order one at a time. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but there cannot be a vote on amendment No. 70, simply because it is out of order at this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " fear. If you were to say that you thought that an external objective explanation of what the treaty meant would assist the House, I expect that thet Government would immediately accede to your suggestion. I shall explain briefly why I think that that is necessary. For instance, at the Conservative party conference, the Prime Minister made five points about the treaty which I, as a pompous lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.154.6", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " Bill, the British people are entitled to know whether they have any rights at all in determining whether the treaty goes through. I first advocated a referendum in 1968. It took me about seven years to persuade the Labour party; my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the Opposition voted for a referendum. Now I am afraid there has been some slippage which will need to be dealt with again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.154.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Morris. Most of the points of order that we have heard so far do not appear to me—an absolute lay person—to have been points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Morris. Returning to the referendum issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I raise my third—again, a genuine—point of order, Mr. Morris.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.162.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.178.5", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Say yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman saying that the Government's victory in negotiating the words \"federal vocation\" out of the treaty has made no difference to the meaning of the treaty? Given his view that the treaty takes us towards a type of federal union, does he suggest that the Government, albeit inadvertently, seek to sell the treaty on a somewhat false prospectus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ment which seeks to incorporate title I is in the Bill or not—that is all that the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston) proposes—the Government intend to ratify title I. There is no objection to the words. It appears that the Government do not want too much of the attention of the House of Commons and of the country to be drawn to title I by incorporating it in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ent will go ahead and ratify the treaty. The second point raises matters of tactics for the Edinburgh summit. What gain have the Government got from putting the Bill on today? When the Edinburgh summit meets next week, every other European Minister will see that the British Government do not want the objectives of the Maastricht treaty put before the British Parliament. That is what this is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "r of the House for more than 30 years, I do not think that it is merely a question of parliamentary amour propre. I ask the Minister, gently and seriously, what more pressing business the Attorney-General could have than to be present on the Front Bench while we are discussing such matters. Former Attorneys-General would have been here automatically. My second Attorney-General was Sir John Hobson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to have a crack at his right hon. Friend, he should not try to use me to do it. His right hon. Friend is paid much more and, being a Minister, has more expert advice than is available to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "nches, forced by the inadequacies of the Short money to work these matters out for myself. I am sharing with hon. Members in all parts of the House the results of my cogitations. I put them forward for their perusal, and I shall be interested to hear whether they agree with my conclusions. The second superficial attraction of title I is the area to which an amendment of mine, No. 108, would apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "which presupposes the central bank arrangements that follow later. For practical purposes, nothing is more centralising than a central bank. Furthermore, the implications of that are that decisions on economic and monetary affairs, made by unelected, unaccountable bankers, will be taken away from the citizen. Those are the bases upon which people enter polling booths and vote in general elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "In that context, as we are the largest payer towards the European club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-01", "file": "debates1992-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bbcd797bd29d08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Irish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": " us look at the Delors 2 package and the way in which our Government are now trying to wriggle out of the competencies that were granted under Maastricht and for which they now say that they will not pay. We then begin to realise that the proposal will ruin the trust between the peoples of Europe because the people of Spain, of Portugal and of other countries will have been led up the garden path—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-01a.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "A reply to my hon. Friend's letter is on its way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister appreciate that there is widespread cynicism about the manner in which the 10 collieries appeared on the list? We know that negotiations about which collieries were to be included went on until 10 o'clock in the evening, or certainly until 4 o'clock in the afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Contrary to what the hon. Gentleman has implied, the United Kingdom spends about £3 billion a year on civil R and D, which is quite as much per head as Japan. My own Department's programme amounts to about £100 million a year which is split between technology transfer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "I share with my right hon. Friend the despair that he must feel at times at the Opposition's constant gloom during statements. Once again, he has confounded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "I share with my right hon. Friend the despair that he must feel at times at the Opposition's constant gloom during statements. Once again, he has confounded—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—he has confounded all of their expectations by increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "May I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.276.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.276.8", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not here for the statement.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.276.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.276.10", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.276.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Frankly, I did not hear what the hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Morris. I have raised, as far as I can remember, only three points of order in all my time in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Illegally.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "on. Furthermore, it does not surprise me to discover that the Bundestag has imposed another restriction on the powers of the German Government. It now insists on at least a two-thirds majority in both Houses of that Parliament to ensure that such provisions do not go through without its consent, and it will have a veto over a single currency. It is seeking to get that put back into the provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary that other European socialist parties are in favour of the Maastricht treaty and that they have agreed to a document which, apart from anything else, inflicts by treaty deflation upon the whole of western Europe and undermines the central purposes for which democratic socialist parties exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " involved. I have to tell my hon. Friends who oppose the Bill that I have been appalled to hear so much small-mindedness, bigotry, fear and ignorance expressed in the speeches that have been made so far from this side of the Committee. In fact, apart from mine, so far only one speech has been made by a Conservative Member. The world is in transition and we are in a time of considerable difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "se the Bill that I have been appalled to hear so much small-mindedness, bigotry, fear and ignorance expressed in the speeches that have been made so far from this side of the Committee. In fact, apart from mine, so far only one speech has been made by a Conservative Member. The world is in transition and we are in a time of considerable difficulty— [Interruption.] One has to ask what has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "tain belonged to the Government. Of course, Euratom is a federal system. When I raised the matter with Commissioner Brunner I was told, \"I am sorry, but the Atomic Energy Act 1946 has now been subsumed in Euratom. Everything that we now do in Brussels is done by the Crown.\" The reason why the House of Commons is frustrated is that, in terms of legislation, we are back to where we were before 1649.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "not insist that North sea oil he refined in Britain, and that that oil should come under the terms of the treaty of Rome. Secondly, I tried to continue a scheme introduced by the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whereby he supported Scottish industries working in North sea oil—it got a slightly lower rate of interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "All that I can do is express a profound sense of shock that my hon. Friend wishes to undermine the sacred constitutional sovereignty of the House. The right hon. Member for Chesterfield is in favour of a referendum, as are a small number of hon. Members on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "No. My hon. Friend's intervention was lengthy and verging on the repetitious, and I must be allowed to reply. That a referendum would undermine the sovereignty of the House is a fundamental error in my hon. Friend's argument. The other mistake which is joined to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "To upstage even \"Erskine May\", no less an authority than my noble Friend Lady Thatcher denounced the idea of a referendum in 1974 and 1975, but one was imposed on a reluctant Parliament by the then Labour Government. I voted against a referendum then, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I suppose that is not at all surprising. Earlier this year, I warned Government colleagues about unnecessary hesitation in respect of this legislation. It is a most modest Bill. I am not being undemocratic in saying that. It is a routine, technical Bill, and I suggest that most of the amendments should have been ruled out of order.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "ler pamphlet that again was issued rather late in the day. The pamphlet could have been published earlier this year. I do not understand why the Government took so long to publish it. Their printing system is supposed to be extremely efficient. The tone of this document is very negative, as though, once again, the Government are nervous and apprehensive about a small minority of little Englanders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.348.4", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "nt a considerable amount of time on this debate yesterday, and at 10 pm we will have devoted a whole day to it today. I would not for a minute suggest what you should do, but I merely point out that, by then, we will have had as long as we normally have on a Second Reading debate. It must surely be obvious to everyone that certain hon. Members, far from observing the 10-minute rule, have occupied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.348.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "to view the treaty and the Bill in perspective. Some of us could not speak on Second Reading because of the demand of so many hon. Members to speak, and the Chairman of Ways and Means suggested that we would have the opportunity to come back. There is therefore a sense of alarm that the Minister is being called at such an early stage, when so few people have spoken. One has not had an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": " hon. Members to speak, and the Chairman of Ways and Means suggested that we would have the opportunity to come back. There is therefore a sense of alarm that the Minister is being called at such an early stage, when so few people have spoken. One has not had an opportunity— [Interruption.] The point is that Mr. Morris showed us that he recognised that the matters before us are terribly important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.349.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-02", "file": "debates1992-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c2902e627e8b60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": ", I appeal to your sense of fairness in the matter. Many of us on the Back Benches, who, because we are not Privy Councillors and have not held offices that would enable us to attract the attention of the Chair in such a debate, have tried in vain many times to contribute to debates on Europe. That means that we sit for hours during such debates. On Second Reading, I tried to speak on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-02a.352.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-03", "file": "debates1992-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "adba444488419379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.387.5", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "lks about set-aside as if it were an innovation, when there has been crop rotation throughout the history of agriculture. Large areas of land have always been left to rest, and the hon. Gentleman cannot start some terrible scare about it. Farmers are being paid to look after the land. The rules that I have laid down are tougher than in other European countries because I have environmental support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-03", "file": "debates1992-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "adba444488419379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.390.4", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r people out of work. Our priority has been to create the right conditions for growth. We have cut inflation to under 4 per cent., we have cut tax rates for businesses and earners and we have reduced interest rates to 7 per cent., the lowest in the Community and half the level of two years ago. Perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman missed the latest Community survey in the Financial Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.390.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-03", "file": "debates1992-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "adba444488419379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Flooding (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "nt, but the House may recall that, following that tragedy, it passed the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969, under part II of which disused colliery spoil tips are inspected regularly by county councils, which are responsible for their safety. But my hon. Friend is right. Before I came into the Chamber I was assured that all tips are inspected regularly, especially those where there are suspected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.398.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-03", "file": "debates1992-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "adba444488419379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Judicial Pensions and Retirement Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ard matter of intellectual expertise and accumulated knowledge. That expertise and knowledge have made the judiciary in particular so much an ornament of our constitution. It would undermine standards to force able judges to retire at an earlier age. When I was a law student in the 1960s, Lord Denning, then the Master of the Rolls, had been appointed to the High Court Bench in the year I was born—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-03a.445.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "e survey of public opinion. We all know that public opinion surveys are quite often inaccurate, but this one was so large that there must have been an element of accuracy about it. You will know that 75 per cent. of the people interviewed believe that this House should allow them a referendum on the Maastricht treaty. We had one on joining the Common Market. This is about joining a European union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.607.5", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": ". It appears that the company assumes that the growth rate of the fund will be about 3 per cent., which seems to be a reasonably generous estimate. Many plans will fall short of that. The Committee will understand that with an expectation of £104 a month there will be a small increase in real terms at the end of the 20 years. I should say that there is a lump-sum calculation of £4,540 in addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.607.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "n that Committee the Government turned their back on a great deal of social security legislation going back 40 years; it marked the beginning of the end of many aspects of the welfare state. The hon. Member for Langbaurgh (M r. Bates) need not look too puzzled. This Prime Minister ended single payments and the death grant and introduced the social fund and a great many other horrific developments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The Government—and, I am sure, the regulators—certainly want people to have access to regular information about what is happening to their schemes, as and when they require it. That already applies to those who invest in occupational pensions. There should be no difficulty about providing information about the state of their particular pot of gold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " value as genuine attempts to predict what will happen. I realise that the Government are bound to insist that the projection is 2·8 million for the seasonally adjusted unemployment figure in the coming year because that was the figure in the autumn statement. However, it is not unfair to say that if I and the Minister were sitting over a cup of coffee in the Smoking Room—an unlikely scene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "There is some evidence. I cannot go into that. I am spluttering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I can give the Minister that assurance. However, I am intrigued by the thought that the three Ministers who are gathered are so similar in personality and approach that they are interchangeable in every sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-07", "file": "debates1992-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9fe7100522ac3e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Moore.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "clay said. It was a valuable contribution to the debate. It would be helpful to know whether the Government have any thoughts on the matter. I wonder whether the Minister could help me. In my usual daft laddy way—referring to the Treasury research note—may I ask how it came about that in 1980–81 the Treasury supplement was 18 per cent. of the fund but a few short years later, in 1988, Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-07a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "d will be aware that since the autumn statement and the abolition of car tax, car sales since last October have increased by 22 per cent that Honda has created another 1,100 jobs at Swindon, Nissan has created another 1,800 jobs at Sunderland and that Toyota is about to create a great many more jobs in Derby. Is not that excellent news for the car industry in particular and the economy in general?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.689.6", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ve with the fact that between 3 million and 4 million people are unemployed in this country, with the number still rising, and that more than 17 million people are unemployed in the European Community? At the end of two years of his premiership and six months as President of the European Community, does he believe that he has succeeded in achieving the target that he set himself so few months ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.689.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.690.6", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave some moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.690.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Perhaps you can help me with a point of procedure. You will be aware, Madam Speaker, that the Select Committee on Health intends to publish its document on national health service trusts on 16 December. I have documented evidence showing that someone on that Committee intends to make that confidential report available a few days before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Plain Language", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "wanted to change the photocopier, he was faced with the option of a so-called settlement charge of about £10,000, which was three times the value of the original equipment, or the prospect of leasing the equipment, whose lifetime according to the manufacturer was three years, for a total of seven years. None of that was clear from the contract whose wording was deliberately obfuscatory and arcane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Domestic coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "As the president of the Colombian mining industry says that there is child labour in Colombia. I am willing to go along with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "rculated among all the high commissions and embassies throughout the world entitled \"Invest in Britain\" states that Britain's labour force is the cheapest in the world.—cheaper than those of France, Germany, and America. It states also that trade unions in Britain have no legal rights. I am trying to think of the many other things that the booklet said, and I wish that I had that document with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Britain is now poised to come out of recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "preceding_text": "th-west development agency, which records as much success in the first half of this year as in the whole of last year. The Royal Institute of International Affairs states that the total stock of worldwide direct investment will more than double between 1988 and 1995. There is no recession there. We are fortunate that this country is the preferred one for investment which is to grow on that scale.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thurnham", "preceding_text": "uit. The fall in gross domestic product in the south of the country has not occurred in the north. The number of new firms registered for value added tax shows an increase of 1 per cent. in the north-west for the last full year, 1991, although there has been a decline in the south-east. Mr. Kern is predicting that there will be further increases in the number of firms registered in the north-west.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": " over the age of 35 but completely unacceptable. The hon. Lady' s speech was interesting because it revealed a new type of snobbery on the Labour Benches. Opposition Members are part-time snobs who sneer at part-time jobs. Part-time jobs are every bit as good as any other jobs. The vast majority of people with part-time jobs say in survey after survey that they would prefer to have part-time jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ust 9,000 training places for young people at a time when, because of the 1960s baby boom, more youngsters were entering the labour market than at any time in recent history. We provided 290,000 places. So let us have no more lectures from Opposition Members about what we need to do. Of course, losing a job is a traumatic experience. But most people remain unemployed for a relatively short period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.798.2", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "he technical details that I have read out are not a matter for levity, as the Opposition consider them, but a serious matter which should command the assent and support of the whole House. Standards are high. As I have said, the terms of their licence oblige mink farmers to report escapes. In the five years since the latest review, only one report of an escape has been received from a mink farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": "of Scotland—the southern uplands, around my own area and the highlands. As I see it, there are no natural mink; they have been imported and they are ecological disasters. I am serious; I am not laughing because I see ducklings and a host of other animals and birds slaughtered by the score. The mink are vicious, but nobody seems to take responsibility for them unless they interfere with game birds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": " been inadequate over the years and has been poorly applied. The intention of the order, as the Minister said, was to prevent escapes of animals covered by the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932. In that sense, the order has been a failure. So many mink have escaped over the years that I am surprised that there is not a line of ferret-faced predators listening to the debate behind the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "er for Newham, North-West made a passionate and knowledgeable speech about a subject on which he plainly feels strongly. He mentioned sightings of escaped mink, as have many other Opposition Members. There is no point in their banging on at me; none of those sightings, save one, has been reported to the Ministry of Agriculture. We are unable to act unless members of the public make a report to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-08", "file": "debates1992-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b06ec0d9f5546c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " been investigated, but they have failed to confirm the origin of the mink, and to highlight any deficiency in the security of mink farms that needs to be addressed. It is extremely difficult for the lay person to distinguish between wild and farmed mink—as it is to distinguish between a weasel and a stoat: as the House will know, a weasel is weasily identified, but a stoat is stoatally different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-08a.813.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-09", "file": "debates1992-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "033f02d8f7e721a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) will be aware that the Speaker is not responsible for the accuracy of the speeches by Ministers or, for that matter, by Back Benchers. Had the right hon. Gentleman attempted to raise this matter with me on 19 or 20 October, I might have been able to take some action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-09", "file": "debates1992-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "033f02d8f7e721a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's assessment of the position is right, but I do not accept that Members of Parliament and the Government can do nothing about it. The Government should have done something about it when they held the presidency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-09", "file": "debates1992-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "033f02d8f7e721a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": ". That would be better for fish stocks than having them caught and dumped. The minimum landing size of sole, for example is 24 cm. I am no scientist, but I understand that if the size were increased to 26 cm, that would allow all the male sole, and most of the female, to mature. The sole would then have the most enjoyable part of their lives. They would mature and breed and we would get more fish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-09", "file": "debates1992-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "033f02d8f7e721a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the Bill and about the amendment passed in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-09", "file": "debates1992-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "033f02d8f7e721a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I know what the hon. Lady has said—I have heard every word of the debate. Unfortunately, the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan will not be able to say that because he is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-09a.909.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Cammell Laird Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs (Mr. Neil Hamilton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs (Mr. Neil Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "h which they have been able to advocate their case. I can assure them that I have been impressed by it. I must apologise for the absence of my right hon. Friend the Minister for Industry, who is chairing the Telecommunications Council. I hope that, as a Cheshire Member and as the Department of Trade and Industry Minister responsible for the north-west, I shall prove to be an acceptable substitute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": "nt of a Parliament in Scotland. The Government's local reform in Scotland is preparing the way to remove from public democratically elected representatives—the councillors—their fundamental basic major responsibilities. Water and drainage are to be privatised. Responsibility for the police, fire services, education and social work are to be given to boards appointed by the Government—more quangos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I can repeat the general assurance. However, there are some aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All the representations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is a wise and objective man, who will consider all the representations that he receives in his customary, objective way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "heir Front-Bench team has somewhat timorously arrived at the view that leasing is not some far-fetched flight of socialist fancy, I am sure that they will all press for my hon. Friend's proposals to be implemented. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ashford (Sir K. Speed) on initiating the debate. I am the only geographic outsider who has sat through it. It has otherwise been entirely men of Kent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "o construct new freight terminals throughout the country, the opportunities will expand. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor announced additional resources—£150 million—for the procurement of rolling stock. He has given permission for that rolling stock to be leased. He was able to do that because we have tabled our proposals for privatisation. British Rail is not the only operator of last resort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "is not the only operator of last resort— [Laughter.] The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) may laugh, but that is the position. If we had not announced our proposals for privatisation, there would have been only one operator. There would have been no difference between British Rail offering to lease trains and its offering to buy them outright, as there was only one operator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-14", "file": "debates1992-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "69baaff29913604f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Crime (Public Lighting)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Michael Jack)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But he is a Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Michael Jack)", "preceding_text": " history. The hon. Members for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) and for Paisley, South (Mr. McMaster) also contributed to the debate, painting their own perspectives of this important subject. I am pleased to see my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Patnick) sitting on the Bench alongside me because he, too, has taken an interest in this subject and corresponded with me many times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-14a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend from Derbyshire is absolutely right. It is very patronising to treat parents in that way. What amazes me is how the Opposition continue to fail to understand the aspirations of ordinary working people. In the 1970s and 1980s, they did not understand the aspirations to home ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "May I tell my right hon. Friend that taxpayers in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.290.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "May I let my right hon. Friend be aware that taxpayers in my constituency of Erewash and across the country are delighted that he successfully defended the rebate for Britain at the Edinburgh summit? May I also congratulate him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.292.7", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. We certainly want to continue to expand home ownership for young people and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.292.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.322.4", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Lady was present when I spoke on Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.322.5", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ll not be fully explored if the Bill is guillotined. We need time to discuss other issues, too, such as the Government proposals for specialisation. Specialisation increasingly seems to be the Government code word for selection. In Committee the Under-Secretary spoke in less coded language than is sometimes used. He talked about the \"dead hand of comprehensivisation\"; clearly he favours selection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.322.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "Like myself, the hon. Gentleman has a past professional interest in the matter. Did he notice that Ministers did not challenge my arithmetic in an earlier intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "e which examined what finally became the Telecommunications Act 1984. That measure was in Committee for many hours, and as a new Member, I had the impression then that that way of conducting our business had to be changed. The same procedure has occurred with the Education Bill in recent weeks, with long, time-wasting speeches. I hesitate to use the word \"filibustering\" to describe those speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "e foundations for education into the next century. The right hon. Gentleman has refused to meet deputations from a range of organisations which want to discuss the Bill with him. He has shovelled off responsibility on to the shoulders of his Parliamentary Under-Secretary. Indeed, the Secretary of State has acquired a reputation for declining invitations to speak at important education conferences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "etable motion is justified. The outrage sometimes expressed about timetable motions is justified on this occasion. I hope that I do not repeat comments by other hon. Members, but there are several reasons why we should genuinely be outraged about the motion. One is purely selfish and personal—simply that I have enjoyed the deliberations in Committee. I have certainly learnt a great deal from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "preceding_text": "ed that he was coming to his peroration which, because he was a supporter of Demosthenes, was likely to last two hours. That is the problem that we have had in Committee: we have not had time to discuss the amendments that the hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members have tabled, because many hon. Members have talked ad nauseam—with great respect to the hon. Gentleman: \"nausea\" was another Latin tag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "Despite what the hon. Gentleman said about reorganising the order of the debate, is he aware that, along the Committee Corridor, other Bills were being discussed, some of which had no more than 15 clauses? One which had 15 clauses has just completed its Committee stage today. To reach clause 15 of a long Bill such as this is good progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "ably unprecedented in the Western world. All this is proclaimed under the banner of choice. Given the distinctive role that the Church has played in the development of education in this country, Catholics should be alarmed by what is happening. That is the nub of the matter. We should all be alarmed by the Bill and by what it contains. The Government have been in power too long they have begun to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "rom their sources. If a justification for the Bill were required it could be found in the fact that, although Standing Committee E sat for about 65½hours, we have so far only reached clause 15. I suspect that the hon. Member for Dewsbury was in the House in 1976 when that guillotine was in motion. She is protesting about the use of a guillotine on one Bill, when five Bills were guillotined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "By 1995, more than 1 million parents will have children in grant-maintained schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Education Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": " lot to stop talking is quite something. The hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) actually accused my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State of being unwilling to defend his own Bill. When my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth)—the Minister in charge of the Bill and I held a public meeting in my constituency, we were condemned in an Opposition early-day motion for doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.370.12", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Exchequer as the territories. If those units were relatively easy to disperse because they were self-contained, it was relatively easy to delegate their functions. Therefore, in the eye of the storm, to a degree that might not have occurred to those Conservative Members who represent more the \"have\" rather than the \"have not\" areas—although I can see some exceptions on the Government Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.370.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to enter a competition to determine the location of the DVLA as between Clase and Llangefelach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "There is a consensus in favour of delegation and better management of public services, but anxiety is often expressed by Opposition Members about the hidden agenda behind the Bill. As the debate has gone on, the agenda has become far less hidden. I find myself in the almost paradoxical position that I must vote against the Government's proposals because they do not go far enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-15", "file": "debates1992-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0d72b0f6c6017fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service (Management Functions) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hoey", "preceding_text": "s that the private sector necessarily does things better than the public. Opposition Members have reached out to the Minister with olive branch amendments to cover our concerns, and they have spurned them. My hon. Friends have coaxed and cajoled the Government in search of guarantees to cover the famous impartiality, objectivity and discretion of the civil service. The Minister has turned a stony—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-15a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many Scottish people in my constituency have been shocked to learn that 22 relatives of Labour councillors are employed by Monklands district council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many Scottish people in my constituency have been shocked to learn that 22 relatives of Labour councillors are employed by Monklands district council? [Interruption.] Is my right hon. Friend further aware that, of those 22 relatives, three are employed in the housing department, the wife of the director of housing is employed in the leisure centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "ituency have been shocked to learn that 22 relatives of Labour councillors are employed by Monklands district council? [Interruption.] Is my right hon. Friend further aware that, of those 22 relatives, three are employed in the housing department, the wife of the director of housing is employed in the leisure centre— [Interruption.] and the view of the tenants and people of Coatbridge and Airdrie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.8", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "My question relates to the fact that of 22 wives, sons and daughters of Labour councillors employed by Monklands district council, three are employed in the housing department, the wife of the director of housing is employed in the leisure centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.416.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that I cannot take points of order at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.422.6", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the discussion that is taking place about Monklands is serious? He will be aware that I have taken an active interest in local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.422.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not understand that question because Inchinnan is in Renfrewshire; the company is moving within the territory covered by Renfrewshire Enterprise. That does not seem to be a matter of great criticism of Renfrewshire Enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.444.2", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. It is clear that vicious warfare has broken out on the Tory Benches just before Christmas. Before you answer the hon. Gentleman's point of order, and as you have control over the matter, I suggest that you separate them, with the anti-marketeers on one side and the marketeers on the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": " police officers back on the streets, where people want them to be. If we did a survey tomorrow of the issues that people think affect them most in Scotland, crime would be in the top five. More and more, people are recognising that there has been a 600 per cent. increase in crime since the Government came to power and that a crime happens every 30 seconds, and they want something done about it. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Godman) said that he would speak for only three minutes because he was starving. I am a bit peckish myself and I look forward to dining with my hon. Friend in about five mintues. My hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) referred to the Scottish National party. I shall not comment for partisan reasons —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-16", "file": "debates1992-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ddf0bddc87728745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "ors in the first three months of Expo would come almost entirely from Seville and spend very little. Nobody could have predicted the financial difficulties faced by a large number of Expo concessionaires. The British pavilion shop was not the only one which failed to reach its sales targets. Nor could anyone have expected the very high entrance fees to Expo to dampen on-site sales so dramatically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-16a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.567.4", "colnum": "567", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for these hospitals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I ask hon. Members to recognise that this is the season of good will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.567.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.582.12", "colnum": "582", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat when I am on my feet. May I also respectfully suggest that the hon. Gentleman has a look at \"Erksine May\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.582.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "May I explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to say to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": " Back Benchers. She could have asked a private notice question this morning, but, to the best of my knowledge, none was submitted to Madam Speaker. The avenues in this House are legion. Hon. Members have been here a long time and they know that what they should not and cannot do is continually to challenge the Chair on a policy issue, which is an argument between the Opposition and the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "nd the Government— [Interruption.] Order. I understand the strength of feeling and I am sure that Madam Speaker would also understand it. However, the House succeeds only if hon. Members respect the Chair. Since hon. Members have now put their views twice and with considerable conviction, and having, I imagine, gained enormous media coverage, I hope that we can now move on to the scheduled debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "d also understand it. However, the House succeeds only if hon. Members respect the Chair. Since hon. Members have now put their views twice and with considerable conviction, and having, I imagine, gained enormous media coverage, I hope that we can now move on to the scheduled debate. [Interruption.] Order. The subject of delays in the commercial courts is every bit as important as trust hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "n, and having, I imagine, gained enormous media coverage, I hope that we can now move on to the scheduled debate. [Interruption.] Order. The subject of delays in the commercial courts is every bit as important as trust hospitals— [Interruption.] Order. I will take a last point of order from the Opposition Front Bench. My understanding is that negotiations are continuing through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I thank you for your great courtesy and helpfulness this morning. However, we have just learnt that no Minister will come to the House to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "When so many hon. Members turned up in the Chamber at 11.45 am, I thought for a glorious moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to hon. Members to recognise that what they are doing by standing before the Mace does not bring credit on any part of the United Kingdom. I have listened to a large number of points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to hon. Members to recognise that what they are doing by standing before the Mace does not bring credit on any part of the United Kingdom. I have listened to a large number of points of order— [Interruption.] Order. I hope that those hon. Members who are trying to prevent democracy at work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to hon. Members to recognise that what they are doing by standing before the Mace does not bring credit on any part of the United Kingdom. I have listened to a large number of points of order— [Interruption.] Order. I hope that those hon. Members who are trying to prevent democracy at work— [Interruption.] Order. Hon. Members are directly challenging the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1992-12-17", "file": "debates1992-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "13a16dc6d01fe62c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "e that what they are doing by standing before the Mace does not bring credit on any part of the United Kingdom. I have listened to a large number of points of order— [Interruption.] Order. I hope that those hon. Members who are trying to prevent democracy at work— [Interruption.] Order. Hon. Members are directly challenging the Chair— [Interruption.] Order. It is not a matter of politics any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1992-12-17a.585.2"}