{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.597.5", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Certain services are affected by drivers not turning up for work, but I pay tribute to British Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.597.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "MV Braer (Oil Pollution)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The salvage operations convention was only recently agreed. We are looking for an early opportunity to implement it, but a number of other countries must also ratify it so that there are sufficient numbers before it comes into force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Shetlands (MV Braer Incident)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": " have been expressed to several Opposition Members. May I also take this opportunity to praise, as the Secretary of State has done, the efforts which have been made by all involved—statutory services, local council people and the voluntary sector—to tackle the devastating crisis which now faces the Shetland Islands. As I said, it is difficult to extend the same praise to Scottish Office Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ped from religious persecution in the middle ages in western Europe. Many people fled from Nazi Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and from Fascist Spain in the late 1930s and 1940s. More recently, people had to leave South Africa or flee from oppressive regimes in central and south America or Africa. People have had to flee from the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. There are numerous other examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "eing associated with the prints of those who broke into the house. There are, therefore, aspects of fingerprinting that are good, to which no credence is given by Opposition Members. When I was in the United States last year I saw many children—they were accompanied by mums or other members of the family—who were lining up voluntarily to have their fingerprintes taken because of the rising problem", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "st at the time and we remain so. Mr. Mendis spent 16 years in this country. He was eventually bundled out by the most enormous police phalanx I have ever seen in my life. He was dragged out of a church in the process. He spent a year in Sri Lanka. During that time he had to change his identity every several days. He had to go from hiding place to hiding place. His mother's house was surrounded by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "re I entered the House I worked as a lawyer in a law centre in Leicester. When people came to that centre the one guarantee that I could give them when their relatives were refused admission to this country was that they could use the appeal process. That right is to be removed and the one concession that the Minister is proposing to make is an administrative one that already exists. In Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "wish to hear what I have to say because I want to comment directly on his visit to the sub-continent. In his submission to the Committee in which he discussed the administrative changes that he was proposing to introduce, he talked about his visit to the sub-continent. I, too, have visited the sub-continent in the past month and I, too, met the immigration and entry clearance officers whom he met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "Not for the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piara S. Khabra", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piara S. Khabra", "preceding_text": "ry Members of Parliament in the next election. I know that during the last general election campaign many Ministers visited constituencies with a large number of Asians. Many Tory Members, who have thousands of Asians and black people in their constituencies, know that they now have potential political foes. I know that promises were given to the Asian communities and lies were told to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-11", "file": "debates1993-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "fe22ffc57fd1a352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Khabra", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Khabra", "preceding_text": "I can put it this way. Untruths were told to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-11a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That may well be. As I indicated to the right hon. and learned Gentleman a moment ago, it is prudent to examine a matter carefully before making a commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the things that the British people expect from the Conservative Government is tough action on law and order", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.765.6", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will take scoffing from the Labour party on law and order when they begin to support the prevention of terrorism Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.765.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.765.7", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House must come to order to hear what the Prime Minister has to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.784.2", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman will not let go of his prejudices, just as he clings to clause four. He cannot begin to understand that our practical and pragmatic approach to improving our railways is the right way to get better services for the passenger, the freight customer and the taxpayer. That is because he believes that everything must be done according to the letter of the original socialist textbook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.788.4", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ch we can gain experience. In connection with the franchising of passenger services —this bears on the remarks of the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East about the existing staff of British Rail—I hope that the staff will bid for the franchises. We are positively encouraging management buy-outs and will assist them in the process. There is a clear indication that we shall have quite a number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I had intended to deal with that issue later, but I will deal with it now. We have made clear throughout—there is no change—that we expect most, or a very high proportion, of the national network to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "rocedures for dealing with closures. They must be followed closely. There must be some adjustments to deal with the new system. However, when the Bill comes out it will be seen that it is very much on all fours with what has existed in the past. The existing procedures will continue. There is absolutely nothing wrong or hidden. We expect the vast majority of services to continue for a long period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " for franchise passenger services to acquire a bad reputation in respect of safety. Of course, such undertakings will attach paramount importance to the question of safety, as will the Government. That must be made absolutely clear. I am grateful for the opportunity to refer to the definitive report of the Health and Safety Commission on the appropriate future safety arrangements for the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "ument to Whitehall jargon. I suspect that the quangos that are mentioned therein would give Philip Holland nightmares, as those of us who have had the pleasure of serving in the House with him know. I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister for Public Transport will tell me whether I am right when he replies, but I think that I am correct in saying that we were promised eight consultation documents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "the President of the Board of Trade is like an inverted harlot—he has responsibility for the coal industry but no power. That is what happens, and the brave and kind words of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport may become wholly irrelevant if, in 10 years' time, the vast majority of the railway passenger services in Britain are no longer operated by the nationalised industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "re carried on Centro-supported services in the west midlands. There are 770 of those services and the passenger transport authority has invested £100 million in them over the past 20 years. Does that investment, that confidence, in the local rail services in the west midlands not entitle them, as elected councillors, to some say in the west midlands railway industry of the future? Let me conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-12", "file": "debates1993-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d368cb5ec86f232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "s was quite wrong. The hon. Member for Cunninghame, North criticised the disaggregation of subsidy—the allocation of subsidy to individual railway lines. I think that he will find that he is in a minority. The transport users consultative committees are broadly in favour of the allocation of subsidy to particular lines and groups of services because they believe, and I believe that they are right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-12a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "he raising of standards of living and quality of life and so on. All those are important objectives to which Opposition Members are strongly attached. But article 3a(2) states that the primary objective of economic policy is \"to maintain price stability\". That has never been an objective of the Labour party—nor, as far as I know, has it been the objective of any economic management in any country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.946.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for promoting me in a premature way to the Cabinet, of which I am not a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "The framework permits the hammering out of economic policies, guidelines and decisions which have yet to be discussed. My right hon. Friend must allow me to continue to make the case as I wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "nes and decisions which have yet to be discussed. My right hon. Friend must allow me to continue to make the case as I wish— [Interruption.] I believe that the attainment of economic and monetary union is desirable and necessary. I remind my right hon. Friend that that view is shared by the overwhelming majority of those who attended and were represented at the Labour party conference last autumn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "n the economic and monetary framework that is clearly established in the treaty will determine how those institutions perform, and whether they help or hinder the process of employment creation and growth that Opposition Members want. The first principal objection to the treaty related to the establishment of a \"bankers' Europe\"—not an attractive term, but one with which we have effectively dealt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "Nearly right, Mr. Morris. Before I use up any more of your patience, I will conclude—if you do not mind.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " Friends should take a close look at the language of that article because they will discover that it does not help them very much. They may think that it does, but let us consider the three phrases that deal with economic matters. First, we are told that everyone agrees with a great degree of convergence, but convergence is defined only later in the treaty. There is no convergence on unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ealing with economic and monetary union is lifted from the treaty of the German Bundesbank. The words are exactly the same. The term \"price stability\" is to be found there, and there is nothing wrong in that. Price stability is what we are going to have here. But it will take effort and pain to achieve the goal of economic and monetary union. Price stability is essential and it means no inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Iraq (Military Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I reject entirely the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that Britain does not observe United Nations non-proliferation requirements. The hon. Gentleman might see himself as a friend and ally of Saddam Hussein, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Iraq (Military Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-13", "file": "debates1993-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "9384a210013c3435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1019.8", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Iraq (Military Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "t of order, Madam Speaker. The remark was entirely wrong and inaccurate. The Secretary of State was being economical with the truth if he was suggesting that I am a friend and ally of Saddam Hussein. It is quite wrong for any Minister to try to make such a smear, given that hon. Members are entitled to make legitimate criticisms of what appears to be a consensus position. It is utterly outrageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-13a.1019.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that my hon. Friend referred to the police in the context of crime prevention. The police are central and play an excellent role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1041.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1053.7", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1053.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": " of Donna Cooper, a much loved 13-year-old schoolgirl who was killed by a stolen car driven, I understand, by someone out on bail? Such matters, involving the mindless taking of a car, affect lives, families and communities in the constituencies of hon. Members on both sides of the House. The subject deserves a statement, so that we can find out what else can be done to help in such circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1092.6", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes—grant it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "nt Labour Publications. A debate on that topic would allow a general discussion on political issues, including democratic socialism, which is still very much alive. For example, Keir Hardie, who was a founder member of the ILP, was known as the Member for the unemployed in the House. We need many Members for the unemployed. We could discuss unemployment during a discussion on the early-day motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1092.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1098.5", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Dame Janet. Would it not assist the House if those hon. Members who are calling for the debate on a referendum clause to be brought forward—many of them have also tabled many amendments that are designed to keep the Bill going in the House for as long as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1098.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "ut I remember it vividly and it is on record in Hansard. He said that the proportion of the French population engaged in agriculture in those days was 25 per cent. I remember that I and other hon. Members asked him to correct the figure because it was 7 per cent., but he refused to do so. Notwithstanding his hugely amusing speech, therefore, how can we attach any credence to what he is saying now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is right; it is article 108, I think, which will be enacted under the Bill. I am told that an independent, autonomous British bank is Labour policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1118.6", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ary policy without watching the effect on the exchange rate. He was not attempting to excuse what had happened with regard to the ERM; he was simply recognising the facts. It is very important to make the point that the Community itself has free movement of capital. No member country has the right to reimpose exchange controls. I accept that there have been breaches of this in the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1118.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "Is one of the reasons why there is such support for the treaty among social democrats and socialists in the EC the fact that the treaty is not a policy document but a framework? It is a framework for decision-making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1143.4", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": " achieving it. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith), I accept that Maastricht is not perfect. I do not think that any hon. Member would defend Maastricht as the perfect treaty from our own point of view. But it is not drawn up from one point of view: it is an agreement and, necessarily, a compromise between 12 different Governments. The question is not whether it is perfect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-14", "file": "debates1993-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "3806eeec235d73a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": " are unrealistic. One cannot get socialism in one treaty; Maastricht is part of a process. We want to see a subsequent treaty after Maastricht; it must be an ongoing process. My right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies) spoke of the need for a system of fiscal transfer to make the goal of economic and monetary union operate as effectively and fairly as we would like. I entirely agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-14a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-15", "file": "debates1993-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa6449b5ae65856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Osteopaths Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "onsiderably more than 11.5 million. There is doubtless a substantial loss to the country in terms of days off work, and I believe that, proportionately, women are affected even more than men. A huge amount of pain and discomfort is caused, but because the causes are complicated and it is not a \"glamour\" welfare cause such as a disease affecting children, heart attacks or cancer, which cause death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-15", "file": "debates1993-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa6449b5ae65856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Osteopaths Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not too old.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "ve medical students said that they would like some form of alternative training incorporated into their course. I argue that the Bill is not the end of a road but very much the beginning of a new relationship between alternative and complementary medicine, including osteopathy, and the health service. I am delighted to see my old and hon. Friend the Under-Secretary in his place on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-15", "file": "debates1993-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa6449b5ae65856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Osteopaths Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "ropean ramifications of the Bill on the table. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East is grateful for that. Yet again, I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing the Bill. I should declare a personal, family interest. I have just discovered—to my shame, only a few minutes ago—that my late father was the president of the General Council and Register of Osteopaths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-15", "file": "debates1993-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa6449b5ae65856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Medicines Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "ry. It is about the principle of how information is released in the public domain without damaging or destroying the confidentiality required in the development and research of products prior to distribution in the marketplace. It is not an issue determined by the size of the market. The issue is how the market is developed and how products reach the market. The regulations provide clear guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-15a.1229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.244.4", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The wage of the chairman of Ladbrokes is a matter for the board of directors and the shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.251.8", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "Is it not quite extraordinary at a time of cyclically high unemployment which is disturbing us all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.251.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.252.7", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "e, are we always on the defensive? Why do we not tell people that Britain is the only country in Europe that guarantees a training place to every 16 and 17-year-old who is without a job or is not in further education? The reason is simply that we recognise that, with mechanisation and automation, skills must be changed and new skills learned. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this is the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.252.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The employees in employment series is the count of the number of jobs in the economy and follows the practice of the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not note that he failed completely to deny that he had the worst growth record, the worst investment and the worst employment record? Since there is anger throughout the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.256.5", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cate the right hon. and learned Gentleman about that, since he clearly does not understand. In the early 1980s interest rates were raised sharply to control inflation. At that time, the banks did not pay interest on current accounts. As a result of that, they genuinely made windfall profits. That was why the Government taxed them. The utility tax that the right hon. and learned Gentleman proposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.256.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning trendy, mixed ability teaching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning trendy, mixed ability teaching— [Interruption.] Opposition Members are products of it—which has so damaged the education of millions of children since the 1960s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "Is it not fair that when an hon. Member is named or mentioned in a Prime Minister's question the Member involved should have the right to reply? I respect and thank you, Madam Speaker, for calling me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Parliamentary Question (Madam Speaker's Ruling)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "the Table Office behaved perfectly properly in accepting it. I hope, however, that any practice that may have grown up of pre-signing forms will now cease. I must make it absolutely clear that the tabling of a question is a formal parliamentary proceeding which must be undertaken only with the specific approval of an hon. Member, if not by himself or herself personally. What happened was an abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You can choose.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "portant.\"] I agree, and if anyone thinks differently, they are fairly stupid. Arrangements have been made for the Select Committee on Defence to visit Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe on the day of the debate. I do not need to go into great detail except to say that that will mean that many of the members of the Select Committee will be excluded from the debate because they are required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "ly, they are fairly stupid. Arrangements have been made for the Select Committee on Defence to visit Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe on the day of the debate. I do not need to go into great detail except to say that that will mean that many of the members of the Select Committee will be excluded from the debate because they are required—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You can choose.\"] I will continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is total rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "Usually a painting is of a person, an event or a scene. The context is a country and a school of painting. The inspiration of a particular painting is generally much more national than European, even if techniques have travelled across boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. and learned Friend knew that my hon. Friend was a keen European and would be likely to buy the painting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "s referred to briefly at two o'clock in the morning one day in 1989? That is a fact. Even if 650 Members of Parliament said that we wanted to stop European porn such as \"Red Hot Dutch\" coming into Britain and being sold in Harrow and elsewhere, there is nothing that we could do about it. It is not the fault of the Commission but that of the directive, which was approved by the Council of Ministers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "Thank you. I understand that the article comes under the heading of those governed by subsidiarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.293.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Dame Janet Fookes)", "preceding_text": "I call the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I hope that it will be convenient if I speak briefly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.294.6", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) said the same. The hon. Lady treated us to a tour d'horizon, but I fear that her horizons proved rather narrow for me, at any rate—and, I believe, for the Committee. Hardly a commonplace did not receive a mention. The hon. Lady's remarks about United States culture and renaissance values, her attacks on the Government and Baroness Thatcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.294.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Goering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "lead me. 5.45 pm The hon. Lady crowned her speech with a very silly proposition: that the European Community should set minimum standards of expenditure—and later on, no doubt, minimum standards of culture. As I have said, she came out with a number of commonplaces; even Dr. Goebbels got a mention. I think that it was Dr. Goebbels who said, \"When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.295.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We cannot hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "f National Heritage with the objective of establishing a register of stolen articles, including Bohemian wood carvings, which can be circulated to auction houses in the United Kingdom. My hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel) made an interesting and charming speech. At the end of that speech he said something which would have touched a chord with members of all parts of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "n needs the article because it wants to extend its hegemony. That is the reality behind the clause, and that is my basic objection to it. Not all the affectionate or slightly esoteric commitments to the protection of the cultures of those using—that marvellous phrase that the Minister used—\"less-used\" languages will change the fact that the treaty is meant to \"canalise\", if we are making up words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "to take your troops away, do you think you could give us a bit more money for European culture?\" So, rather than saying no to everything, the trade-off will be a slightly more progressive attitude towards article 128. As I said, I shall be brief, because I am anxious that my hon. Friends are not excluded by the authoritarian attitude of the Whips from expressing their attitude towards the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " hear the views of the whole House. Article 128 is no insignificant matter, because it is to be considered a means of supporting and enhancing the identity of the European state. Why does any state subscribe money to the arts? In our modern democracies, money is sometimes given simply to buy support, and as my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Dicks) is so crude as to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.317.4", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. I think that I heard you say a moment ago that it is normal practice for hon. Members to be present at the time of a Division. The thing that worries me is how any of those Tory Members, the lap dogs of the Common Market, and everybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "wers of the Commission as at present and how he sought to extend them. Reading the extracts from the speech that I have seen, he seemed to revel in the prospect of the enhanced powers that he would have as a Commissioner in deciding matters of education and vocational training. This illustrates again, and very vividly, that as Commissioner he will be in charge, and he sees more power going to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-19", "file": "debates1993-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "41be74f40c5d534e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.349.5", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman cannot just persist. He should know that it is not right to quote at length from the treaty. He should recognise that hon. Members have read it and know what is in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-19a.349.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.366.10", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "As the Minister will recall, I have already expressed my concern about the implications of Government policy on the coal industry for the export efforts of the British mining engineering sector. Is he aware that the British Jeffrey Diamond Company in my constituency has developed an award-winning leading edge technology in switched reluctance variable speed drives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.366.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.369.8", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is, of course, a slime ball and should get his tacky hands off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.369.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.371.12", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman could use his public relations skills to praise the achievements of British manufacturing industry. Manufacturing output—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.371.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that the courts did not deal with the review that we are talking about. However, I wish to deal very seriously with the essence of his point, which is about the availability of the redundancy terms. The redundancy terms are available until the end of March, and it is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that the courts did not deal with the review that we are talking about. However, I wish to deal very seriously with the essence of his point, which is about the availability of the redundancy terms. The redundancy terms are available until the end of March, and it is clear— [Interruption.] No, the official 90 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "k for your guidance, Madam Speaker, on two issues relating to a matter which has recently come to my attention? I have notified the Members involved that I intended to raise the matter on the Floor of the House this afternoon. It has come to my attention that Sheffield city council subsidises the constituency offices of four Sheffield Members—the hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.382.13", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "tional route. That seems to be a denial of the principle of subsidiarity. When my right hon. Friend replies to the debate, it would be helpful if he would say how he interprets those words, and how the Government's representative in the Council of Ministers, will react when proposals are made by the Commission in accordance with the powers that the Commission will soon be granted under the treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.382.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.389.7", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "he policy will cost money, which is a fair criticism to make when Opposition parties propose it. I remind hon. Members that during the election, the Liberal Democratic party laid special emphasis on educational policy. We went further and said that we believed that the basic rate of income tax should increase by 1 per cent. to fund it. That was an example of the seriousness with which we approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.389.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "May I simply respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North. I think that the Committee will thank me for this. I do not think it is possible to respond in detail to every point made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.393.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "This was a probing amendment. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "ommittee and those of his hon. Friends who sit below the Gangway the benefit of his view on one issue? He said that the Labour party will press amendment No. 27 to a Division if it is called. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that, under the terms of the amendment, United Kingdom law would not conform to the treaty's provisions, so it would be impossible for the United Kingdom to ratify the treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Lady has connections with France, but so do I, and I do not believe that the situation is as she describes. It is true that perhaps one or two employers complain about certain minimum conditions being imposed upon them, but those complaints are heard across Europe. If we are to have a decent Europe, we need to impose some minimum conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Of course I shall vote for it. The hon. Gentleman is being ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "cross the board. That does not mean that that makes France worse than Britain. France has Beaubourg. I quite like Beaubourg and I quite like the way France does things, but I would not want to emulate it either in cultural or social matters. That is what is wrong with the treaty; it tries to homogenise all sorts of cultures —economic, cultural, social and so on. That cannot and should not be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not too many times, please.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman would contain himself. Indeed, it would be greatly to the benefit of all hon. Members if he contained himself more often. Nevertheless, I will give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "That may be as well. Some of us believe that there are profound and deep strains—indeed rich seams —of socialism which run through the Maastricht treaty. The cohesion funds are one example. I know that my right hon. Friend fought hard to keep them out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": " social protection, their businesses could be fundamentally undermined in a single market by the deliberate driving down of such standards. Multinational corporations could play off one country against another. German companies know full well that in a truly single market there will be a temptation for capital to move to those countries where the costs of business are lowest. That might well mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": " part of the treaty may well be shared by many British people, for all we know. But the difference between us and the other 11 countries is that I believe that such matters should be decided domestically, not through the Maastricht treaty. I argue from an unashamedly Tory point of view. I fully accept that the hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham), being a full-blown socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-20", "file": "debates1993-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d64af0bd638117af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "May I continue for one more moment? As I said, my approach to the treaty is unashamedly Tory—and I am happy to say that that was also the approach of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues at the Maastricht negotiations. What is more, our approach is also one of unashamed British national self-interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-20a.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend confirm that security co-operation with the Republic has improved since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "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 entirely right about the consistent need persistently to bring down the level of regulation and red tape. The more we can rid business of red tape and regulation, the more British business can get on with creating wealth and generating new jobs. As my hon. Friend will have heard last week in the House, I propose to hold a seminar at the beginning of February—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.495.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the way in which the hon. Gentleman phrases his question tells us a great deal about him. What we are seeking to do is to create a viable coal industry with a fitter future. The hon. Gentleman might recall how many mining jobs were lost under Labour Governments, for there were more lost than there ever have been under Conservative Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with next week's business?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "een drawn to a report in the first edition of The Daily Telegraph today that the President of Germany has been unable to ratify the Maastrict treaty because Herr Brunner, the former chief of staff of Herr Bangemann, has brought an action in the constitutional court claiming that the treaty is in breach of the German constitution? That report disappeared from later editions of The Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The fact that the hon. Gentleman is even prepared to contemplate that the missile which struck that hotel might have been aimed at it deliberately shows the nature of his prejudices. It must be obvious to him that, whatever the source of the incident, it would not have been the deliberate desire of any country to inflict damage on a civilian hotel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I wish that I had not given way to the hon. Lady", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "uwait has made no request for British forces to be sent there. I am reassured by that, but I want a reassurance from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs that if any such request is made, it will be turned down at once. We cannot become involved in having ground forces in Kuwait against any possible threat from Iraq. We cannot accept that for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is oil\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "cept that. I have expressed the strongest possible opposition to the sending of British forces to Kuwait. Earlier, a voice behind me asked, \"Why?\" I have explained one of my reasons; another reason is that, once the forces were there, it would be impossible to get them out. We should find ourselves landed with yet another commitment abroad, in a country where there are no direct British interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ber for Old Bexley and Sidcup, the former Prime Minister, said, if the Shi'ites or some of the marsh Arabs could join Iran, Iran would become a threat. The arguments are fraudulent. The cover is thin. The truth is that the Government did everything that Bush wanted. I can only say, thank God that Bush has gone. That man did more damage to the true international community than any recent President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "be able to thank enough the units operating the helicopters for what they have done. I regret that the local authorities did not accept my invitation to attend a meeting to be held with a view to seeing whether we could find local authority input in the cost of keeping the facility at Leuchars, and I am saddened by that. Local authorities have themselves to blame for not taking up the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-21", "file": "debates1993-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7237cc8e801b1520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "The Gulf and RAF", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ted President. However, we cannot allow the United Nations to be denied subscriptions from the USA on the one hand and to be persuaded to take military action in lieu of those subscriptions on the other. We should not accept that kind of pressure on the United Nations. I hope that problem can be tackled—as we intend to tackle it in our developing dialogue with the new Administration in Washington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-21a.589.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-22", "file": "debates1993-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4dde343f1dbe7606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-22a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ys that it may be unable to provide schooling for all. Birmingham faces cuts of £35 million and 2,000 jobs are being lost. Incidentally, Birmingham's SSA for capital charges of roughly £100 million was about £50 million. So it is in a similar position. Enfield has a £21 million gap and is cutting £10.5 million from education. I believe that Sutton has had an efficient Conservative administration —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-22a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that, increasingly across the European Community, administrations are examining their decisions by comparing them with government across Europe? Does he agree that many countries in the Community, such as Germany and France, want to visit London to see how the citizens charter operates? Will he do all that he can to ensure that our experience is shared with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I have undertaken to listen to the legitimate concerns of the pools companies and to consider amendments to the Bill as they are tabled. The Bill is designed to take such amendments and I am prepared to be persuaded by arguments of high quality. I have to say that I am yet to be convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.7", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.8", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I strongly resent the implication that I have been paid to intervene on my right hon. Friend. I have no financial interest in any company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.9", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.9", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us make some progress. [Interruption.] Order. I accept what the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) has said, but I did not hear the remark to which he referred. Let us make some progress, and let us have some order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.722.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "e Treasury should not be permitted to raid the coffers of the lottery to cover up its complete failure to manage the economy. I see that the former Secretary of State for National Heritage, the right hon. and learned Member for Putney (Mr. Mellor), is giving his right hon. Friend some advice —presumably on how to answer my questions when he sums up the debate. A useful document fell into my hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ly have the chance to vote for such a Bill. It will improve the quality of life for many hundreds of thousands of people across our country. It draws its inspiration from Denry Machin who, in the final pages of Arnold Bennett's novel \"The Card\", when asked in which cause he believed, said he believed in the cause of cheering people up. The Bill will create a great deal of cheer around the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ps no longer as credible as it once was. I hope also that the question of the tax base will be open to collective discussion. If the tax is 20 per cent. and, after all the fuss and bother of helping good causes, the contribution falls to 15 per cent.—3 per cent. of the total take for the five categories—many will begin to wonder whether it is worth pushing this boulder uphill just to achieve that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "y came to an end. It is our duty to bring back a national lottery as we approach 2000. Research shows that there are about 170 lotteries in 130 countries. We must not lag behind all those other nations, including the United States. We must have a national lottery. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Putney (Mr. Mellor) referred to the fact that even Albania now runs a national lottery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. I am trying to make progress; perhaps I am giving way too often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "will give way, but I wish to reach the end of this point. The pools companies know that what they say can never be refuted because, as we have said time and time again, the report was compiled with the co-operation of lottery operators world wide, on the basis that it would never be published. I am not going to break commercial promises just to disprove the narrow assertions of the pools companies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "This money resolution should not go by without comment. Two money resolutions from Bills passed on previous occasions are on the Order Paper and the House has passed money resolutions in a cursory manner. I am not in favour of that. Ministers should be called to account. On page v, under the heading, \"Financial effects of the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.816.5", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery etc. Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would be much obliged if the House would come to order and if those hon. Members leaving the Chamber would do so quietly so that we can hear the hon. Member who has the floor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-25", "file": "debates1993-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ef6ed88236ff8ef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill [Money] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because the hon. Gentleman left me little time to respond to the points that he made. The hon. Gentleman does not understand that large-scale transfers will take place only if a local authority so decides and if tenants vote for it. It must be shown to be in the interests of the majority of the tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-25a.841.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Tomlinson Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "g the opening of the Chelsea and Westminster hospital, at a cost of £204 million, which is the most advanced, state-of-the-art hospital in Europe and will provide magnificent health care to west London? Does she agree that that represents a marvellous achievement for London's health service and is a testimony to the investment that the Government are making in health care in London? Will she also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "ystem to make cash payments to individuals. The cornerstone of our community care reforms is the empowerment of the individual. Instead of the present arrangement whereby people automatically claim income support payments from the Department of Social Security, there will be individual assessment of people's needs, taking into account their wishes, the wishes of their families and of their carers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "ally claim income support payments from the Department of Social Security, there will be individual assessment of people's needs, taking into account their wishes, the wishes of their families and of their carers— [Interruption.] The Opposition are not interested in the policy, but my hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Sir J. Hannam) is interested, and he is a well-known authority on the subject —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Hospital Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t by the districts and GPs through the freedom that is given to GP fund holders. It is the job of the district to talk to local GPs about the priorities that they want set year on year as they place contracts. For 20 per cent. of the work, the GP fund holders have the freedom to allocate their priorities in a different way. The reason why I could never support the Labour party is that it believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Elderly People (Deaths)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "To the extent that the published figures mean anything at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.864.7", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \"Health of the Nation\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her reply. Does she remember the speech she gave last year to the Conservative party conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.864.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Nimmo Smith/Friel Report", "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": "With permission, I should like to read to the House a statement being made today by my noble and learned Friend the Lord Advocate in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Newly Qualified Drivers", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the hon. Member has leave to bring in his Bill. Those in favour say Aye, to the contrary No. The Ayes have it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) to get a picture of snouts in the trough and the facts about the transfer of the chairman of the Merseyside region, Sir Donald Wilson, to the west midlands, presumably to peddle the same nepotistic attitudes and policies. The fact that the Secretary of State can quote the names of Labour and Liberal Democrat members is indicative of how many people are being appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.890.3", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "year's eve the Secretary of State took herself off to plague them at her local hospital. I should be careful about quoting correctly because I think it was The Daily Telegraph that reported her striding down a corridor at the stroke of midnight having talked to doctors and nurses who were too busy dealing with casualties on new year's eve to take seriously her eulogies about the new NHS reforrns.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.890.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Those with memories which go back as far as the general election will know that the Opposition trade in individual cases taken out of context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.897.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And boomps-a-daisy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has mentioned hips, knees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "rovide choice for individuals, choice for users and choice for carers. We are determined to protect the independent sector. We fear that Labour councils, left to their own devices, would distort the system as ever—in favour of their own services at the behest of their trade union masters. There would be the old temptation to ride roughshod over the interests of users in the interests of producers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " Brightside. In a recent letter, Mr. Townsend said: Having failed to alter the national political map, Blunkett … goes home and kicks the cat; in this case local councillors and directors of social services. Mature reflection on Blunkett's part would have led to the correct conclusion that he is the one who loses general elections, not us. Most of us directors … get on with the job—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "item in five. It is an achievement for the Conservative party that more babies now survive the earliest months of their lives than at any time since records began. We have seen life expectancy grow by two to three years over the past decade. In the past decade, perinatal mortality has fallen across all regions and in all social classes. It has fallen substantially in London. The figures in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "preceding_text": "of drivel for more than an hour. Will she not go out into the world of reality where the facts speak for themselves? The facts are at variance with what she has said from the Dispatch Box today. There is a hidden agenda and a two-tier health service. The evidence for saying that exists, and my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) has given it. The chairmen of the trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "d. The reforms have cost money in increased administration costs. Far from reducing the bureaucracy, the reforms have added to it. Doncaster health authority had administration costs of approximately 4 per cent. Celia Wilson, the former chairman, was a Conservative, but she was committed to the health service and to the people of this country. That is a commitment which the Government do not have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": " the motion. It is not so much a motion as a stream of consciousness in the image of Dave Spart. They talk about the growing crisis in the health service, the commercialisation of the health service, concern at the total fragmentation of care due to underfunding, the impact of internal market trusts and GP fund holders. It goes on and on. Worst of all, it contradicts Opposition Front-Bench policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "ency and the Castle Hill hospital. There is clear evidence that people prefer day care and Castle Hill hospital and my authority are responding to that. I repeat that my constituents are not complaining in the way that Opposition Members are. In addition, the radiological unit at Castle Hill hospital is acquiring a new digital X-ray machine and a whole body scanner. I could go on and on outlining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": " prescribing service and almost 40 per cent. of practices now have consultants visiting their practices. Those are all good for patients. We must get away from the idea that the health service is for those who provide it. We run it for those who use it, and that is one of the biggest differences between the Conservative party and the Labour party. It is one of the reasons why we are in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend describes it as a brilliant speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.955.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "hospitals. I hope that those with management responsibilities in the trusts will recognise that their ability to deliver consistent health care throughout the year will be improved if doctors are involved in the process from the beginning. My hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) made an excellent speech, as one would expect because he clearly understands the importance of the freedoms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. When I responded to the Minister I was conscious of the fact that the motion referred only to SCA Aylesford. I asked Madam Speaker for guidance and she made it clear that we could comment on the Minister's announcement and its implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "oyance because the Minister has chosen to abuse and confuse the House and do untold damage to relationships with industry. The motion refers to SCA Aylesford and nothing but SCA Aylesford, but it has been announced that section 8 of the Industrial Development Act 1982 is being scrapped. That section has been on the statute book for 20 years. It is not some fly-by-night, temporary provision. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": " Stanley) for his kind remarks. He was modest about his own contribution to the success of SCA Aylesford. Some of his remarks about major manufacturing investment in non-assisted areas were perhaps a little wide of the mark. Two projects currently coming on stream and greatly to the benefit of the areas involved and the country are the Toyota factory in Derbyshire and the Honda factory in Swindon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I am not too sure about that. The comments of Labour Members this evening suggest that they would rather have such matters dealt with by means of a written answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I am not too sure about that. The comments of Labour Members this evening suggest that they would rather have such matters dealt with by means of a written answer— [Interruption.] Their suggestion that this matter merits a statement is, as I said earlier, quite absurd. Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-26", "file": "debates1993-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "05878c8334709129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.993.7", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "The company has been in contact with the Department for a considerable time. Since July we have been waiting to hear from it. We do not know whether it will come back to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-26a.993.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a typically shrewd and important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1027.4", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ows no party boundaries, that there have been 22 examples in the past two years of serious allegations of corruption and fraud in central Government involving in total £1,400 million, and that there are endless examples in Enfield, Bromley, West Wiltshire, Rochester upon Medway, Thanet and Westminster of serious corruption in local authorities run by the Conservatives? On the issue of freeloading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1027.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1027.6", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "On the issue of freeloading raised by the Secretary of State, will he condemn the freeloader former members of his Cabinet who have had their hands in the till and their snouts in the trough of privatised industries? They privatised companies and then sought directorships without any serious distance between them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1027.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must come to order. How can I hear what hon. Gentlemen have to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is not there one difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Nothing that was said this afternoon sounded to me anything like a reference to a Member of either House of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1046.8", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Morris. As a new Member, I admit to being somewhat bewildered by the procedure adopted in dealing with the Bill. Having talked to other hon. Members, I am sure that I am not alone in that. I have had the benefit of a brief seminar with the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1046.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "conomic liberalism and away from the corporatism under which we were suffering. We have fought that battle and won. Before I came to the House, I remember my right hon. Friend the Member for Brent, North (Sir R. Boyson) and Lord Joseph stomping up and down the country preaching the virtues of economic liberalism in polytechnics and universities. They were reviled and spat upon, no doubt sometimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "metimes by friends and supporters of the Labour party. In the end, the ideas that they were propounding emerged triumphant. I urge all my hon. Friends to consider the fact that the amendment seeks to put Britain back into the corporatist world from which we have now made our escape. We have come a long way together in fighting that battle of ideas. We have stood shoulder to shoulder on the issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Quin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the legal problems would be nearly as great as the hon. Gentleman seems to suggest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "ts during a period of recession, but perhaps what one must do in a period of recession, for all sorts of obvious reasons, is borrow and invest in the infrastructure. Is my hon. Friend aware, however, that there may be greater flexibility in the treaty than he implied? I refer him to paragraph 3, which says that the Commission will take into account all relevant factors, and if I may just suggest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1077.7", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "d of Trade about it. Thirdly, there was something for pregnant workers, but again this shows the way things are going; it was so emasculated, so watered down, that in the end the pregnant workers were given so many weeks off with sick pay, as though pregnancy were a sickness. Incidentally, the Italians—who love children and value women—voted against it because they thought that it was not enough —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "edom of movement for workers, as that is obviously an important issue. Whereas that matter was decided by qualified majority voting, it is to be decided under the procedures of article 189b. I do not want to go on at length about my amendments but article 189b seems very complicated. I should like my right hon. Friend the Minister of State to explain its implications when he replies to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1090.7", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "s the determination of those third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa. As I understand it, that decision must be made unanimously up to 1 January 1996. After that the list of those countries can be determined on a qualified majority basis, but we are still in charge, through article K, as I shall show in a moment, of basic immigration policy. It is important to realise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1090.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Again, I do not think that that is right. Under the treaty the position of refugees is protected, as is the position of people under the United Nations convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's point and his concern about the fact that there is a difference between the procedure for ratifying something and an Act of Parliament. The most important point is that the House of Commons should be given the opportunity to express its view. That is the vital aspect. Provided that that is done, the precise form in which it is done is less important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-27", "file": "debates1993-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8150b560e166c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "standing of what the treaty provides. What more authoritative way of interpreting provisions could there be than submitting any doubts or differences to the arbitrament of the court, which would undoubtedly give the necessary steer? If it proved to be unsatisfactory to a member country, it remains open to that country to follow the normal proceedings for derogation of the provisions of the treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-27a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1146.9", "colnum": "1146", "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 the trade figures recently have shown that for the first time for a very long time our share of world trade in manufactures has stabilised and that the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1146.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "nk that I can safely say that the same is likely to go for the majority of my constituents in Braintree. I can do no better than reply to my hon. Friend by referring to what my vigorous right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary said on the radio this morning. He said: it is in my opinion contrary to public interest for somebody who is a mass murderer of his kind\"— of Nilsen's kind, that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend welcome the reduction in interest rates that was announced this week? It has saved British industry £1 billion. Is it not particularly helpful for our manufacturing industry, and to all those with mortgages and overdrafts? Is not some good news coming out of all the gloom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " treatment of non-EC nationals who do not meet the criteria for entry … Articles 15 and 16: provide for the removal of illegal entrants and overstayers. Article 17: confirms the member states' commitment to establish a harmonised visa policy. Articles 18–25: provide for member states to mutually recognise each others' short stay visas and, in the longer term, for the introduction of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1228.4", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Amendment No. 9, which would delete article 99 from the Bill, is not one that we shall pursue to a Division.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1228.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "An absolutely, completely and utterly different point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. I assume that the Government always keep you in the picture. Obviously there is now a coalition between the Government and the Liberal Democrat party—a Con-Lib coalition. I assume that you have been informed of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1258.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1260.8", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "It is a genuine point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. I shall rephrase my description and say that the incidence and presence of the anti-Maastricht debaters in the Committee makes it inevitable that they will have much more time to speak than pro-Maastricht hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1260.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1260.9", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is getting close to criticism of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1260.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Spearing", "preceding_text": "I should like to speak to two of the amendments in the group tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) and others. The first relates to the derogations on VAT —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is always well informed on European Community matters and I listen to him with great interest, but I do not share his Doomsday fears about British democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "pleted the next section of my argument, which concerns the importance of VAT within the financial structure of the Community. I think that you will agree, Mr. Lofthouse, that that is central to our consideration, and additional to the points that I have already made. I must, however, make one factual point now: I do not think that I have ever gone on record as being in favour of the single market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1276.7", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am trying to answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow), and I am only halfway through doing so —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1276.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1276.9", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend has my total sympathy; I agree with her. It is not our Government but the Irish Government who are at fault, and the matter should be dealt with by the European Commission. The hon. Member for Oxford, East referred to that matter, among other things. It is important, but it does not arise directly from the amendment, which the hon. Member for Oxford, East said was a probing amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1276.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-28", "file": "debates1993-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "8739cf1cb7aae5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1281.5", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Will the House be able to debate and amend a directive which will be legally binding?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-28a.1281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-29", "file": "debates1993-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "00b35bf50ed7b074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-29a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom and Responsibility of the Press Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "and ITV do not have that problem, but their investigative journalism is better than that of the press. Secondly, newspaper editors say that it can be done under the PCC code, but the hon. Gentleman says that it can not. He is really saying, as are the editors, \"We want to judge it, please. Let us judge ourselves.\" It is as if the House said, \"We shall have elections but MPs will elect themselves\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-29a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-01-29", "file": "debates1993-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "00b35bf50ed7b074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-29a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom and Responsibility of the Press Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ing media. If they establish a reputation for consistent inaccuracy or irresponsible behaviour, they risk the non-renewal of their franchise. If they lose that, they will be out of business. The hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that the commission that would be established if his Bill were enacted would have the ability to withdraw the franchise of a newspaper and so put it out of business. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-01-29a.1314.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the hon. Gentleman constantly pleads the cause of his part of the valleys, the Rhondda, but I hope that he will recognise that since my predecessor announced the programme for the valleys in 1988 there has been a remarkable transformation of those valleys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.4.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. One has only to look at the headlines of the past week or so, such as Welsh firms much more confident\", and Welsh optimism holds on to its record rise\", and It has been an encouraging start to 1993, with signs of green shoots all round\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. One has only to look at the headlines of the past week or so, such as Welsh firms much more confident\", and Welsh optimism holds on to its record rise\", and It has been an encouraging start to 1993, with signs of green shoots all round\". — [Laughter.] Those are not my words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. One has only to look at the headlines of the past week or so, such as Welsh firms much more confident\", and Welsh optimism holds on to its record rise\", and It has been an encouraging start to 1993, with signs of green shoots all round\". — [Laughter.] Those are not my words. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] they are the words of John Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "There is no reason why a judge should not be a freemason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the Orders of the Day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "nd Skye (Mr. Kennedy), who speaks for the Liberal Democrats on this matter, may like to consider my intervention. My hon. Friend says that the provision does not change much: it just gives a new name to obligations under the treaty of Rome. However, we are not to become citizens of the treaty of Rome or even the city of Rome because article 8 states: Citizenship of the Union is hereby established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Queen is undoubtedly a British national. She, being a national of the United Kingdom, is likely to become a citizen of the European union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.36.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ly no question of this country being committed to war through a process to which we have not consented. To go beyond that to the subject that we are now discussing, and to try to extract from it a fanciful notion that, under this part of the treaty, we are paving the way for conscription may have worked with a few gullible Danes, but it should not be seriously argued in the context of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which he hasn't read.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. and learned Friend to give himself a new intellectual treat? Will he turn to page 5 of the treaty, which, I remind him, is the page on which the preamble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "y to take part in any European army. Indeed, there is no reference to a European army from beginning to end of the treaty. If at a later stage—I shall not deal with the point in detail now—we return to the text of the treaty, I shall ask my hon Friends to bear in mind, when referring to page numbers, the fact that they are all using the British edition, whereas I am using the European Community's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am against the formation of a state of Europe. It seems that our arguments on the Bill are slightly beside that point. The most significant part of the Maastricht treaty is that the 12 member states abandoned any suggestion that they would go down the path towards a common state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I hope to move shortly to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "atch your eye, Mr. Morris, they may seek to enlarge the debate and read into the provisions of Article 8 things which are not there. The hon. Member for Sedgefield and I have already sought to chase off many of the shadows. There is a great deal of talk of waving around documents, reading them and contemplating them. I recommend that my hon. Friends read article 8, in whatever edition they prefer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": ", by itself, contradicts the assurance we have been given that the treaty will improve matters and will not take anything away. Many people may not want the French to decide who our district, county or parish councillors should be. I ask this question in all seriousness: can my hon. Friend the Minister give a guarantee that \"municipal\" means only district council, county council and paris council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's speech deserves the widest possible subsequent publication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "or constitutional change during those periods, it was considered necessary to seek a specific mandate from those who would be affected. Therefore, that is part of our constitutional requirements. The fact that it was fudged in 1985 and the fact that the Government run away from it now is understandable. We are in the hands of ideologues who wish to force through this measure without regard to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.109.9", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I will take it in a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.109.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-01", "file": "debates1993-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1fda6c0489e9ac86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be called at this early hour, albeit to talk about treason in the United Kingdom. Treason has just been committed by the Government in the earlier debate on Maastricht—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-01a.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that despite the political vendetta that he has waged against Bradford local education authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.128.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.128.4", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "That will be quite difficult, Madam Speaker. However, I hold my hon. Friend—the pride of Essex—in great esteem for the way in which he attempted to put on the record the fact that the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Mrs. Taylor) has come out on grant-maintained schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman about one objective—that investment in higher education is clearly an investment in the country's future. That is right. With respect, however, I disagree with him on his point about quality and the analogy that he drew with the City. So far as I know, the City does not run on taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.131.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.139.8", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady would know if she had her facts straight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.139.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The answer to all three questions is yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I warn the House that, were I to give way to all hon. Members who wish to intervene, I would make an extremely long speech, and I am mindful of what Madam Speaker said. In any event, I must finish the passage which I have begun. We envisage that the franchising director will begin his specification of services from the basis of the present timetable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "t gives my hon. Friend the assurance for the future that he seeks. So the fundamentals of the policy are exactly as set out in the White Paper of last July. We believe that that is the best way to get as full private sector involvement and approaches as possible. A conventional flotation, with the railways as a whole in the public sector one day and in the private sector the next, is not possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I was intending to come on to that later, but I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his support and his understanding of what we are doing. We have record levels of investment going into British Rail at present, certainly the highest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.162.7", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That is a cunning way of asking a question, but I shall answer it briefly. Of course it extends to Aberdeen. We cannot establish the real franchises until we have the parliamentary authority and have set up the franchising director, who will be responsible for negotiating the contracts. The precise nature of those will be dependent on the response to the tenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.162.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "There will be many months in which to go through the further details of all the issues in my announcement today before they become operational. There must be limits to what I give way on this speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.164.12", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No, I would like to get on. I have given way to my hon. Friend a very great deal, and I want to complete this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.164.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nice little handout.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "nd waterways. I propose to expand the scheme in three ways. Grants will be made available to private rail freight operators as well as customers and consignors; grant will cover all forms of capital expenditure and equipment, including locomotives and track and structures specifically needed for freight; and grant assessments will now include traffic taken off inter-urban main roads and motorways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.167.9", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "f State. Those trainpaths will then be offered to potential franchisees as part and parcel of the invitation to tender for franchises. The price that Railtrack will receive for franchise train paths will be agreed with the franchising director according to economic principles developed by our advisers, Coopers and Lybrand. Those will be set out in the detailed document that we shall be publishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.167.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.167.9", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "franchising director according to economic principles developed by our advisers, Coopers and Lybrand. Those will be set out in the detailed document that we shall be publishing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I have already said that it will be published soon—in advance of discussion in Committee—I hope, early next week. The prices for franchised trainpaths will be guaranteed by the franchising director—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.167.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "We have produced a great deal for today's debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.172.7", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "n commuter lines. There has been substantial investment in many areas of BR in recent years. For example, I know that it does not help my right hon. Friend, but, as I have mentioned, the Networker line has just received an investment of £800 million. That has been possible as a result of the increase in subsidies to British Rail despite the problem of declining revenue. Such support will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.172.7", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ve mentioned, the Networker line has just received an investment of £800 million. That has been possible as a result of the increase in subsidies to British Rail despite the problem of declining revenue. Such support will continue. [Interruption.] It will be for Railtrack to decide its priorities. In addition, franchisees will be able to take advantage of the leasing market and of private capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ssion with wide-ranging powers to oversee British Rail—who is talking about bureaucracy?—and powers for British Rail, still wholly in the public sector, to borrow from private funds free of all Treasury constraints, just as the French railways do. What is the consequence in France? It is a total debt of £14 billion, compared to British Rail's £2 billion; an annual interest payment of £1.3 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " to it have endorsed the Government's specific proposals. Jane's World Railways says that the proposal cannot be viewed as better than a dogma-driven exercise, utterly irrelevent to national need. The banker who advises on the privatisation said: The economics of railways may not attract private-sector investment\". He should know. A lawyer who dealt with the Clapham crash said that the difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has engaged in some selective quotations. I must put him right on one so as to put the record straight. My noble Friend Lord Young said clearly: I have no doubt that rail privatisation will add to the long line of services successfully enhanced by the addition of private sector skills and made it clear that he was backing the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I see nothing inconsistent in a publicly owned railway having access to private capital and access for private operators to work on some of the lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way quite a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " the private sector—although, in fact, they have not been able to do so. Why cannot the profits of the Gatwick line, which is a premium service, be reinvested in Network SouthEast instead of going to a few shareholders who happen to have pinched that particular jewel? The Southend line is also on the list. For the record, let me say that the Secretary of State has pinched another of my ideas here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Stanley", "preceding_text": "fact that unless the subsidy level is maintained at its present level, in real terms, the fares implications for mid-distance and long-distance commuters are likely to be very serious indeed. The Government's policy—repeated twice today by my right hon. Friend—is that subsidies will continue in respect of those lines that are socially necessary. But that comment omits the key piece of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ee's domain, extra charges will have to be paid, as happens now between Regional Railways and InterCity. The franchisee may say that, as passengers have to wait only 12 minutes or thereabouts, they can wait outside the station to avoid the extra cost. That is what bringing accountants into the service would do. Unfortunately, we have the worst Government this century; there is no doubt about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, but perhaps we can talk in the Lobby afterwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Chancellor to provide guaranteed funding at constant levels for 15 years? Will the Chancellor be in place for 15 years? Will there be a Conservative Government in 15 years' time? Relying on a public sector rail track for infrastructure and the vagaries of the Treasury to provide guaranteed subsidised funding for private sector operators for all those years forms an unlikely scenario—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "tor. He proposes a new transport forum, new regional authorities for strategic planning, a new transport users' body, new passenger safety inspectorates, a disputes ombudsman, a consumer protection commission and a railway commission. How can the hon. Gentleman accuse us of wanting to create a bureaucracy when his policy document calls for far more bureaucracy than our proposals would ever create?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "e railways. Nothing that the hon. Gentleman has said, nor anything said by his hon. Friend who wound up, shakes my belief that the Labour party still believes in total state monopoly of British Railways, even the rail freight industry. Indeed, as my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton reminded us, we would end up with even more control, a national plan and a national railways commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-02", "file": "debates1993-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "db83ba374b434dd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": " main line has cost the taxpayer about £500 million. It is no wonder that it is on the first list of sections of railways to be franchised. It is the most modern and most invested section of British Railways and provides an excellent service. It is doing perfectly well. There is no need to franchise it, unless the friends of the Tory party want to line their pockets from increased passenger fares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-02a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.307.6", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the drop in interest rates over the past year will be of considerable help to councils such as Western Isles? Does he agree that the interest rate reduction has injected many millions of pounds into the coffers of local authorities throughout Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.307.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his recognition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Madam Speaker. I cannot, of course, see what goes on behind my back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "In relation to the national house conditions survey, we are considering whether it would be helpful and feasible to release preliminary findings earlier, so that there will be no such delay as the hon. Gentleman suggests. With regard to condensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.330.6", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Army Manpower", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.330.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The answeer is simple. It relates to judgments and the degree of discretion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No. My predictions were based on what was already happening in 1990, as the Secretary of State well knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ate should know that one of the consequences of the poll tax—the tax that he said would be the fairest and the best—is that the number of people registering for the electoral register and for the census is down. The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that. There has been massive under-registration for the census. That evidence is known to his Department, but he refused to take it into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "I do not pretend for a moment to be a great expert on local government. In fact, I last made a speech on the subject 10 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "e were damning reports from the general manager, who said that no one has a grip on management in Harlow town hall. There have been restrictive practices after restrictive practices, and the trade unions have had far greater sway outside than they should have had. I have been trying to urge Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats groups to put aside their party politics and sit round the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "is party political; it costs only £1 million a year, and the council does not intend to scrap it. That is what is happening. We must remember the spending that should be going on in Harlow. How much do you, Madam Deputy Speaker, think that Labour councillors spend on information technology? It is £3.5 million a year in Harlow council, with an SSA of about £7 million—just on information technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "e tremendous work that ordinary people are doing to help those who are frail and vulnerable. Of course it is the frail and the vulnerable who will suffer. We do not hear about the old people's homes that are to close, about Kingsmoor house having to close and about those most in need who will suffer, but they will suffer simply because of the complete incompetence of the Labour-controlled council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " received the other day, I discovered that some 14 local authorities were debt-free. There was a slight contretemps over the figures: another source said that eight of those authorities were indebted to some extent. However, 14 are listed in the answer. I looked up the authorities, to establish their political complexion. It so happens that 11 are Conservative; the City of London is non-political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ?They are all in the Lords.?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "n the answer. I looked up the authorities, to establish their political complexion. It so happens that 11 are Conservative; the City of London is non-political— [Laughter.] It is non-political as listed. The others are hung councils. The only one that is not Conservative-controlled—even in the overall sense, as a hung council—is Ryedale, which is controlled by members of the SDP, whoever they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "eful to the hon. Gentleman for correcting me. Gloucestershire county council is hung, but the Liberals had control between 1985 and 1991, so the increase in the debt occurred entirely under their control. We chucked out the Liberal controlling group in 1991. We now have the absurd situation in which the Conservatives and Labour alternate every six months, but we have been able to start to tackle —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "le the problem of indebtedness and offer a realistic level of service to the people of Gloucester, which is what we all want. Before the hon. Member for Cheltenham intervened, I was saying that he spoke about setting a budget for his authority. I have the indebtedness figures for his authority, which we both represent. It is a very small local authority, but has a debt of a staggering £40 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "rnment and I hope that a unitary authority will resolve that and produce better accountability. It is easy in such a debate to make political points. I am as tempted as anyone to give a long list of the misdemeanours, as I see them, of the Liberal-controlled county council on the island and the opportunities that would be afforded by a change of administration. However, I do not intend to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "that we should apply the principle of subsidiarity and ensure that councillors are given not merely the responsibility for functions but the authority to discharge them. I suggest that the Minister should look hard at the scope for taking district councils out of the revenue support grant equation entirely and making them raise, through the council tax, 100 pennies for every pound that they spend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I think that I am running out of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Prisons (Contracting Out)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": " of release and will build into the prison day a constructive and rehabilitative regime. Visiting facilities for prisoners' families will be open in the evening to suit the convenience of the visitor and there will be daily visits for unconvicted prisoners. Basic hygiene provision for prisoners will be good, providing daily showers and changes of socks and underpants, as specified in the contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Prisons (Contracting Out)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "There is so much noise going on below the Gangway, Madam Speaker, that I cannot hear the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.422.4", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Prisons (Contracting Out)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentlemen sitting below the Gangway are firmly against the introduction of private management to prisons, but none of them has the slightest interest in listening to what would actually occur and has occurred in Blakenhurst, where a private regime has been introduced. I have been describing the extremely enlightened regimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-03", "file": "debates1993-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "64d60fac2058903d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Prisons (Contracting Out)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Litherland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Litherland", "preceding_text": "r in the summer. With every phone call I made to the Home Office, the mystery deepened. In late summer—on 4 August, just six days after our visit—the front page of the Manchester Evening News had the story. The cat was out of the bag. The Home Office's privatisation plan had been revealed in a job description memo for a new national post of prison manager. One of the prisons named was Strangeways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-03a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Gentleman has had to work hard to get his supplementary to that question. Usually he asks me outside the Chamber which question I am answering in order that he can put his supplementary to the appropriate question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.465.8", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "e that there is, rightly, growing public interest in the remarks of the Prime Minister last night. My right hon. Friend opened the debate and it is for Lord Wakeham, who is chairing a committee looking into various aspects of the matter, to produce some conclusions. It is important to remember that my right hon. Friend was not referring to workfare. That has been added to his remarks subsequently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.465.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "My children aged seven and four have asked me to press the Government on their concern about the fact that the ice cream man no longer comes down our street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.471.5", "colnum": "471", "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/1993-02-04a.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.481.6", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "That question is—if I may use the vernacular—a bit over the top. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State very properly came to the House only yesterday to make a substantial statement, on which, if I remember rightly, the hon. Gentleman managed to question him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.481.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.483.6", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.483.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Roads (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "dging welcome—he could hardly get a word of welcome out—for our record road programme. There are communities and businesses all over the country and hon. Members in all parts of the House who have been pressing for it and will warmly welcome it. The hon. Gentleman referred to British Rail investment being cut by half. He will know that next year, British Rail's investment will be at record levels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.492.4", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Roads (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "It is not me who has not got a clue, it is the hon. Gentleman who is way out of touch with reality. Finally, can I say to him on London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.492.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "The Community has two instruments for that purpose. One is the structural funds which are specially aimed at regions and from which the United Kingdom benefits. The new cohesion fund relates to per capita income, meaning that it is devoted specifically to the four poorest countries in the Community. It was part of the bargain struck at Maastricht that the funds should be devoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.518.8", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am simply telling the Committee that, so far, two member states have nominated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.518.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": " my region.\" When the committee is in place, 24 people will be working as a team to highlight some of the problems of the regions. I have long thought that the regional development fund did not get enough publicity for the fact that it provided millions of ecus to build the M25. Much of the funding came from the fund, but no one seemed to know about it. It was assumed that it was taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "Certainly not to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "and. I well remember from my 10 years in the European Parliament, most of which I served as a member of the European regional committee, that it was one of the more useful committees in the Parliament, within which the regions had a voice. I remember that there was a lady called Beatta Brookes who certainly spoke up for Wales. It is perhaps not popular to mention her on this side of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman is being impatient, and I do not blame him for that. What he says just precedes what I am about to say. I want to look at the anti-Community argument, that this is not something that the Community should do at all and that it is nonsensical to pay money to the Community which it then decides, after passing it through various bureaucratic sieves, to give back to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what you said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I would not go so far as to claim that a particular electoral system will immediately produce greater honesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Gwilym Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Gwilym Jones)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is developing an interesting point. Perhaps he and other hon. Members will consider the difficulty in having a body composed entirely of elected councillors, when our estimate is that the kind of people we would like to see on this body, who would work at it and take it seriously", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "al democracy in France, Italy, Spain or Germany that we understand in our little local authorities, our district and county councils here at home. The new-found enthusiasm for democracy which hon. Members locate in our European neighbours still does not make the case for their having a complete monopoly on the new Committee of the Regions or for us to have our own very much better representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "sitive note: that is to suggest that my right hon. Friend the Minister applies his formidable ingenuity to helping us in judging the kind of alternatives that there might be for finding nominated local authority members. I am very disappointed that there is not an amendment on the Order Paper three or six pages long, listing all the different kinds of people who might be considered for nomination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-04", "file": "debates1993-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "96131fdd96978b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "I should first like to place on record my gratitude to Madam Speaker for selecting this important subject for the Adjournment debate this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-04a.579.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-08", "file": "debates1993-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "7f52ef81a288fa04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-08a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Airlines (Competition)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Mr. Steve Norris)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Mr. Steve Norris)", "preceding_text": " gives a green light to carriers which are prepared to go out and win business—provided always, of course, that they are safe; there has never been any suggestion that safety standards would be compromised. I was sorry when my hon. Friend announced at the beginning of his speech that he did not intend to mention slots at Heathrow, as I had prepared an extensive part of my speech to deal with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-08a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend concede that we never know from where an attack may come?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.820.10", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not doubt the hon. Gentleman's concern about unemployment, but I would respect it more if he did not support policies that would deliberately put people out of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.820.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Constitutional Separation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to create a constitutional framework within which separation from the United Kingdom may be achieved by England or Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland. I stand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Constitutional Separation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I stand before you, Madam Speaker, wearing the dress of highland Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Constitutional Separation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) suggested that he was in highland dress: he is in nothing of the kind. He misled the House, and I have reason to believe that he is wearing little red pants under his kilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Speaker. I was sitting much closer to my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley (Mr. Lewis) than the hon. Member for Wirral, South (Mr. Porter) was. 'When the Prime Minister was talking about a matter for the receivers, my hon. Friend and others, including myself, shouted \"hypocrisy\" several times at the Prime Minister, and we meant it. I believe that to be in order, but I did not hear the other word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Commissioners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "preceding_text": " alas, without a specific response so far—at the urging, expressed in the new clause, that charities should be removed from the scope of the Bill. It is worth pointing out to my right hon. and learned Friend and to the Minister of State that charities which, in the nature of things, have an indefinite lifespan that stretches from here to eternity—certainly that is true of the Church Commissioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.879.11", "colnum": "879", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "hod will exclude many leaseholders from exercising their right to enfranchisement. Many of those 750,000 leaseholders who at present may think that they will be enfranchised by this legislation will discover that in practice they will not be. In particular, what needs to be withdrawn from the Bill as at present drafted is the low rent test and the limiting of non-residential floor space threshold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.879.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.879.13", "colnum": "879", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "ce. There is also the low ground rent test, which is designed to sift out leaseholders from those renting their flats or homes. As landlords are given to increasing ground rents to make their properties unenfranchisable, even now, as these debates go on, I hope that the Minister will concede that the low rent test is inequitable and unnecessary, and ought to go. At present, some 750,000 long-term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.879.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "New clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "se to rent. The argument that landlords are better at protecting the heritage is not valid. The Duke of Westminster has been mentioned a number of times in our debate today. His new stately home, Eaton hall in Cheshire, cannot be envisaged as an asset to our heritage. It is of a modern design and even in 200 years' time, if it is still standing, it will not be listed by a future Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "New clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I disagree entirely with the idea that permissive aesthetics is a time problem. Since the 1960s, we have seen the rise of public conscience and consciousness on the issue of heritage. In the past two decades, that consciousness reached a much higher level than it had been since 1914. I do not accept that the level of consciousness will go up and down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "f making it work effectively to push it out of that sector. If he were pushing tenants into better management and lower rents, I would say that it was terrific, but he is not. The tenants in the hon. Gentleman's constituency of Ealing, Acton should have had a choice of a housing manager who did not put up their rents by £30 per week. The Conservative council in Ealing put up rents by £30 per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-09", "file": "debates1993-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f999f65ff22b1c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.945.6", "colnum": "945", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "e age—an age of centralist bureaucracies, when local authorities told tenants what they intended to do. That is not the way in which to manage public housing in the 1990s, or in the 21st century. The way forward lies in close, meaningful consultation with tenants from the outset, building partnership and trust, and that is what the Government propose. I urge the House not to accept the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-09a.945.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Apple Juice (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady is abusing the time allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Water Resources (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gareth Wardell", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gareth Wardell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law applicable to pollution offences and anti-pollution works and operations under the Water Resources Act 1991 in so far as they relate to abandoned mines; and for connected purposes. I seek leave to introduce the Bill at this time because it is highly relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "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": "I was in two minds whether to speak because of the timetable, but my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz) has told me that he has already written five minutes of praise about my speech, so I had better make it. I am also a bit embarrassed. As the Minister knows, I was not a great admirer of the Bill on Second Reading or in Committee. However, I rise under instruction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "r his academic record and thus his future employment record. Communities normally have their own primary schools and perhaps their own middle and high schools. The education that the children receive there is not the equal of the education given to children in other parts of the city. I do not for a minute criticise the teachers who work very hard. If 80 per cent. to 90 per cent. of the children —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1013.4", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the Minister. I well recall the first time I saw a picture of him with his boyish grin lounging next to a lamp post outside the Palace of Westminster. It was in an article in The Sunday Times in May 1988, in which it was predicted that by the end of the decade he would be the leader of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1013.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Urban Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Privatise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I apologise to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to the House, for my inability to be present for speeches about important amendments and new clauses. I went to Nottingham this morning. I caught a train that was due to arrive at St. Pancras at 3.15; it arrived at 5.50 pm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1031.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ransformation of the social security system as time goes by rather than being a one-off decision. Let me return to the subject of the commission on social justice, on which the hon. Member for Birkenhead sadly does not sit, and consider who does serve on it. Apart from the statutory business man, it consists of one BBC producer, one professional trade unionist, one economist, one charity director—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-10", "file": "debates1993-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "81b5fce75b464b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": " on low incomes as it should be. The Government's figures on households on below average income show that 7 per cent. of recipients of income support live in households with incomes above the national average. I hope that I may be allowed to refer to a pamphlet entitled, \"The Age of Entitlement\", published by the Social Market Foundation earlier this week. The author's name temporarily escapes me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-10a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "First, I commiserate with my hon. Friend. I know that he has been a victim of car crime and speaks with great feeling on the matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1106.9", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1106.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1106.11", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "And to do so intact, I trust. What happens in Belgium is a matter for the Belgians. My hon. Friend will be aware that stiffer sentences have been made available to the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1106.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1107.8", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning the actions of one single militant teacher trade union which proposes to ballot its membership to boycott all tests", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1107.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1110.9", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Has no one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1110.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "\"Cheeky little pup\" is a term of endearment, Madam Speaker. Has no one in government the simple intelligence to understand that the Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "\"Cheeky little pup\" is a term of endearment, Madam Speaker. Has no one in government the simple intelligence to understand that the Cyprus— [Interruption.] —rather, the Vance-Owen plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Bosnia is not a laughing matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Royal Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "ntioned by the hon. Member for Teignbridge. Does the Prime Minister agree that that has been an excellent bargain for the taxpayer for the whole of the Queen's reign? May I ask the Prime Minister to do his best to ensure that those members of the royal family who are now dropped from the Civil List will be accorded the degree of privacy which would be enjoyed by the nephew of any newspaper editor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "el for the elderly royal yacht Britannia? Is the Leader of the House aware that there is a belief gaining ground throughout the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister has made a promise to the Queen and the royal family that they shall have such a vessel built for them? I wish to point out, as a Member representing a traditional shipbuilding constituency, that this would be taken very badly amiss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I am explaining why the claims are exaggerated. As I say, the numbers are unfounded. The figures are in sharp contrast to ours, which were based on a cautious assumption—perhaps I should put it the other way round and say they were based on the generous assumption—that by September 1995—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "d as fully as I would wish to all the points that have been raised, but I shall do my best in the time available. I am glad to see the return to the Chamber of the hon. Member for Dulwich (Ms. Jowell) whose attendance during the debate has been somewhat spasmodic. I advise her in good faith that, if she wishes her contributions to be taken seriously, it helps if she attends the bulk of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "ntial provision for that group that the hon. Gentleman quite rightly is keen to see ended for other groups. Nothing whatever prevents local authorities from purchasing the services that are needed. The hon. Member for Wakefield, in a moment which must have been intended as humorous, suggested that we should wait for independent sector provision to emerge before imposing our 85 per cent. condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-11", "file": "debates1993-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "6bf95a013aedff96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "West Midlands Regional Health Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "ll be followed through which will bring those matters into balance. I ask the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends, as well as asking me for that assurance, to help to give that confidence to people in the west midlands and to ensure that financial problems are not the only things that they read about with regard to health in the west midlands; that they read also about the dedication and the work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-11a.1205.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-12", "file": "debates1993-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5ab0dfa38d53677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-12a.1273.21", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH OF BRITAIN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "The royal consent having been given, I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-12a.1273.20"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-12", "file": "debates1993-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5ab0dfa38d53677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-12a.1274.7", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH OF EUROPE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The royal consent having been given, I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-12a.1274.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.2.3", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the knock-on effects?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "No one will lose money, because the payment of any benefit that is awarded will be backdated to the time of the claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.2.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Maastricht Treaty", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "not a proposal to adhere to the social chapter and its passage would not be a decision that this country should do so. The Government will continue to oppose the amendment because, as I have said, incorporation of the protocol in domestic law would be desirable. But, in the light of the Law Officers' advice, if the amendment were carried it would have no effect on our ability to ratify the treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Maastricht Treaty", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "been made as soon as it came to light. Some questions will no doubt arise seeking clarification of what has been said. Page 500 of \"Erskine May\" states: The House is not formally aware of the detailed proceedings of any committee until the bill has been reported; and attempts to refer in the House to proceedings on a bill during its consideration in committee are consequently irregular. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.28.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.46.5", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle). Before I deal with those points, I pay tribute to our Front-Bench team on housing. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry) has great expertise on housing. I do not think that there is anything that my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) does not know about housing: he is a superb Minister and I pay tribute to his many initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.47.7", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "As far as I am concerned it is not. The problem is caused by the popularity of transient relationships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.47.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": " be politically neutral and independent. It is not for officers to make political decisions, but for the elected representatives. It is quite wrong for local government officers to become party political. If they do not like what the Conservative council is currently doing, they should leave with good grace. When I hear interventions from Opposition Members trying to laugh at housing associations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-15", "file": "debates1993-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "524ac59d47e7ae14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.73.9", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " in Bankruptcy and the insolvency practitioners to whom the hon. Member for Monklands, West referred—the opportunity to gain experience under the new regime. That should permit a fairer comparison to be made between public sector and private sector provision when full market testing is undertaken. The hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) has distinguished herself in written parliamentary questions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-15a.73.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.123.9", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Khabra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Khabra", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden). I have raised the question with the Leader of the House in early-day motion 1251 in my name and those of hon. Friends. I come from the same community. I know that the directive will be an attack on the Sikh religion. This Government can ignore the EC directive. They have done so in the past whenever it suited them. I am sure that this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.123.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.127.5", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "In 1979, just over 1 million people were unemployed. At the same time, just over 7 million people were employed in manufacturing industry—seven people in manufacturing jobs for every single person unemployed. Now, measuring unemployment in the same way, there are 4.25 million unemployed. On Thursday this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister no sense of shame? Today, he was described in The Times as being like a spiv business man employing a sharp lawyer\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Vote against Third Reading and we'll show them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "National Health Service (London)", "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": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I should like to make a statement about our proposals for improving the national health service in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.146.4", "colnum": "146", "heading": "National Health Service (London)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to take points of order at the end of the statement, as the hon. Lady knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "ters in the Department of Employment—have spoken out against the Government's proposals. The Government have not been able to find one hon. Member to make the case in favour of the abolition of the wages councils. The Minister shakes his head, but I have been in the Chamber throughout the debate and I have not heard one speech from a Conservative Member in support of the Government on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ause they have set, in the hotel industry, for example, which seems to interest the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, increases that are well above the rate of inflation. In one year the increase was 9 per cent., which must be given not simply to those who are affected by the wages council orders but to other employees to maintain differentials. If we are in a period of economic difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "as the longest period of maternity absence in Europe and, at 18 weeks, one of the longest periods of paid maternity absence. In addition, all pregnant employees in the United Kingdom have had the right to paid time off for antenatal care since 1980, a right which Spanish and French women will enjoy as a result of the directive. I might have added that that will apply in socialist France and Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "rom their pay packets on a regular basis, and that I need to justify that by pointing to employer interest, then I have to say that earlier this evening the hon. Member was arguing that we were doing everything because we were responding to the Nested interests of employers. Now he is criticising me because he cannot demonstrate that we are doing this in response to representations from employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have a private conversation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I can confirm that. But the hon. Gentleman did not go on to point out that, if employees are bound by a collective agreement, that can be taken as individual consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "It seems to me to be both natural and right that a member of the ministerial team in the Ministry of Agriculture who has a very large number of hill farmers in his constituency and knows them well should seek to reply to this debate, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.273.4", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The decision on HLCAs has to be seen in the context of the total support for farmers in the uplands which is directly linked to production. I am not talking about the environmentally sensitive areas; I am not talking about the countryside stewardship; I am talking about the totality of support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.273.6", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman waits, I will come to the figures. My right hon. Friend was an excellent chairman of the Agriculture Council for three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.273.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": ". It takes into account the costs of depreciation, unpaid family labour, valuation charges and imputed rent for owner-occupiers. In Scotland the equivalent figure has risen from £8,100 to £11,400 and in Wales the same survey shows that the figures have increased from £10,500 to £18,700 and for Northern Ireland, where all the farms are livestock farms, the figure has increased from £4,000 to£6,800—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "It is refreshing to note that there is at least one area of agreement between the two sides of the House—that we should seek to keep the rural and difficult areas populated. But am I the only person who is wondering whether there is a limit to which we can ask the taxpayer to contribute when it is possible for hill farmers to get income from other sources?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.291.6", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Then the leave of the House is not granted. The debate may continue. I call Mr. Bill Walker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-16", "file": "debates1993-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4345f963f37c381c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.291.7", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, you can be assured that I speak for a part of Scotland that has uplands, mountains, and lots and lots of sheep. There is no doubt that my hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale (Mr. Greenway) illustrated the humbug and hypocrisy that we often see in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-16a.291.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.306.6", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the most effective way of alleviating fuel poverty is to increase the housing stock's energy efficiency and to assist the funding of such work? Is he prepared to instruct the electricity regulator to introduce an E factor similar to that employed by British Gas, whereby it is prepared to fund environmental improvements and conservation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "tion to consumers for the first time. It provides a proper bonding and insurance scheme. At the same time, we have resisted a burdensome over-regulatory licensing system which would have covered no fewer than 30,000 small operators, including even those who provide fishing weekends in Scotland. The licensing system that the Opposition would impose on business would push up costs for all consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You may not be aware, since you were forced to change your seating arrangements in the House, that there are many places in the Chamber where the system for letting Members listen to the little loudspeaker on the back of Benches no longer works. That is primarily probably due to the fact that the enunciation of most Members is appallingly poor. They do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am not a little thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.6", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "If you feel, Madam Speaker, that it is unparliamentary, I can only say that my right hon. Friend knows that what he said was inaccurate. If that is not dishonest, I do not know what is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.321.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say 'economical with the truth'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Cycling Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "he past two years, we have seen smog return to London. It may not be like the old pea-soupers, but it is a potent and unpleasant mix. Carbon monoxide and exhaust emissions go up into the atmosphere to contribute to global warming. In Britain, as elsewhere, we are committed to reducing carbon emissions. The life of all those who live near roads is further degraded by the incessant noise of traffic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.327.4", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "nd women? Is it still in hock to the vested interests of trade unions? My hon. Friend the Minister of State blew the gaff on the Opposition's policy on wages councils almost before the debate began, on the Bill's Second Reading last November. He challenged the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) to say whether Labour would re-establish wages councils after they had been abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "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": "Three months later, all we have is a form of words to which, to be very complimentary, a weasel would not put its name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "As I said on Second Reading and several times in Committee, and as I made clear in a letter to the Secretary of State—when she employed public officials to peddle lies about Labour party policy, for which she has still not apologised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "g the money. The Government's argument is that there should be no Government interference in the market. The idea is that every worker should strike a bargain with his or her employer. I return to the quotation from Churchill. I know that it upsets Conservative Members, and that they have heard it often, but what Winston Churchill said in 1909 when he introduced wages councils is good sound stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "d be no Government interference in the market. The idea is that every worker should strike a bargain with his or her employer. I return to the quotation from Churchill. I know that it upsets Conservative Members, and that they have heard it often, but what Winston Churchill said in 1909 when he introduced wages councils is good sound stuff. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Liberal.\"]—He was a Liberal but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ore unemployment and chaos and conflict on the shop floor\". Gavin Laird has said: It's never worked in the past, there's no logic for it, it doesn't work in any other country and it certainly will not work in Great Britain\". If anyone feels that those comments from the left of the argument are too highbrow, I can give a lowbrow view from the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bates", "preceding_text": "f the oil and gas industry in Teesside to meet my hon. Friend the Minister for Energy, who kindly received us and listened to the points that were made. We were able to tell him about the great plans for investment that those leaders have for Teesside and of the thousands of jobs that they intend to create. That was music to my ears at a time of high employment—real jobs coming to my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.352.6", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "about as advanced as his manners. It would have been more honest of the Government riot to have called this the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill, which is a perverse description of it. I have a couple of suggestions for alternative titles. It could, for instance, be called the Labour Market (Deregulation) Bill—or, perhaps, the Trade Union Bashing and Removal of Employment Rights Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "leased to say that the rates were raised shortly after my visit, and I hope that was not a coincidence. In many factories around the country women in particular are greatly disadvantaged in terms of wages. As was said yesterday, women—especially single parents and others in similar positions—will be particularly affected by the removal of the wages councils. The Government cannot be proud of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "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": "ression, he should take it up with that commission. The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras said that not a single argument that he put in Committee had been lost. I had the impression that he had not even found a single argument in Committee, much less lost one. He said that his vision was one in which everyone would have a job and be paid what their ambition should be. I find it astonishing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Kynoch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"President.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I listened to the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke) and began to wonder whether we were discussing the same figures as I have before me. He stated that he was once vice president of COSLA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "ent have thus been very generous to the new council tax payers. I suggest that that is far fairer than the demand when the community charge was introduced. Payments then were based on a 14 per cent. contribution. If some of the new ideas for the introduction of the council tax, which is about to descend on us, had been introduced with the community charge, we might not have had to make the change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": " which do not come anywhere near meeting their housing needs. Glasgow's current HRA debt is no less than £1,111 million, yet its HSG for this year is a mere £11.1 million. With that level of financial support, when will it ever get over its debt crisis? The Minister knows all this perfectly well. Possibly he wants to do good and make a name for himself as one of Scotland's great housing Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "te. Because one wants to look after that particular group of people, one should not lay the way open. Anyone who has lived on a council estate knows that the people who live there will be able to say who all the individuals beating the system are—which people are enjoying the benefits of the welfare state, extracting all that they can out of it and deliberately and fraudulently claiming more than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.434.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-17", "file": "debates1993-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f2b009f16ac70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the debate with interest, particularly the contribution of the hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie). I am not sure whether he meant to contribute to this debate, but he is nothing if not interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-17a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "t to all. In Northern Ireland, in the first wave there were three applications, of which one is now a trust; in the second wave there were 11 applications, nine of which are now proceeding; and in the third wave, which my noble Friend Lord Arran introduced recently, four applied and four have been granted. I do not believe that it is the Government's role to try to encourage trust status as such —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that we have set in place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that we have set in place—[Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] We have set in place to assist people who are unemployed a comprehensive system of schemes unmatched in the history of this country and unmatched elsewhere in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "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 knows very well that we have set in place—[Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] We have set in place to assist people who are unemployed a comprehensive system of schemes unmatched in the history of this country and unmatched elsewhere in Europe—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"]—the training for work programme, the job clubs, the job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "st is the tax on excess profits: the old Labour party speaking again—they do not like profits, they want to penalise success, and they will never understand that profits fund investment and finance jobs. And now they want a training tax as well to put more people out of work. Perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman should have a word with his transport spokesman, who said of the minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I sat down, Madam Speaker, because you were getting up. I will repeat the quote from the Opposition transport spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "resentment in all parts of the House? First, arranging debates on the Maastricht Bill for Monday and Thursday is a device transparently designed not to facilitate scrutiny but to evade it, as it may well mean that key debates, and possibly key votes, will take place in the early hours of Friday morning, which is not for the convenience of anyone in the House. Secondly, where is the Education Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.477.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.479.5", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "ill the House have an opportunity to debate local government corruption? We constantly hear reports from Lambeth, Hackney, and indeed from Monklands, and from Waltham Forest, and so on. Those matters touch members of the public more than many other matters we discuss here. As councils are about to set their council tax bills, surely it is about time that this matter got the widest possible airing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.479.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that the announcement that there will be no news in next week's business about the future of British coal miners will be deeply disappointing to thousands of miners and their families? As the livelihood of 2,000 miners in my constituency is to end at the end of March and we shall be in March before an announcement has been made, could we have a statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "eir hands in their pockets, and the appeal for money proceeded. After a while, Government officials said, in effect, \"We suggest that you stop what you are doing. Let us do the thing properly.\" So, halfway through the scheme, they called a halt to the appeal, took the advice of the officials and put in proposals to meet the Government's standard. They waited and waited, and they are still waiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruptioni", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "ustry, but they said at the time that no special treatment should be given to the potato industry. Now that the extent of the calamity is known, that is obviously not the way to go forward. Allied to that was the debate that we had on Tuesday about the hill livestock compensatory allowance and all that that involves. When we talk about farming, as the hon. Member for East Derry did at some length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "preceding_text": "n Time last December, the way in which the House handles Scottish business. I hope that minds will be similarly concentrated on the way in which the House considers Northern Ireland business. The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea) referred to the absence of other hon. Members from this debate. The electorate of Northern Ireland will see part of these proceedings and will notice that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "preceding_text": "I think that it is an appropriate time to reveal the secret of this little document that I have in my hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-18", "file": "debates1993-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b5dda8bd2716222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "In no way, Mr. Deputy Speaker, am I saying that I criticise the Chair for not drawing in Northern Ireland Members. What I am saying is that Northern Ireland Members could not take part in the debate because the debate was on Great Britain alone, not on Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-18a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-19", "file": "debates1993-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e10124c94426891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Know Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "als. When I began to promote the Bill, and went round the country listening and talking to people, I did not appreciate that point enough. It has been the point that has most impressed me during the campaign. The Bill would give greater choice to people and it would give them greater knowledge with which to make the choices in their lives. It would also give people more ownership over their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-19", "file": "debates1993-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e10124c94426891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Know Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "documents is under way. Papers released to date include the Hess papers, Shingle Street, Derek Bentley, John Christie and Timothy Evans papers, further papers on Suez, and Home Office files about the occupation of the Channel Islands. The Opposition spokesman on the citizens charter was fair in describing that release as a major breakthrough in the opening up of that period. There is more to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-19", "file": "debates1993-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e10124c94426891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Know Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which summer recess?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "Before the summer break, I can promise—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"That is rash.\"] It may be rash, but I hope that I can promise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-19", "file": "debates1993-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e10124c94426891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Know Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "ltation. The Minister cannot simply dismiss that in a few throwaway lines by saying that the Bill is complicated. No matter which Government legislate in this area, the framework of the legislation will be as set out in the Bill and those that have preceded it. I shall give about half a dozen examples of companies that have been prosecuted and have not made reference to it in their annual reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-19a.607.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "May I put it to the Secretary of State that Sir George is proving a not very adequate chairman of the ITC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.676.9", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "May I be the first to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his new job, which is the latest in a long and glittering parliamentary career? As he may well be feeling a little nervous, I remind him that I have given him notice of my supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.676.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "On the important point raised unintentionally by my hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce), may I ask whether there will be cleansing facilities, such as baths and showers, connected with the new offices? Will the right hon. Gentleman also see whether proper cleansing provision can be made for members of the public who come to this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Further to that point of order, Mr. Morris.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. There cannot be anything further to that, in that this is a very important matter. I call Mr. George Robertson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.688.7", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Morris. The debate revolves around what, for many of us, are difficult legal points. The debate has been announced without preparation for those difficult legal points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.688.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Strasbourg.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It has just crossed my mind that British Members of Parliament are allowed to go to Brussels once a year, paid for by the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We want answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": " the basis of the Foreign Secretary's interpretation of that advice and that many hon. Members may speak before the Attorney-General chooses to intervene to explain his position, which presumably is that on which the Government rest their case. As he has not chosen to do so, it is best if I repeat the questions that my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) asked the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.705.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Dame Janet Fookes)", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Peter Luff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Filibuster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "Let me turn specifically to the question of amendment No. 27.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "tence. I think that that charge rests far more fairly and squarely on his shoulders, and on those of his hon. Friends who have failed to draft the amendment successfully. I rejoice in that, however, because it means that we do not now face the incorporation of the social charter in British law. I am anxious for the treaty to make rapid progress, and for the Bill to pass through its stages quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\") Because I am not a member of the Cabinet. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer the last part of the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.744.7", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "To sit again what day?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.744.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.744.7", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "To sit again what day?— [Interruption.] I repeat, Committee what day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.744.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-22", "file": "debates1993-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "6837a7e4e8e01199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Oil and Chemical Pollution of Fish) (No. 2) Order 1993 (S.I., 1993, No. 143), dated 27th January 1993, a copy of which was laid before this House on 28th January, be approved.— [Mr. Andrew Mitchell.] Question agreed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-22a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-23", "file": "debates1993-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4379c49a10a77656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-23a.765.8", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that I understand the hon. Gentleman's point of order. I am not interested in all the frills on this, but if he puts a point of order directly to me, I shall hear it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-23a.765.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-23", "file": "debates1993-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4379c49a10a77656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-23a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "International Peacekeeping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " point is a very important one. As I understand it, the Americans are discussing their ideas with the Secretary-General of the United Nations either today or tomorrow, and they will, of course, also be discussing them with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. The last point will, I think, be in the minds of both the Secretary-General and the Prime Minister. However, as the hon. Gentleman said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-23a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.871.5", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "d he see the chief constable of Gloucestershire on BBC \"Newsnight\" on Monday who said that he had to keep 40 officer posts vacant so as to meet this year's spending round? That shows that the Department's spending limit does not match the establishment required by the Home Office. What has the Minister to say to Conservative councillors in Gloucestershire who two weeks ago decided to set a budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend considers the mythology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "Why is it that, with one or two exceptions, the overwhelming majority of fraud and corruption in local government is taking place in Labour councils?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.875.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "rubbish such as Derbyshire county council's notorious and discredited political newspaper, Insight, which finds its way instantaneously into hundreds of thousands of bins all over the county? Would not the county council be best advised to stop wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds on such rubbish and instead spend it on reinstating hundreds of teachers whom they are threatening with redundancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "There is a possibility that a small number of serving officers in Bosnia may be made compulsorily redundant. There is also a possibility that serving officers in Northern Ireland will be made compulsorily redundant. But if we were to change the system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I intend to deal with that precise point at some considerable length. The cut demanded by the Labour party conference, to which members of the Labour Front Bench always pay attention, was about 29 per cent. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman holds that figure in his head as I elaborate at greater length. Having mentioned the ingenuity shown by the Government on the question of \"Options for Change\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Before answering the hon. Gentleman's question, I will explain why Ministers are exclusively Treasury-driven. I am not saying that the Treasury never has an effect on any Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I shall deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I shall deal— [Interruption.] I assure the House that I will answer that question to the hon. Gentleman's satisfaction. I shall also deal with the question of resources. I can answer in a nutshell by saying that nobody in Britain, and certainly none of my hon. Friends, is saying that we should increase defence expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six billion pounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": " I shall concentrate today is the idea that the Conservative party is the party of strong defence. Let us look at the statistics for which Conservative Members have asked me. We must remember that the important statistic that I mentioned was that the Labour party conference had asked for a cut of about 29 to 30 per cent. Conservative Members must keep that figure in mind, and I shall deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": " Government—defence expenditure did increase by 22 per cent. in real terms. That is why Baroness Thatcher used to glory in being called the iron lady. That sustained increase during the first half of the 1980s is constantly used as the basis of the Conservatives' claim to be the party of strong defence. Unfortunately for them, they cannot rewrite history. In reality, that increase of 22 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.906.4", "colnum": "906", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "we project that trend forward into the second half of the 1990s—given the Government's intentions and their appalling fiscal ineptitude, that is a modest assumption—the defence budget will have been cut by a further 9 per cent. by the year 2000. I have said 20 per cent., now I am going to tax the intellectuals on the Conservative Benches by asking them to add together 20 per cent. and 9 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.906.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "suse is made of mirrors in moving the 2,000 personnel from one part of our armed forces to another. While I am on the subject of reprieve, I cannot resist saying that during my trip to Bosnia I was astounded to be told by the Cheshires that my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces, who had been in Bosnia the previous week, had told the Cheshires that he personally had reprieved them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Jonathan Aitken)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was planned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Jonathan Aitken)", "preceding_text": "ancial-only basis, without strategic considerations. As my right hon. Friend rightly said, if that were true—it certainly is not—it would be an insult, not just to him, but to the Chief of the Defence Staff and the other military advisers. Since \"Options for Change\" we have added commitments in Bosnia. It was envisaged in the original statement that there might have to be extra military resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-24", "file": "debates1993-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "e111c7a67a6414c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "The Army", "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": "t, not just to him, but to the Chief of the Defence Staff and the other military advisers. Since \"Options for Change\" we have added commitments in Bosnia. It was envisaged in the original statement that there might have to be extra military resources—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It was planned.\"] No, it was not the plan. But there was certainly a plan for possibilities—that was always said and always recorded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-24a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.995.7", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's question shows the seriousness with which he takes all our efforts. I doubt whether the House wants an answer to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.995.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "London Ambulance Service (Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " holding people responsible will not do. The mechanisms were not helpful\"? Will the Secretary of State confirm that she is changing those mechanisms, the operation of the regional structure, and oversight and accountability for the ambulance service? Is the arm's-length approach, or what Mr. Spry described as neither a fish nor fowl approach, acceptable to the Secretary of State? Will she confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "t uncomfortable with the idea of the Committee of the Regions, because there is no history of subsidiarity within the United Kingdom. The House has been unable to transfer powers to its component parts, so it can envisage no easy way of allocating seats. Although the Minister has explained that, it appears that that is why the Government have not yet given any idea of their thinking on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": " of the Committee of the Regions, because there is no history of subsidiarity within the United Kingdom. The House has been unable to transfer powers to its component parts, so it can envisage no easy way of allocating seats. Although the Minister has explained that, it appears that that is why the Government have not yet given any idea of their thinking on this issue. [Interruption.] Article 198—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "s counterparts in Germany, where the Bundestag agreed to allocate 21 seats to the Lander and with the autonomous communities of Spain, which are campaigning to take all 21 seats there. 6.45 pm Some would argue that eight seats for Scotland would mean over-representation, but that is not so. As we have already heard, in population terms, over-representation is a principle of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting observation from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or England. Or Merseyside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "That is an argument that should be put to the Government, not to Europe. As for Scotland being underdeveloped, certainly there are areas of Scotland that require assistance, and, like other hon. Members, I see nothing wrong in trying to get the assistance to where it is needed, whether it be in Scotland, Greece, Portugal or Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So has Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "t to the Government, not to Europe. As for Scotland being underdeveloped, certainly there are areas of Scotland that require assistance, and, like other hon. Members, I see nothing wrong in trying to get the assistance to where it is needed, whether it be in Scotland, Greece, Portugal or Wales. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Or England. Or Merseyside.\"] Well, fine in England, but England has its Government here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1063.7", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "king at a Committee of the Regions which, as the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) said, could be important. I would not care to anticipate how the Committee of the Regions may or may not develop. The hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Ynys Mon (Mr. Jones), who speaks for Plaid Cymru, made points which many of my hon. Friends picked up. They are separatists. I do not think that they would deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1063.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is leaving now.\") I was trying to analyse— [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I am sure it does, but we have already discussed the point, and it is only one aspect of the general policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "f life; it is what the church believes. I believe that opposition to artificial methods of family planning exists only at the top of the church. The vast majority of Roman Catholics would probably support the use of artificial methods of family planning. The Church supports natural rhythm methods; it is only techniques and methods about which we are talking. How does all this relate to the treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": " My hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West was quite correct in pointing out—he was not trying to score cheap points, because he was talking accurately—that the United Kingdom Government are not prepared to fund their part of that increase other than within their existing aid budget. That means a substantial drop in aid, particularly in 1994 and 1995. It underscores to some extent the commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": " customs and traditions. The last point that I want to make in this brief speech is about agriculture. My hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) is often known as \"Mr. Bananas\" because of his interest in the West Indies and the islands which are the major suppliers of bananas to Europe and the United Kingdom. Other hon. Members have spoken about other aspects of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": " He knows full well that the debate that we have just partly concluded is not about overseas aid. Many hon. Members believe that we have been talking about overseas aid: we have not. That is not included in the treaty or any of the amendments. The Minister knows that there is a united proposal for a single foreign policy, of which overseas development and aid is a part. I want to ask the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-25", "file": "debates1993-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d114e7daec5c6bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Dame Janet. The Government have misled the Committee, or, putting it more charitably, have suppressed information that they know the Committee should have received. I have a 64-page document from the Community, No. 6718/92, which was published in September 1992 entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-25a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-26", "file": "debates1993-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b173212b3018328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Disabled Persons (Civil Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Objected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Berry", "preceding_text": "sabled people and providing a much wider range of facilities for them.\"—[ Official Report, 21 January 1993; Vol. 217, c. 496.] I did not get that impression from the Government when, three weeks ago, a Government Whip from a sedentary position talked out my private Member's Bill —the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill—which would have provided day services and respite services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-26", "file": "debates1993-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b173212b3018328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Disabled Persons (Civil Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "the Bill is right. We are debating a very important Bill for disabled people. It is supported by almost 300 Members of Parliament, 23 of whom are Conservative Members. It is good to have some Conservative support, but we are thoroughly discontented and we cannot accept an all-party approach when the Minister for Social Security and Disabled People comes here and kicks disabled people in the teeth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-26", "file": "debates1993-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b173212b3018328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Disabled Persons (Civil Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": " is supported by almost 300 Members of Parliament, 23 of whom are Conservative Members. It is good to have some Conservative support, but we are thoroughly discontented and we cannot accept an all-party approach when the Minister for Social Security and Disabled People comes here and kicks disabled people in the teeth. [Interruption.] The Minister does not like my comment; I did not expect him to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-02-26", "file": "debates1993-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b173212b3018328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Disabled Persons (Civil Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "hey are not just disabled and that they are able in mind and in body in so many ways. Disabled people have potential. Time and again, in employment, in access, in education and in training, they are not given the opportunity to show that they have talent. The reason why I am so angry and why I refuse to kowtow to a quiet, all-party agreement is that the Minister has sold out disabled people today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-02-26a.1185.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I recognise the compelling point that my hon. Friend has made. Supervision by official veterinarians —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I have done a number of things, to which I have already referred. I have written to all local authorities seeking to bring down the costs of inspection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many hotels in the far east, and I include Jakarta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many hotels in the far east, and I include Jakarta— [Interruption.] I shall ask my question despite attempts by the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies), both in the Chamber and outside, to prevent me from doing so. Is my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "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 asks several questions. Let us deal with the public expenditure survey for the next three years. At a time of great economic stringency, if he takes all forms of external assistance, he will find an increase of 10 per cent. in cash terms and 1 per cent. in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Local Government (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "By the standards of this place, that was a warm welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.22.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Local Government (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware— [Interruption.] The House will be aware that I represent a United Kingdom seat and that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "No, I must correct the hon. Gentleman: it was Dyfed, Gwynedd, Powys and Clwyd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"A planted question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "It is staggering that 803 new manufacturing plants that have opened in Wales since 1979 are still in production. My hon. Friend is right to stress their importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": " by Opposition Members. I see the faces of many Opposition Members who have abused their position in the education system. They do not advance what is best for children. Instead, they teach what is best for their political ends. They have little interest in improving education because they are more concerned with keeping happy their union friends, who have helped to place them in the House. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Too true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "I do not have far to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "Given the time available, I shall not follow the characteristic speech of the hon. Member for Clwyd, North-West (Mr. Richards); I think it better to leave him to wallow in his obsessions and in the idea of his forebears. When you entered the Chair wearing a nice daffodil in your lapel, Mr. Deputy Speaker, you may have thought that you had put Maastricht behind you for a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "preceding_text": " that various people who went along with it now wish in part to unravel it, but his success in persuading Welsh local government that unitary authorities are the necessary way forward is a considerable achievement. However, it is an achievement based, I suspect, on the recognition in most quarters that the present system set up in the 1970s is deeply flawed and has failed in practice in many ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.71.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-01", "file": "debates1993-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5d714ec5befe100f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "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": "ed St. David as a way to eliminating ignorance and paganism and to teaching people the difference between right and wrong. It is a sobering reflection on the human condition that we still need lessons of this kind—now more than ever—as a number of hon. Members have pointed out. I should like to think that the saint would approve of the state taking direct action as envisaged in the Education Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-01a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.121.11", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chair?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will have received many representations from my constituency in Plymouth, from Devon and throughout the country regarding key stage 3 English tests. Last week, he will have received a letter from the Tory chair of a governing body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.121.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.135.11", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time to see the recent \"Small Business Bulletin\" from Barclays bank, which shows that there was a 19 per cent. increase in the number of small businesses in Britain in the last quarter of 1992 as compared with the last quarter of 1991? This is good news—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.135.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Juvenile Offending", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t we committed ourselves to 65 specific places. He probably knows that we did so for a particular reason—to replace the remanding to gaol of 15 to 16-year-olds. We have made the capital money available. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has been discussing it with local authorities and it has been difficult to persuade them to take the money for providing secure accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Juvenile Offending", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "tober, so we have barely five months' experience of its operation. That legislation was taken through Parliament at the request of the courts and was supported by both sides of the House. It makes provision for the previous convictions of offenders to be taken into account in certain circumstances. There is now widespread dissatisfaction with the 1991 Act, and I am quite prepared to re-examine it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "New clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Yes, but \"advice\" in inverted commas. It was very heavy advice, and local authorities knew very well that they had to observe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "New clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Lenin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "preceding_text": "s from \"The Importance of Being Earnest\". It is a means, but one must make sure that the proper resources are there. The Secretary of State talks of encouraging diversity, at a time when he is squeezing out syllabus subjects such as classics and imposing syllabuses that are so prescriptive that Hitler and Stalin would have looked upon the right hon. Gentleman proudly as an heir to their tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": " the London boroughs now pay the tuition fees. The Centre for Young Musicians is worried that the allocation of funds to grant-maintained schools will pose future problems for it, and will mean that it will not be able to provide tuition to students irrespective of their financial means, as it has done hitherto. I know that Conservative Members share some of that concern about the future of music.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I know of at least one school that claims that its provision is superior to that it had previously—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"] If the House will bear with me, I hope to be able to give that example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I know of at least one school that claims that its provision is superior to that it had previously—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"] If the House will bear with me, I hope to be able to give that example— [Interruption.] —I cannot find the example immediately, and shall come back to it in a moment, as I want to speak to my amendment before I sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady. The school is Bingley grammar school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "As long as local education authorities are allowed to continue to make that provision, it is most unlikely that others will be able to come in or provide an adequate alternative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ive or more A to C grades. It is a school that I think the Government would parade as one of their star achievers, but it has funding cuts of about £190,000, which it cannot make up by savings in funding. Apparently, it can find savings of £30,000 but will have to cut £160,000 or propose to parents that they accept making voluntary payments of £210 a year from each family to stave off that crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kenilworth\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Nuneaton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Nuneaton—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Kenilworth\".] I mean, my hon. Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Nuneaton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Prentice", "preceding_text": " not a decentralisation mechanism. It will not include local representatives. No one from local government will sit on it. No one with any educational expertise will sit on it. People will be appointed by the Minister. If we go by the experience of the health service and other services, the appointees will simply be nodding heads who will go along with whatever the Government's line happens to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-02", "file": "debates1993-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "937c4d0319898df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "he individual responsible for this skulduggery is none other than a retired head teacher of the King's road primary school in Chelmsford. I hasten to add that, as a child, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler), chairman of the Conservative party, attended that school. The individual in question also happens to be a prominent member of the National Union of Teachers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-02a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": " the streets of Strathclyde, it is the Government who are debased? Why has it taken campaigns by the Glasgow Evening Times and the Scottish Daily Record to get the Government to act? Is the Minister aware that horrific weapons of war are widely available in shops in our towns and cities? Will he now introduce legislation to ban the importation and sale of weapons such as the one I hold in my hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has been here long enough to be aware of such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.316.6", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "d a hat trick of interventions in the hon. Gentleman's speech. There is no need to talk about the introduction of grant-maintained schools by the back door. Grant-maintained schools will be established because parents want them. The hon. Gentleman is well aware that literally hundreds of grant-maintained schools have so far emerged. By 1996, or thereabouts, there will be thousands of such schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made an important point when he chided the hon. Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis) about the desire to institutionalise divisions. Is not the debate about trying to break down those divisions? Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a belief that only academic work is important?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I have detected certain signs of movement from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I have detected certain signs of movement from the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to elaborate on that when he responds to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": ". Forth) and for Daventry (Mr. Boswell), the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State, performed magnificently in Committee. I am about to buy a suitable new tie for my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Worcestershire to remind him of his service at that stage. I understand that, when successful football matches end, the players sometimes exchange shirts. It may be that, here, ties will be exchanged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "bjectives of the Bill. The Secretary of State has often said that he is proud of the Bill, and that he will be a tough Secretary of State. But we cannot trust him with the powers in the Bill, not least because he is inconsistent in using his powers. He has said many times, and he repeated recently, that he intends to be tough on surplus places. He takes great pride in saying that he will be tough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "There is no time, I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "re is not time to give way as much as I would normally do. I hope that he will listen to the point that I am about to make, because I am sure that he will be interested in it. I hope that Ministers will listen too. I wish to give an example of the serious.and important amendments which should have been discussed during the passage of the Bill and have been ignored as a result of what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.386.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": " their children to a comprehensive school, with all that that means in terms of the philosophy of education, or to pay for them to get out of the system, which I do. I do not agree with the philosophy governing comprehensive education in this country. But those of us who can afford to opt out of the system are few and far between for financial reasons. Therefore, there is a major contradiction as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.388.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is speaking rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is reaching a point where I cannot hear the words of the hon. Member who has the Floor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "I should be horrified if you, Madam Deputy Speaker, missed anything that I had to say as I believe it to be true. Comprehensives have failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.388.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "preceding_text": "e quality of life. We are told that that does not matter; somehow, the market will provide. There I was, searching for the meaning of the Bill. Eventually, I found it—courtesy, as it happens, of the hon. Member for Buckingham: the outcome could not have been more fortuitous. It so happens that the hon. Gentleman followed the maiden speech that I made some months ago, and advised me to read a book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-03", "file": "debates1993-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce6c342c63a74275", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "If we were to allow the process of self-referral to continue without any assessment threshold at all, we should create two types of damage. First, people treated in these centres would not, after completion of treatment, be the responsibility of any local authority. There would be no statutory body with any continued interest in their welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-03a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "xtremely interested to hear that at long last the hon. Gentleman has mentioned the word \"inflation\". He has made speech after speech, but has never before mentioned that word. That is not surprising, because none of his policies has ever shown the slightest appreciation of the problem of inflation, and the hon. Gentleman has never shown the slightest interest in bringing inflation down. He refers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that we have heard more than the usual amount of nonsense from the little Clintons opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.448.10", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "In every year of this Conservative Government the Home Office has paid for and researched very carefully experiments using voluntary organisations and others to rehabilitate young offenders. That research has consistently demonstrated a very much better rate of recovery than any other method used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.448.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Honours", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "With permission, I should like to make a statement about the honours system and to announce some changes, which have been approved by Her Majesty the Queen. The award of honours for service and achievement has been a valued part of British life for centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.453.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Honours", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "May I support my right hon. Friend in the general thrust of his proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Honours", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tony Wright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "A Conservative Member took me to one side the other day to explain the process by which he had become a knight. As the story developed, it transpired that it was a consolation prize for not getting what he really wanted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Honours", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not agree that in the specific case of the House, the privilege of membership is in itself a great and sufficient reward? Can the Prime Minister explain why, if the system has not been corrupted, every hack, obedient, lickspittle Tory Member has received his knighthood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Honours", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Flynn, that is an unparliamentary word, which I cannot accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I strongly disagree with my hon. Friend. I completely dissociate myself from that concept. If one were to believe some of the rhetoric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cruelty\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I now appreciate, Dame Janet, that to choose the day when the occupant of the Chair is a former president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Animals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "No, I think that I have given way enough for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.538.6", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is seriously misleading the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.538.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": " he will not think that I address him in any spirit of condescension when I say that many speeches with a similar context have been made over many years, and many hon. Members on both sides of the Committee would disagree with his conclusions. I share the hon. Gentleman's pessimism about the awful and depressing era of high unemployment which all member states, including Britain, are experiencing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I agree with my right hon. Friend about that important utterance. That is the great attraction, charm and beauty—if I am not getting too carried away —of the whole process. It is a unique new creation. The treaty reinforces the intergovernmental and national aspects. I agreed with my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "find no comparison except the regime of the Emperor Diocletian. It is extraordinary that we should have to go back so far to find a parallel. I listened very carefully to the speeches of hon. Members. I was very impressed by the remarks of an hon. Gentleman who had gone to Brussels and spoken to one or two Commissioners. He was influenced very much by what he heard. Another hon. Member enunciated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-04", "file": "debates1993-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "eb3774e8562c76e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I have been enlightened. I was referring to the contention that the European Parliament should be given additional powers, and the Commission made subsidiary to that body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-04a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-05", "file": "debates1993-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb7c6941fa9cbf33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warren Hawksley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warren Hawksley", "preceding_text": "ice officer should carry an automatic custodial sentence. We should give police officers the protection to which they are entitled when doing our duty. I hope—and I have not heard arguments against it—that the forces that wish to do so will be allowed to carry out trials with the side-handled baton. The American baton might well protect and save many of the injuries from which our officers suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-05", "file": "debates1993-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb7c6941fa9cbf33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "as been steadily eroded so that there is now a moral vacuum. More and more children do not have the disciplining figure of a father, because about 30 per cent. of all births take place outside marriage. In some inner-city areas, the figure is 50 per cent. I wish that the Archbishop of York would tackle some of the difficult moral issues instead of taking the easy route of attacking the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-05", "file": "debates1993-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb7c6941fa9cbf33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "connection between the offence and the punishment if there is a long delay between the two, so the punishment is therefore a waste of everyone's time and effort. If we could evolve a system under which, in certain cases, young offenders were subject to brisk corporal punishment within a short time of committing an offence—almost on a summary basis—they would also not suffer from a criminal record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.615.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-05", "file": "debates1993-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb7c6941fa9cbf33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.636.6", "colnum": "636", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ng Order No. 14 (Exempted business), the Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion in the name of the Prime Minister relating to the Court of Auditors of the European Communities 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. Mackay.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-05a.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.650.5", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ing with bogus statistics, will the Secretary of State confirm the reality that is set out in his own expenditure papers, which shows that investment in the existing railway is already at the lowest level for a decade and that overall investment in British Rail next year will be at its lowest level since nationalisation in 1948? Is that a record of which he is proud? What does he see in a railway?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.650.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "expenditure negotiations in the autumn. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman recognises that. However, I am glad to respond to the hon. Gentleman's second point. I give him a complete assurance that in no way would we countenance—and certainly in no way would I countenance—the BR pension scheme fund being used for purposes other than for paying BR pensioners. I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "to which the hon. Members have referred. In recent weeks, there have been more leaks from papers and more statements than there are holes in my kitchen colander. I would deprecate very much statements and heavy briefing of the nature that has been raised on the Floor of the House today. I regard this Chamber as supreme. Any statements that have to be made should be made here in the first instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. The real issue that lies behind amendment No. 28 is not its content but the fact that its approval by the Committee would trigger the Report stage, thus deliberately delaying ratification of the Maastricht treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "Of course. I am just coming to the question that I want to put to you, Mr. Morris. Some hon. Members have made it clear that they will be voting on this issue as a tactical manoeuvre, as it were—an approach which we deprecate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "If I could have your indulgence for one moment, Mr. Morris—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": ". and learned Friend the Attorney-General made it clear that, where specific matters require the Committee to receive legal advice on amendments and their legal status, he will make himself available. My hon. Friend reminds me that I had some exchanges with one of my hon. Friends, and I shall refer to them. The Committee will decide, but I think that they were commonplace exchanges about opinions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. As the Prime Minister and nearly all leading Cabinet Ministers staked their position at Harrogate at the weekend and said that they would deliver the votes on Maastricht, would not the right and proper thing now be for the Government to resign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.720.6", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am seeking to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.720.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Are these new points of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.759.6", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. A few moments ago the Government Whip reported progress, as he put it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.759.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-08", "file": "debates1993-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0e92472fe05289b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Waddesdon (Bypass)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "It is with relief that we turn to the subject of the Waddesdon bypass in my constituency. I should like to stress the concern about that bypass that is building up among the villagers of Waddesdon. I have a number of recent proofs of that concern, the most recent being now fewer than 500 letters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-08a.763.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.770.7", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Say no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the moderates on the Labour Benches are a minority in their party—a party which consistently votes at its annual conference to cut defence expenditure? Should not those who really believe in defence and procurement jobs place their trust in the party that puts defence at the top of its priorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.770.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend aware, none the less, that despite the assurances given some weeks ago that both dockyards would remain open, there is genuine concern in Plymouth and the far south-west about the delay? There is recognition that nuclear work is the jewel in the crown. Can my hon. Friend therefore assure me that this decision will be made as soon as is humanly possible? Is my hon. Friend further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "ho have recently been posted to it to revise the excessive training schedules that some of them are operating? Former UDR soldiers have decades of operational experience, more so than some of the officers in question. There is a limit to the amount of time that can be spared for training unless one wants to drive the part-timers out of the regiment, which 1 assume the Minister does not want to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.783.5", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the devastation caused by water cut-offs to tens of thousands of individuals and families in England and Wales? Will he guarantee that there will be no change in Scots law to allow any such domestic cut-offs in Scotland, particularly as part of any Tory plans to steal, privatise or franchise Scottish water?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.783.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.784.10", "colnum": "784", "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 right and the number of Opposition Members who were scoffing at the good news he just set out illustrates his point more clearly than anything else. The Institute of Directors survey comes on top of an optimistic survey by the CBI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.784.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "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": "With permission, I should like to make a statement about Scottish constitutional issues. As the House will know, since the general election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "assertion that the statement represents democracy that a few minutes ago the Prime Minister, almost by sleight of hand, said that water privatisation will be introduced in Scotland? That makes a mockery of the charade in which the Secretary of State claims to be involved. It is the complete opposite of democracy at work. Above all, did not the Scottish people in April last year vote for home rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "lming view of the Scottish people, but today's ludicrous statement containing sheer tokenism, talking shops and timid and tired policies. These conclusions to the stocktaking exercise surely make a laughing stock of the Prime Minister's pre-election promises in Scotland. Why is the party that complains about unaccountable bureaucracy in Europe now increasing unaccountable bureaucracy in Edinburgh?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.792.5", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I asked the hon. Gentleman, who interrupted without being called, to withdraw his remark. I ask him to do that because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.792.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has only just come in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sir Teddy Taylor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": " looking for conflict, he should look to the views of his hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish), who has said, as quoted in the Courier last December: I acknowledge there are too many Scots still sceptical of the value of a Scottish Parliament in bringing better government\". That clearly differs from the hon. Gentleman's view. The colour of the White Paper is the blue of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order, Madam Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must deal with one point of order at a time. It seems to me that the hon. Member is attempting to pursue a policy matter on which the Chair cannot pronounce. His remarks will have been heard by the occupants of the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I seek your guidance. Is it an abuse of the House that copies of the White Paper, which appear to have been given to occupants of the Opposition Front Bench prior to the statement being made, should have been photocopied and given to Opposition Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.806.10", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order, Madam Speaker\".", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to determine whether hon. Members ramble on or get directly to the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.806.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order of the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble), Madam Speaker. As you have a justifiably high reputation for defending the interests of Back Benchers, and given that both Ministers and shadow Ministers are for a majority of the time at the Dispatch Box when they wish to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.807.7", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Scottish Government (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will withdraw what he has just said. As I understood it, the hon. Member is making an accusation against the Secretary of State that he seriously misled the House. Have I misunderstood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " of the other 10 years, more machines have been scrapped than new ones installed. That is why our industrial capacity is getting smaller. Behind the abstract cash figures, there are real factory closures. In 1979, when the Conservatives took office, there were 908 factories with more than 1,000 employees. There are now only 383 such factories. Last year alone, one in four factories in London shut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that we have proposed to cut tax on manufacturing industry by enhanced capital allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "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": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "Labour party is utterly staggering. There are no credible policies left for the left. I reject absolutely the gross distortion of the 1980s that the Opposition motion parades before the House, because it is not true. It is not true to say that our manufacturing industry is collapsing. Despite the recession, output remains more than one fifth higher than at the bottom of the last recession in 1981.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is what I call speaking for England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.820.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.822.7", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "As I am sure the hon. Lady knows, if Customs and Excise pursue outstanding bills, that must be a matter for them. It would be utterly wrong for Ministers to interfere with the course of their legal processes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.822.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "No, I am not going to give way. I am going to tell the House how well the privatised industries are doing. British Gas, in partnership with Agip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) must not half get up and shout across the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.823.8", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "al review. I have always made it clear to the House that there are no easy solutions to this intractable set of problems. At the end of January, the Trade and Industry Select Committee produced its report on British energy policy and the market for coal. I pay tribute to the amount of detailed work that the Committee put into its report. The Government will publish their detailed response shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.823.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is frit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I should be most grateful if the hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Mackinlay) would recognise that the Secretary of State is not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.828.9", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyce", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is. I wonder whether the President of the Board of Trade could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.828.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sebastian Coe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sebastian Coe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sebastian Coe", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I was a little slow, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lawyer? Engineer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "ing while Rome burns. Taking up one matter raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne, I should mention that another of the people on the platform at the launch of the alliance was Mr. Bob Worcester, the chairman of MORI polls. He had undertaken a survey for the alliance of 1,000 university students and I wonder whether hon. Members know the favoured career for which they opted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "s because, without fuel, its kilns would have cooled and cracked and thousands in Barnsley would have been thrown out of work. Yet the motion talks of a coherent strategy and measures to reduce unemployment. As long as I draw breath, I shall never forget the tanker driver who came to me in tears because his wife and family had received threats because he had driven through a secondary picket line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) has never been a good forecaster. When he addressed the House on national health reforms in the late 1980s, he forecast mayhem, yet those reforms proved to be a great success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.852.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": ", we produce 25 cars per employee. There was more. We decided that we needed a low-tax, low-inflation regime if business was to thrive. Our corporation tax is now lower than that in any other European Community or G7 country. Our small company rate has come down from 42 to 25 per cent., and our inflation, which averaged 15·5 per cent. between 1974 and 1979, peaking at 26·9 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "e—and those exports now earn twice as much as whisky exports. Those are all great achievements. It is beyond me why the Labour party always refuses to accept anything good that happens in this country. We have hit specific problems with the recession, but the 7·5 per cent. fall in output that has taken place during the recession is only half the fall that occurred during the 1981 recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ased from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 now. That is another record of which I am proud. There are problems with our manufacturing base in that it forms a smaller proportion of our GDP than it once did, but the fastest fall took place between 1960 and 1983. If we measure GDP at constant 1985 prices, our proportion of GDP from manufacturing industry has risen from 20·4 to 20·9 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "t them get away with that. We have no intention of allowing them to hoodwink the British people. Those who have worked in manufacturing industry in the last 15 to 20 years remember only too well the days of what became known as the British disease, when Britain was the sick man of Europe. They were the days of the last Labour Government, in which the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras served—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "half of all YT leavers were in a job six months later. Although YT is compulsory for out-of-work 16 and 17-year-olds, it has proved so unattractive that 111,000 of them are not in training, education or work. For the past six months, the Secretary of State has recognised that the existing scheme is a shambles and has promised new schemes. She has announced them every month for the last six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.873.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Whether from the word processor or the calculator, they have just arrived—and no doubt they have been seasonally adjusted. The Secretary of State announced those changes every month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "May, by leave of the House, put together motions Nos. 2 to 20?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Public Lending Right", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "otectors and nurterers of cultural services they have been for a century or more, with a far better record than central government. But we now work under a regime which enforces an emphasis on vicious pruning. Any gardener could tell Mr. Major the only thing his methods are going to produce is a cultural desert. What we need is re-investment and the ability to respond to the demands of our voters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Public Lending Right", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "preceding_text": "hen and has shown since. I say thank you also to the registrar and his team in Stockton-on-Tees. Mr. John Sumsion, the original registrar, did a wonderful job. He is the only man I know who led a quango in a successful way, the head of a lean, mean team which delivered the goods. I say thank you to the Government for sustaining support for what is an excellent scheme. Most of all, I say thank you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Public Lending Right", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "oks doubled in the last six years, and people are borrowing more books, by the million. Thanks to the public lending right and the registrar, 563 million loans took place in 1992, the 10th year of the scheme. Given the doom and gloom that is paraded about our society—about the moral and cultural decline and the vacuum in which we live—it is interesting to note the sort of books that people borrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Public Lending Right", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "At the top are many favourites, including Virginia Andrews, Agatha Christie, Catherine Cookson, Len Deighton, Dick Francis, Jack Higgins, Victoria Holt, Stephen King, Ed McBain, Ruth Rendell, Wilbur Smith and Danielle Steel, all with loans of over 1 million. Sadly, my noble Friend Lord Archer is not among those with overt million. He is in the over 500,000 list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-09", "file": "debates1993-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "52dda1d29cd56647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Public Lending Right", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "000 list— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for West Bromwich, East scoffs. Whenever we in this country come across a successful person, we scoff. We love to take successful people and instead of, as people do in other countries, putting them on a pedestal and saying \"Well done,\" we chip away at the statue. We mock the successful people who bring millions, if not billions, of pounds to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-09a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "Is it not a regrettable fact that the only thing that will stop the Serbs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I do not entirely agree with my hon. Friend who makes a serious point about the turmoil in Russia. That is true, but as much as we may sometimes dislike the press, we must recognise that a free and independent press is an essential condition in a pluralistic and democratic country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "preceding_text": "cotland. Had those orders been defeated in the Division Lobbies, that would have added significantly to the costs of Scottish industry and caused unemployment in Scotland. As you are aware, there are more such rating and valuation orders on the Order Paper today, one of which—the draft Oil Related and Petrochemical Plants (Rateable Values)(Scotland) Order 1993—relates directly to my constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.954.6", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Church of England", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. A number of us clearly called \"no\"; we are therefore puzzled as to why there was no vote on the proposed Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.954.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No. I am seeking to explore whether there is any substance behind the new smiling face on the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ng activities of the terrorists. I agree with my hon. and learned Friend that, as the difficulties continue, it becomes more and more clear that large numbers of terrorist organisations are heavily involved in arguing over the proceeds of criminal activities to finance what they are doing. The border between criminality and politics is becoming ever increasingly blurred in the continuing campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "eals with the detention powers and sets out in chapter 12 the attractiveness at first sight of the argument that the decisions should be made by a High Court judge. In paragraph 12.1.3, Lord Colville said: On reflection I believe that such a change would be wrong. It would be cosmetic rather than substantial\". I shall not continue to quote, but Lord Colville supports the argument that I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "He rejects it rather more strongly than that, if we are to go into the detailed argument. He points out the difficulties of doing it that way at all. In paragraph 12.1.5—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.970.6", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "aid, I must say. My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara) made it clear at that time that he believed that exclusion orders were necessary. If the hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) reads the speeches made at the time, however, he will see that it was specifically said that those powers should be the first to go. The reason why there was an independent review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.970.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "his important point seems to be the key to the hon. Gentleman's concern. I am sure that he accepts that I believe in civil liberties just as much as he does. However, I do not ask either the hon. Gentleman or the House just to accept my assertion that my use of the powers is consistent with our common view of civil liberties. I am subject to judicial supervision. That is what Lord Colville is for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " not that he is biased, any more than anyone else is biased, but surely the Home Secretary, of all people, can tell the difference between an adviser appointed by the Government or a member of the Cabinet and a member of the judiciary. That is at the very heart of and is the basis for the British rule of law. It is extraordinary that the Home Secretary should say that an adviser to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I have no means of knowing whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman is using the powers properly or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way, because we need to make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ey would not get access to their solicitor at the same time as a man or woman who was charged under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. When I hear the Home Secretary say that, if people are kept in a long time, and if they know that their detention has been extended, they are more likely to talk, the overtones of the Birmingham pub bombing and of the Maguire case ring clearly round the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "as to why that was so. I came to the conclusion that the judiciary would have it if the House passed a law because, if the obligation was placed on them by Parliament, they would fulfil it. When our argument provokes from the Home Secretary the response that we are pandering to terrorism, that is the most pathetically second-rate reaction imaginable, even from the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This afternoon, in my constituency, we buried a young man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "This afternoon we buried a 25-year-old man in my constituency because of IRA terrorism. Can we hear what the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman has to say about the right to freedom of movement for Nigel McCollum, who was buried this afternoon? What about the right to family life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.994.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c.), That the draft Glasgow Underground (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993, which was laid before this House on 15th February, be approved.— [Mr. Patnick.]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I shall put together motions Nos. 4 to 19.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "rding of Standing Order No. 39 is: Mr. Speaker or the chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes, if in his opinion the division is unnecessarily claimed\". You have said, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you propose to exercise your discretion. However, surely there is a responsibility upon you to tell the House why you believe a Division is being unnecessarily claimed. I have a case to put to you that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you reconsider yet again your decision to invoke Standing Order No. 39? As I recall, the last time that that was invoked was in 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "In that case, I shall put the Question on motion No. 11. Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c.). That the draft Scottish Nuclear Limited (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993, which was laid before this House on 15th February, be approved.— [Mr. Arbuthnot] As many as are of that opinion say Aye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.10", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. When I have finished one ruling I shall be happy to take another point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.12", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Clerk's responsibility is to count the minority, which he did. On this occasion it was the Noes. It may be the Ayes on a future occasion. The Clerk undertook that responsibility and reported the result to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.12", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Clerk's responsibility is to count the minority, which he did. On this occasion it was the Noes. It may be the Ayes on a future occasion. The Clerk undertook that responsibility and reported the result to me. [Interruption.] Order. In my judgment, the Noes were so far below the Ayes that the motion was accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1019.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "For the sake of clarification, and to ensure that there is no further confusion or misunderstanding, Standing Order No. 39, for those who —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I did ask the Ayes—those who supported the motion—to stand, and all the hon. Members whom I can see on the Government side of the Chamber stood, and some Opposition Members, too. Then I called the Noes. After a delay, the Noes stood and were counted by the Clerk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I did ask the Ayes—those who supported the motion—to stand, and all the hon. Members whom I can see on the Government side of the Chamber stood, and some Opposition Members, too. Then I called the Noes. After a delay, the Noes stood and were counted by the Clerk—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"]. It was clear where the majority lay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.7", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.7", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hat?\"' On a point of—[HON. MEMBERS: \"This is during a Division.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hat?\"] On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.7", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hat?\"] On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hat?\"' On a point of—[HON. MEMBERS: \"This is during a Division.\"] I rose on a point of order before the Division was called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.8", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I regret to say that I did not hear the hon. Gentleman's point of order before I called the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.8", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I regret to say that I did not hear the hon. Gentleman's point of order before I called the motion— [Interruption.] —but I shall take the point of order now, if the hon. Gentleman wishes to raise it and it follows the procedure of the House. The Question has been put, so I should be grateful if the hon. Member would follow the procedures of the House and wear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1021.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What? An altercation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You will be aware that the Procedure Committee recently recommended that, when there was an alteration during a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [LORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1029.6", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Redundancy Payments (Local Government)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Can we be serious for a moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1029.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1031.6", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Will you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, clarify the position with regard to wearing the hat? Many of us are deeply embarrassed at having to wear headgear of such a nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1031.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Plymouth Development Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An excellent Member of Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "ave real needs, of which the most pressing is the need for jobs. Today's move is welcome because it will lead to the creation of further jobs. Some Opposition Members talk down Plymouth, but with this Government's assistance it can be a boom town of the 21st century. It has so many things going for it: the attractive environment, the facilities that it affords, an excellent and skilled work force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Plymouth Development Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I accept everything that my hon. Friend has said, except his last point. As my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton said, we should have a fair fight. I am sure that the result will be that Devonport will win. However, let us move on from that contentious issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-10", "file": "debates1993-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "899ae7f8b9703e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1075.4", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Plymouth Development Corporation", "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 UDC, money has been made available. I am sure that in future Plymouth will continue to benefit from the programmes that we are operating. In addition, there are the substantial sums that are going to the county council and the city council. The councils have a significant role to play in important programmes that are related to the future prosperity of Plymouth and the adjacent region. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-10a.1075.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If manufacturing matters to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "HIV Testing (Medical Stall)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "Should not the Secretary of State have begun her statement by pointing out that there is no known case in this country of a health worker having passed on HIV?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "pport subsidiarity if I were persuaded that it was a legally binding vehicle for repatriating powers from the Community back to the nation states. Sadly, it is not. Subsidiarity and the Union are important to Scots, which is why I hope that the Prime Minister will read my comments. I have admired and supported him, particularly in the way he understood and grasped the Scottish nettle of the Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend is trying to tempt me into an argument. Three hundred years ago, it would have been nonsense to talk about democracy as we know it today. One must study the treaty of Union of 1707 in the circumstances in which it arose. I have read it and I invite my hon. Friend to do the same. I do not want to bore the Committee, so I shall not give details of all 25 articles in the treaty of 1707.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "imited. The powers are limited by the treaty. I suppose that that is a strict limit. The Foreign Secretary nods his head. Why write that at all? Everyone knows that any institution, unless it happens to be the Soviet Communist party, has strict limits. Even the Soviet Communist party was limited by something or other. Every institution in the western world, if it exists within a democracy, is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am dealing now with the clause itself. In a moment I shall come to what is being done to make this a political fact before it is a legal obligation, which is where my hon. Friend's point will become relevant. The Edinburgh statement refers to the principle that the Community can only act where given the power to do so—implying that national powers are the rule and the Community's the exception\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "tion to be taken on proportionality at all, even though the Community could act according to the provision in the first paragraph. If that is the case, the second paragraph which contains the term \"subsidiarity\" is unnecessary, because the nil proportion is something that could apply from the third paragraph. I ask hon. Members to look at amendment No. 340, which does not seek the deletion of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1170.4", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "Well, he did on 20 January. I asked him a week or so ago, and on a Friday he gave me an answer to my question as to whether he had consulted his legal advisers. His short answer was yes. On that basis, I rely on him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, I cannot. I am replying to the Minister. One at a time. Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The mind boggles at the thought of the Shropshire light infantry being sent south to sort out the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "n equipment up to their ears. The Committee will not expect me to treat that point even remotely seriously. I can hardly be expected to take seriously yet another example of anecdotal evidence. On a previous occasion my hon. Friend quoted a letter. He would not tell us who had written it. We asked him to place it in the Library, but he would not do so. The debate cannot be conducted on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1190.5", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": " fine from payments due to a member state from the Community budget, for example, from agriculture structural funds. It was decided not to do that, partly because it would tend to hit the wrong people. Why should Italian farmers suffer because Italy had failed to implement a directive totally unrelated to their fields? That was the reason why we decided not to go down the road of direct deduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1200.2", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "ompetence in the European Community, which the court has to try to resolve. As a result of the British Government opting out, 11 member states will now have the opportunity of making new European law that has to be interpreted by the European Court of Justice under the protocol on social policy. It is clear that, when new law is made under the protocol, at some stage the European Court of Justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1200.4", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "er states and some may apply to only 11? By opting out of the social policy chapter, British citizens will be denied rights before the European Court of Justice which are enjoyed by all other European Community citizens. I should be grateful if the Attorney-General could comment on whether he feels that that breaches the basic principle of equal treatment before the law for all Community citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-11", "file": "debates1993-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d7596567ddc35b3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1209.4", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Burnsall's, Smethwick", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "in freedoms to respond. Both sides were acting as free agents, and it is really not the proper role of this House to seek to probe behind their reasoning with the aim of arbitrating some kind of blame or praise for what they chose to do. The hon. Member for Warley, East raised a number of points about health and safety. I have explained the situation regarding health and safety inspections, and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-11a.1209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "is a pity that our Government have not adopted that approach. During the Administration of the then right hon. Member for Finchley, now Baroness Thatcher, Britain's share of high-tech exports fell from 11·2 to 9·2 per cent. That was a reversal of the trend in the 1970s when the Labour Government adopted the sort of policies that have now been developed successfully in Germany. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "ile recovery. I will quote back to the hon. Lady other carefully prepared statements which give the counter point of view. Sir Michael Angus, president of the Confederation of British Industry—the hon. Lady bragged that she talks regularly to the CBI in Birmingham—said: The UK economy is starting to grow again…the chances are that this time around, the green shoots will stay above ground.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "ay above ground.\"— [Laughter.] Those are not my words, but the view of the CBI president. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce quarterly economic survey stated: The economy has seen an encouraging spurt in export growth which appears sustainable…Business confidence has surged in response to the Autumn Statement, the stability of the fourth quarter and the success of exporters.\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": " should remember that in 1991 Britain attracted one third of all inward investment in the European community. When the Prime Minister opted out, Mr. Delors—who is a pin-up for the Opposition but no pin-up of mine—said that it would set a dangerous precedent, setting up one country as a paradise for Japanese investment. An editorial in The Wall Street Journal about \"John Major's gifted leadership\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "Did not the hon Gentleman notice, during the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), the agreement on a number of issues that he raised that was shown by the nodding of heads by Members on the Government Benches?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is factually incorrect. Manufacturing output increased in that decade. The output of the economy as a whole increased at an impressive rate, so we cannot speak of the 1980s as a decade that saw a decline in manufacturing. Furthermore, for a number of methodical and definitional reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-12", "file": "debates1993-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "99b56eeee91a6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1267.9", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "y the end of 1990, about 400,000 more businesses were operating in the United Kingdom than in 1979. British business has shown every confidence in our policies, just as we have had every confidence in its ability to respond. As the climate for business in Britain became more attractive, business overseas started to notice the remarkable and radical changes that we had made and came here in droves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-12a.1267.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "Yes. The amount that was previously in income support to cover the 20 per cent. payment of community charge has not been clawed back. It will provide £750 million for low-income families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.4.8", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that that amounts to billions and billions of pounds a year, and that that goes a long way to explain why the proportion of national wealth taken in taxation by the Conservative Government now is higher than the proportion taken by the Labour Government in 1979? Will he guarantee that the Government will try to cut that sum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.4.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "hings, of our policy of encouraging occupational pensions, which was so deeply scorned by the Opposition, and of creating personal pensions. The Opposition fought against the incentives that enabled people to take up those pensions. The Government are wholly committed to the pensioner and to pensioners' incomes. We are not blinkered in believing that the only source of income is the state pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.9.6", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed, I am pleased to confirm that, whereas in 1979, when we got rid of the Opposition, about 43 per cent. of pensioners had central heating, today 76 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.9.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is now trying my patience. The question relates to the number of telephones. It has nothing to do with passing on information to Health Ministers. Does the hon. Gentleman have a direct question related to the question on the Order Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Lady was rehearsing her supplementary question rather than listening to what I said. I said that I was disappointed with the take-up of disability working allowance and was anxious to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.12.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.16.11", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Change the recruiting ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.16.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.16.12", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The recruiting ground is, to a degree, self selecting because it is necessary for members of the professions to offer themselves for part-time judicial office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.16.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.25.4", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is back in his old form. I do not think that he recognises the realities of the situation any more than he did when he was a Front-Bench spokesman. Most right hon. and hon. Members, including the right hon. Gentleman in calmer moments, know that the political demand for democracy in Hong Kong is of reasonably recent date. It is now strong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it would have been better if the hon. Gentleman had waited to hear what I was about to say about the proper transition from supplementary benefit through to income support, as a result of which we thought it necessary to fill the gap between that change and the move to care in the community, which was already in preparation. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not have caught up with everything that has happened. The staff of the ILF is already preparing for the new fund, two new trustees are in place and operating the system, and others will be appointed in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes the point well. I hope that the arrangements will lead to a great deal more flexibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman could stand up at the Dispatch Box and say that, in every case, the voucher would cover the cost of spectacles. There is real fear that people will not be able to get the treatment that they need. They will not be able to get their prescriptions. In many cases, they will not be able to get the dental care or the eye care that they need. On 11 March 1993, Virginia Bottomley herself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "ccording to the hon. Member for Brightside, my right hon. Friend is caving in to the Treasury. The proposals in the regulations involve £278 million. Is that money going to the Treasury? No, it is going directly to health care and directly to the patients. As my hon. Friend the Minister said so eloquently a moment ago, it will go to hospitals, into coronary bypasses and into reduced waiting lists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "g about this or that. I would write saying that my local hospital would be grateful to receive a donation towards various units, but those units never got any money from my constituents. Sometimes, such claims are false. People are nervous about their health and they should be pleased that we have such a wonderful health service. I do not want to make a long contribution, because I know that some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": ", they should remember that the money will not go to build motorways. It will go into the NHS for further patient care. Who knows, the constituents who write to Opposition Members may need that care and they will thank God that we have a health service. Perhaps they will even thank Him that we charge those who can pay just a little more. We should remember that some people can get a season ticket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.130.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.136.16", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "Yes. The right hon. Lady came in late to this debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You weren't here, either\".] Oh, yes I was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.136.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-15", "file": "debates1993-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "20c4a2609eb55316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am already dealing with a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-15a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "preceding_text": "nomy since 1979? Three million jobs have been lost in manufacturing industry and half a million jobs have been lost in manufacturing in the west midlands alone. Does she not understand that it is an economic disaster because, when we get a competitive devaluation, we do not have a competitive base to take advantage of it? It is a social disaster because it destroys lives, families and communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be aware that every person who is newly unemployed is entitled to go to a jobcentre and have an in-depth interview for up to 45 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.161.4", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Even Mr. Delors has recognised the problem of Europe pricing itself out of world markets. He suggested the other day that we needed a global social chapter to address that problem. I venture to suggest that the hon. Lady should look at the figures. Germany now has 50 per cent. of its labour costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.164.6", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman will explain why output in the engineering industry is rising, computers are rising and textile output is rising. Perhaps he will explain why the CBI survey shows yet another increase in output expectations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "in 1994–95, £2·3 billion in 1995–96 and around £3 billion a year thereafter. For the first time, the rate of VAT on domestic fuel and power will be the same as that charged on goods like loft insulation material, which improve energy efficiency. This will bring to an end the current anomaly, which makes nonsense of any attempt to use the tax system to improve the environment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have done that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "he increasingly absurd purdah rule. I suggest that he makes an early announcement to that effect, perhaps the earlier the better, so that he and not someone else can take credit for an overdue reform. Those who have listened to this debate will have been shocked beyond belief at the cynicism of the Conservative party which went into the last general election as the party committed to low taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "nd belief at the cynicism of the Conservative party which went into the last general election as the party committed to low taxation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We have done that.\"] Conservative Members say that they have done that. Some innocents on the Conservative Benches describe the Budget as a Budget of low taxation. Let me remind the House of what the Government said during the last election campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " Members do not want to hear this, but I think that the public do. Let me start with VAT. On 28 January 1992, the Prime Minister said: There will be no VAT increase. Unlike the Labour party, we have published our spending plans and there is no need…to raise VAT to meet them. It is difficult to be more categoric than that. During the election campaign, the Conservative campaign guide stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " pay the proper amount of tax. Here we have the Government putting an even heavier burden on the ordinary people of Britain. The Government must bear in mind that the public's conclusion about the Budget will be simple and clear: the Conservative party is a party without honour and without feeling. The other question that people will ask about the Budget is whether it will bring down unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": " schemes will be judged according to the extent to which they involve the private sector. The Government seem to have no idea about the reality of life in our inner cities. In areas such as Hackney and other parts of inner London, and Manchester and Birmingham, the private sector is virtually atrophied: in Hackney, the largest single employer is the local authority, followed by the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-16", "file": "debates1993-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a319b59412675db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ct, therefore, of postponing revenue raising for a year means that it starts at a higher level than otherwise would apply. We must keep a close check on that. I hope that the Budget restores confidence in the Government's long-term strategy. I hope that it encourages unemployed people to believe that we are endeavouring to help them, and a large portion of the Budget offers assistance to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-16a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that I appointed Boyd's as a result of what I thought was the clear indication of the courts that that would be a positive suggestion. Therefore, I acted on the very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that there are a number of industries, including shipbuilding, that have been dramatically affected by changes in defence requirements and that that includes the aerospace industry in areas such as Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that there are a number of industries, including shipbuilding, that have been dramatically affected by changes in defence requirements and that that includes the aerospace industry in areas such as Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire? [Interruption.] Would my right hon. Friend care to give Opposition Members and me whatever information he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.276.8", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Points of order, as the hon. Member knows, come later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.276.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "udget, my right hon. Friend has none the less produced a Budget which demonstrates a real grasp of the subject. He has exceeded the expectations of his critics. Before yesterday, the commentators were saying that the Chancellor faced a stark choice—he could either protect the recovery or tackle the Government's borrowing, but could not do both. But my right hon. Friend has done both in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.299.4", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is apparently inventing an entirely new concept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.299.4", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "at is an entirely new concept, and I will give him an example because all such issues are made up of swings and roundabouts. The increase announced in duty on road fuels puts about ¼ per cent. on the RPI. People on low incomes are very low users of road fuels, but they will be compensated through the RPI for the extra expense that other people will face. So there are swings and roundabouts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "others. We have reiterated those principles day in and day out, before breakfast, before lunch and before dinner. All those involved in wealth creation know that those are the right principles. By contrast, the Labour party—which is not involved in wealth creation—scarcely even recognises those principles. Before the election we said that we had no plans to raise VAT, and that was the plain truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "t borrowing will have to be paid for many years to come. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor could have chosen to postpone action. Many presumably expected him to do that. But those who create jobs in Britain need to know that the Government will reduce their borrowings. The \"mañana\" approach would have done nothing for confidence. Investors in Britain take the level of borrowing seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ll the word \"restraint\". She was indeed a most original choice as shadow Chief Secretary. The first lesson for Chief Secretaries, shadow or otherwise, is that there is no such thing as a free lunch. I should know, after my recent lunching experiences. If the hon. Lady thinks that her reputation can stand it, I will happily take her to the Churchill room for lunch and explain to her why that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": ". At a time when we are committed also to increasing money for the health service and increasing the number of students, and facing pressures on social security, those are very tough ceilings. Some of my hon. Friends think that they are not tough enough. A poll of Conservative Members of Parliament published in last week's Financial Times showed that 62 per cent. favoured cuts in public spending.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "o so today. I hope that he will bear it in mind. It is essential that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer should present the next Budget, and especially the one after that, because he must see through the strategy that he produced yesterday for economic recovery and to deal with the public sector borrowing requirement. I have absolute confidence in the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "oble Friend Lord Joseph, we secured two enterprise zones for my constituency. If the hon. Member for Hartlepool took a journey along the River Humber today, he would first see SCM Chemicals, a Hanson Trust company, which employs about 700 people. If he had accompanied me to my constituency last Friday, he would have had the opportunity to go to Hydro Fertilisers, which is a large chemical factory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " That large company is based in my constituency and employs about 1,000 people. Last Friday, I attended the opening of its new nitric acid plant, which involved a £5 million investment. If the hon. Member for Hartlepool had accompanied me to my constituency two weeks ago, he would have been able to enjoy a visit by the President of the Board of Trade, who performed the topping-out ceremony at the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "rialising countries such as Taiwan and South Korea. Yesterday's Budget did not prove an opportunity for the Government to correct that training deficit. The Chancellor announced a number of capital projects, which were mainly rehashed, and all in the south-east or London. He threatened to cut off the north from the rest of Europe by locating the chunnel link at St. Pancras instead of King's Cross—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary answered that question by quoting the clear words of the Chancellor on the subject in his Budget speech. The Chancellor set out our plans. Opposition Members have sought to argue that in some sense they are at variance with what was said during the general election campaign, but Opposition Members are on a very bad point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-17", "file": "debates1993-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e88857fab67bec10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "We did not have plans at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-17a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.399.9", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is the wrong person to remind people about ditching election promises. As I reminded him on Tuesday, he said recently: We would be a very foolish party if we went into an election, say '95 or '96, with the same policies as '92.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.399.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall deal directly with the point, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman may care to reflect also upon this: does he or does he not agree with one of his Front-Bench spokesmen in another House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "That could well be. On the other hand, my hon. Friend is probably being unfair. I believe that the paper is represented.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.423.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who was that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "the Budget, but it is less clear what measures they recommend to enhance the recovery which is already under way. The debate has already lasted for more than two days, but we have not heard a single positive suggestion from the Opposition about what they would do. Are we to hear one from the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) this afternoon, or are we to continue to wait in vain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "out of work and that is why we welcome even today's small decrease in the unemployment total. A person who is out of work loses a sense of purpose because, for many people, what they do is what they are. If one asks a child \"What are you going to be when you grow up?\", the answer is some sort of job. When people lose their jobs, they feel that they are nothing and have lost their place in society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "t that. I welcome the fall today in the level of unemployment. The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras was gracious enough to say that as well. We trust that this is a sign of better times to come in the employment ratio. We shall have to wait for two or three months, but at least the sign of better times to come is there. One swallow may not make a summer, but it is better than having a swan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan-Smith", "preceding_text": "gical and reasonable fashion that the public can understand. The simple fact is that Labour has no policies. We have listened to the speeches, and not once have we heard one policy from Labour Front-Bench spokesmen. They have not said what they would do were they in power. That clearly shows that they see their role at this point as solely to attack Government policy, and put nothing in its place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-18", "file": "debates1993-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef6eaecb82aa5431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member for Cambridge can be the hon. Member's proxy. I owe her one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-18a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-19", "file": "debates1993-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f850c1219ccbacba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-19a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Tourism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "n informative insight into the current state of the British tourist industry, which is perhaps why it was abolished in June 1992. Figures from the report highlighted the fact that the United Kingdom's share of world arrivals was the same in 1990 as it was in 1970. Indeed, the share in receipts generated from those arrivals declined from 6·1 per cent. in 1970 to 5·6 per cent. in 1990.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-19a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-19", "file": "debates1993-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f850c1219ccbacba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-19a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Tourism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Elletson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Elletson", "preceding_text": "As the representative of Britain's, if not Europe's, leading tourist resort, I feel today rather like the king of the jungle. I am surrounded by hon. Friends and hon. Members who represent lesser tourist resorts. I feel like a lion surrounded by alley cats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-19a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-19", "file": "debates1993-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f850c1219ccbacba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-19a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Tourism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the centre of that city below the old St. Patrick's Church of Ireland cathedral. Armagh is the Canterbury and Durham combined of Northern Ireland. It is the ecclesiastical capital of all Ireland and a beautiful old city. The project will be a tremendous source of tourism for the city when it is completed at the end of this year. The old Navan fort just outside the city of Armagh is being restored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-19a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.597.5", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will be aware that his right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment is setting up the Environment Protection Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.597.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next century.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "itially Government-owned, company once the relevant powers have been granted under the Railways Bill now before the House and we intend that in due course the project will be transferred to the private sector. Following safeguarding, the project will proceed by hybrid Bill. Provided that we press ahead quickly, it should be possible for the railway to be completed by around the turn of the decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's first point, I wanted to make the statement on Wednesday so that the House was informed as quickly as possible. On Thursday, I was fulfilling substantial engagements in Scotland with ScotRail, the Scottish pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "93; Vol. 221, c. 298.] Trust a Labour Government! In September 1964, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Wilson, said: Over the period of a Parliament I believe that we can carry out our programme without any general increase in taxation. When that Government left office, they were collecting £2 for every £1 collected when their promise was made. In the same election campaign, the late George Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "I did make it quite clear in my election address that I believed in sound Government finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " been putting up the price of electricity. There was plenty of time for this consultation. We know this because of the Chancellor's indiscretion on the \"Jimmy Young Show\". He explained to Jimmy Young that the origins of the new tax go back to last summer, to the Rio convention on global warming: The moment the convention was signed I was sitting at home thinking, 'What are we going to have to do?'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "I represent a constituency in the heart of England, in the centre of the car and car component manufacturing areas, and I am joint chairman of the all-party motor industry group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady finds it so unpleasant to raise taxes, will Labour now give a definite pledge to revoke the VAT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I have made it absolutely clear that we shall be voting against the imposition of VAT on gas and domestic fuel. We shall not support the Government in breaking their promise—and if the hon. Gentleman had any conscience and sense of accountability to his constituents, neither would he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I have explained exactly what we are doing, and I assure the House that it will be our intention to protect the poorest people in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.705.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-22", "file": "debates1993-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "cd0992771eebf30e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman remember saying, during a Channel 4 news broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-22a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.750.8", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend rightly implies, the FHSAs have the ability to employ salaried dentists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.750.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "e House will agree that the principle of operational independence must remain. No Home Secretary and no police authority must be able to direct a chief constable in the conduct of any investigation or in the handling of an operation. While maintaining that principle of operational independence, we need to make a fundamental shift in the relationship between the Home Office and local police forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.765.5", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "r members and be more businesslike bodies. There should be broader local representation in their membership, including local people with relevant management experience. I propose that half of the membership should be elected local councillors. The remaining half should be partly local magistrates and partly local people nominated by the Home Secretary on the basis of their knowledge and experience", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.765.5", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "anagement experience. I propose that half of the membership should be elected local councillors. The remaining half should be partly local magistrates and partly local people nominated by the Home Secretary on the basis of their knowledge and experience [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—Wait for it. The chairman of the police authority will be nominated by the Home Secretary from among the overall membership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "f their membership from local government and half appointed for the qualities that they can bring to the service—qualities that might not be contributed by those who happened to emerge from local authorities or from magistrates. The result will be authorities that are more visible, that can take on more responsibility for their local services and that can be held to account by the Home Secretary.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.769.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "atement that he would tell the House \"how I propose to improve\" the police service must have sent shivers down the spine of the police service, coming as it did from a former Secretary of State for Health who said that he would improve the health service and left it demoralised and inefficient, and from a former Secretary of State for Education who said that he would improve the education service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The City of London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "rity of the sort which I have described. While I envisage an authority on the national model, I agree with the hon. Gentleman that more consideration needs to be given as part of the consultation to what I might call the national and distinctive functions of the capital's police force, such as diplomatic protection, which are not shared elsewhere. I have forgotten the hon. Gentleman's final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.780.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " constituents' problems is better than that of the larger west midlands authority? Will he take that into consideration? Finally, is not the most significant part of the statement the determination to improve the control and management structure which runs down through the ranks? If that is implemented, it will not be necessary to amalgamate the police forces because, with improved communications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.784.2", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have got the point, thank you very much. Let me assure the House that, if the text of the answer to a parliamentary question has already been supplied to the press, it should also be available to Members of this House. I hope that those who are on the Front Bench at the moment will take note of that and see that it is made immediately available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.794.7", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "dded value is sufficient to counteract the transport costs, our producers do less well. The effect is caused by transport costs, not the operation of the board. The third and most persistent worry of those who wish to retain the status quo is that removal of the quota system will lead to instability in the market. The evidence does not suggest that our quota system leads to greater stability here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.794.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.799.5", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " the number of chips fried per person per week, to see whether it is below the national maximum stipulated. No doubt there will be special derogations for those who work in heavy industry and who therefore can deal with more animal fat than can those of us in sedentary occupations. The hon. Lady is on to the same thing that Opposition Members always want—telling other people what is good for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.799.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Big brother.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "—are concerned that if the board disappears there will be an uncontrolled market in which they will find it difficult to compete. I understand that. I must tell my hon. Friend as forcefully as I can that he is not right to say that the other countries of Europe want a controlled system like ours. Some farmers might like that, but in the end it is Ministers who decide what is best for the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "uce a statutory instrument to end the guarantee—but it will only end the setting of the guarantee for this year, whereas the Bill removes the requirement to set a guarantee. The statutory instrument will not pre-empt the Bill, but it will get us out of a corner. I put it in those terms because that is the truth. No doubt the hon. Gentleman will appreciate my frankness. It is a timetabling problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Ballots", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I do not know. The Labour party is beholden to the trade unions. The Conservative party is supported by business, but business creates wealth. We are happy to be supported by private enterprise, by the wealth creators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-23", "file": "debates1993-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9e5755e4e79d2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Ballots", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Minister reads my speeches. Rumour has it that he only ever reads the works of Adam Smith. At least this represents an improvement in his reading. The point I made in 1979 remains valid. The trade union movement had an independence born of its strength in 1979 which does not now exist. The Minister is making a case for withdrawing this funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-23a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.911.8", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The nuclear power industry makes no contribution to our CO 2 and greenhouse gas problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.911.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan-Smith", "preceding_text": "uingly, only a minority of appointees have had any judicial experience in their own countries. The majority come from different careers while holding merely formal legal qualifications. It is important to note that several judges have held ministerial posts in their own countries and that several others have been senior civil servants. Only three of the present judges have had judicial experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "It is, Mr. Morris. I wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech, but he is straying from the subject of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.997.5", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Berry", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has conceded the point that the treaty removes from the national Governments of member states the power to influence exchange rate policy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "On the subject of obsession, my hon. Friend appears to be overly obsessed by the words and gives insufficient attention to the actions that can be taken by politicians and Governments within the framework of the Maastricht treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "In the present circumstances, we cannot return to it. The Bank of England has expressed the view that we should have a short transition to a single currency rather than go through a long process which leaves each currency vulnerable and open to pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "In the present circumstances, we cannot return to it. The Bank of England has expressed the view that we should have a short transition to a single currency rather than go through a long process which leaves each currency vulnerable and open to pressure— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has moved from his usual place and is hurling sedentary abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "ike central bankers. I do not see them as demons, as my hon. Friends do. I happen to believe that, if we put a number of central bankers together, of course they will act as central bankers—but as central bankers from different countries. Over the past three weeks, I have had the experience of meeting the governors of the central banks of France, Spain and Germany, and they are all very different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "ppen to believe that, if we put a number of central bankers together, of course they will act as central bankers—but as central bankers from different countries. Over the past three weeks, I have had the experience of meeting the governors of the central banks of France, Spain and Germany, and they are all very different— [Interruption.] I did not go to the Dutch central bank, but I hope to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "different countries. Over the past three weeks, I have had the experience of meeting the governors of the central banks of France, Spain and Germany, and they are all very different— [Interruption.] I did not go to the Dutch central bank, but I hope to do so. [Interruption.] I was not even offered lunch—unlike the hon. Member for East Lindsey, who was offered lunch by the Italian Foreign Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "had the experience of meeting the governors of the central banks of France, Spain and Germany, and they are all very different— [Interruption.] I did not go to the Dutch central bank, but I hope to do so. [Interruption.] I was not even offered lunch—unlike the hon. Member for East Lindsey, who was offered lunch by the Italian Foreign Minister. [Interruption.] They did not offer me lunch or dinner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I could not put it better myself. A carefully defined set of powers will be in the hands of the central bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.7", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. There is too much noise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.9", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "It has been said that economic and monetary union always works to the disadvantage of the poorer regions of Europe. That is true, which is why there is a cohesion fund and structural funds. I agree that they are not yet big enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.9", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "omic and monetary union. Much has been said about operational independence. There is a strong case for that, of which the model of the Bundesbank is a good example. Of course, the Bundesbank works from a history different from ours. It works from the experience of Weimar, when the politicians debauched the currency. That is why people in Germany are greatly concerned to have a stable price regime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1017.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "to be the law of the land. They said, \"This is the law—it applies to commercial undertakings.\" Due to infraction proceedings taken by the European Commission—an unelected body—we now find that the law will apply to all sorts of privatisations and takeovers. It means that not only will future privatisations be difficult to achieve, but every British employer who has participated in a privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but that was part of the whole package to get four particular countries, which were rather like client states, to take a favourable view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way yet again, but may I remind him that it was during the tenure of his Government and his Government's negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1045.4", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will no longer be sovereign states.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "t, as I shall do now. The first proposition is self-evident. If there is to be a single currency which circulates in the 12 member states of the Community, we have to set up not only the single currency but the monetary authority which will be responsible for managing that single currency. The second proposition is that, if it is to circulate in 12 sovereign member states, that monetary authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1045.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I do not think that that is true. It is wrong at a technical level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "only Community institutions and bodies and Governments of the member states. Those two groups forswear the opportunity to influence members of the board of the European central bank, but they are a relatively narrow group of people; anyone else is free, under the provisions of article 107, to express views about the conduct of monetary policy by the European central bank. That includes this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1054.7", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "No, it is not a question of ducking and weaving and picking and choosing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1054.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "eech again, but I know that you, Mr. Lofthouse, would not wish me to go back over the brief comments that I have made so far. If my hon. Friend had read one of those distinguished, more serious newspapers on Sunday—I refer to The Sunday Telegraph, although I believe that the story also appeared elsewhere—he would be aware that a certain amount of disinformation and misinformation is being peddled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct in that we wish the House to have the authority to decide economic policy in all the areas that I said would be handed over to the European central bank, for example, if the Maastricht treaty is ratified, and inevitably other measures that are in the pipeline would follow. Let me now move on to Maastricht—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "et anywhere near the 3 per cent. limit, we should need billions and billions of pounds' less of public spending. That is why I believe that we should be very critical indeed. My right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) argued that, if people have no recourse, as they may not if the treaty is ratified, they may riot. I do not know whether they will riot or not; circumstances differ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am glad that I provoked my hon. Friend into intervening. He misunderstood me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interrupton.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "That certainly is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made several telling contributions to the debate and uncovered areas of legal and procedural uncertainty on precisely such matters. I shall be interested to receive a copy of whatever written reply the Government send him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "to paragraph 3, which provides that, if there is excessive Government expenditure, leading to an excessive deficit, other relevant factors, including the medium-term economic and budgetary position of the member state, will be taken into account. It seems to me that that is a helpful addition, rather than something about which we should be excessively suspicious or over which we should lose sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1135.8", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "a point of order, Mr. Morris. I do not like wearing the hat, but I wish to make a serious point, and this is the only way in which I can do so. I asked permission to move to report progress, and you said that you were prepared to accept a motion. Then my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) rose on a point of order. I therefore sat down, because a point of order takes precedence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1135.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "n of taking it forthwith and not permitting a short debate. I am sure that you will rule that such a debate can be relatively short because any hon. Member has the power to move a closure on a debate and for the Chair to accept it, even after 10 minutes, quarter of an hour or half an hour, as the Chair supposes. I hope that you will confirm that that is trite. My main point is the extent to which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "hope that you will confirm that that is trite. My main point is the extent to which— [Interruption.] I am sure that you will accept that I have asked for three rulings so far. My fourth point relates to the use and interpretation of the word \"abuse\". It would be a pity if the difficulties which we have just experienced were repeated. I submit that, when the Committee has done eight hours overtime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing)—in which he sought clarification of what would be the response to his suggestion that the Committee should report progress—became known to Conservative Members, and in particular the Government Whips. The issue is serious. We are well accustomed to the coalition between the Tory party and the Liberals, which worked closely through the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "rly the Government Whips knew what action you were likely to take, Mr. Morris. That is not within the normal processes of the House. If it is impossible for Members to seek guidance privately from you because of the nature of the building, some machinery must be found whereby private advice can be received. It is wrong that the Government Whips knew and fully understood the decision that was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I respectfully suggest to the hon. Gentleman that my job here is to chair the Committee. He can go to the Library and ask that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " is idiotic. As a statute is required to go through the House to make the changes to the Bank of England that are necessary to satisfy the requirements of the treaty, it seems to me not unreasonable to assume that the House would wish to consider the arrangements for the Bank of England at the same time as it made the choice whether to adopt a single currency. It would put the two things together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "k that there is a fundamental misunderstanding. The first sentence of article 8 reads: The members of the Council of the EMI\"— the national central bank governors— who are the representatives of their institutions shall, with respect to their activities, act according [to] their own responsibilities. That means according to their existing responsibilities as defined by their existing national law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " Statute, the Council of the EMI may not seek or take any instructions from Community institutions or bodies or governments of Member States. The key point about the second sentence of article 8 is that it is the Council of the EMI as an institution which is not allowed to take instructions. The members of the Council, acting as individual members of the Council, do so on their own responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I paid the Financial Secretary a compliment earlier this morning, saying that—unlike the Minister of State, Foreign Office—he does not rush in to give legal opinions on the hoof.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1164.7", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "hat I am on a good legal point. I am a little worried that all the convergence criteria are in a second stage, which imposes on us a treaty obligation. I do not want to press that too far, but all four criteria are in the second stage, which says that we must do this and that. There seems to be an obligation on us to achieve a high degree of price stability in stage 2. Is there such an obligation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1164.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1166.5", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Then on whom does it place that obligation? Nobody?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1190.5", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that a number of us have been here for several hours and were hoping to speak in a continuing debate on the amendments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I just want to raise one matter with the hon. Member. He has been sitting here all night, waiting to get into this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ication of their intentions will amount to extreme discourtesy to the Committee. My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) has made a point about the availability of Hansard. It is farcical that we should have to wait 24 hours for the Official Report, as an electronic system of printing is being used. Hansard should be available to hon. Members electronically within an hour or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Scots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "n. Friend has been castigating the Liberal Democrats heavily for their secret deal and the way in which they have cosied up with the Government to get this important business through. It has been discussed through the night and perhaps now it will not receive the publicity that my hon. Friend says that it should. Does my hon. Friend realise that the Welsh National party took part in the deal, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-24", "file": "debates1993-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f0cb20f6c1271718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nooks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's worries. Those proceedings seem to show all the worst aspects of politics. Deals have been done out of sight of the public and out of sight of the Chair, in the crooks and crannies of this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-24a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1220.6", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in addition to the extra office work that this involves, it will also involve farmers in a considerable amount of extra work handling cattle—they have to be handled on several more occasions, to check their tags and the documentation? My right hon. Friend will not be aware, but he may be interested to know, that my next-door neighbour has 200 cattle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1221.7", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "g of round fish? Why does he not increase mesh sizes? Why does he not deal with Russian imports on a temporary basis, with a dumping ban? Why does he not provide the same kind of financial support for the industry as that provided by the French? Why does he not suspend the Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill and talk to the industry? Most of all, why does he not stand up for fishing instead of lecturing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1221.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reassurance. Does he accept that we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the farmers of the United Kingdom, and that self-sufficiency in food is of paramount importance? It is no good having the greatest nuclear deterrent in the world and placing ourselves in a position to have to submit through starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1234.6", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "In the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "entleman challenge the sweetheart deals between the electricity companies and the new gas-fired power stations which guarantee them sales, not for two years, but for 15 years? Is not the conclusion from the statement that the only thing that the right hon. Gentleman is prepared to do about the dash for gas is to license three more contracts for new gas-fired power stations? Why does the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "for Livingstone (Mr. Cook) that this was an admission of failure. It is, if I may say so, characteristic that when I have committed hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' support and agreed with the Select Committee report in substance, the hon. Gentleman should think that is a question of failure. The fact of the matter is that an all-party Select Committee with a majority of Labour members", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "emanded it should be there; thirdly, because a large number of jobs are dependent on it; and, fourthly, because I agree with the Select Committee that we should not do it. Let us consider the easiest response to the hon. Gentleman. \"Why did you not deal with the French?\", he said. In the House, on 3 August 1978, the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), when Secretary of State for Energy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "nly with the unreconstituted left. The right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy all through the time when this was going on. The right hon. Member for Chesterfield might say that he was only a little fish. The Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith), however, was Minister for Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1244.5", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the entire House, including Ministers, that we are not into debate. Debate comes on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1244.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1244.5", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the entire House, including Ministers, that we are not into debate. Debate comes on Monday. [Interruption.] Order. I am on my feet. Hon. Members are expecting to be called, so they should keep quiet now and they might then be called. I seek brisk questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1244.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "t to make decisions on them? I am concerned that, after six months of delay by the Government—the President of the Board of Trade knows that the Select Committee report was published on 29 January—we are now to be forced to debate a serious issue in an unacceptable time span of about 48 hours. I ask the usual channels to allow a little more time not only for the House to reflect on the issue, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " on the content of the 152-page White Paper, which will be debated on Monday? My quick analysis—and it has been quick—of the main provisions of the White Paper suggests that all 31 pits will be closed in the next three or four years. That will cost the British taxpayer about £2 billion. Eighteen of those pits and 18,000 jobs will be lost this year alone. This package is merely a change of tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1252.4", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will be fully aware that decisions about moving a pit to closure are a matter for the board of British Coal. It is a little unwise of the hon. Gentleman to suggest that the members of that board do not bring a very great degree of expertise to such matters. It would not be appropriate for me now to comment on the individual pits that are the subject of this announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "preceding_text": "adquarters of the energy commission in Nottinghamshire, the pit closure programme that he has announced today will cause devastation in north Nottinghamshire, particularly at Bevercotes, where I have 500 constituents who will be out of work immediately? Does he recollect giving an undertaking to the president and secretary of the UDM that he would do everything that he could to keep UDM pits open?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman not accept what every financial fuel consultant and accountant in the energy industry accepts, that the aging Magnox power stations are the most expensive fuel on base load for the electricity grid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1255.2", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will be aware that 30 per cent. of the miners from Parkside have already accepted since last October the redundancy terms that we have made available to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member that there will be no threat to any pension rights of any miners in whatever circumstances develop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I think that I can help the House, because I have with me the \"Plan for Coal\" published in 1974—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I think that I can help the House, because I have with me the \"Plan for Coal\" published in 1974— [Interruption.] This was the heyday of national planning; it was all about prediction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "published in 1974— [Interruption.] This was the heyday of national planning; it was all about prediction— [Interruption.] I know that the Labour party does not want to listen, even though Opposition Members keep harking back to how they would have done things differently—forgetting what they actually did. So I shall tell them what they did. They published the \"Plan for Coal\". This is what it said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I should like to make a minor point of detail. My hon. Friend is not quite right to say that the Budget deficit of the period 1974–79 was lower than the one that we are running now. In fact, at that time it peaked at more than 9 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1293.4", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. I have permitted many interruptions, and I am anxious to conclude my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1295.8", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Members knew full well what they were voting for when they voted for that resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1295.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wrote the part of the Conservative party manifesto that dealt with this issue, he clearly made a bigger hash of it than those who drafted the original Maastricht treaty, given the consequent division and confusion in Conservative policy on such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1302.7", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Legg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disastrous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Legg", "preceding_text": "we will not be taken to the court to compel us to return to the mechanism. The mere suggestion will be enough to ensure that Britain does so. I believe that many Ministers, perhaps even the Chancellor himself, feel as stongly about membership of the ERM as I and many of my hon. Friends do. The experience of the British economy, of British business and of the British people in the ERM was damaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1310.2", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "elieve in them deeply and passionately. I recognise that because I have been listening for the best part of 20 years to the arguments of those who are against Europe. It is not that I do not know the arguments, or that I do not respect the people who hold them. I have reached the conclusion that I shall never persuade them, and they may have reached the conclusion that they will never persuade me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-25", "file": "debates1993-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "31b6b3105b1abb4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "We now move to the group on foreign and security and amendment No. 227. Mr. William Cash? Mr. Spicer? Mr. Gill? Mr. Cran? Mr. Shepherd?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-25a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-26", "file": "debates1993-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "63f525de257f4f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-26a.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Overseas Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman is suspicious of a sharp-suited sales person, perhaps he would not be quite so suspicious of a sharp jellaba-dressed gentleman wearing a gold Rolex on his wrist. The hon. Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis) mentioned the Greater London council, which is appropriate because we are just approaching the week in which, on 31 March, we will mark the seventh anniversary of its abolition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-26a.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-26", "file": "debates1993-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "63f525de257f4f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-26a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Newly Qualified Drivers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " to know that he had a better car than the boss. This leads to the problem of the enforceability of engine sizes. It might be impossible for the police to know whether a car had an engine bigger than 1300cc. I recall using my father's car many years ago. Its engine was considerably larger than 1300cc, although it was not a BMW 735—hon. Members will know the sort of salary my father had to live on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-26a.1407.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.10.8", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "preceding_text": "May I remind the Secretary of State that it is two months since the meeting at which we discussed the report of the west Wales task force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.10.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.21.6", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "dford, West (Mr. Madden), but to the fact that, in quoting my words, the President of the Board of Trade failed to state that, in announcing the connector, I had said that it would provide an opportunity for the export of coal-fired electricity to France.\"— [Official Report, 3 August 1987; Vol. 955, c. 546.] That was the statement that I made, and the President of the Board of Trade suppressed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.21.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course he cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "y and what was said on 13 October is that the figures for the contracts for coal to the power stations were 40 million tonnes last October plus 30 million for the four successive years. Last week he said that the figure was 160 million tonnes. It is the same amount—40 million tonnes followed by four successive years at 30 million tonnes. If he does not alter those contracts upwards, those 19 pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.27.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He heard what I have just said about the pits on the list of 12 and those on the list of 19. The chairman of British Coal has made it quite clear, and I could repeat the words, if my hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire, South (Mr. Cormack) would like me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "When I joined my Department and examined the political issues facing coal, the first thing I said was that I would do nothing to deteriorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.31.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "What about producing 119 million tonnes now, you clever little sod?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman understands that he is using up, as I have said before, very precious time in the debate. I do not want to exchange words with him about the word \"clever\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.37.6", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I recognise your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker. The fact that Lord Marsh should say that the social devastation of what happened under a Labour Government, when he was a Labour Minister, should not be forgotten must rank as a serious part of the discussion about how one judges the integrity of the Labour party. And so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.37.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I shall have something to say about strike action in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I shall have something to say about strike action in a moment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] I shall answer the hon. Gentleman in the course of my speech, but let me say first that we did not come here to debate the social consequences of closing pits; we came here to debate how those pits could be kept open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " believed possible: it made him more popular than the current Prime Minister. His statement last week has now achieved something that Arthur Scargill himself never achieved: it has persuaded the Union of Democratic Mineworkers to ballot for industrial action. That is the scale of the betrayal felt by those who work in the pits—not just members of the National Union of Mineworkers, but UDM members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": ". Where will the extra tonnes go? For that matter, where did the figure of 12 pits come from? If the President of the Board of Trade has not identified the market for those 13 million tonnes, how did he arrive at the figure of 12 pits saved? I think I have a clue which provides the explanation. The clue was provided by the Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs, the hon. Member for Hatton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not working.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "affect the prospects for collieries threatened with closure. That was British Coal's view: that only a radical transformation of the market would do that. It is no good the right hon. Gentleman saying to us that it would be wrong to intervene in the market. This Government intervened only four years ago to create the rigged market. What is wrong now with intervening, when we see how it is working?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "be importing three quarters of our primary fuels—this is an island built on coal which could still be surrounded by gas if hon. Members on the Government Benches were not so anxious to hurry up the burning. The rest of Europe must think that we are mad. If any of them had the coal reserves that we have, none of them would be shutting down those reserves. They would be regarded as a national asset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "am glad to have the agreement of the Chairman of the Select Committee. It is important that the House knows where the agreements to disagree are and should not put excessive faith in some of the forms of words in the report. I am in no way dissenting from the main drift of the report, any more than the Government have dissented from it. We formulated the proposition that there should be a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.60.6", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " years of support, so it will survive until 1995. British Coal has got what it sought—it has massive support for two years. I am disappointed, therefore, that, over the weekend, some jeremiahs in British Coal talked about the fact that some extra pits will close before Christmas. Such comments have not been made by the chairman of British Coal, but he has not repudiated them, either. I wonder why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.60.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.60.6", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ugh a management buy-out, because the managers of British Coal are far too interested in the future of a management buy-out than in running the industry properly now. If we removed the opportunity for a management buy-out, the managers might be a little more interested in protecting their jobs now than in protecting their bank balances in the future. My third and final point, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.60.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government would.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": " stations are designed to take low volatile coal—is either Vietnamese or Russian coal. Such coal would be imported at Bristol Avonmouth and carted across the estuary to a power station 15 miles away from pits that had been closed. When there are doubts and worries, and when we are talking about long-term trends, why would anyone make such a crazy decision which will destroy opportunities and jobs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "I want briefly to intervene in this debate because, although my constituency has no specific and direct relation to the mining industry, it has a direct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.107.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.112.2", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.112.11", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "h inconsistencies. The dash for gas continues with competing generators building gas-fired stations despite the fact that the electricity that they produce is more expensive. Gas is a more limited resource and it will be exhausted in less than a lifetime. As the Select Committee pointed out, it is also more expensive. We already have the coal-fired capacity to meet our needs. Government subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.112.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-29", "file": "debates1993-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fc61459b9911387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "of the proposed closures. In Taff Merthyr on the edge of my constituency and in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr. Rowlands), nearly 500 men will be put out of work. The loss of their wages alone will cost the local economy more than £8 million. Independent estimates put total job losses at 1,400, once indirect job losses have been taken into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-29a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The case cited is a good example and one that I believe will be followed by many schools up and down the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " the clock back might not be a bad thing in some respects. I can only say to the hon. Lady that not only can a decision like this not be reversed, but this decision certainly should not be reversed. I believe that it reflects the ability of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to respond to local desires and demands in the best interests of the education of children up and down the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that the British people are becoming increasingly fed up with the unlawful activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.152.10", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "But does the Prime Minister not understand that we have in this country a fabulous pool of talent in our film industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.152.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the remark made by one of his Ministers in another place who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "She said that although she is responsible for 804 public appointments, she cannot remember knowingly appointing a Labour supporter. Given the sad state in which this country finds itself, is it not time that the Prime Minister started appointing people on the basis of competence and ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " on amendment No. 27 in view of the fact that a Division takes only a quarter of an hour. The Government allow us to talk a donkey's hind leg off, but they are frightened of a vote that they may lose. You, Mr. Morris, have selected new clause 75, but you have told us that we cannot vote on amendment No. 27. I ask myself which part of the Committee will be laughing about that. It is Tory Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You enjoy it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. This procedure shows the advantage of a Committee stage. I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's comments about what I have been doing for the past few years—unhappily and unwillingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. This procedure shows the advantage of a Committee stage. I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's comments about what I have been doing for the past few years—unhappily and unwillingly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You enjoy it.\"] I do not. I should far prefer to deal with domestic matters and not to be diverted to constitutional matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "When I listen to my right hon. Friend, I am momentarily lulled into a false sense of security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend will find that I have ever said that the treaty of Maastricht would roll back those powers. What I have said in these debates is that it represents a check to the centralisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": " have a foreign policy police? What are the provisions to enable the Council to ensure that those activities are carried out? What provisions will ensure that The Member States shall support the Union's external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of mutual solidarity\"? What will happen if we do not do so and if we do not sound enthusiastic? What will the Council do about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.223.10", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend like to comment further on the Foreign Secretary's rather patronising remark aboue \"elaborate language\"? I dare say that in 1815 we might have been patronising about other European nations, but I wonder whether my hon. Friend takes the view that if the other nations of Europe use such elaborate language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.223.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which underlines the fact that we are moving towards a common European defence and foreign policy. That being so, one must ask who proposes it, who controls it and what it is for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which underlines the fact that we are moving towards a common European defence and foreign policy. That being so, one must ask who proposes it, who controls it and what it is for— [Interruption.] I have asked that question of my Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend deal with", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ch taxpayers' money was being dispensed, and that the whole basis upon which the fraud is perpetrated in the Community needed to be discussed by hon. Members in the House. I have to say that the Committee and the Treasury were not particularly enthusiastic about much of what they came across when they looked at what is in this document, which, although the subject is narrow, has a very wide ambit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.255.5", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "rol. The first is inadequate drafting of legislation. For example, there may be a failure to specify adequate control arrangements, as with certain aid programmes or objectives and with structural fund training measures. Alternatively, it is said that the nature and purpose of support may not be easily amenable to control, as is the case with certain argicultural price compensation aids. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.255.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ng incidents pour out of the reports of the Court of Auditors. However, at the heart of it all lies a serious tragedy: for every person who gains massively as a result of the frauds, which are organised on a massive scale and run into billions of pounds, there are other people in the Community who can hardly scratch together enough money to buy themselves a decent pair of shoes or set of clothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "l refurbishment. That refurbishment, the internal financing of which is the subject of the Court of Auditors' report, amounted to an absolutely massive increase in the amount of money which was made available under them. 11 pm We are pouring out huge sums of money on a regional and social engineering exercise, compatible with the treaty as it is developing, that is essentially socialist in nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": " through. This is not an improvement. It does not follow that, merely because we are giving people more power, giving ever-greater opportunities for closer union—indeed, actually creating a union, not merely closer union—we will improve the internal finances of the Community. At the end of the day, the bottom line in all Parliaments is the raising of money and the dispensing of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "The court concluded that although the aid was justified, there were considerable delays and weaknesses in the financial control of the work. The court recommended that where finance was not used in accordance with the objective, the Commission should request repayment of the interest subsidy. That must be regarded as a serious matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.270.4", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the fourth resource among the elements of resource that member states contribute to the financing of the Community is a percentage of VAT receipts? As member states increase their VAT receipts, they increase their contributions to the Community. Accordingly, does he agree that that fourth resource should not be expanded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a good point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I take the hon. Gentleman's point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I have heard that story before. I do not deny what the hon. Gentleman has said many times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I have heard that story before. I do not deny what the hon. Gentleman has said many times. [Interruption.] I am not making a direct comparison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "have a Report stage on the Bill, the acceptance of new clause 30 would not add to the consideration of the Bill, so it should not worry hon. Members. It is difficult to see, therefore, what possible objection Front-Bench Members can have to new clause 30, since it provides that this Parliament would have to approve any proposed alterations to the Maastricht provisions before they got set in stone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-30", "file": "debates1993-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c045d43edcfea93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "portantly, to each of our constituents—to examine just as thoroughly any amendments subsequently proposed to the treaty. Hence I believe that the Committee will see, and the House will eventually see, that it would be wise to accept this new clause. I wonder also, when we are looking at what would happen if the Committee accepted the amendment put forward by the Liberals linked to this new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-30a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Left?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has raised a point which has already received considerable publicity. It is a matter for the assessor, of course, but my hon. Friend is right to point to the availability of the appeal mechanism. He may be reassured by the fact that no less a luminary of the Scottish left than the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Expenditure on training and related programmes under this Government is two and a half times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Expenditure on training and related programmes under this Government is two and a half times— [Interruption.] The Opposition do not want to hear the figures. It is two and a half times what it was in real terms during the last year of the Labour Government. It is now £2·8 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "er on the Order Paper. He is also right to point to the fact that manufacturing productivity in Scotland in the 1980s has increased by 5·2 per cent. per annum on average. That contrasts with 2 per cent. during the 1970s and 4·1 per cent. during the 1960s. The figure is higher than that of any of the major seven OECD economies. Those are very positive facts about the Scottish economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "That is a very shrewd question. We have heard a great deal about what Labour Members are against, but there has been a severe lack of positive and constructive suggestions from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "n is after, he has come to the wrong party. I am sorry about that. With regard to the cost of local government reform, the Touche Ross report was published with a very clear indication from the Government that further work might well be needed to refine the figures. In the light of further information, there are suggestions that the figures may not be quite so accurate as was originally indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Second Chamber (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "f the distribution of votes in the last general election, there would be about 170 Conservatives, 140 Labour, 70 Liberals and 20 others. In Wales, for example, Labour would have 12 seats, the Tories would have six, the Liberals would have three and Plaid Cymru would have two. Radical reform is vital because, despite this being the mother of Parliaments, British democracy is completely discredited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " the same throughout Britain and, as a United Kingdom Parliament, we are entitled to consider these issues. The basic problem is that the figures have escalated out of all proportion. On 19 April 1989, I revealed that £54 million was spent on legal aid in Scotland in 1988. With his characteristic directness, the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Da!yell) said that that was a hell of a lot of money\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "d have people sitting in their homes with nowhere to go. What will be the effect on children? The growth of children will be stunted. What will be the effect of that situation on children's personalities? The Government have no answer. Many bodies in Scotland have submitted their views to the Government and they all went unheeded. The Scottish Association for Mental Health contacted me yesterday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": " of the Select Committee on Home Affairs is to scrutinise the work of the Home Office, the Northern Ireland Office and the Lord Chancellor's Department, the Committee decided to examine the proposals as quickly as it could and to report to the House before this debate. That we speedily did on 9 March, three weeks ago. I hope that hon. Members will now be more fully informed. We took oral evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I do not often agree with the hon. and learned Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence), although we have a long history of debating matters such as this. It goes back to the days when we sat our Bar exams together. However, I sympathised with a good deal of his speech, especially his positive suggestions for getting to the root of the problem of the rising cost of legal aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "will be ready candidates for an emergency legal aid certificate. I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Dame J. Knight) that I shall be more than glad to look at the difficulties to which she referred with the Legal Aid Board and I shall be happy if she will pursue those matters with me and my Department. I must tell the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. McKelvey)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I think that is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " once. The quicker that farmers obtain the maps, the quicker they can fill in and return the forms so that we have some chance of checking that they are right. I hope that there will be every opportunity to help farmers fill in the forms. Our regional service centres are staffed up to give advice. But again, the quicker that we receive the requirements, the quicker we shall be able to answer them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "in what farmers are not asked to do elsewhere. That is why the forms are standard throughout the Community. The Commission and the Council will be able to check whether the forms are properly filled out and, if they are not, the farmers will not get the money. That will be as true in Italy as it will be in Britain. That will be a major change. Labour Members who are keen on the European Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "e money. That will be as true in Italy as it will be in Britain. That will be a major change. Labour Members who are keen on the European Community— [Laughter.] I understand that those hon. Members are publicly committed to a closer union in Europe and therefore share my attitude to the Community. They would do better if they giggled less and supported more. Many of us spend a great deal of time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "r said quite a lot about that and, as he reminded us, on Friday he announced his proposals to meet the requirements of the programme. It is with some satisfaction over the years that we in the Opposition have seen the importance of the environment dawn on the Government. We support the change that has taken place over the years in their attitude, following the policies adopted by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "cise since the Domesday Book was begun in 1086 … The National Farmers Union has been running a series of road shows to keep farmers up to date with developments. So far about 30,000 farmers have turned up and thousands more are expected from this weekend. The Country Landowners Association has established a nationwide network of land agents to give 15 minutes of free advice to its members\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " and in the Cotswolds will be grateful for his action, and will grasp the opportunity with alacrity. I quote my right hon. Friend's description of the Cotswold hills, because it sums up my constituency beautifully The Cotswold hills are an outstanding example of limestone scenery. The area is dominated by steep escarpment rising dramatically from the vales of Berkeley, Gloucestershire and Evesham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-03-31", "file": "debates1993-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "574b968c23ee9316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "d out. They were unreliable and useless. I hope that the incoming Prime Minister, Mr. Balladur, and his Ministers will not seek to revisit the agricultural part of the GATT negotiations. If they do, the whole thing will unravel and we shall not stand a chance of securing the Uruguay round. I remind the House that not only the farmers of the western civilised economies benefit from the GATT round —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-03-31a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "6 when the Labour party left office, and that the biggest element in that is the VAT on gas and electricity, which will cost £2 a week. Is not it a disgrace that the Government, who believe that unemployment is a \"price well worth paying\" for their economic failure, also appear to believe now that poverty among pensioners is a price well worth paying for their economic failure? Will he now answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that, far from not liking what he says, we always love everything that he says in the House. I know that the hon. Gentleman yesterday had a briefing and a lunch with British Gas, as a result of which he was informed that VAT applied to standing charges. If it did not apply to standing charges, that would be an obvious case of avoidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no secret about this. It has been said from the Dispatch Box repeatedly since Budget day that the answer is yes, it does apply to standing charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.491.4", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might explain to the House why Labour thought that it was entirely consistent to impose VAT on telephone standing charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.492.9", "colnum": "492", "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/1993-04-01a.492.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend agree, on the day the council tax is introduced, that it would be appropriate to debate soon regional variations in the charges set? Is my right hon. Friend aware that not only are Wandsworth and Westminster setting low charges but the flagship Hinckley and Bosworth borough council has set the lowest rate in the whole of the midlands? Should not such points be on record and debated?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.509.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Valleys Initiative", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes or no?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": "y involvement will be welcomed in Ystradgynlais where the Ystradgynlais 2000 project, a truly community-based project, has had Welsh Office support and endorsement, and has also recently had an environmental Wales award? In regard to his discussions with the European Commissioner, can my right hon. Friend confirm that European projects will be additional to the announcement that he has made today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Valleys Initiative", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Ealing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman lives in a different world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Valleys Initiative", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "d a good record of hard work who continue to face the loss of jobs in the old standard industries of Wales? Will he further agree that an appropriate way for some small part at least of the valleys initiative money to be spent would be on the restoration and preservation of some of the fine miners' institutes which have served Wales so well and which are such an important part of our architecture?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t it. The way in which the Government are hiving off human concerns to agencies which have no obligation to reply, even to Members of Parliament, is a destruction of democracy through the destruction of accountability of Ministers to the House. That is what Ministers are for. Ministers are there not only to consider high policy such as Bosnia but to examine cases involving individual human beings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "The party which was committed to membership of the exchange rate mechanism, which gave a clear pledge that value added tax would not be increased and that the base would not be extended and which said it was committed to reducing direct taxation has now managed to put an extra penny on national insurance. The penny on national insurance is more regressive in its effects than a penny on income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "preceding_text": "atters relating to policing in London. In the early 1980s, one of our principal demands was for a police authority, other than the Home Secretary, for London. The three of us, and many others, were treated like subversives—we were in the pay of the KGB and various other organisations. We were a danger to civilised society. We were called harmful radicals. It is amazing: we have not changed at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-01", "file": "debates1993-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "68636826de2801fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "n private sector funds levered in. We must strike a balance between rent levels and the number of homes provided. There is no magic wand that we can wave to make it possible to provide decent homes more cheaply. If we choose to provide subsidy at a higher level, we must forgo the extra output, which, I am sure that hon. Members would agree, is badly wanted by those in unsatisfactory accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-01a.707.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-04-02", "file": "debates1993-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7a20286bd2d85948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-02a.802.6", "colnum": "802", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Amendment to the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill set out in the Lords Message of 18th March be referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.— [Mr. Arbuthnot.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-02a.802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.811.12", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ave the Russian Government and the British Government come to the conclusion that what happened over the weekend—the tragic assassination of Chris Hani—was a terrible disaster? I hope that the British Government will make their views known clearly and publicly as soon as possible. Does the Minister agree that it should be made perfectly clear that the peace process in South Africa should continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.811.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that both Russia and Britain should come to the conclusion that the peace process in South Africa should continue as quickly as possible?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the question, Madam Speaker. As extra pressure has been mentioned, what extra pressure can in practice be brought to bear on the Serbs? It is imperative that, when they are redoubling their efforts to take more land, we adopt practical measures to curb them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Competition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I do not know which specific ornament the hon. Gentleman would be on the Christmas tree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.848.5", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Competition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I understand. His question takes up the case that he has set out in correspondence with me. The proposals that are set out in the Green Paper are not designed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Coastal Waters (Water Quality Standards) (Costs)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " we heard was political posturing of the worst kind. He said that the problem concerned the west country. People are entitled to special pleading, but it would come better from someone who had not, throughout, voted for water privatisation. The truth of the matter is that, when the water industry was regarded as a public utility, it was in a far better position to do something about such problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Michael Jack)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Michael Jack)", "preceding_text": "ments to improve, for example, confiscation procedures. Work has been concluded on bilateral agreements with Argentina, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay, and work continues with a range of other south American countries to reinforce our procedures in that respect. Much of the work was pioneered by my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary on his trip to that part of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.918.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-04-14", "file": "debates1993-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "d1734b2c2c993ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.922.15", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARDIFF BAY BARRAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question again proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-14a.922.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "y, one must bear in mind that not every man or woman able to make a contribution in that way can also spare the time to be elected to the local county council or to sit in a local magistrates court. People who might want to sit on a police authority should not be judged, as the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) would judge them, on whether they are the right party political colour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.940.9", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bunglebee", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "I understand the concern that my hon. Friend expresses; no doubt he will be pleased to hear that Operation Bumblebee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.940.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has shared for a long time the concern that everyone in the House feels about the issue. What he has never done is suggest a way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.947.6", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " think that there is no doubt that the tests are the key to raising standards, as our main competitors around the world have shown. It is a straightforward matter of common sense. Without tests, teachers cannot identify pupils' weaknesses and cannot tackle them, parents cannot hold schools to account for their children's progress and the Government would not know what was happening in the schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.947.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "ion, I have to follow the traditions of the Chair that I now hold and recognise that they are there as guidance given to the Chair over time and that the Chair has to carry out the duties imposed on it. It is not a particularly easy decision on occasions. I know what the easy decision would be on amendment No. 27, and if I were to take it I would be the hero of part of the Committee. Nevertheless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.960.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "That seems to be the substance of the hon. Gentleman's point of order. If he will withdraw that point——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "e wanted to vote for the social chapter, as provided for in amendment No. 27. Therefore, I believe that people outside the Committee—whatever the Government may think—will think that this is a crazy place when we can debate at length amendment No. 27 relating to the social chapter and they can see on BBC Ceefax at half-past one today what your decision will be in advance of what you have said now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has already raised a point of order and perhaps I can rule on that. If he goes through the list of amendments that the Committee has debated, he will find that there is a representative from the group that he has been assisting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member will recognise that tedious repetition is not something that any Committee is advised to follow and, as a good Chairman, doubtless he would rule it out of order, as I am now ruling that part of his remarks out of order. I recognise that, whatever decision I took today, one part of the Committee would be well pleased and one part would be upset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member asks whether a motion to report Progress is debatable. It is. After he had moved it, I quickly looked round the Chamber and did not immediately see hon. Members rising to speak to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": " proposition, which may or may not be the case, that the majority of members of the Committee wished to have a Division on amendment No. 27. In response to that, Mr. Morris, you said that it is not always the Chair's duty to respond to the majority. Whether there is or is not a majority, it is extraordinary for the Opposition to propose that a majority should decide whether there should be a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "o overturn the Government. We are in no way seeking to cast any reflection on the Chairman of Ways and Means, for whom I have a greater regard than any previous Chairman because of what he has done throughout this long Committee. If anyone doubts that, they should have been here to see how he has gone out of his way to protect minorities. We are not trying to overturn the Government or the treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "t that was open to question. The higher metaphysics of the law will always produce something that is open to question. I am quite prepared to accept that what the Attorney-General says is true. I do not know. I have no means of arguing in any sensible way against it. However, it would nevertheless be a symbolic vote. There is no doubt about that—I think. But I am not even sure about that in a way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that my hon. Friend is correct in his deductions and conclusions. I do not believe that any Chairman of the Finance Bill Committee—I have done the job myself on a couple of occasions—would act in the way that my hon. Friend suggests or supposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go too far down that road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " the new clause, there is no rejoicing. This motion is merely another attempt to snare the Government. Those who talk about money should reconsider the original debates on the Single European Act. The way in which control over money matters was handed over then is much greater than anything suggested in the Bill. People should realise that there is a lot of pseudo-rhetoric which has nothing to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " member of the Cabinet and his job was to lay a trail to try to separate the Tory rebels, the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party. That is what the game has been all about from the beginning, because there was a majority for amendment No. 27. How could the Government get off the hook? Then, suddenly, new clause 75 appeared. I do not know who invented that, which heads were discussing the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.988.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ways and Means.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "do not do things like that here; we discuss things line by line and clause by clause, and we vote on the issues. That is our wonderful parliamentary democracy. It is not for us to have referendums or to go to the people; we have a super democracy that enables us to decide.\" That was until the Government realised that they would lose. Then they conveniently found ways and means to dodge the column.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.988.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "els of employment, their interest rates, output and deflation which are central to the control of the civil society of the United Kingdom. Intolerant Members say, \"How outrageous it is that we have spent as many as five hours discussing this point.\" I am glad that the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Dykes) is here. Now that I have him in my sights, I know that he is attending part of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-15", "file": "debates1993-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "466062f7a9eef464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dovelands School (Leicester)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the problems of Dovelands school in my constituency. I am relieved to be doing so now, rather than in the early hours of the morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-15a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "In referring to investment, the hon. Gentleman always makes a simple error. Both he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) always exclude channel tunnel rail investment. That will be part of the existing railway this year because the channel tunnel will open this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Each case is different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": " that I utterly deplore. The hon. Gentleman has not a shred of evidence, but alleged in The Guardian that he was already making complaints about the matter in the House through the proper authorities. Will she advise me as to how the matter can be dealt with under our Standing Orders and what she is prepared to do about the conduct of the hon. Member for Neath, who has previously made allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I suggest that my hon. Friend does not interrupt. His interruptions have become a little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "he people on the Maastricht process and consulting them on the social protocol. The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson), who is in his place, is quoted in today's issue of The Scotsman as saying that these amendments have no chance of being debated or accepted. That has turned out to be a bad short-term forecast, because, as we see from the selection paper, they have been selected for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "lay any Bill passed by the House, and the implementation of the treaty. It is no good your Clerk shaking his head, Mr. Morris. He and I know that the matter has not been properly challenged in the Scottish courts, because in the past referendums have dealt with the question of what the people think. That was true of the European Communities Act 1972. When there was any possibility of a challenge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has got it very nearly right —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "tory of the Labour party it has never been our policy to give sole priority to the one aim of price stability, yet that is exactly what the treaty spells out in the clearest possible terms. We were able to leave the exchange rate mechanism —we got it wrong. We cut interest rates by 4 per cent. and now have a more competitive pound. I understand that that is now leading to an upturn in the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "How can the hon. Gentleman possibly compare the 1920s with today? We should remember that today we have automation and mechanisation. We do not see a conductor on a bus. To get out of a station, one puts in a ticket, and to get on to the train one gets a ticket out of a machine. So many jobs have been lost as a result of high technology. We do not have a labour-intensive economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-19", "file": "debates1993-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "83b352d52bb8dde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be right to say that the Danes have been conned. That is the opinion of many of our academic and practising lawyers, such as Martin Howe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-19a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that we keep that aspect constantly under review. I recommend to him the pamphlet, \"Walks on Ministry of Defence land\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I suspect that many hon. Members deeply regret that some right hon. and hon. Members decided to table the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "r. Owen took a shotgun to Mr. Taylor, who had run down and killed Mr. Owen's 14-year-old son. The jury was comprised of local people who were familiar with the activities of the Taylor family, and in effect they endorsed a serious crime of retaliation by finding Mr. Owen not guilty, not just of attempted murder but even of possessing a firearm, which was an offence to which Mr. Owen had confessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.195.8", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "How many times must I say it? I certainly support the professional and educational case that teachers are making. Their actions in pursuit of that case are and must be their decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.195.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.198.6", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I am quoting Conservative supporters. It would be well for Conservative Members to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.198.9", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "If I am to make progress, I cannot give way too many more times. But perhaps I should point out to Conservative Members that level 1 of key stage 1 recommends that pupils should listen attentively to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.198.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.199.5", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "irst examine the constituent AT levels based on the NC Test levels and the TA level in the case of AT4/5: If the TA in AT4/5 (Presentation) is at level 7 and the NC Test level for AT3 (Writing) is at level 8, then the PC level is the AT3 NC Test level. I am sure that hon. Gentlemen have every confidence in their ability to explain that to parents of children in the schools in their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "what has happened north of the border. Opposition to the nature of the tests in Scotland resulted in extensive consultation with parents and teachers. Most of the objections have been overcome because of those discussions and the fact that the issues have been talked through. In Scotland, there is no central collection or publication of test results. They are reported to parents and school boards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "chers and language support workers. The money may not have been as much as those involved would have liked, but at least contracts were made and people thought they knew where they stood. In November 1992, the Home Office issued a circular reneging on that agreement. That happened without warning or consultation, and despite the fact that contracts had been drawn up and teachers placed in schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. I am nearing the end of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": " She has not done so in the past. Does my right hon. Friend know that the hon. Lady is a member of the Socialist Education Association? Is he also aware that that association has advised parents that they should keep their children at home on testing days? Will my right hon. Friend therefore invite the hon. Lady to answer the question that was put to her earlier and will he give her time to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I was simply comparing the hon. Lady's approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "preceding_text": "In view of the Secretary of State's comments about the NUT and the NAS/UWT, I merely wanted to ask what he thought of the decisions of the union to which I am proud to belong, the LTA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enright", "preceding_text": "In view of the Secretary of State's comments about the NUT and the NAS/UWT, I merely wanted to ask what he thought of the decisions of the union to which I am proud to belong, the LTA— [Interruption.] Sorry, the ATL—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.208.8", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " realise more and more. I tell my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson), who is a distinguished classroom teacher, that I have received many letters from individual teachers who take a completely different view about boycotting tests from that which the hon. Lady attempted to put to the House. I have a letter dated 12 April from a woman teacher of 19 years' standing from Ilford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.208.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Because I announced some time ago that to keep the national curriculum up to date, there would be a rolling, five-year review of all national curriculum subjects. Knowledge moves on. It was not written down in a book the last time that Labour held power. Knowledge and interpretation advance. There are changes all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is on to a very good point. The evidence available from the inspectorate is one of the important things that we must look at. We must deliver to each child in England or Wales—my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Wales and the Minister of State are in their places on the Government Front Bench and are listening to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.214.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.221.7", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "preceding_text": "the Press Association that my view as Chairman—clearly it had yet to be endorsed by my colleagues—was that it would be inappropriate and unhelpful to have an inquiry at this stage. That is the precise position. There was some brief discussion and then we proceeded to other business. What Members may do when they consider such matters is entirely up to them, but I have told the House what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.221.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "rinted in 1963. It was not that we never had a national curriculum. Until the cultural revolution of the 1960s we had a national curriculum and we also had testing. The testing was the dreaded 11 -plus over which so many Labour Members committed suicide. If any of them wish to do so tonight, it would be preferable if they did not do it in the Chamber. Some 50 per cent. of children sat the 11-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "about examination results is here to stay. Parents are entitled to information about the schools their children attend. Commenting on my right hon. Friend's commendable decision not to publish the results of this year's English tests for 14-year-olds, Mr. Smith said: If English teachers genuinely think the tests are flawed they now have the opportunity to prove it and co-operate in improving them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "As a Member who represents a constituency in the north-west of England, I am not prepared to see children in some parts of the country having to settle for second class education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "ve resulted in pupils being entered into the wrong tiers for the testing process. When it was eventually recognised that pupils could have been entered into a higher tier, it was too late because there was no classroom time remaining. Let me refer to the English part of the debate. I must acknowledge that, like the right hon. Member for Brent, North (Sir R. Boyson), I also failed the 11-plus test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor does it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "ve attempted the task over very few years, so, of necessity, changes and amendments will have to be made. That cannot be said to be the fault of the current Secretary of State. When one boils it down, the real problem that has brought us to the difficulties that we face in our schools stem from key stage 3 tests in English and technology. I do not know what the Labour party is about in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "y and I shall not sing it now, but the final verse of the song goes something like this: Dear Mrs Councillor\"— it was addressed to the chair of the education committee— it makes us sad When we think of the good education we've had, Though politics and money have had their say But it's our education you are throwing away. That reflects the feeling of the children in Wharncliffe Side primary school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "spapers, I hope that they will plainly realise the contribution made by my hon. Friends the Members for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg), for Birmingham, Yardley (Ms Morris), for Nottingham, South (Mr. Simpson), for Lewisham, East (Mrs. Prentice), for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Mr. Miller), for Cannock and Burntwood (Dr. Wright), for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Ms Jackson) and for Eccles (Miss Lestor).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.284.8", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Substance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Considering that we have whipped through all stages of three Bills in about three minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.284.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-20", "file": "debates1993-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a1f10bd6031e5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stott). I could not have been clearer in what I said. I think he heard it the first time, and he heard it quieter and more slowly the second time. The fact that he still claims not to understand it is a little of what I might call poetic licence, so I will not pursue the matter. I have answered the question of the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble) about the reason why we are doing this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jobs for the boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to make the point that the Labour party has opposed every liberalisation and every measure to free the public sector which we have introduced and would therefore have prevented the large number of the advances now being achieved by the privatised companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is completely divorced from the reality of public sector accounting. No Government have ever been able to set free a public sector enterprise outside the disciplines of the public expenditure round and Treasury control. There never has been nor ever will be such a Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister explain why Labour Members always suppose that, by throwing resources after —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "When the textile workers of the north were put out of work and the mills closed, they did not have handouts such as those that have been suggested in this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.312.10", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "We all regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.312.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "On the latter point, I have made it absolutely clear that I am not impugning the impartiality of the Chairman of Ways and Means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "lse, I might have been tempted to do that. I am inviting the House to do what it does every day —to reach a judgment on whether it agrees with a proposal that is before it. I do not know what ideas the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) has about how Parliament should be resolved. However, if he does not want majorities to decide, the place should be packed up and given over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ignited\" the Blackpool illuminations. I did not greatly approve of that and interviews have potentially a much greater detonatory effect. Fourthly, the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Knapman) gave an interview this morning. It is difficult for me to comment on it because I was in the land of nod when the interview took place and have had to depend on my more wide-awake colleagues to tell me about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "That is a somewhat opaque comment. I regret that at my age instant recall is now denied to me.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "the authority of the Chair is questioned, as it is in the motion, we undermine the structure that I am determined to defend. Those who claim that the motion is no criticism of my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Morris), the Chairman of Ways and Means, do not live in the real world. It must be seen as an attack on the Chairman's impartiality and the integrity of the Chair. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "No—we must allow other hon. Members to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": " has taken on responsibility for the most difficult parliamentary procedure since I have been a Member of Parliament, he has behaved in a most superhuman way. I am not given to ladling on the syrup. The Chairman of Ways and Means has performed magnificently and I am delighted and overwhelmed that a Member for Northampton has responsibility for this Bill dealing with such an important measure. But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": " and enjoy it and do nothing about it? Is that what democracy is about? Is that what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House wants the House to do —not to have a view or a voice on the most important issue that has come before this House, this Parliament and this people in the past 25 years? I refer to page 405 of \"Erskine May\". The Chair is not required to give reasons and we all understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "PRESENTATION OF BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I am coming to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.369.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.396.7", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "stening with great attention. First, my right hon. Friend knows that the Maastricht treaty was negotiated after the 1991 Labour party conference. Therefore, there was no party commitment whatever to Maastricht during our conference. Secondly, the treaty had not been published in English at the time of the general election and, therefore, people not only did not know what it was but were told that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.396.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.399.6", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has to convince the British people to elect a Government who would repeal or withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.399.6", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "tish people to elect a Government who would repeal or withdraw— [Interruption.] It is not inconceivable, at least in theory, that a Government could be elected who had come to the conclusion that Britain's membership of the Community was no longer in the best interests of the country. That is why I say that in a democracy, by definition, things can be changed as a result of a change in Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.399.6", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes, it can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "nterruption.] It is not inconceivable, at least in theory, that a Government could be elected who had come to the conclusion that Britain's membership of the Community was no longer in the best interests of the country. That is why I say that in a democracy, by definition, things can be changed as a result of a change in Government. [Interruption.] No Parliament can irrevocably bind its successor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "n bang to rights. I do not want to offend the Liberals because I gather that they support new clause 49—well, I hope that that is the case. The Liberals, however, also have their disreputable role to play, as do some other minority parties, in frustrating the ability of Parliament to deal properly with the issues that are before us. They, too, do their deals with the Government Front Bench. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "er, but not now. It is important that we take into account the arguments that our constituents put to us, and that we in turn advance the views that we may have, which might emanate from the House of Commons. That is a difficult and complex task that we must undertake. That is the sense in which we should trust the people. The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), who was not prepared to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.418.6", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend referred to the question whether referendums—I agree with the plural—should be advisory or mandatory, is he aware that our hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen), who is so much in favour of referendums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.418.7", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are you\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) must speak for himself. As I understand it, he has always been strongly against referendums. I trust that he will be consistent. Many hon. Members are inconsistent about referendums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.418.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.424.4", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the score?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I can only take that vote as a vote of confidence in my speech. Clearly, hon. Members wanted to hear a great deal more, and could not wait until tomorrow for it. There are some advantages in having one's speech interrupted by the 10 o'clock motion, not least because one can hear the football results, albeit the result of the European Champions cup match was disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.424.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.424.4", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": ", hon. Members wanted to hear a great deal more, and could not wait until tomorrow for it. There are some advantages in having one's speech interrupted by the 10 o'clock motion, not least because one can hear the football results, albeit the result of the European Champions cup match was disappointing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the score?\"] Unfortunately, Glasgow Rangers are out of the competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.424.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.424.6", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I am sure, Mr. Lofthouse, that you will have interpreted the result of that match as a European issue, and agree that it is quite legitimate to mention it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": " Labour party not supporting the new clause on the referendum. In our desire to be helpful to the hon. Gentleman, my hon. Friends and I amended our new clause on the referendum. He must know that last week I had no way of knowing—presumably he had not—which new clause on a referendum would be accepted, so I took the precaution of amending all five. We now know, of course, that No. 49 was accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "preceding_text": "I cannot think of a better example. The other 649 hon. Members are perhaps not so independent for a variety of motives, including loyalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "onal extra. We have made that point in the House at the cost of some crtiticism and discomfort. Governments are elected to govern and, in this case, to propose, just as Parliaments in the United Kingdom are elected to decide and, indeed, to dispose. My hon. Friend the Member for Faversham made a critique which was much fairer and more balanced than that of the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "d Kingdom are elected to decide and, indeed, to dispose. My hon. Friend the Member for Faversham made a critique which was much fairer and more balanced than that of the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould). [Interruption.] It is not \"Oh, dear\". I have noticed the way in which the speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham have evolved with the passage of time since the days 20 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-21", "file": "debates1993-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "75c72b2ff191588b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nineteen eighty-six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "economic and monetary union. That, too, is fundamental. If so, why not have another on progress towards a common foreign and security policy? What about the transition to a common asylum policy? Where do we stop? When should Parliament stop taking decisions and start holding referendums? I was one of the few people here who were on the Labour Front Bench to discuss the Single European Act in 1976—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-21a.459.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the fall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.507.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "In replying to the Leader of the Opposition, my right hon. Friend referred to the report of the British chambers of commerce. Did he see in that report that business confidence and business activity are both at high levels? Did he also note that the amount of export orders is at an all-time high? Given that trade union leaders, commentators and even economists now see an improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.508.9", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the overwhelming vote in Italy against proportional representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.508.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I could heap on them could resemble the abuse heaped on them by their fellow Conservatives. Neither do I care about their motives. Sometimes some of them seem to want to embrace the social protocol and chapter, although I know that the hon. Member for Southend, East has as much affection for the social chapter as he has for the \"Kama Sutra\", but supporting it occasionally seems to suit the rebels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "small hours—that he should not be speaking for his party and that he was in collusion with the Government Front Bench—and he has tried to respond to those accusations. If it is any consolation to him, I can confirm what he probably wishes to hear: the Government feel that the hon. Gentleman has been deeply difficult and obstructive on procedure and substance throughout the course of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is an extremely distinguished lawyer—I should say my hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t prejudice to the right of the Member States to exclude from its scope the determination of pensionable age for the purposes of granting old-age and retirement pensions and the possible consequences thereof for other benefits. The arguments deployed in that invalidity benefits case about men and women qualifying for invalidity benefit at different ages relates directly to the 1992 EOC—NICs, case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I must correct the hon. Lady. I do not think any of my hon. Friends have said that the opt-out is a waste of time. We are simply seeking to demonstrate that the Government claim that the Maastricht treaty will avoid intrusive legislation, the mandate on which they conducted the Maastricht negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-22", "file": "debates1993-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "d246c4f202941d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "y that the opt-out is necessary, and they congratulate the Government on having achieved it. But the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Dykes) was the exception. While he has supported the Government strongly in their European policies, he conceded that there is already a commitment to the social dimension under existing treaties, perhaps making the opt-out less effective than the Government claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-22a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-23", "file": "debates1993-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cd87bd7c947c6407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-23a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman anticipates the second Bill on the Order Paper. If any hon. Member feels that the procedure is not correct, or could be improved, he or she has the opportunity to put the matter before the Procedure Committee. The House would be wise, I believe, to proceed with consideration of the first Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-23a.617.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-23", "file": "debates1993-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cd87bd7c947c6407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-23a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (Driving Instruction by Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Walley", "preceding_text": " made about not wishing to discriminate against disabled people are general and should be taken up right the way through the Department of Transport and perhaps by the Leader of the House. I cannot let the debate end without making one observation. With the exception of the Minister for Roads and Traffic, every hon. Member who has spoken has talked of disabled driving instructors as \"he\", or male.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-23a.653.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " only have the Government broken their election promises, not only are they hitting the poor and the elderly hardest, but they add insult to injury by trying to justify the measure by claiming that it is environmental. When the Chief Secretary spoke in the Budget debate, he was slightly more honest, saying: Before the election we said that we had no plans to raise VAT, and that was the plain truth", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": " Tory Members and all the others who made the same promises now face a choice. They can either keep the clear promises they made to their voters or follow the discredited Ministers through the Lobby to put up taxes as the Government's panic response to the damage that they have done to the economy. If they vote with the Government, their constituents will know that they can never be trusted again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "stry, as has the surrounding area. However, Aberdeen is not immune from recession, and we are already feeling the draught. The PRT changes have caused confusion among Government Back Benchers, to the extent that they are spreading disinformation in Aberdeen. I am told by prominent members of the oil industry in Aberdeen that unnamed Government Back Benchers—I might be able to name them if pressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": "ared to take the painful decisions that arise from funding such expenditure. Usually, they fudge the issue when they are in power and create enormous taxation. The Government have not been prepared to fudge it and I hope that they never will be. If there is a need for increased taxation, we should face it, however unpopular it may be, because at the end of the day we have some political integrity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "still in favour of economic and monetary union? Does it believe that monetary policy is too tight or too loose? Its monetary policy used to be to fix interest rates at 2 per cent. below the level fixed by the Government. What is its monetary policy now? Not only on monetary policy are the questions unanswered. What is the Labour party's fiscal policy? Is the level of borrowing too high or too low?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "It is not a point of order, Madam Speaker. I stood up to be called. The Financial Secretary did not have an opportunity to give way to me, and I should like to spend a couple of minutes to make the point that I would have made had he done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-26", "file": "debates1993-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "25bc3c53f9f09526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "portunity to have an Adjournment debate. Usually when I have such debates, they come in the early hours of the morning, so I am pleased to have one at a civilised hour. I hope that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary will take note of the points that I shall make. In a perfect world, we would not have a problem about affordable housing. If the housing stock of the country were shared out carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-26a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.841.10", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "When the figures were going up, the hon. Gentleman was happy to accept them. Only when they are going down does he cast doubt on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.841.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.841.10", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "When the figures were going up, the hon. Gentleman was happy to accept them. Only when they are going down does he cast doubt on them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"] I will answer. The census figure for people not working includes people who are ill and people who are not working perhaps because they are going on holiday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.841.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.843.6", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that in Devon and Cornwall the Government guaranteed training place scheme for 16 and 17-year-olds is working extremely well, with almost every youngster who has applied for such a place being accommodated well within six weeks? Does he agree that the Devon and Cornwall TEC is operating extremely successfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.843.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.848.5", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I know that that reply will dismay my constituents. They will be dismayed to learn that, some 16 weeks after the Braer went aground, the Prime Minister has neither visited the area nor indicated any intention of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.848.7", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I shall resist the temptation to ask what would have happened if a ship had gone aground on the white cliffs of Dover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.848.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Fox Hunting (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. May I seek your guidance on the tabling of the motion in the name of the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks)? It refers to the hunting of foxes with dogs. Given that anyone who knows anything about fox hunting knows that it takes place with hounds, is the motion in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Fox Hunting (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ffort in 1990, a private Member's Bill has been presented by my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara). It sought, among other things, to give wild animals the same protection against cruelty as domestic animals. It would have banned fox hunting, and a number of other disgusting so-called sports. My hon. Friend's Bill was narrowly defeated on Second Reading, following—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.8", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Fox Hunting (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "North was narrowly defeated on Second Reading, following what I must concede was a spectacular whipping exercise on the part of that cross between Sir John Falstaff and Bertie Wooster, the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames), who is sitting on the Government Front Bench. I have detailed those various attempts to secure legislation as a clear indication that those of us on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.10", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Fox Hunting (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "nts are becoming increasingly desperate. They say that people like me loathe the type of person who hunts. I readily confess that, in the main, they are not my favourite people, but who could loathe the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames), however much one might detest the colour of his socks on Friday or discreetly laugh at his Mr. Toad wardrobe? It is not a campaign against middle-class people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.849.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-domestic Rating (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ome the responsibility of local authorities. He presented his case in a moderate, reasonable and restrained manner, but many of his colleagues in local government are not reasonable or restrained individuals. Those people, whose actions penalised companies, cannot be allowed to regain control of the business rate and therefore over the economy of the local area. The hon. Member for North Cornwall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-domestic Rating (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "ago when we debated the revenue support grant settlement for Welsh local authorities. The counties and districts in Wales agree that that was the worst settlement ever. There have been cuts in education, in social services, in the police force and in all the services that are vital to the business community—and vital too, of course, for inward investment. The hon. Member for Erewash (Mrs. Knight)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "ch have been grouped together. As with amendment No. 1, it will be noted that these amendments command all-party support. Because of that, I hope that the government will yet again listen carefully to the arguments on the amendments and that they will view their consequences sympathetically, with a view to accepting them and incorporating them in the successor funds to the independent living fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "ents command all-party support. Because of that, I hope that the government will yet again listen carefully to the arguments on the amendments and that they will view their consequences sympathetically, with a view to accepting them and incorporating them in the successor funds to the independent living fund. [Interruption.] The three amendments cover three important areas of consideration, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "What a Yorkshireman knows about a butty nobody can guess. The situation is as clear as I have explained. Whatever sort of concoction Opposition Members are trying to create, I have presented a straightforward sandwich of care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-27", "file": "debates1993-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b90b81a1791da2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.922.4", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Disability (Grants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "And they are grand. I am describing the package of care in the form of a sandwich and I am not relating it to an individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-27a.922.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.941.12", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that Front-Bench Members now get others to do their dirty work for them. We all know that, on average, Labour bills are £100 or more higher for bands C and D across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.941.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "preceding_text": "No. 2 Marsham street will be demolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The 10 local authorities in England with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The 10 local authorities in England with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The 10 local authorities in England with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The 10 local authorities in England with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The 10 local authorities in England with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£656; Haringey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The 10 local authorities in England with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£656; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£646; Liverpool —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "nd with the highest average headline council taxes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£656; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£646; Liverpool —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£645; Camden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "xes are as follows. I give the band C values, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£656; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£646; Liverpool —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£645; Camden—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£638; North Tyneside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "lues, but at all levels they are the highest. Harlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£656; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£646; Liverpool —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£645; Camden—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£638; North Tyneside—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£628; Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "rlow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"]—£878; Newcastle upon Tyne—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]— £704; Greenwich—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£696; Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£656; Haringey—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£646; Liverpool —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£645; Camden—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£638; North Tyneside—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£628; Salford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—£628; and Derwentside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Conservative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Without prior notice, that could be difficult, but I have a list that I prepared earlier for my hon. Friend. There is Wellingborough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that according to his own Department's figures for average household bills, there are twice as many Tory councils as Labour councils in the 50 most expensive areas and that among the 50 least expensive areas for average bills there are twice as many Labour as Tory councils, including Southampton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that according to his own Department's figures for average household bills, there are twice as many Tory councils as Labour councils in the 50 most expensive areas and that among the 50 least expensive areas for average bills there are twice as many Labour as Tory councils, including Southampton—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Lincoln—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that according to his own Department's figures for average household bills, there are twice as many Tory councils as Labour councils in the 50 most expensive areas and that among the 50 least expensive areas for average bills there are twice as many Labour as Tory councils, including Southampton—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Lincoln—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Stoke-on-Trent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e bills there are twice as many Labour as Tory councils, including Southampton—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Lincoln—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Stoke-on-Trent —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Corby—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Great Yarmouth—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Bradford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Plymouth—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—York—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—Slough—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]—and Norwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason) is absolutely right. The headquarters of the national lottery can be sited anywhere in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "local community centre, but they have a good point in respect of rural areas. The pub is often the focus of community life. After due consideration, we have concluded that it would not be right to regulate the sale of tickets in pubs, but that we should leave it up to the operator. A potential operator might consider that using the pub was one way to reach remote areas where the Pope is the focus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "New clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughterter..", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend in full flood, but I must tell him that I disagree with his comment about the White Paper produced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Mr. Baker). As Minister for the Arts at the time, I played a part in its composition: perhaps over-optimistically, we felt that we had a real chance of getting away with no tax at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "New clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for his helpful and well-meaning speech. I appreciate that the argument is not one-sided. Things can be said on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1048.10", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State gave an assurance on Second Reading that the national lottery would be marketed as a lottery and not as a charitable enterprise. That assurance can only be welcomed. However, I am glad that the Secretary of State is in his place because I want to point out to him that his statements relating to the issue appear to be contradictory. The Secretary of State said that the lottery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1048.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or retail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "r heritage. It is well represented by its Member of Parliament, my right hon. Friend the Member for Chertsey and Walton (Sir G. Pattie), who is here tonight. The hon. Member for Bradford, South also drew attention to the interesting ideas in the amendment. We shall think about them. I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's various suggestions. I shall disappoint the House by not accepting wholesale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ise to channel the moneys into the proper quarter. Someone has told me that the score is England 2 Holland 2. I say that for the benefit of the Minister, but he knows already. I hope that the Minister accepts that we need a professional body linked with the Sports Council which can channel the money effectively to ensure that our football grounds are safe in line with Lord Justice Taylor's report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "National Lottery etc, Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "I wish to speak briefly to this amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "National Lottery etc, Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "o. I cannot, in the course of the Third Reading debate, confine myself to courtesies, although no doubt they are due. I deeply regret that Parliament has descended to the depths of the Bill. Many have clutched at it, knowing that the Treasury was to tighten the noose on expenditure on arts and the sports, a process that has already begun, alas, under a Secretary of State for whom I had high hopes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "National Lottery etc, Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "vative Government have presided for 12 years, and this economy, which has failed to sustain the arts and sports in any other way, gambling would be the way out. The concept was promoted by a private Member's Bill, and in moving his own amendments tonight, the hon. and learned Member for Burton (Sir I. Lawrence), in a very belated conversion, found occasion to draw attention to some of the dangers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-28", "file": "debates1993-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c8ccf3771f2ffb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "National Lottery etc, Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "use great hardship in areas where there is already high unemployment. For the past 21 years I have represented many people —first as a councillor and then as a Member of Parliament for the past 14 years—who are employed by Littlewoods in Edge Lane, an inner city area of Liverpool. I am familiar with many of the families who rely upon the wages that they receive from that work for their livelihood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-28a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1136.6", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is perfectly right. Essex wines, like Essex women, are the adornment of the crown of British life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1136.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1142.10", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that there are more pigs in my constituency than people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1142.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1147.7", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister pause for a moment in his campaign of self-congratulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1147.7", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister pause for a moment in his campaign of self-congratulation— [Interruption.] —and recollect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Cervical Smear Tests", "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": "The Argyll and Clyde health board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "s afternoon at Question Time I asked the Prime Minister to give a clear undertaking that in no circumstances would British sea, land or air forces be used in the former Yugoslavia except for humanitarian purposes. I said that it was absolutely essential that such an undertaking be given because, until it is, every action taken by the Government is suspect and slowly dragging us into the civil war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " plan—has failed, because the Serbs, and now the Croats, have always understood that they had more to gain from aggression on the ground than from the negotiating table. The Prime Minister's own success at the London conference has, I regret to say, turned to dust, just as we warned him it would. Unless we were prepared to stop the aggression on the ground, there was no possibility that the Serbs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I must make it clear that I have quite a lot to say and because I do not wish to detain the House too long and allow time for other hon. Members to speak, I shall take three interventions only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I must make it clear that I have quite a lot to say and because I do not wish to detain the House too long and allow time for other hon. Members to speak, I shall take three interventions only. [Interruption.] If hon. Members want me to take more interventions I will, but they are cutting into their own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "nths, our plans have been bedevilled by the fact that we have been prepared to calculate to the last iota the cost of action, but we have never calculated the cost of inaction. But doing nothing carries the greatest risk of all, and could spread the conflict. Whatever we do, our action must have a clear aim and deal with the facts—here, I agree with the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman should answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "but we have never calculated the cost of inaction. But doing nothing carries the greatest risk of all, and could spread the conflict. Whatever we do, our action must have a clear aim and deal with the facts—here, I agree with the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I have given the Defence Secretary the chance to come back. I will answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do we do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "d be the first to cheer. However, that would be an act of resurrection equivalent to Lazarus being brought back to life. What we do on the ground must always be co-ordinated with what we seek to achieve at the negotiating table. Until now, the deployment of our forces has not been in concert with what we have sought to achieve in the peace negotiations—there has been a dislocation between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1195.5", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Member for Derbyshire, South (Mrs. Currie), because it needs an answer. How many would be involved? I can only tell her the answer that I was given by the commanders on the ground in December. I said, \"If I asked you to protect the remaining Muslim enclaves in Bosnia-Herzegovina, how many troops would you require?\" Their rough calculation was about double the number that are there now—30,000-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1195.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State clearly, and presumably selectively, has not been listening to my speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1198.2", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " protected zones. It is fair to ask how we would get the protective forces through to those areas. It would be up to the UN commander on the ground to decide whether he could force passage. Let me make it clear that I believe that it would be extremely unlikely that that would ever be possible except in the most stable of circumstances. I remind the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Gulf war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "f war. In my previous incarnation I was a journalist, and in that capacity I attended a number of wars, including those in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. I am not under any illusion about the nature of war. However, those casualties will be small compared with the tidal wave of human misery with which we are faced, and which will get a great deal worse. There has been some discussion of alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Godsiff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a civil war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Godsiff", "preceding_text": "in arms to defend itself. What right have we to do that? That might be a valid argument if we were offering a possible way of resolving the problem or returning it to the negotiating table, but I fear that, as the weeks and months roll on, there will continue to be no action. If that is the case, can we honestly tell an independent country that it has not the right to obtain arms to defend itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "afe havens to ensure the physical safety of those living there. We are having a practical discussion as to whether the use of force and The right hon. Gentleman cannot escape from the fact that unless there is a ceasefire or the consent of the Serbian forces, unless he wishes to call for the use of force to impose a safe haven and if he wishes to call for the use of ground forces for that purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-29", "file": "debates1993-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "48ea6865f54a3613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Northern Ireland Legislation (Timing)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Michael Mates)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Michael Mates)", "preceding_text": "uggestion and try to legislate here under the British system, we would be creating anomalies, differences and variations which would then have to be put right. Northern Ireland must have a coherent and consecutive corpus of law so that, if and when the day comes, which the hon. Gentleman says that he wishes for, when he will take some part in his own assembly in his own part of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-29a.1253.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-04-30", "file": "debates1993-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "edab276a403fb6e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-30a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "ure whether that is the effect of the law, however, although I must accept his advice and that of the Minister that that is the case. I hope that it is; if it is not, it will result in many youngsters who participate in sexual activities being brought before the courts of this country. That is not the right way to deal with such matters, as I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow agrees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-04-30a.1295.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": " with the independent sector. Kent county council is funding Age Concern to take over the running of many of its elderly persons' day centres. Such co-operation between Kent county council and the voluntary sector clearly gives the lie to Opposition assertions that the Government's insistence that the bulk of the special transitional grant must be spent buying services from the independent sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "ncy of Newbury—the 18-month waiting list for cataract, hip and knee operations has been eliminated? That is thanks also to the policies promoted in our manifesto. Is my right hon. Friend aware that my wife and I attended Royal Berkshire hospital following an accident at Christmas? My wife underwent a serious operation on her shoulder. We received that treatment as national health service patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That causes unhappiness to the Labour party's ideologues —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.9.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have a direct responsibility for making sure in the public sector that pupils are taught adequately and well. In the private sector the results of the schools have been very good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is asking me to respond to a hypothetical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You will be aware that, in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.25.5", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "e, no opportunity to address specifically the impact of the Maastricht treaty on the treaty of Union and thus on the creation of a single unitary Parliament. I remind you that the Scottish Parliament was never dissolved, so this Parliament, and particularly the Scottish Members in this House and peers in the other place, is the guardian of the Scottish Parliament. As we have not debated the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.25.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A deal", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Yes, that was a discussion—consultation took place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ell aware of that, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am just trying to say that I appreciate the fact that the Scottish National party has accepted that there is a case for people expressing their views. Long may they hold these views, and let them go from strength to strength in that particular regard. I repeat: the committee is useless, worthless and ludicrous, and it will cost the taxpayers a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "r why? Is it because, on 5 March, at the executive meeting of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, a decision was taken on the appointment of three members of the Committee of the Regions and three substitutes? I ask hon. Members to bear that decision in mind when thinking about the plurality of our democratic system. The president of COSLA, Charles Gray of Strathclyde, is to be a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "on was taken on the appointment of three members of the Committee of the Regions and three substitutes? I ask hon. Members to bear that decision in mind when thinking about the plurality of our democratic system. The president of COSLA, Charles Gray of Strathclyde, is to be a member. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour\"] The senior vice president, Rosemary McKenna of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, is to be a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am happy to name them. They are Bob Middleton, the convenor of Grampian regional council —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Baillie Jean McFadden of Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am happy to name them. They are Bob Middleton, the convenor of Grampian regional council —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; Baillie Jean McFadden of Glasgow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"]; and Keith Geddes of Lothian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "preceding_text": " accepting, almost automatically as a good thing, the Committee of the Regions for the whole of the European Community and for our country. That is very dangerous, so why are we accepting it? 6.30 pm Secondly, is it not the case that we are opposed to other bodies bypassing Westminster? Without a shadow of a doubt, the Committee of the Regions is designed to do just that. It is in its very nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": " the European level, it is vital to send representatives of the regional views who are members of the corporate state—the great and the good, trade unionists, manufacturers, those with commercial and agricultural interests, and industrialists. Of course, there is a European dimension to our cultural and environmental affairs. As my right hon. Friend the Minister of State said in a previous debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.72.6", "colnum": "72", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ion. My right hon. Friend was saying with regard to our Irish friends in the Chamber that he would not want to start from here, but we are here, and we have to improve the position from here. The Government are apparently accepting what happened in Committee. If the Government have a better policy that they feel will better fulfil the United Kingdom's role than the solution produced in Committee.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.72.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "New clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "aims to have read our voting record and to have given the House the numbers. He spoke of 52 occasions out of 59. Did he read the vote in the House on his party's amendment to the social chapter on Second Reading? Where did he find us in the Lobbies on that night? He found us with himself and his hon. Friends because we are consistent and have always said that the social chapter should be included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.116.4", "colnum": "116", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Now that the Liberals have voted again as the party of open government, to do the dirty deed in the middle of the night, we can proceed apace into the night. I was saying before the interruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.116.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-04", "file": "debates1993-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c2baaaec01b5818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman is getting into important areas that should properly be examined. Has he considered the rights and duties of the monarch of the United Kingdom? He will be aware that the monarch in Scotland is the Queen of Scots, not the Queen of Scotland. There is a substantial difference. The 1706 Act and the treaty of Union clearly spell out the position of the monarch and the monarch's heirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-04a.140.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.184.6", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": " on the Committee of the Regions. As regards the deal with the Scottish National party, contents of deals of that kind are confidential and I do not regard it as my job to breach a confidence. What I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that the Scottish National party failed to honour the deal that it offered the Government and therefore the Government regard themselves as under no obligation to it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.184.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.184.7", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. The answer we have just had to my question is so important for Scottish Members that we must have clarification of it from the Government and from the SNP.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.188.4", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "that the matter would he raised. but unfortunately that notice arrived only a short time ago, and I have yet to see the Leeds letter in question. But I have received a huge amount of correspondence from the public about my views on Maastricht and about how I have voted. I have sought to reply to all of them, but, because there have been so many, I have had to respond by means of a standard letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "s references to the misuse of parliamentary notepaper and official stamped envelopes. You may remember when, in December, I raised an issue involving my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Mr. Cash). I am sorry to raise the matter again, but surely the crucial issue is not that the stationery was used to reply to letters, but that unsolicited letters were sent to people whose names and addresses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.190.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.190.7", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. May I draw your attention to Scottish Question Time, when four out of five Tory Back Benchers each asked two questions? I have been patiently waiting as I am 34th on the list and have a question to ask about a health issue. Could you be more fair in your asking of questions to all those involved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. As to the Asil Nadir case, for those of us who know something about the history of Cyprus—that is to say, not many Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I am an old man, and I occasionally get impatient at the stupidity of my colleagues on both sides of the House. Is it not a fact that, if the British Government had taken appropriate action when Archbishop Makarios aborted the constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was in the previous Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ed on three separate occasions Opposition motions or amendments calling for the incorporation of the social agreement into the treaty. So the House of Commons is repeatedly on record on that point. In the pre-Maastricht debate on 20 and 21 November 1991, a Labour amendment, which called for, among other things, the inclusion of the social agreement in the treaty of Rome, was defeated by 191 votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "r. They dislike the treaty even more and will swallow their scruples about the social chapter because they believe that they can prevent the treaty from being ratified by voting for this amendment. That is completely in contradiction to the larger group of Labour Members who favour the social chapter and claim to support the Maastricht treaty. We have one group of hon. Members who want the treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "to be so. Some Conservative Members want, above all, to prevent ratification, despite their Conservative analysis and rejection of the social chapter. I explained to the House in some detail in a statement on 15 February, to which the right hon. Member for Copeland genially referred, why the present amendment—amendment No. 2 is virtually the same as amendment No. 27—would not prevent ratification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.202.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "No, if I may proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " that when we come to the debate on substance under clause 5, the House will confirm again its support for the opt-out. The only common purpose of those favouring the amendment is to inflict a defeat on the Government, which is reasonable and understandable from the point of view of the Opposition. I do not see why, in the circumstances that I have described, we should give them that satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ble and understandable from the point of view of the Opposition. I do not see why, in the circumstances that I have described, we should give them that satisfaction. [Interruption.] As I have tried to show—and I think that the argument has been listened to with patience—this amendment is tiresome, undesirable, but, in practice, irrelevant. The Government are prepared to acquiesce on the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The oldest fight for the House of Commons is the fight against legislative authority and prerogative power. Are not we having a rerun of Charles I versus Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-05", "file": "debates1993-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "19a8274851e19e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "If you are referring to my remarks, Madam Deputy Speaker, of course I will endeavour to recall that. I thought that I was closely following the impact of the amendment. The intervention may have widened the issue way beyond what I had in mind. For that reason, perhaps I shall not follow what the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-05a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.269.6", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the hon. Member for Dorset, South (Mr. Bruce) ought to have asked about the indebtedness of the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.269.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.280.8", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct about advertising being an indicator of activity in the economy. It has been increasing. I was not precisely aware of the figures that my hon. Friend has set out but I have no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.280.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows well—because Lord Desai has written to him—that the noble Lord was on the Back Benches when he said what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I make it clear to the House that, while that matter may be of some interest, there is no Government responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "At last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "bit rich at a previous Question Time for the Minister to characterise the Opposition as plumbers chasing leaks, because those leaks seem to result from the disarray in his Ministry. The Minister tended to dismiss a little lightly the size of the frigate and destroyer force. \"Options for Change\" suggested a force of about 40 ships, but the Minister said that there were exactly 40. Is it exactly 40?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman has been present since the beginning of the debate, but I made it clear earlier that the number would be discussed in the review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "rtant that hydrographic skills are still available within the Royal Navy and that the charting, which is so important for the defences of our country and for all those who use the seas around us, is properly continued in future so that the skills we now have are not allowed to wither away. Finally, and on a similar topic, Manadon, the Royal Navy engineering college, is believed to be under threat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-06", "file": "debates1993-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "eb05b7c00d768d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is arguing that, in a time of changed security atmosphere, it might be necessary to acquire more D5 Trident missiles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-06a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-07", "file": "debates1993-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbae3c70ac27452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-07a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Ms Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "that we shall be able to progress speedily through a Bill which should have been on the statute book a long time ago and which has the support of all parties—although representatives of one party are absent from the Chamber today. 9.45 pm I expect that the Liberal Democrats are still celebrating, and we would not want to take that from them after their spectacular victories against the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-07a.394.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": " arising from what you said at the time, although obviously the situation has changed somewhat? Yesterday in the Sunday Express , a former treasurer of the Conservative party, Lord McAlpine, said that Mr. Nadir had come to him and said that he had been very good to the Conservative party; that they were the Government and could help him. He added: I have given millions for the Conservative party\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.498.5", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "My point of order, Madam Speaker, is simply this. Since substantial sums of money were given to the party in office, obviously to buy influence, would it be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.498.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have got the hon. Gentleman's point of order. The Conservative party is not the Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.502.14", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "Today, the Prime Minister is having panic meetings to discuss the damage that the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.502.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " is absolutely essential for the Government to tackle the PSBR, and the Chancellor has mad& clear in the Budget and in the Finance Bill the means by which he intends to do that. It requires next year £6·5 billion of revenue and, the following year, £10·5 billion of revenue. I believe that we are the only party which is prepared to take seriously the matter of public sector borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "income tax or national insurance or VAT'. So what on earth is he talking about, since he and his hon. Friends continue to talk about more public spending? The Liberal Democrats have suddenly discovered an interest in the PSBR. The right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) took the matter up with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister recently. It is a new-found interest of the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "either, because in a publication entitled \"The Budget Britain Needs\", his party referred to a public investment programme funded by extra borrowing. and said: We have argued quite deliberately that it is necessary for the Government to borrow money. The interest of the Liberal Democrats in public borrowing is apparently very new-found. For all those reasons, I claim that the Government are unique—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.519.4", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Peckham mentioned. None the less, we were well aware that, under this Budget, charities would have to pay more in VAT, and we therefore sought a reform within the Finance Bill that would be of benefit to charities. We have extended payroll giving and gift aid, and the benefit of that is about £30 million, which broadly matches the impact of VAT on charities through fuel and power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.519.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.524.9", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "I shall give way later, when it is less difficult to choose which Conservative intervention to take. The Chief Secretary argued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.524.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Yes, Lamont and Major.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "rt of the working population and that they have no more means than the pensioners next door. Any form of targeted relief is by its very nature a blunt instrument; but those in the working population always have the possibility of work benefits and of a better job in the end—they have the possibility of hope. Many of the people to whom I have referred see no hope at all. As a humble country lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "preceding_text": "do not increase business taxes and knock the recovery on the head. It is sensible to avoid the disincentive of higher income tax. My right hon. Friend is also right to adopt a long-range measure to protect the environment. His policy addresses two problems simultaneously and with equal validity—the problem of the PSBR and the need, in the interests of the environment, to reduce energy consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisholm", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisholm", "preceding_text": "tral heating for elderly people. Edinburgh district council was promised £30 million in its capital allocation for housing, but because the Government got their sums wrong—they said that £15 million had to come from council house sales, when the figure was only £10 million—Edinburgh district council has a shortfall of £5 million. Therefore, it cannot pursue its desired policies on home insulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "es. Now the Government, without any sign of remorse—they regret nothing, to translate a famous phrase—are prepared to put VAT on standing charges. I agree that the public sector borrowing requirement is in a mess. It is in a mess because the Government do not have, and never have had, an economic policy. They were forced out of the exchange rate mechanism, which they went into at too high a level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "There spoke the authentic voice of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Sir John Cope)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Sir John Cope)", "preceding_text": "my most distinguished predecessors as Paymaster General, Edmund Burke, was quoted earlier by my hon. Friend the Member for Eastleigh (Mr. Milligan) as saying that to tax and to please is given to no man. His successor today certainly understands the force of that. Nobody likes the necessity—and it is a necessity—of raising more revenue. But it is a necessity, which we as the Government must face —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": ", takeovers, corporate raids on funds, asset-stripping, sackings of staff, profit-taking, commercialisation and privatisation are all contained not only in these orders, but in previous orders which have been passed by the House without parliamentary or public scrutiny. In 1982, the Government introduced proposals for the reorganisation of district health authorities. They created 192 authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Chapman) shouted no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.618.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "peaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion moved by Mr. James Arbuthnot on 2nd April relating to Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill not later than half-past Eleven o'clock or one and a half hours after the resumption of those proceedings, whichever is the earlier; and the said proceedings may continue after the expiry of the time for opposed business.— [Mr. Greg Knight.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-10", "file": "debates1993-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87b51163bb2c6fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "It gives me a great deal of pleasure to be accorded this Adjournment debate on the important subject of law and order, and especially of juvenile crime. I am delighted to see some of my hon. Friends here. It is interesting that no Opposition Member is here to listen to this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-10a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Two things about that: The 6,500 letters that we have received since the beginning of the year contain a wide range of views because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "Is not the real position that Humberside county council simply does not know how to manage its budget? In neighbouring Lincolnshire, the local authority under Conservative control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.640.4", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I remember that during our most recent debate on education the hon. Gentleman got into a muddle about the membership of his own union. He could not even remember the name of his union, to which he referred incorrectly. What I can say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The principal reason Britain has come out of recession is that we have achieved low inflation; because we have got inflation down, we were able to cut 5 per cent. off interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister seems to be having some difficulty with a simple question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "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 and, as he indicated, measures are in place to bring down the size of the borrowing requirement. That has required some tough decisions, but, having concluded that that is necessary, the Government have taken those decisions knowing that they cannot be ducked. As my hon. Friend pointed out, the Labour party is in a fundamentally dishonest position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Testing (Schools)", "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": "nts for national curriculum testing. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I have already confirmed the Government's commitment to this summer's tests for seven and 14-year-olds. There is abundant evidence of the importance of testing the progress of our children. Our main competitor countries do so as a matter of course. So should we. It would be a betrayal of a future generation of pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Testing (Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"I resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "e for Wales to consult about changes, but it will be designed to enable us to proceed to make those changes after a single stage of consultation in cases such as this in which the need for change has been widely recognised and the changes themselves are the product of extensive prior debate, such as that which has been going on in the country for a number of months. I say two things in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.736.4", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth (Mr. Dickens) will get a gold star in the Whips' book to follow the black mark that he got yesterday. His turn round could scarcely be equalled for speed, if not necessarily for the quality of his contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.736.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fishing (Time at Sea)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "ive. That means that many fishermen will be treated unfairly in relation to the number of days on which they will be allowed to fish. It is unworkable and unfair. In the limited time available to me—many hon. Members wish to take part in this very short debate—I shall confine myself to a few questions. Why has the minimum allocation been fixed at 160 days? There must be some basis for that figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fishing (Time at Sea)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "and from the industry so that we could avoid implementation of the restrictions on days at sea through the imposition of a compulsory tie-up. I honestly do not believe that the orders and the Act represent the right way in which to achieve conservation. If I thought that they would work, I would join my hon. Friend the Minister in the Lobby. I do not believe that they represent the right approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.764.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-11", "file": "debates1993-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "a06dd029740aabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARDIFF BAY BARRAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "er shall put the Question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion moved by Mr James Arbuthnot on 2nd April relating to Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill not later than half-past Eleven o'clock or one and a half hours after the resumption of those proceedings, whichever is the earlier; and the said proceedings may continue after the expiry of the time for opposed business.— [Mr. Robert G. Hughes.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-11a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Swan Hunter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend must be well aware that the announcement that Swans has lost by a very large margin is a cruel blow for Tyneside. We welcome the steps taken today, but it is absolutely essential that the local initiative that will come from Tyneside, the local effort, be matched on a sustained basis by national Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Swan Hunter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend must be well aware that the announcement that Swans has lost by a very large margin is a cruel blow for Tyneside. We welcome the steps taken today, but it is absolutely essential that the local initiative that will come from Tyneside, the local effort, be matched on a sustained basis by national Government. [Interruption.] May we have a promise that every Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.813.15", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " point out in that inimitable style that he has made his own. The other inimitable element of style that the Prime Minister has made his own is, of course, concealed tax increases, which we are discussing today. In case anybody has overlooked it—I am sure that no one in the Chamber has—I must explain that what is before the House is a massive increase, but a back-door increase, in direct taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.813.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "from. It was noticable in Monday's debate that the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) consistently refused to say how a Labour Government would increase taxes. That is not a responsible action. With a large PSBR, some decisions to increase taxes are necessary, and we should be told what the Labour party's alternatives are. But I do not suppose that we will hear anything about that in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I made this point to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Smith), but perhaps the hon. Gentleman was not paying his usual attention. In 1988, the Labour party voted against the Government's top rate tax cuts. That is still our position. We should not have a deficit if the top rate of tax had not been cut, for it amounts to a substantial sum of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.836.6", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "t raise the maximum amount of revenue. The key point of the Laffer curve as it is computed is that the optimum tax rate is of the order of 15, 20 or 25 per cent., depending upon which country one is in and depending also upon the financial base that one uses. It is clear that, even at 40 per cent. tax rates, there may be the opportunity to lower still further the top tax rate and increase revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.836.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "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": "ved the amendment and on the compelling and thoughtful debate that has ensued? There is no doubt about the strength of feeling on both sides of the Committee about the importance of the British merchant fleet, and of sustaining it for the future and recognising the serious difficulties and problems through which it has sailed in recent years. Tonight I am charged with the difficult responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "is important issue which has become something of a hardy annual in Finance Bill debates. The amendment would introduce one leg of the industry's proposals, namely, 100 per cent. first year allowances for money spent on ships. We previously made it clear that we recognised the important contribution which shipping makes to the economy and the central role which industry can be called upon to play —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "s issue is of extreme importance and one that requires extreme care, good listening and good discussion. In view of the urgency of the matter, I hope that he will agree to do that quickly. If it is possible to make a further statement on Report, or to bring further proposals before the Committee, I hope that he will so do. In view of these assurances, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-12", "file": "debates1993-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "46f59ffae08b4a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " tempting to focus on Heathrow to the exclusion of all the facilities around London. Heathrow, as I said, is not the only London airport. Gatwick, Stansted and London City airport, which I always mention when I can, are excellent airports which offer excellent connecting flights to many international destinations. My hon. Friend referred to the proposals for the demise of Cleveland county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-12a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.933.8", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Opposition Benches, when Group 4 lost eight prisoners in the first three weeks, of whom three at least did not escape due to its error. Group 4 has been doing its difficult and demanding job with increasing efficiency. Last year in that area the police and the Prison Service lost at least 30 prisoners, so Group 4 has a long way to go in losing prisoners before it catches up with the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.933.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": " we might make to the rules of the unit fines scheme to produce better results. We have now concluded that it is not possible to do so. Accordingly, I now propose to abolish the unit fines system and replace it with provisions which will require magistrates fully to consider an offender's means when imposing a fine but which will not require them to fine by application of any mathematical formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ng of the conversations of the royal family—allegations that are directly relevant to criminal justice. I should like to put to the Home Secretary one question about this matter. Either the transcripts that are circulating are forgeries, in which case a serious offence of criminal fraud has almost certainly been committed, or they are genuine, in which case a gross intrusion of privacy by illegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Asil Nadir?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "the country. I assume from what the hon. Gentleman has said that he will support the changes which I propose to the 1991 Act. I wish I always had that docile acquiescence from my opposite number on everything I propose. He has not yet made up his mind about bail and whether he approves of the proposal that we give the courts the statutory power to increase the sentence of those who offend on bail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "atch a headline, \"Crackdown on Crime\", in the face of escalating crime figures which are without parallel in our history? Is it not monstrous that he should bring forward a total reversal of policy, which was commended to the House only two years ago by another instant governing Home Secretary as the answer to the problem of inconsistency in sentencing, to further his own petty personal policies?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find just a short slot to enable hon. Members to pay a tribute to our late hon. Friend Robert Adley?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reinsurance (Acts of Terrorism) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "oding into this debate from the bars and corridors of the House. I see the Government Whip shaking his head —he is probably right. Still, the idea of pro and anti-Maastrichteers and marketeers, of Europhobes and Europhiles, coming to the Chamber to debate \"retrocessionaire\" tickled my fancy. As for the debate on Maastricht next week, I should like to be here in person to abstain—but I will not be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reinsurance (Acts of Terrorism) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " the Commission will not want to intervene to prevent the Bill from being fully operative or to prevent the gap in the reinsurance market from being closed. There is another difficulty for the Government, who are setting the premiums for the insurance companies through Pool Reinsurance. The hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Mr. Deva), who has left the Chamber, asked the Minister about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Automated Credit Transfers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "been thinkable prior to the developments of recent years. I agree with the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Olner) that if it were Government policy to close rural sub-post offices it would be a foolish policy. That is not our policy. Curiously enough, there has been much community of interest and agreement in the debate, and it has in many ways been similar to the previous debate in which I starred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-13", "file": "debates1993-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c83d53775ec2478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Automated Credit Transfers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ep small rural post offices open, particularly in areas where changing shopping patterns have been threatening their viability. As I come to the question of the Post Office review, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley, who dealt with the matter in the context of his extremely scattered constituency, which I know well as I spent some time there in a by-election not long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-13a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman is filibustering.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Gentleman come to the subject of the new clause?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1049.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1050.7", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Illegally. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ill be enacted, so that instead of the present state of limbo we can protect those people who need it —small shopkeepers who are being exploited as a result of the big five being allowed to violate the law, open on Sunday and profit from it. I read an article in yesterday's Daily Mail on Sainbury's profits. David Sainsbury said that part of the profits had accrued as a result of trading on Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1050.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "ert the variation suggested by the Shopping Hours Reform Council or to leave the Bill in its present form? I believe that it is mature enough and has been sufficiently amended. I hope that this will not be taken as a personal attack, but I must draw attention to a feature of my right hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame A. Rumbold), who was a valued member of the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1062.6", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a red herring.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "ho referred to tropical fish? He was clearly misreading the Bill, probably mischievously. All that is mentioned in connection with tropical fish is the fact that they can be part of the principal goods sold, which must amount to 80 per cent. of the trade. Any other kind of product, including coldwater fish, can be sold as part of the remaining 20 per cent. Please let us not have misrepresentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stay away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "o to be aware of that. What is the obstacle? In another place, there are many Members on both sides of the House and on the Cross Benches with enormous experience who can contribute to the Bill. I am not talking about the Bench of Bishops; my views do not stem from a sabbatarian stance—far from it. I do not want, and never have wanted, a high street Sunday. I do not want Saturday to be replicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1079.10", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I must get on. I promised to be brief, and I have already gone on for far too long —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1079.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-14", "file": "debates1993-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed49584fae4350c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "that he would table an amendment so that a vote could be taken. This is a democracy, we are meeting on a Friday and every one of the 651 Members of Parliament has been informed that the debate is to take place today. Therefore, bearing in mind the decisions taken this afternoon, will you, Madam Deputy Speaker, accept a motion from me that we should now proceed to take the Third Reading of my Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-14a.1101.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.4.7", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Leader of the Plaid Cymru", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.4.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "That is a very good point. I am happy to be able to say that from April next year we are prepared to set a target of two years from referral by general practitioners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowls", "preceding_text": "I agree with what my hon. Friend has said about the facilities for excellence. Does he agree that the base for sport depends on the very basic availability of land, especially playing fields? In the past, that has been threatened by local authorities that have sold playing fields. That practice must be stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " a net contributor to the Treasury, rather than a net taker. One must take one's hat off to the Rugby Union and, indeed, to the Scottish Rugby Union and the Welsh Rugby Union, because they have stood on their own feet—they have had recourse to public funds only in a minor way. They have got their house in order, and their sport is popular. Contrary to popular opinion, it is still an amateur sport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.115.7", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "We have been treated to a disgraceful performance from the Minister by any standards. He rattled through a few nonsensical remarks and is not willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.115.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "e then that the amendment would rehybridise the Bill, but that he has since had further education and elucidation from Government legal advisers? Was the Minister perhaps not using the 22-carat sincerity for which he is famous when he said, \"No, Sir\" to the Standing Committee last July? There must be some explanation. The Minister seems remarkably reluctant to give it—I put it no higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "ed the summer reshuffle. We do not know. Let us explain how the rehybridisation, which is a relatively rare parliamentary life form, comes about. It comes about largely as a result of the way in which the old private Bill meshed with the new Government-backed hybrid Bill. We have had four Bills on the Cardiff bay barrage—two private and two public. I shall not go through the whole history tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "sible so as to cause the least stir possible. That brings up the question how jealous we should be of the rights of petitioners and of our rights, but the former most of all. If the Government had done their homework properly, after the Secretary of State's groundwater expert had given his advice, they would have known that the city council would need additional powers to slit trenches underneath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ation as \"exhausted opposition\". I understand that that is what he said on Radio 2 the other day. He also said that tenders were going out shortly. That is an unwise remark for any promoter of a private or hybrid Bill to make. People should never presume about this House. The procedures of both Houses are based on the principle, \"It ain't over till the fat lady sings\", to paraphrase \"Erskine May\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-17", "file": "debates1993-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "652ed8a7a90345a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Did a doppelganger or lookalike turn up in Committee on the day concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-17a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.151.7", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "t international trade, which states that the dice are loaded against the consumer by the European Commission trade barriers and regulations which are costing billions of pounds extra every year, including £230 on a car, or £750 if it is imported into the Community, more than £1·2 billion extra on electronic goods and £17 per week on my grocery bill every time I push my trolley around Tesco?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.151.7", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": " if it is imported into the Community, more than £1·2 billion extra on electronic goods and £17 per week on my grocery bill every time I push my trolley around Tesco? [Interruption.] Yes, and Norma. Will my right hon. Friend assure the House and, more important, consumers outside the House that he will stamp on that tremendous waste and tell the European Community to put its house in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Sir Cecil has agreed to see the parents of the children, and that is welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Should not the nature of the powers be a matter for the Government's responsibility, not a matter for Sir Cecil Clothier? Was not the trial concerned with quite different issues than what is concerned here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is it not inappropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " not inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and to be asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be a subject of the inquiry? Is it not totally unsatisfactory, as a solicitor for the parents has pointed out, that the Secretary of State for Health has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than to those of the parents of the children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that, on reflection, the right hon. and learned Gentleman might be ashamed of some of the things he just said. We want a rigorous and swift inquiry. We want an inquiry that will deal with the most important aspect of all, which is one that gets at the truth, not one that just raises party political points. My right hon. Friend has established such an inquiry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "ems of streetwalking and pimps. In the parts of London with which I am familiar, the problem is reaching epidemic proportions. The problems are complex. Almost any woman can be harassed. It could be a woman walking along the street, going to or from her home. In my area of Stamford Hill, even women taking children to school at 9 o'clock in the morning are propositioned. It is a serious harassment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The problem causes not just embarrassment, but fear. I know that that is a joke to Conservative Members, but it is not a joke for women or for Labour Members. Ordinary women taking their children to school are propositioned by men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I have always admired and enjoyed the sense of humour of the hon. Gentleman, but I am certainly not looking to him for sympathy and I do not expect my party to look to the Labour party for sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-18", "file": "debates1993-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "2be9c3bd2966634a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "have hitherto prevented us from allowing that information to go to every household. I also think that my right hon. Friends should not take the consistent voting of hon. Members for that Bill and treaty to imply agreement or assent to the rather rhetorical and exaggerated expectations about European union that exist in certain European countries. I have no time for the concept of a European union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-18a.171.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.233.6", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I should certainly be willing to apologise to the hon. Gentleman if the letter makes it quite clear that those hon. Members were willing to see the closure of mines as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Following the exchange rate mechanism debacle eight months ago, which cost Britain about £2 billion, are not higher prices now in the pipeline? Is not that reflected by commodity price rises? Timber is up 126 per cent., sugar 46 per cent., coffee 38 per cent., beef—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.235.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw. [Interruption.]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I have the forms here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "erhand dealings which I suspect are the truth of the matter. The Prime Minister is now offering assurances of his commitment to retain a national network of post offices. The hon. Member for Bedfordshire, South-West (Mr. Madel) is reported in The Times today as saying: that clear statement … will dispel all anxiety\". I must tell the Secretary of State that all anxiety will not be dispelled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "preceding_text": "udget he said that the Chancellor would introduce taxation on invalidity benefit then and there. He was wrong. Now he forecasts that we are about to close rural post offices. I have news for the hon. Gentleman, which will be no surprise to my hon. Friends. He is wrong again. I challenge him to name one scare story that he has told about my Department since he has had that job, which has come true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I will answer that question in the second part of my remarks. This is the pledge that we made in our manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have already appealed for the Secretary of State to be given a fair hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "There was no such pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": "eat advantage tonight is that the Government will withdraw their proposals to privatise the counters network. The Government could justify their U-turn readily by saying that it is already privatised. That is a wonderful get-out for the Government. The door is open and we would all welcome them going through it. However, the Government have already today chosen to make war on the sub-post offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " Westoe colliery, where work stopped just 10 days ago. We are talking about male unemployment of more than 33 per cent. in a big borough—not a small town—of 150,000 people. That will be the effect. I realise that Conservative Members are not interested in unemployment, especially in the north-east of England. I am dealing with figures not for wards or for towns but for a large travel-to-work area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "I was in the Royal Air Force, and it seems to me that the Opposition spokesman is a pathfinder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the hon. Gentleman the precise date, because it was only a few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "r the important European fighter aircraft has given work on the development phase to some 300 United Kingdom-based companies. I was not surprised by the big cheer and the warm reception that greeted my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister when he visited the aerospace workers of Lancashire at British Aerospace's Warton factory last month, given all that he has done for the EFA and Tornado exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "fy the procedures, and we have small and medium-sized companies very much in mind. The Opposition spoke about a defence diversification agency. There is no serious merit in that wonderful wheeze. They say that the Americans do it, but they should look at some of the reactions of the Administration to the initiative that has been lodged. For example, The Wall Street Journal had a full-page article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "preceding_text": "e British Army—the tried four-by-four trucks that are in use in Bosnia. I am saddened to see such a national resource of a tried piece of equipment being thrown into jeopardy because the Government are unwilling, through party dogma, to support the companies that produce that equipment. I am not asking for subsidies, but I am asking for positive financial help to allow those companies to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-19", "file": "debates1993-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d78db04d909fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Sunderland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "hat. Some good inward investment projects are in prospect, and my Department and the Northern Development Company are pursuing them energetically for the north-east. Opposition Members were dismissive of a package of measures such as that which I describe. Enterprise zones and other special regional initiatives have been most successful in helping to attract new investment in the wake of closures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-19a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": " gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick). It would be wrong to reveal in advance of further confidential talks the outline proposals which the Government may table as a basis for discussion. I shall seek to set a direction and focus to resumed talks by tabling proposals which seem most likely to build usefully on the progress made last year towards agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "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 really should not peddle those scare stories and frighten people. I have made it absolutely clear that we shall protect vulnerable members of society. \"We should be prepared to re-examine everything; I have not ruled anything out\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "arly welcome to hon. Members with London constituencies. It will be a joint venture with the private sector and my hon. Friend will be pleased to know that the Second Reading of the Crossrail Bill will take place in the House next month. Crossrail will obviously make a dramatic difference to London's transport system, as will the Jubilee line extension, to which the Government are also committed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.368.4", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome part of my hon. Friend's question: I share his pleasure at the fall in unemployment. We now have the right conditions which I hope will lead to a consistent fall in unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.368.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend hardly needs me to say that I am sympathetic to his proposition. Indeed, I had thought of making similar comments in response to the previous question. I am glad to say that, just before coming here this afternoon, I had the pleasure of being present at a function—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend hardly needs me to say that I am sympathetic to his proposition. Indeed, I had thought of making similar comments in response to the previous question. I am glad to say that, just before coming here this afternoon, I had the pleasure of being present at a function— [interruption.] —related to the motor industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must move on.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "We do not want our economy to suffer from the high costs that are causing such harm to the German economy at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I would say, \"Watch that space.\" That is not what is happening at the moment. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "lieve the Community to be in some way a conspiracy by wily and over-clever foreigners to outwit us. That is not how the rest of Europe sees it. As it happens, and without any leading from me, one European Foreign Minister told me this week that, having thought about it, he thought that 40 per cent. of the intellectual content of the Community today owed its origin to my noble Friend Lady Thatcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "n's attacks on European employers were a bit rich also. I shall remind him of what a European Conservative conference had to say about the position that he was trying so ineffectively to defend. The meeting was the conference of the European people's parties heads of government and party leaders, so I assume that either the Foreign Secretary or his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.398.5", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "an Committee of the Regions as yet another home for their business and political friends. We passed amendments on the accountability of the Bank of England, on co-ordination of economic policies and ECOFIN, on requiring comparative assessment of the United Kingdom's economic performance and on convergence and the assessment of Government deficits. I do not exaggerate the importance of those gains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.398.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. In Britain alone, the social chapter will not apply, and that is why we cannot support the Bill. That is why, on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends in the shadow Cabinet, I urge Labour Members to abstain in the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Denmark.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I heard the hon. Gentleman. He said that if the French had another referendum they would lose it. Then he said that the referendum in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ing that it has done so out of wickedness; it was out of a lack of self-confidence. I do not think that members of Labour's Front Bench would have even two ideas about what to do with the economy if they came to power, other than with a central bank. I say this with some regret, but a series of sound bites glued together and called an economic policy is not an economic policy. That is the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "scouraged—even withdrawn—if we continue with Maastricht or let Maastricht overcome our thinking. My experience is exactly the opposite. As a director of an Anglo-Japanese company in this country, I have many Japanese connections here and in Japan. I can say absolutely that my entire experience of those people is that they are interested in Britain because Britain is playing a major role in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "industry policy for Europe, a technology policy for Europe and a training and skills policy for Europe. With regard to the public expenditure criteria, I believe that my right hon. Friend would agree that the Labour party has led the way in calling for a flexible examination and assessment of the spending criteria. It is interesting that we are now receiving support from other countries in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ieving the inflation objective has been established\"— said Mr. Lightfoot. Demand growth over any recovery will outstrip supply potential… Potential output has been harmed by the recession to a very great extent… Much of the fiscal deficit is permanent. Mr. Lightfoot seemingly knows the department and dimension of the hole in the Government's affairs that the Home Secretary described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d: We are forced to conclude that the United Kingdom is once again embarked on a roller coaster of stop-go economic policies which will do long-term harm to the growth potential of the United Kingdom economy. If that were not enough, what about the comments of the Financial Secretary? I do not think that people have realised the significance of the speech that he made only a few days ago. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " economy. If that were not enough, what about the comments of the Financial Secretary? I do not think that people have realised the significance of the speech that he made only a few days ago. He said— [Interruption.] I think that the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) should listen to what a Minister of the Crown has said about the policies pursued by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ight, however, is not the Single European Act but the Maastricht treaty—and the treaty has a clear-cut protocol that unambiguously takes this country out of the social chapter. No one should underestimate the potential threat that the social chapter poses. It is a really worrying attempt by Europe… to try to rebuild in Britain the things that we have dismantled over the past 12 to 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-20", "file": "debates1993-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "7ca0d60de5bcccc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " just isn't funny. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East likes to boast of his principled stand on Europe. In the endless profiles and interviews in the Sunday newspapers, he always tells how he voted against his party for our entry into the Common Market, and in off-the-record briefings he tells how he has lectured his party on how to be pro-European. Where are his principles now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-20a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-21", "file": "debates1993-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "329f9598b242cff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-21a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology (Mr. Edward Leigh)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology (Mr. Edward Leigh)", "preceding_text": "s commitment to the importance of privatisation, I plugged the United Kingdom's unrivalled expertise in that sphere. It is now up to United Kingdom business to fight for its share, and I have no doubt that it will come out winning. The Opposition may not like that, but we have a worldwide record in successfully introducing privatisation. As a result, our companies are winning in the world markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-21a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-21", "file": "debates1993-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "329f9598b242cff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-21a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "RM would be advantageous for Britain's exporters. It seems that he does not intend to respond. Will any other Conservative Member defend the position? As I say, the immediate short-term increase in exports has been largely due to the fact that Britain devalued, giving us a competitive currency rate. I must move on because it is clear that the Minister is not keen to enter the debate about the ERM—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-21a.491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "recommended that the road should be covered if it went through Oxleas wood but that, since the inspectors' reports, the British Road Federation has said that if the bridge which would help Newham and perhaps Thamesmead were built, the road through Oxleas wood would not be needed and that, in line with the Government's east Thames corridor proposals, the road should go towards the M25 and Dartford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " provisions of the appropritate directive. It is, incidentally, on a basis with which the Government have consistently disagreed. I see no reason, therefore, why what the EC has said should have had any impact on the route. On publication, the hon. Lady will know that such communications between the Commission and the Governments of member states are always treated as confidential by both parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "it right—nor did any other country of which I am aware —to deploy ground troops in a combat rule because this was and is a civil war. Civil wars cannot be resolved by the application of external force. As to the future, we do not accept that the land seized by the Bosnian Serbs will remain theirs. That is why we intend to keep the sanctions on until there is a withdrawal from territories occupied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "An essential point is involved in this argument, which I hope the Secretary of State will clarify. The pension scheme will still be a closed fund; it will simply be managed by the industry fund. Assets will be allocated to existing pensioners, but they will not continue in the broad strength of the industry fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "which acknowledged the Government's position on so many of the issues in our final pension proposal, agreed and announced last week. However, that greatly contrasted with his quite outrageous remarks on \"Newsnight\" on Friday night and on \"Breakfast with Frost\" yesterday. He repeated some of those comments in his later remarks today. He said on \"Newsnight\"—I shall leave out a tiny bit of the quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "living increases for pensioners from some early BR schemes that had no provision for index linking. The method of payment of Government support was changed by the Transport Act 1980 because the Public Accounts Committee criticised the previous system, particularly on the ground that it involved payments being made in advance of need. Payments are therefore currently made on an emerging cost basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "orrectly, in economic newspapers. People may not have gone all the way and called it theft, but there were reports that the Government were attempting to get their hands on the BR pension fund. The newspapers raised the issue that if the Government got away with the BR pension fund, they would then attack the coal fund and the Post Office fund. The Opposition are always accused of scaremonger-ing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "al debate what I have identified as option 3—which we tabled as an amendment in Committee. Many thousands of pensioners agreed with that option. We made it clear that any consultation process should include option 3 rather than be limited to options 1 and 2. We called on railway pensioners to sign in favour of option 3—including my father, who lives in Chester, and is one of the fund's pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "mbers who support the Bill, know full well that franchises will be awarded to the lowest bidder. In those circumstances, there is no real guarantee of value for money. If the franchisee runs half a dozen trains during a day at a time that suits him or her, he or she will be able to put in a far lower bid than someone who wants to run a comprehensive day and evening service. Without some guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.648.2", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "pect of getting value for money, and in transparency, by allocating the subsidies in the way that we propose. However, the subsidies will continue. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East also referred to inadequate finances, although he conceded that the current level of PSO is twice the level of recent years. He will be aware that the currrent level is much higher than for a very long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "preceding_text": "ubt the Minister will politely correct me if I make some mistakes. I am strongly in favour of the Bill and I hope that I am not the only hon. Member who takes that view. If I were not strongly in favour, I would certainly have landed the Government with a poisoned chalice. Perhaps I have done that. The Bill will bring long-term benefits to my constituents and to rail travellers in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ilway services the minimum restrictions which are consistent with the performance of his functions under this Part\". In individual cases, the regulator will have to decide which of the duties assigned to him is most important. Clearly, the functions contain nothing about the fare levels, although clause 4(1)(a) contains the general statement: to protect the interests of users of railway services\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.674.6", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. I shall not speak for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.674.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.685.17", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": ".Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I will be brief but will explain the reasons for these amendments, which all relate to the franchising director's ability to form companies, to fulfil his duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.685.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "o do so on a number of occasions. We shall have to see some examples before we can have a full understanding. The bottom line seems to be that the Government are prepared to pay subsidies for anything that is not operating costs. The operators are expected to provide the fuel and the running costs, but subsidies could make up the difference between what the commercial provider is prepared to give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "he House—they are announced outside. I have been told that there is an important development on the issue of leasing. As hon. Members know, I have been an advocate of financed leasing for a long time. When this Government and the last Labour Government would not accept it, I thought that at least I would have had an opportunity in the House to see how this Government approach the issue of leasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "asing. I have differed from him, largely because he thinks that it is possible for British Rail as a nationalised industry to lease rolling stock and not be caught by conventional public expenditure definitions. That is not possible. This is the way forward and I look forward to debating the matter at much greater length—perhaps for the full time of an Adjournment debate or on some other occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-24", "file": "debates1993-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "8af45e72f36055b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "lectrification scheme. Sacrifices have been made, but not to the same extent by the Government, who should bring the matter to a certain conclusion by providing up-to-date rolling stock for what will be a modernised railway with high commuter use at peak times. The Minister may be emollient and smooth over our discussions in his usual way, but under his smoothness beats a sturdy, right-wing heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-24a.719.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.736.7", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the abolition of wages councils will create jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.736.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "aw a number of points from the three questions asked by the hon. Gentleman. He used the base of 1990. If one uses the base of July 1986 for this constituency, unemployment was 6,217. In April 1993, unemployment was 4,329, which is a reduction of more than 30 per cent. I thought that even the hon. Gentleman would have recognised that. We will take no lectures from Labour Members about pit closures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it any wonder that other Common Market countries have marginally better figures of employment than Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I can say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "es to talking about the price that the British people must pay, the hon. Lady must count as some kind of expert. I have been looking back at something said by her hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Miss Lestor) some time ago: I will not take lessons in Left wing unity from Margaret Beckett. She was the person who went into the 1976 Labour government to implement the cuts over which I had resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye\".", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it the wish of the House that leave be given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "We know what the Labour party is seeking under the new clause—no change. It wants to continue with British Rail as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "d not. I am the first to acknowledge the considerable improvements that have been made in British Rail in recent years and the organising for quality initiative and the move to profit centres have helped. A new group of senior managers have benefited from those changes and are keen to take advantage of the opportunities that privatisation offers and to take up franchises under management buy-outs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.785.7", "colnum": "785", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much. The third option would mean that people would bid not as a management buy-out or as a separate management, but as part of BR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.785.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": " employee buy-outs too must also be considered, and as private applicants. We would welcome them. There is general agreement about that. British Rail, however, should be allowed to be a bidder on the same basis as everyone else, bearing in mind the tremendous improvements that it has made in its operations and management, despite having been underfunded for years by a malevolent and mean Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.802.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "indicated assent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "the size and responsibilities of that committee are different. I give my right hon. Friend a clear assurance that, because we have accepted the text of the two amendments, we shall re-table them in another place with the appropriate extension to cover the LRPC, which will make the amendments effective. I cannot be clearer in the assurance that I give my right hon. Friend and my other hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misinformed because if he casts his mind back a couple of years he will see, if he studies the figures fairly, that the PSO grant was increased in mid-year for two years running as a result of the recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "rence to the future of the Ravenscraig steel plant. We were accused of scaremongering. Indeed, Ministers adduced a host of reasons to suggest that privatisation would assist the future of Ravenscraig. We found what we suspected: that privatisation was used as an excuse for the Government to wash their hands of responsibility for the future of the steel industry. The privatisation process was used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "or points. First, may I ask for reassurance from my right hon. Friend that where it is appropriate vertical integration of rolling stock and infrastructure will be allowed under the franchise system? Secondly, can he please give us some indication of the Government's attitude towards the future funding of British Rail, since British Rail itself will remain responsible for quite a large proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ket. It would take a sage or a very unwise prophet to forecast when that overhang will disappear. If I were looking for an argument for saying that it was a propitious time, I should argue, first, that there has been a significant increase in Community-directed support to farmers and, secondly, that the depreciation of the pound has added an unlooked-for supplement to that, which has been a bonus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "leman is a potato producer and does not rear sheep. That is the view of the animal welfare lobby, the trade association to the animal medicines industry, the British Wool Federation and a number of other bodies which regard themselves as experts. The only people who do not agree with the argument are Ministers, who do not want to fork out taxpayers' money to maintain the guarantee into the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": " spent some time with my sheep farmers in the Hallworthy market in Cornwall on Friday. Of course, it is true that the proportion of their farm income is less than it was five or 10 years ago, but that does not mean that it is totally worthless; I suspect that some hon. Members, if they suddenly found that 10 per cent. of their income were removed, would still feel that that was an appreciable sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-25", "file": "debates1993-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "24f5a32ecf27ca86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": " It may well be that in some areas—where Conservative Members represent comparatively large farms—this will not be a major problem; but for Liberal Democrat Members who represent a large number of smaller sheep farmers, it will represent a substantial cut in their incomes. Whether it is 5 or 10 per cent. is neither here nor there for those who are already making very small profits, or none at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-25a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.918.6", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "When considering the powers of local authorities, will my right hon. and learned Friend give some thought to the needs of people who live in areas such as Hackney and Lambeth, which are bywords for inefficiency and incompetence and, often, for corruption? Given the fact that Lambeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.918.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "When considering the affairs of local authorities with the Association of County Councils, will my right hon. and learned Friend ascertain whether it has ever discussed local authorities' input with regard to security in prisons in their areas? Is he aware that yesterday five prisoners—serious offenders—escaped from Saughton prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "The actual wording in the Bill is \"official language\". I believe that that means status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "come part of an Act of Parliament are correct. As a lawyer, the hon. Gentleman will understand that it was subsequently discovered that the words used in the original Welsh Language Act 1967 had a different effect from that which the Ministers who introduced the Bill expected. One of the reasons why the present Bill is required is to amend the original Act. I do not want to leave to my successors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " correct. As a lawyer, the hon. Gentleman will understand that it was subsequently discovered that the words used in the original Welsh Language Act 1967 had a different effect from that which the Ministers who introduced the Bill expected. One of the reasons why the present Bill is required is to amend the original Act. I do not want to leave to my successors— [Interruption] —in many years' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time to go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "nd that it was subsequently discovered that the words used in the original Welsh Language Act 1967 had a different effect from that which the Ministers who introduced the Bill expected. One of the reasons why the present Bill is required is to amend the original Act. I do not want to leave to my successors— [Interruption] —in many years' time— [Interruption] —the need to pass amending legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "se will place on the chairman of the board and its members. Therefore, the chairman will need to be a person of many talents, not the least of which is the ability to follow in the footsteps of so able a predecessor as John Elfed Jones. I am pleased to be able to announce to the House that the Prime Minister has agreed that Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas will be the first chairman of the statutory board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " can find colleagues who will be able to communicate as well as he does with some groups in the industrial areas of Wales, where perhaps the battle will be won or lost. We take that view not only because we represent those areas but because that is where the language has been declining. We shall not go back into the question of the Committee of the Regions and the deal on the treaty of Maastricht.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "preceding_text": "re past and dead. It would be startling and shocking if we were told that Wales was dead and past or even that the Welsh language was dead and past. Let us examine the provisions of the Laws in Wales Acts. Section 1 of the 1535 Act says: That his said countrey or dominion of Wales shal be stonde and contynue for [ever]…incorporated united and annexed to and with this his realme of Englande.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-26", "file": "debates1993-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "33fb14eb122fb23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "iety of wide-ranging declarations of principle has been suggested in the debate, and I am concerned that they would introduce uncertainty into the Bill's provisions. That could only be resolved by recourse to the courts. It would not further the cause of the language to turn it into a legal battlefield. I, for one, do not want our language to be murdered with legal niceties by sharp-faced lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-26a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-27", "file": "debates1993-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "050982de1d06b06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-27a.1029.2", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "They are the rights enshrined in our parliamentary democracy; I will seek to expand on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-27a.1029.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-27", "file": "debates1993-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "050982de1d06b06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-27a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The figure of 1,000 or so was arrived at through various planning models. It has been discussed and generally agreed with many clinicians through the internal consultation process, and it is in line with the overall Scottish figure to which I have referred. In the two minutes or so remaining to me, I emphasise that the whole exercise is not about saving money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-27a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-05-27", "file": "debates1993-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "050982de1d06b06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-27a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "m (Mr. Jessel) for securing the debate, which is extremely valuable—indeed, crucial—to the people of west London. In referring to the interests of the people of west London, I shall bear my own constituents most particularly in mind. I am sorry to say that air pollution in Ealing is among the most serious in the country. Ealing is a beautiful place and is rightly known as the queen of the suburbs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-05-27a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than compensated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "f the increase in the cost of living that comes through in all benefits in the subsequent November. We will have extra help in the pockets of people in the most vulnerable groups at the time when the increased cost comes through. My right hon. Friend made it quite clear in that interview that he had referred to the additional money that we have already put in people's pockets from April this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend voices a widespread belief, which is not entirely unfounded, that Japanese business scours the world for free ideas. One has to say, who can blame them?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH LANGUAGE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "is a sort of viceroy in Wales, covering many Departments. It was surprising that the former Secretary of State, who was born in Wales, should have thought it right to be transferred to another Department to which many Welsh Members, had any of them been Secretary of State for Wales, would have been reluctant to move. The new Secretary of State will have been in the House for 10 years on Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.96.6", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH LANGUAGE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": " the rules of the House must be amended to meet the convenience of the governing party and his convenience as Secretary of State. However, I wish him well in his tenure of office, as the powers that he has are immensely important to my country. In the same way as we co-operated, where it was possible to do so, with his predecessors, we shall always do so where the interests of Wales are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.96.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH LANGUAGE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the hon. Gentleman raising a pont of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH LANGUAGE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, I thank the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) for wishing him a few years in office", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-07", "file": "debates1993-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "654c9e2ae6cb33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "ed the wrong kind of role models for these impressionable youngsters, who will view these hardened and persistent offenders as living proof that they will not be punished if they carry on offending. Rather than a deterrent, community sentences are effectively encouraging youngsters to pursue a career in crime. Do not get me wrong. I am not advocating a policy of throwing every criminal into prison", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-07a.120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.127.11", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms Eagle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another rumour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Eagle", "preceding_text": "The Minister will not need reminding of the link between drug misuse and the increased threat of HIV and AIDS infection. Does he agree that the shortfall in funding indentified by my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk, East (Mr. Connarty) has already increased anxiety about that? Would the Minister care to comment on the persistent rumour that the Government intend to announce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.127.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "My interest is my constituency of Ealing, North. My concern is that people should not be put back into the community from psychiatric institutions without proper preparation for that and without proper housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "There are clear agreements with the profession about the way in which fund holding operates. The answer for the general practitioner involved is either to become a fund holder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No doubt in the hubbub, the right hon. and learned Gentleman did not hear what I said to him. I made it clear that my hon. Friend approached the Attorney-General—following an approach from a constituent who was then an adviser to Mr. Nadir—18 months ago. That was entirely proper. Let me equally make it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "ABB Transportation Ltd. (Redundancies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley (York)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley (York)", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the 896 redundancies announced yesterday by ABB Transportation Ltd.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Infertility Services", "cue_speaker": "Ms Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " living in our constituencies. Let me give an example of the type of problem that is faced by couples. Mary is 37 years old. She has been to see her GP with her husband Jack, who is in the Navy. They have been married for 14 years and have never managed to have a child. In the early 1980s, they put it down to the fact that Jack was always away. It has always been difficult to sort out the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Prevention of Terrrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not understand the hon. Member for Antrim, North to say that the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup was deliberately telling lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Prevention of Terrrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Antrim, North said that he never went near Sunningdale. I saw him myself in Sunningdale and talked to him there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Crossrail Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": " means of transport. No doubt the directors of the then Great Western railway saw an opportunity to extend their trains to the City. Hon. Members will be surprised to know that, until 1939, trains ran from Southall to Paddington, where an electric locomotive was put on and people were taken through to Aldgate. It is not a new idea. I see that the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Crossrail Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": " are embarking on now, whereby the running of trains, the management of track, finance, the return on capital and the operation of joint stations—which there is bound to be with London Transport or whatever remains of it—will be complicated? Will we have in the centre of London the problems that are spread around the country and that are implicit in the legislation that we have been contemplating?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-08", "file": "debates1993-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "c61eb0116ae53d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Killingbeck Hospital, Leeds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "I can say only that all representations will be fully considered. As a result of this debate, I am fully aware of the strength of feeling that exists about both proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-08a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "tto which guides their actions. There are 800,000 people in Scotland on income support—that is one sixth of the population—and half of them are likely to be children living on the margins of society. What future do those impoverished children face? No doubt, they will join the 8,700 16 and 17-year-olds who have been rendered destitute by the Government's failure and by their youth training scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"All to Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend recognise that the excellence of the health service in Scotland and elsewhere is such that people now, God willing, enjoy a much longer life? Is that not vividly illustrated by the fact that, in her first year on the throne Her Majesty the Queen sent 210 telegrams to 100-year-olds, and that last year she sent 2,800 congratulatory telegrams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.267.6", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "There has been no increase in senior management numbers in the health service; there has merely been a redefinition of the number of positions previously allocated to staff groups but now separately identified. As for the hon. lady's general point about cuts, there have been been no cuts in the health service or in provision for the health service in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.267.6", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " numbers in the health service; there has merely been a redefinition of the number of positions previously allocated to staff groups but now separately identified. As for the hon. lady's general point about cuts, there have been been no cuts in the health service or in provision for the health service in Scotland. [Laughter.] The hon. lady laughs. She is clearly incapable of reading the figures. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "All health boards in Scotland provide infertility services, the extent and level of which are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruptioni.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman brings to our attention the parlous state of our public finances. What we need to do above all is to deal with public finances, bring down unemployment and get back on course for economic growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members on both sides of the House must settle down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Those words could not be much clearer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Those words could not be much clearer", "preceding_text": "ecretly planned; not only will they totally overturn all the solemn assurances given by the Prime Minister before the election, but they will gravely undermine the crucial public services which are vital to the security and well-being of millions of our fellow citizens. Will the axe fall on pensioners entitled to exemptions from prescription charges, which are now at a record £4·25 an item?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Those words could not be much clearer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Those words could not be much clearer", "preceding_text": "rom prescription charges, which are now at a record £4·25 an item? [Interruption.] That may be amusing for Conservative Members, but it is not for millions of people who are gravely worried that it might occur. Will it be hotel charges of £30 a night for overnight stays in hospital? Will it be a payment for visits to GPs or, as predicted in The Guardian of 5 June, will there be savage cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "What are you frightened about? Why will you not answer a question on the nepotism and corruption on Monklands district council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": " of my right hon. Friend, but I have to say to my right hon. Friend—I believe, from our many discussions, that it is a view he shares—that what is more important than the institutional arrangements is the underlying policy that is actually being followed. On that, I do not believe that an independent central bank would have brought down inflation any more rapidly than we have been able to achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "gements is the underlying policy that is actually being followed. On that, I do not believe that an independent central bank would have brought down inflation any more rapidly than we have been able to achieve. [Interruption.] That is something for which I am happy to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend. Also, I entirely share my right hon. Friend's vision of the economic goals of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "ght down inflation any more rapidly than we have been able to achieve. [Interruption.] That is something for which I am happy to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend. Also, I entirely share my right hon. Friend's vision of the economic goals of this Government— [Interruption.] —and of the difficult path that we have had to follow to achieve and maintain low inflation and restore sustainable growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": " achieve. [Interruption.] That is something for which I am happy to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend. Also, I entirely share my right hon. Friend's vision of the economic goals of this Government— [Interruption.] —and of the difficult path that we have had to follow to achieve and maintain low inflation and restore sustainable growth— [Interruption.] —and employment. My right hon. Friend and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tember last year. We worked together towards objectives that we shared, and we were always agreed as to our main goals: low inflation, sustainable economic growth, an increase in prosperity for all our people as medium and long-term objectives. I believe that history will look favourably on my right hon. Friend's economic and financial skills, but a strong Government need political skills as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend explain why, if the Opposition are sincerely worried about the disadvantaged people of this country, they demand more and more overseas aid, day in, day out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Budget forecast—that, after the Budget, unemployment will rise this month, next month and for months afterwards\".—[ Official Report , 17 March 1993, Vol. 221, c. 289.] One day later, unemployment fell. The next month, it fell again, and the next month, it fell again. Another sound bite is needed, I think. The recession has been damaging, and recovery has not come easily, but it is now under way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members must come to order. The bawling and shouting coming from the Back Benches this afternoon is utterly disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d wholly owned subsidiary of the trade unions, Labour Members will sit on that side of the Chamber. I shall tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East why he and his party fail to convince even the leader of the union that sponsors him. It is because Labour is a party without policies and without principles that it will remain, in the short and the long term, a party without power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will hon. Members leaving the Chamber please do so quickly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rds, but those of the right hon. Gentleman—and a Government who lack direction. The right hon. Member for Kingston upon Thames has shown—more clearly than the words of any Opposition Member could have done—what lies at the heart of the Government of this country. The Conservative party is riven by a virulent civil war, and is without a leader who can mark any kind of course forward for the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "y illusions about public confidence in the Labour party and the policies that it has espoused over the past 14 years. In particular, they should have no illusions about the extent to which Conservative values are now shared. Those values are now shared more widely than ever before among the electorate, particularly values concerning the delivery of high-quality public services and value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " and his Cabinet have lost their way and their sense of direction. What has been the Prime Minister's reaction in the past few weeks? It is certainly not to turn up at events where he should be to answer debates that he has been involved in. What change has come about as a result of the Prime Minister's recognition of the problems of the county council elections? Have we had a new industry policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "of direction. What has been the Prime Minister's reaction in the past few weeks? It is certainly not to turn up at events where he should be to answer debates that he has been involved in. What change has come about as a result of the Prime Minister's recognition of the problems of the county council elections? Have we had a new industry policy? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] A new deal for the unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " the past few weeks? It is certainly not to turn up at events where he should be to answer debates that he has been involved in. What change has come about as a result of the Prime Minister's recognition of the problems of the county council elections? Have we had a new industry policy? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] A new deal for the unemployed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Have they dropped rail privatisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "hould be to answer debates that he has been involved in. What change has come about as a result of the Prime Minister's recognition of the problems of the county council elections? Have we had a new industry policy? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] A new deal for the unemployed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Have they dropped rail privatisation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Have they thought again about coal privatisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " was the last to know at the last reshuffle, he—the Prime Minister—will be the last to know at the next reshuffle. Next time, it will not be the Prime Minister telling the Chancellor to go; it could be the Chancellor telling the Prime Minister to go. I can imagine how events will unfold, but the former Chancellor knows only too well. The Prime Minister may think it safe to relax and go to a party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " document makes that clear: One of my objectives, which has been discussed with the Chief Secretary\"— this comes from the Secretary of State for Social Security— is to curtail expenditure on benefit. We are talking about a Treasury-driven review to cut public expenditure, not in the interests of the sick and disabled but simply for the purpose of saving money at the expense of people who are sick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ritish Rail and london Underground. We have done all that. Funding for the roads programme has been maintained this year in spite of the fact that construction prices are much lower and allow for even more work to take place. We have given £750 million worth to the housing associations and investment in British Rail will be about £1,000 million this year. What was the Labour Government's reaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "urope, as it used to be, into, throughout and out of every parliamentary Session. That is not due only to the depreciation of sterling since September. Even in the recession, we are in a good position compared with many of our competitors, because productivity is increasing, earnings are growing at their lowest rate for 25 years and our costs are falling, whereas costs in our competitor countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer that quotation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I remember that occasion well. At the last election, before the Labour party moved on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for local Government and Planning (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for local Government and Planning (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "I do not blame you, Madam Speaker, for being slightly confused; I am fairly confused about this myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "He would not have been elected as a councillor. The Secretary of State said that the poll tax was by far and away the best alternative to domestic rates. He made a speech of 27 pages—I have every page of it with me, in case anybody doubts it—which began with the words The morality of the community charge\". He claimed in those 27 pages that the poll tax was \"morally superior\" to the domestic rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "dary in Harlow that a couple of years ago the Labour-controlled council—which has clear priorities in such matters—spent £28,000 on planting flowers on the roundabout in Harlow. The hon. Gentleman committed a sort of Freudian slip. The council has taken away its grant to the citizens advice bureau, while spending £130,000 on a photocopier. Is that the sort of council and the sort of policies that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "ernment and their capping. He was probably worried about more important matters—such as the crisis over the leadership of his party, the unions and perhaps his re-election to the shadow Cabinet—and overlooked one or two basic issues. Here are the facts. There was a swing to the Conservatives in Harlow of 2·1 per cent.—probably the only place in the whole country, apart from Buckinghamshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "c issues. Here are the facts. There was a swing to the Conservatives in Harlow of 2·1 per cent.—probably the only place in the whole country, apart from Buckinghamshire. [Interruption.] We are talking about democracy, but the Opposition do not want to listen to the facts. There was a swing against Labour of 4·3 per cent., which says it all. The people of Harlow will be very grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "uld have to pay more than £800 and people in band D more than £1,000. I have received hundreds of letters from pensioners on very low incomes just above income support who would have to pay £1,400 a year, and for what? That is what depresses me most of all. The hon. Member for Blackburn is an Essex man; he lives just down the road from where I used to live. He knows Essex and the people of Harlow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-09", "file": "debates1993-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a0319468968ee1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "£28,000 on flowers for one roundabout. It was not for the whole of Harlow, but for one roundabout. At the time, the council was saying that it had to close old people's homes and reduce provision for old people. The hon. Member for Blackburn would not answer questions about that, because he was too ashamed. The council closed down the citizens advice bureau, yet it spent £130,000 on a photocopier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-09a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.423.6", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this got to do with the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "May we on the Liberal Democrats' Bench welcome the two recruits to the ministerial team? We are also delighted to see the Parliamentary Secretary still in his place. We are delighted to see new faces in the team not least because we hope that they will review and reverse some of the disastrous policies of the previous team, especially in relation to welfare. We hope that the team —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking a question to which he perfectly well knows the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.429.9", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "us with his best interests at heart fear that he has made a major blunder by sacking the previous Chancellor who had taken all the flack on the exchange rate mechanism and the collapse of the economy? Now that the Government begin to resemble the hotel that collapsed and crumbled down the cliff face, bookmakers are offering odds against the Prime Minister leading his party into the next election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.429.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.430.9", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister understand that when he announced business as usual this morning he caused apprehension throughout the land? Do not his responses show that he is incapable of learning from anything or anyone? As his authority and that of the Government is now in tatters, will he for once put the national interest first and let the people decide in a general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.430.11", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Why will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.430.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.431.9", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Now that we have had an opportunity to see the 14-year-old test papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.431.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "preceding_text": "In view of the rising and sickening tide of racist attacks, may I ask the Prime Minister if he will join the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Regarding the hon. Gentleman's inadvertent slip, no, I have no intention of joining the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.432.7", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ase Vickers' Challenger 2 tanks, those exports will bring business securing many thousands of jobs in the British defence industry. Those orders testify to the excellence of the British defence industry, to the strength of its export performance and to the value of a close partnership between the Government and industry. That partnership produced record defence orders of over £5 billion last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.432.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Harry Barnes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "llions of pounds in wages and economic activity as a result of the closures. We need to know from the Government what form, speed and size of economic assistance will be made, and whether the Government back British Coal's vindictive attitude in calling the redundancies voluntary when they are compulsory. As the Leader of the House now understands, those miners will lose mortgage insurance rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Hamilton", "preceding_text": "portunity to work alongside the senior officers of our three armed services. I clearly ran the risk that the longer I stayed in the job, the more likely I was to be moved sideways to another that was less good. I have been both privileged and lucky, as anyone is, to serve in the Government. My resignation opens up new opportunities and possibilities for me, including the chance to spend more time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-10", "file": "debates1993-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "4792c04bc226c475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "ESTIMATES 1993–94", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "preceding_text": "ournalism has almost gone. It is not greatly in the business of conveying news. Where does the ordinary member of the public get his or her news? It is predominantly from the electronic media. I was brought up in a household in which the News Chronicle was a highly valued newspaper. It was greatly appreciated because it was a popular paper which informed and carried really effective news coverage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-10a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-11", "file": "debates1993-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b7d34382f1d7a34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is wholly right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-11", "file": "debates1993-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b7d34382f1d7a34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. May I draw your attention to serious developments over the past 24 hours in the debate on the future of invalidity benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-11", "file": "debates1993-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b7d34382f1d7a34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": " my point of order before the claque start to shout. These are serious developments for the future of invalidity benefit and the welfare state. We now know that fundamental changes—I think that is understating it—are contemplated to invalidity benefit eligibility with the intention of making sure that 20 per cent. of those who presently qualify will not qualify in future for the level of benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-11", "file": "debates1993-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b7d34382f1d7a34d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I shall, of course, come to it, but it is important to outline the basis upon which I seek your help. We know that eligibility and the level of benefits are to be attacked and that taxation is to be imposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-11a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-14", "file": "debates1993-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "102b6374a5d132f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She will not vote for you now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I do not often address one of my constituents in so direct a manner, but that was not the most knowledgeable question that the hon. Lady has ever asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-14", "file": "debates1993-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "102b6374a5d132f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.624.8", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's views on the matter are well known, and I take them seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.624.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-14", "file": "debates1993-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "102b6374a5d132f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I recall calling the hon. Gentleman to order previously on these matters. Hon. Members must question Government policy at Question Time. The hon. Gentleman has one more minute to have another go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.626.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-14", "file": "debates1993-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "102b6374a5d132f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.674.6", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ope of the Bill. If he is casting personal aspersions against me, he should withdraw them, but if he is casting aspersions against property owners in general, I should tell him that many hundreds of thousands of property owners are lessors, some of whom have only two properties. I know that almost all the investments of one hon. Member are in one leasehold property, which will now be enfranchised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-14a.674.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.722.6", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister had time to read the article in this magazine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.722.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.729.9", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "ll and courage and that they have consistently carried out the policy of distributing humanitarian aid for as long as it has been possible for them to do so? Does he further agree that the person to emerge from the recent crisis with the least credibility is the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown), who demanded further troop deployments and then immediately demanded that they be pulled out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.729.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "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 may occasionally care to comment on some of the people who may in the past have donated money to his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption..", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "What exactly is the Prime Minister going to do now that Lady Thatcher has effectively given him the kiss of death, Asil Nadir is overtaking him in the opinion polls and Sir Bernard Ingham tells us that the Tory party is behaving like a headless chicken? If the party is too chicken to take the necessary steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Bolsover has given many lessons back the other way to those on that Bench. The hon. and learned Member for Montgomery has once again confused the two issues that I tried to caution the House not to confuse right at the outset—the principle of collective bargaining and the issue whether an individual has the right to belong to a trade union. If one can separate those two issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I feel strongly that it is time that the trade union movement gave up shouting that he who pays the piper calls the tune.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.747.7", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "As I have already said, it is contrary to section 146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 for an employer to make it conditional on membership or non-membership of a trade union—trade union membership is the important point, and I am not talking about collective bargaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.747.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "It is on that point that the hon. Gentleman probably has the biggest problem understanding the situation. It is for employees to decide whether or not they wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "he purpose of providing jobs. Businesses exist for the purpose of engaging in economic activity, which provides people with work. When the activity ceases to be economic, the work disappears. Indeed, we have seen the disappearance of too many jobs in those circumstances. I do not believe, and I do not make the case, that every employer in this country is perfect. There are some very bad employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "actly what we should have. Those industries were riddled with restrictive practices and the hon. Gentleman voted against every piece of legislation introduced by this Government to clear out those practices. Perhaps he will say now whether he has changed his mind about his opposition to that legislation which has helped to make this country so much more productive now than it ever was in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I know that some TUC members are a bit slow, but they are not so slow as to use the days and weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": " little industrial experience. If my memory serves me right, the Opposition's three main economic teams—Treasury, Trade and Industry and Employment—contain practically no industrial experience. To be fair, I think that the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras once worked for the Central Electricity Generating Board, but there is otherwise little experience on the Labour Benches, which I regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "anies have for many years been able to sack employees who have gone on strike. There is nothing new in that. The amendment is mild in effect, and I do not believe that it will have the drastic consequences that Opposition Members are trying to suggest. We should consider the issues in the wider context of the massive improvements in industrial relations that have occurred during the past 14 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "an election manifesto and then there is everything that Ministers say afterwards. Apparently, only the manifesto constitutes a promise. Let us see what the Conservative election manifesto says about this issue. It says clearly: We will take measures to give individuals greater freedom in choosing a union\". That looks lovely in principle, but amendment No. 8 runs contrary to that manifesto promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "t the Tories are embarrassed, but it is more likely that they are bored because even they are getting fed up with bashing the unions, as they have done day in and day out for the past decade. I was interested to hear how the new Secretary of State would tackle the amendment with which he has been landed. He comes to the Department with a reputation for decency, generosity of spirit and liberalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-15", "file": "debates1993-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "ffd75a6e5db2903f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "e action taken must be reasonable in order to achieve the purpose in paragraph (a)? That purpose could be entirely unreasonable, but perhap that will not be considered, provided that the steps taken are themselves reasonable. In such circumstances, the test of reasonableness will relate not to the action taken by the employer against his employee, but to the steps that he takes to achieve his aim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-15a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.847.11", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.847.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "I do not harbour the illusion that the hon. Gentleman would have urged his right hon. and hon. Friends to vote for such an amendment had I tabled it. It is for the Government to make the regulations. They are well aware of representations that have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.902.2", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. That is a marvellous example of good practice, and we want to encourage it. That is why the requirement is in the Bill. But we want to get the balance right. We do not want to impose compulsorily on small businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.924.4", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "case. I hope that I have pronounced that correctly; I understood the Minister when he said that many a mickle makes a muckle, but my Greek is not quite up to his lowland Scots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.924.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " are trying to push through, with the help of my delightful and hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Lull), a Bill that will give even more power and responsibility to the EC, and want to hide the fact that businesses are being ruined and people are losing their jobs because of the acquired rights directive. No Government like to say, \"Give more power to this crowd,\" when jobs are being lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I promise that I shall not interrupt my hon. Friend again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "t's economic incompetence. The House would appreciate an assurance from the Minister that the Government have no plans to protect Lloyd's names and, by doing so, to protect the 47 Tory Members who apparently, according to press reports, are at risk of losing their seats and being disqualified for reasons of bankruptcy. An assurance from the Minister would relieve a great deal of press speculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.958.6", "colnum": "958", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "there should be a separation of powers to prevent a clash of interests. The Government do not always seem to understand that there might be such a clash of interests. Baroness Denton, referring to the 804 appointments at the Department of Trade and Industry, said, \"I cannot remember knowingly appointing a Labour supporter.\" The Government rigorously control the political complexion of the quangos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.958.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "minutes of it. When this motion appeared in the Whip, all the reporters and Lobby correspondents sought it out immediately, to see whether it contained other than routine changes to the 1975 Act of the kind that are made from time to time. They wanted to make sure that the Government were not trying to get off the hook the 47 Tory Members of Parliament who are up to their necks in debt at Lloyd's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Terrible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "he had broken the law. The amount of money was small, but the Liberal was on a medical panel. and attended various panels and tribunals during the year. It happened on only a few occasions, but he was receiving a sum of money and that disqualified him. The Leader of the House he did not get my support; I think that I was the only one who refused—got the House to agree to retrospective legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the IMF?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I do not know what he was doing at the time. He may have voted in favour, because he finished up as a Minister. But I am not sure which way he voted, because he was not a Minister at the time; that came later. My hon. Friend made sure that the wheels of industry turned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It is well known that that was Peter Jay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-16", "file": "debates1993-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde25090c54f72c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "PART II OF SCHEDULE 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It is well known that that was Peter Jay —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was?\"]—Jim Callaghan's son-in-law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-16a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.980.8", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyce", "preceding_text": "What advice does the Chancellor think that he will receive which will boost the confidence of the country, given that in the current report the state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.980.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "d, but 2·5 million? Is not he ashamed that 2·5 million of his fellow citizens who are in work but are too poorly paid to have to pay basic rate income tax will still be required to pay extra national insurance contributions as well as extra value added tax on fuel? Can the hon. Gentleman give the House an assurance that that parliamentary answer has not anticipated Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "re in work but are too poorly paid to have to pay basic rate income tax will still be required to pay extra national insurance contributions as well as extra value added tax on fuel? Can the hon. Gentleman give the House an assurance that that parliamentary answer has not anticipated Government policy— [interruption] —and called the 20 per cent. band the basic rate band, solely for the purpose of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r a misapprehension. Suggestions of a mistake are wrong. My hon. Friend was asked about the number of people below the basic rate tax threshold who will pay more national insurance in 1994–95. The answer he gave on 7 June related to people whose earnings fall below the 20 per cent. tax band. The answer he gave on 16 June related to people whose earnings fall below the 25 per cent. tax band.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.988.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.988.7", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.988.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.988.9", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister seeks to defend his Department on the basis that it cannot read the questions. The question was the same in both cases, but it received different answers. Leaving that matter aside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.988.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "mmediate answer to my hon. Friend is no, I have not seen that survey, but, as he has drawn it to my attention, I shall take the opportunity of looking at it. There has been a dramatic improvement both in the resources available to the health services and in the quality of health treatment provided in recent years by the people who work in the service. It is our intention that that should continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.990.8", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " do not just talk Britain down—given the chance, they do it down and do it in. Opposition policies would impose an extra tax on jobs and would be no good for British industry. Raising employers costs and introducing the social charter would be no good for employment prospects or employers. The minimum wage would further damage job prospects. Yet again, the use of flying pickets would be legalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.990.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.991.7", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I indicated a moment or so ago, the health service has improved dramatically during recent years, partly as a result of the increased resources made available to it and partly as a result of the activities of the many dedicated people who work in it. I have no doubt that will continue to be the case in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.991.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1019.2", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to clarify the situation. The position is quite clear and it was laid down in words of one syllable, or almost, so that Conservative Members had a chance to understand, in our manifesto. It clearly stated that Labour would \"in government partner the United States in negotiating to reduce\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " emphasise that we have no intention of abandoning Belize. The withdrawal of our garrison will be gradual and could be reversed if circumstances justified it. We have no reason to believe that the present Guatemalan Government have any intention of reopening some of the old animosities. If that intention were to change, we would have to take that carefully into account. I shall conclude by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "It will not surprise the hon. Gentleman to learn that I do not agree. There is no doubt that Trident is necessary for our security. We cannot take it for granted that the former Soviet Union, in its break-up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1038.6", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I find it extremely hard to answer such a fatuous point. The hon. Gentleman must be aware that the NATO alliance has secured peace for western Europe. He says that there is peace throughout the world. I do not know whether he goes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1038.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": " civilian life with flying skills, which I am sure could be adapted and used to military advantage, and I do not understand why we have always turned our backs on the idea of looking closely at an RAF flying reserve. l hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench will adopt a more flexible and imaginative attitude to an RAF volunteer reserve than has been shown for several years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "nd of the debate, will he make clear the response that he is making to Strathclyde and the other Scottish regions involved? Will he stop all such nuclear weapons transportation until it can be clearly and publicly demonstrated that the safety of the public is not compromised by convoy movements? That is another illustration of Scotland facing the dangers of radiation, but not many of the benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "e dangers of radiation, but not many of the benefits. [Interruption.] The reaction of the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) explains why the Conservative party is being thrown out of Scotland. Our population has to live with those dangers and does not wish to do so. If the Conservative party listened to the Scottish population, this problem and the others associated with it would not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "It is under consideration by the Crown Prosecution Service. For the hon. Gentleman to hold it up as some terrible scandal in which the Ministry of Defence is gravely at fault is nonsense and he should know that. The hon. Member for South Shields may have been on slightly better ground with his third great scandal, which was the unfortunate episode of Airwork.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-17", "file": "debates1993-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "55c41f26b9cc7c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "iven policies. The hon. Member for Cardiff, West seemed to be under the extraordinary illusion that we had put Marks and Spencer in charge of defence research. The chief executive of defence research is Mr. John Chisholm. Mr. Littmoden, to whom the hon. Gentleman referred, is the MOD's advisor on market testing. The contract which has given us so much trouble was nothing to do with market testing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-17a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "There is some lack of clarity in Labour policy here. Is the hon. Lady saying that all the science spend should be concentrated in one Department —that the 60 per cent. of the budget for research and development by, for example, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Ministry of Defence should be concentrated in one central Department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "nitoring on behalf of the House. I believe that that will be one of the key changes that the Select Committee will want to expand and explore in the years to come. Whether the policy will be implemented effectively will, of course, depend on the Department's willingness to comply. In that regard, I believe that one of the key points that I share with the hon. Gentleman, the hon. Member for Redcar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "preceding_text": "o soon after I left the Department dealing with the issues that we are discussing today. Ex-Ministers retain some relevant inside knowledge of their former Department for perhaps a month after leaving it, so I am still just within my sell-by date. I assure my right hon. and hon. Friends that I do not intend to follow recent precedent and turn what I have to say into any sort of personal statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "e a deep-seated cultural problem with science and technology. I speak from the substantial background of my indifferent science 0-levels. In retrospect, it strikes me as quite bizarre that, when moving to the third form at my grammar school, I was forced to choose between ancient Greek, German and biology and make a rather crucial career decision as to how I was to proceed to A-levels and beyond —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service and Science (Mr. David Davis)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service and Science (Mr. David Davis)", "preceding_text": "his wisdom, which, no doubt, we shall have on a future occasion. Although I am not entirely new to science, I am a new boy in terms of ministerial office. I am delighted to be able to speak so early on an almost equally new White Paper, although all the credit for its contents must go to others. One thing that science training provides is a sense of humility in those dealing with complex subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "y of his speeches carefully in the past because of my interest in the subject. He held out the wonderfully disingenuous option of 2 per cent. additional growth which we should all like to achieve and for which we struggle. I thought that his presenting the President of the Board of Trade as a barbarian—despite his nickname as Tarzan—was going a little far, but I understand the point he was making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-18", "file": "debates1993-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e32d87216c564b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " the DTI of the importance of technological competitiveness for the growth of the economy. I remind him that we are talking about a Government White Paper—it has Government support, Cabinet support, collective support, and it sets out the way in which the Government believe the country should proceed. We will fight that corner in the coming years. I say that with deliberate emphasis on the plural.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-18a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.24.8", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "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": "ir long-awaited defence policy, which appears in the shape of a remarkable amendment to the main motion and can be found on page 5990 of the Order Paper. The amendment entered into the world in a somewhat furtive and surreptitious manner in the doldrums of a Friday afternoon, long after we had concluded the first day of the debate and the usual parliamentary midwives had gone home for the weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.24.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "what the Minister of State for Defence Procurement described to me privately as an \"all-singing, all-dancing debate\"—the Secretary of State spoke for almost an hour and said almost nothing, which was unlike his normal eloquent self. The Secretary of State began with a few comments about Bosnia and we welcome those. At the end, he launched a rather limp, personal attack on my colleagues and myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "as a dog of war which did not bark. There was no mention of NATO, European security structures, arms control or peacekeeping, which are all covered in detail in the White Paper that we are supposed to be discussing. What is the explanation? I am a reasonable person, as you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Perhaps the charitable explanation is that the Secretary of State did not want to pre-empt the 1939—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "trange support from an unexpected quarter. I hope that he read The Independent on Sunday in March, which quoted his old friend Baroness Thatcher singling him out for praise because of his arms sales negotiations. Perhaps she has a wee bit of a vested family interest. She described the Minister of State as one of the few Ministers doing well, adding rather wickedly and who would have thought that\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I understand the point made by my hon. Friend. It will be dealt with in great detail by my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell, North (Dr. Reid).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "vent them? On Thursday, Ministers sought to imply that there was some contradiction between what I have said in the past and my policy today. We should follow the practice of other Governments, however, including that of the United States, and take an active role in helping defence companies to convert from arms production to civil production. We should set up a Government agency for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "I apologise to those hon. Members who have been waiting all evening, but have not been called. I understand their difficulties. There have been so many speeches of substance that it is impossible to deal with them all. Therefore, I shall pick two from each side of the House. First, the right hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King), who is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "No, but I look forward to meeting him or her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "ire, South (Mrs. Currie) and for Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe) asked why, in 1993, we should remain opposed to having homosexual members of the armed forces. It is absolutely right that the Government should stand firm on that point. There is nothing disgraceful about an administrative discharge, but I firmly believe that it is in the armed forces' interests that homosexuals should not serve in their ranks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-21", "file": "debates1993-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b1f3e1cdd0995d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Tonight, the House has been debating the Army discipline Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-21a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of the increasing and widespread public concern about large financial donations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.2", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "issued a statement to the effect that all the allegations in the article are untrue and totally without foundation, that the meeting that is referred to did not take place, and that neither he nor anyone else connected with the Saudi Arabian Government has made donations to the Conservative party or been asked for such donations. Indeed, he is taking legal advice about obtaining a full retraction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.5", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "In the right hon. and learned Gentleman's immortal words, he has put something else aside, as I understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.5", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ruption.] Let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman what I shall do: I shall start listening to his lectures on this subject when he tells me that he will bring to an end the position in the Labour party in which votes at party conferences can be bought, in which votes in the selection of candidates can be bought, and in which votes even in his election as leader of the party can be bought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.6", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House is in a very bad mood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does not the Leader of the House understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "What I understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "What I understand—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "What I understand—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and believe— [interruption.] —to be a scandal is that a major financer of the Labour party can utter phrases like \"No say, no pay.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.5", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Seamus Mallon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "During his busy day, has the Lord President of the Council had an opportunity to purchase an early retirement present for the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, the hon. Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "riend the Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) would also have to be in the frame. Will the Leader of the House accept that although all hon. Members welcome the recent reduction in the unemployment figures, that should not hide from us the very high figures associated with structural unemployment in this country? Does he further agree that that high level of structural unemployment represents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "at although all hon. Members welcome the recent reduction in the unemployment figures, that should not hide from us the very high figures associated with structural unemployment in this country? Does he further agree that that high level of structural unemployment represents—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\"]—represents a reservoir of economic resources that this country should be using? If he does agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Deregulation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "00 staff—officials paid out of the public purse. Let me explain what SEFRAs are and how they work. They were created with the best possible intention by the Government to improve the standards of health, safety, hygiene and pollution. Their detrimental impact cannot, for once, be blamed on Europe so much as on the over-zealousness of our officials in interpreting far beyond what Brussels intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.175.4", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "er. For years they steadily placed, honoured and promoted those who saw things in the same narrow compass, until it would appear that there is no one to blow the whistle, no one to see the line of proprieties being crossed and no one to call a halt. There is a remarkable coincidence between the Government's placement of honours and donations to the Conservative party. The top ten corporate donors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.175.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The money that NALGO spent on its election campaign—or in the campaign that it ran at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No, certainly not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "The suggestion has been made, Madam Speaker, that Conservative Members of Parliament have acted illegally. That is a most dreadful slur on Conservative Members, and the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.179.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.182.9", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.182.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.182.13", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "There has conspicuously been no answer to other questions put to the right hon. Gentleman by people such as John Latsis and others, and I shall come to that in a moment. The reason why the rumours exist and the stories are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.182.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ent is Li Ka-Shing, who is a close associate of the Chinese Government. Many of those said to have been present are reported to have contributed substantially to Tory party funds on that occasion and others. That must, self evidently, have been at least without the disapproval of the Chinese Government and it has been alleged that it was at least partly with money to which they gave their consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The problems of Conservative Members are, first, that they assume, as I said earlier, that what they are doing must be what everyone else is doing and, secondly, that they do not understand how the structure of the Labour party works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.183.6", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "eas has always been described in thrilling accents as Moscow gold. The notion that Chinese communists give consent to funding of the Tory election campaign would be hilarious if it were not serious. Of course, the Prime Minister's much reported visit to Hong Kong is not an isolated example. My hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) obtained through parliamentary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.183.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady will recall the explosive issue of routes to Tokyo and slots at Heathrow, when British Airways did not get what it wanted despite the money it paid to the Tory party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I did not hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "we going to … I think there were three occasions during the period … when it … came up, not in any way as a threat. But it came up sufficiently for me to realise that if we were going to go on rolling, I would have to put this matter to the board and our policy would have to be re-thought. The interviewer asked Mr. Saunders what he thought the comment had meant and he replied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour party does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "and terribly worrying matter—that it would be wrong in principle for shareholders to be bothered with the little matter of whether their company gives hundreds of thousands of pounds of their money to the Conservative party, with or without their knowledge! The suspicion unquestionably exists that, if the Conservative party will not reveal from where it obtains more than 50 per cent. of its money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.190.11", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "y Committee, which is composed of distinguished Privy Councillors; all three major parties are represented. Its members are Lord Pym, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos and Lord Thomson of Montifieth. It is no accident that two former Labour Cabinet Ministers are among their number—although one has now joined the Liberal Democrats. When the leader of any party nominates any individual for a political honour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.190.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "If Opposition Members addressed themselves to the substance of their motion, they would see that a fundamental quesiton arises. If they were ever to regain power, would they make it illegal for individuals to make anonymous donations to political parties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "nd the role of the Department of Trade and Industry in enforcing the disclosure requirements. It is primarily the duty of companies and their directors to comply. Having said that, however, the DTI takes its responsibilities very seriously by, for example, following up allegations of non-compliance, except where the matter is more appropriately handled by another agency. In the case of Polly Peck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "party. I give way to him now so that he can stand up and tell us where the £17·8 million came from. Does the hon. Gentleman care to do that? I am waiting. I do not think that we shall get the information from the horse's mouth. We certainly did not get it from the Secretary of State. Matters are worse than that. According to Business Age, £71 million has been donated in this way since 1985.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.198.9", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Member for Sutton Coldfield can tell us a little more about Li Ki-Shing, the Hong Kong-based billionaire. He is one of the richest people in Hong Kong, and was the Chinese Government's representative at the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank, which we all know recently took over the Midland bank. Perhaps the £1 million that he is reported to have given was payment for allowing the takeover to go through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.198.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.200.7", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Pass.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman wants to be fair, so would he care to tell the House how many contributors to the Labour party between 1964 and 1970, and between 1974 and March 1976, were friends of the then Prime Minister and received honours in honours lists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Yes, that question is not even worth replying to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Yes, that question is not even worth replying to. [Interruption.] Now Conservative Members are shouting; now they have come to life. When we asked them to tell us who contributed the missing £17·9 million in one year alone—1992—they were struck silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the chairman of United Biscuits got his knighthood from a Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.8", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Yes, Hector Laing received his knighthood as the hon. Gentleman said, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.201.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am especially interested in the way in which the hon. Gentleman has sought to get away from the subject of United Biscuits. He has started talking about Lord Hanson, who received a knighthood in the lavender list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "r the abolition of the Potato Marketing Board, with a view to securing a substantial reduction in the price of potatoes? United Biscuits did that because it is one of Britain's largest users of potatoes, in its processing plants. The general view in the potato industry is that there is a direct link between the abolition of the Potato Marketing Board and the contribution to the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.6", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I am amazed at the hilarity shown by Conservative Members when my hon. Friend made that telling point. Do they no longer want farmers' votes? Are the contributions from United Biscuits more important to the Conservative party than farmers' votes? I could carry on with a long list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.6", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alleged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield, the chairman of the Conservative party. Asil Nadir believes—with much justification in my view—that he has been extremely badly treated by the Conservative party. The Conservatives now admit that he gave £400,000, and Mr. Nadir claims to have given an awful lot more. Some of that £400,000 was given after it was alleged that he stole money from Polly Peck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "old company office. I would also have liked to ask the President of the Board of Trade why, even though the Serious Fraud Office had been informed that Mr. Nadir might leave the country, he was able to fly away on a small plane without let or hindrance. There are many questions which should be answered in relation to that matter. However, I do not want to take up too much of the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I want to finish this point. That allegation and charge has been proved to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "I have set out the position as clearly as I conceivably can. I certainly do not intend to give way to the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolutely\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "We are in some difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.206.6", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras will find that the information that he has just given to the House is inaccurate. Business Age appears to be the well from which Opposition Members draw their allegations. That magazine has also alleged that the Conservative party has £200 million salted away in secret accounts overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.206.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " have we been contacted by Touche Ross since our 1991 letter. The result is that, yesterday, I asked our lawyers to contact Touche Ross directly. One hour before entering the Chamber, I finally received a letter, 601 days after our first communication. Obviously, we will now consider that letter. I do not believe that any reasonable person will expect me to give a snap reaction and response to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "g there. If the right hon. Gentleman wanted a course of action that was above suspicion and would certainly satisfy me that the Conservative party was doing everything possible to ensure that it was beyond any controversy or complaint, he would pay that money into court forthwith. I wish to make a short speech because I do not want to be part of the party political harangue that has been going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One person.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "y season, which coincided with the upturn in the economy, which greatly irritated Labour, the criticism of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) from within and without his party, and the drying up of income to the Labour party, to which reference has been made. There was a row about one man, one vote in the Labour party and the fact that, if there is one man, one vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has inadvertently and possibly unwittingly misled the House by stating that the article recently published in Business Age was going to be the subject of a full retraction. I have given notice to the right hon. Gentleman through the Government Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.232.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has been denied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "hat the party does not accept donations from foreign Governments. However, he refused to confirm or deny that the party had accepted donations from wealthy foreign individuals such as Mr. Li Ka-Shing and the late Sir Y. K. Pao. Why? What is the definition of a foreign Government? Mr. Li Ka-Shing is a member of the assembly of the Chinese republic. He is a close associate of the Chinese Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": ". However, he refused to confirm or deny that the party had accepted donations from wealthy foreign individuals such as Mr. Li Ka-Shing and the late Sir Y. K. Pao. Why? What is the definition of a foreign Government? Mr. Li Ka-Shing is a member of the assembly of the Chinese republic. He is a close associate of the Chinese Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That has been denied.\"] It has not been denied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.252.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I did not make any representations about Mr. Asil Nadir. The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) disclosed recently that, as far back as 1984, employees of the Mirror Group expressed concern about the behaviour of Mr. Robert Maxwell. Can the hon. Gentleman tell the House why the Labour party has not repaid any of the money to the Maxwell pensioners when it had evidence of what was going on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Gentleman to call into question the integrity of so many people, especially senior captains of British industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "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 put it?—considerable interest. The most engaging contribution was perhaps that made from the Liberal Benches by the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) if only because the hon. Gentleman engagingly acknowledged that the last people who would universally be accepted to have sold honours in this country were the last Liberal Government. Indeed, I have a copy of the price list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "believe contain illegally obtained moneys; it does not accept donations from foreign Governments; and it does not accept donations from unknown sources. As my right hon. Friend also said—and this brings me to another point of interest—if the money from Polly Peck proves to have been stolen, it will be paid back. What I want to know is whether we will get the same guarantee about the Maxwell money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell the truth, Robin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recall—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell the truth, Robin.\"] I have always told the House the truth. I told the House the truth in my speech. The money was checked to discover whether it had come from the pension fund; it did not come from the Maxwell pension fund, from which money was stolen by Maxwell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The Daily Mail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.264.4", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Immoral.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "dertake not, at any time in the future, to publish the same or similar statements about Li Ka-Shing, as made in the article referred to above. Provided we comply with the above Mr. Li Ka-Shing will withdraw the threat of legal action against us and indeed not take any further legal action with regard to the article published in Business Age No. 32 May 1993. I will quote the immortal last sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "No. No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.265.7", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.265.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-22", "file": "debates1993-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7306efa6f0e536ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " of it all, what is it all about? It is about the fact that the one party in Britain with which one can buy votes and influence is the Labour party. I remind the occupants of the Labour Front Bench, even though they know it already, of what the then Labour party treasuer said only eight months ago: I have a duty to say to those people who want to loosen the union link: look at our income figures\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-22a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.287.7", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "preceding_text": "It is regrettable that the President of the Board of Trade cannot be here to deal with this matter and we sympathise with him about his illness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.287.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.289.6", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister admit that we have a disastrous problem in the British economy, as we are losing £1 billion on our balance of payments every week? After 14 years of Tory rule, the British economy is in deep crisis because our manufacturing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.289.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "The issue of the exact level of the world price is very complex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "London Specialty Review", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And honourable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "My close Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "efits and child allowances. The Italian Government plan to raise pension ages and introduce new health service charges. That is not because, ideologically, those countries wish to do that, but because they must recognise that there is a limited amount that can be afforded unless all our industry is to be priced out of business. We would then have unemployment on a scale that would be unimaginable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, let me try to respond to the right hon. Gentleman's second point, on Bosnia. Right from the start, there were, in reality, only two ways of dealing with this whole wretched miserable war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, let me try to respond to the right hon. Gentleman's second point, on Bosnia. Right from the start, there were, in reality, only two ways of dealing with this whole wretched miserable war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"For whom?\"] For anyone. The first alternative was to put in literally hundreds of thousands of western troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "As for safeguarding the future of Bosnia, we have nothing but words, words and words. Does the Prime Minister realise that he should be ashamed of himself, as should his Foreign Secretary and the supposed leaders of the European Community, for his total spinelessness and pusillanimity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I imagine that the hon. Gentleman, because of his political persuasion, has never made an application—perhaps I do him a disservice, so I shall speak very quietly—for shares in a company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.371.6", "colnum": "371", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "h as the existing arrangement. We accepted the principle of revision, because the 'processors have a real argument—so strong an argument, indeed, that I spent the first few months of my present brief trying to devise another scheme to replace the potato marketing scheme, which would take into account the interests of both processors and producers. I have to tell the Minister that we nearly did it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.371.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.376.8", "colnum": "376", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " the potato marketing board and the United Kingdom potato producers. I am conscious that the Secretary of State has constituents, and that there are 300 producers in her constituency. This is a difficult matter for her to handle. I understand that. However, we want an assurance that if the Government are given the enabling powers in the Bill they will not use them before the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.376.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "nced that that would lead to much greater price fluctuations and much uncertainty. At a time when CAP regimes are being introduced for sheep, beef and set-aside, it makes no sense at all for the traditional British potato to be the only arable crop enjoying no form of agricultural protection. I very much hope that my right hon. Friend will feel able to accept the two amendments that I have tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-23", "file": "debates1993-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "44f582f6623fd461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ners to adhere under Maastricht. I welcome the thrust of the Bill, but I urge my right hon. and hon. Friends to think carefully and not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I urge them to go slowly. In that respect I welcome amendment No. 49, which calls for consultations with the industry, but I do not welcome amendment No. 50 because a poll of the industry would produce a difficult result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-23a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "How can the Minister possibly talk about knowing the difference between right and wrong when a Minister gives a present of a watch to a crook, and other Ministers go round the world trying to get funding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.441.11", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.441.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Dockyards", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You would scrap it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "s my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Mr. Jamieson) and Plymouth city council, who have argued their case powerfully and fairly. However, I am sure that they will accept that the decision is a bitter blow for the men and women of Rosyth. It is also a betrayal of the promises given by previous Tory Secretaries of State for Defence, as Lord Younger recently confirmed. The decision to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Dockyards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "th, the Ministry of Defence will ensure continued operation of the yard? He has agreed that an alternative to Devonport is vital for reasons of competition; it is also necessary for the preservation of our strategic capacity. This is yet another announcement from the Ministry of Defence that will result in workers losing their jobs—in this case, 800 thrown on the scrap heap in Rosyth and Devonport", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Dockyards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Obviously, we have not been able to inform Babcock Thorn of the details of the proposals before informing the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.468.3", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "well known, as representing his opinion. They call for careful and balanced consideration. It is necessary to ensure that all legal weapons are available to the security forces. On the other hand, it is necessary to ensure that the state of the criminal law is not such as to represent in reasonable people's minds too draconian a body of law, so that support for the security forces is thereby lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.468.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will allow me to come to that in a moment or two. I have a slot reserved with which I intend to finish. I turn finally, I note, to developments on the political front.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "ntrolled the council, it was found guilty of discriminating against Roman Catholics. That can be checked if Opposition Members do not believe it—the books shall open. There was unfair distribution of Government jobs. SDLP constituencies were deliberately chosen for those jobs. Londonderry in the west of the Province was chosen, but what about Omagh, Cookstown, Magherafelt and all the other places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I am flattered that the Secretary of State pays so much attention to my signature on early-day motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I am flattered that the Secretary of State pays so much attention to my signature on early-day motions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It is clear that the Government gave a commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am happy to. The hon. Gentleman asked about the minor warships. There are 49 minor warships due to be refitted over the next few years, and all 49 will be refitted at Rosyth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am glad of that clarification, although it was not necessary as we already understood that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "hat clarification, although it was not necessary as we already understood that. [ Interruption.] I assure Conservative Members that we all did. We would like clarification of the first half. Is a guarantee being given to the people of Rosyth that the first half—unqualified allocations—will go to Rosyth, with no tendering, no negotiations, nothing to do with price and nothing to do with conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.513.6", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "servative Members argued against the hon. Member for Tayside, North and the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross. Is the hon. Gentleman denying the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross the right to express his opinion? Is the hon. and learned Gentleman not to be allowed to express his opinion because it might be contrary to the views of Conservative Members from the west country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.513.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ears no unfriendly country will have available to it missile technology that might enable it, if it were so minded, to target what may turn out to be the sole refitting yard in the United Kingdom? It is not sensible to create circumstances in which, through the operation of the marketplace, all refitting work is concentrated in one location. Equally, is it not sensible to take account of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that free publicity for the Scottish National party manifesto. was coming to exactly that point. Rosyth in an independent Scottish context would be a non-nuclear first-line base. An independent Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State managed to make two mistakes in his intervention. First, I did not call for the cancellation of the fourth Trident. Secondly, I did not say \"facilities\"—I said \"capability\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trident Refit (Scottish Economy)", "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": "Madam Speaker, we welcome your decision to grant the debate tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Waste Incinerator (Gateshead)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Joyce Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Joyce Quin", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-24", "file": "debates1993-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e08f49a6ba01bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Waste Incinerator (Gateshead)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Joyce Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Joyce Quin", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have this opportunity— [Interruption.] —to raise a matter that is of great concern to my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-24a.551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-25", "file": "debates1993-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf61bd11ff2768bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-25a.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is not often that I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but in this instance I agree with him entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-25a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-25", "file": "debates1993-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf61bd11ff2768bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-25a.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is not often that I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but in this instance I agree with him entirely. [Laughter.] It may come as some surprise to the hon. Gentleman that we agree. I shall deal later in my speech with the point that he raised. I blame the socialist do-gooders on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-25a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport made it plain on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.647.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "be a debate about renewables some time later. The only point that I want to make about the energy debate is that it is a mad system which does not look at Britain's strategic energy needs first and then decide what the implication is for each of the component parts—for example, whether we should have a nuclear industry, how much coal we should have, whether we should have opencast coal, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Some of us were the guests of Robin Jeffrey and James Hann of Scottish Nuclear. We asked them, and they were quite clear that there was no animosity of any kind whatever along the lines that the hon. Gentleman suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "o represent Workington, and I am also a member of the Public Accounts Committee. Leaving to one side the aspect that it could cost 2,000 jobs and the cost of£2 billion, I hope that, when the hon. Gentleman does his economic calculations, he will take into account the compensation that this country might have to pay if we do not go ahead with the THORP process: that has been estimated at£5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "We are absolutely not throwing the hon. Gentleman's constituents in the air—we are trying to give them much more long-term employment than they might get from a process that may have no takers at all in 10 years' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ere safe. The Minister explicitly set out the position almost exactly a month ago. She said: I attach a copy of the text of COMARE's response to the authorising Departments on this matter. The Department of Health, which was also invited to comment on the proposals, has endorsed COMARE's comments. Only today, we have flushed out—this is another achievement of my hon. Friends and myself—the advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "That would be a fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.687.5", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "nd the Secretary of State for the Environment, for whom the inspector of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution acts—there is an obligation to consult on that report. Surprise, surprise, today at last, the Government have responded to that request. In a written answer from the Secretary of State for the Environment to the hon. Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson)—it may be a planted question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.687.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "ion of the United Kingdom as a trading partner and as a place in which to invest. Some hon. Members have argued that somehow those major customers of THORP were misguided to enter into these contracts, which are inappropriate. If there was ever any truth in that allegation, it has been completely disproved by the advertisements in The Times on Wednesday by the 10 Japanese electric power companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman understands that dry storage gives the management two options: either to reprocess or to destroy completely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the legitimate constituency arguments that our right hon. Friend has always made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "preceding_text": "parisons of that sort—I am simply examining what has been achieved in terms of regional policy in Wales as a result of the activities of the WDA. I am simply saying that inward investment has touched only relatively confined parts of Wales. Even in Glamorgan and Gwent, its effect has been strictly limited in territorial terms. The south Wales valleys are the cradle of Welsh industrial development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ern Europe—33 per cent. corporation tax, with 25 per cent. for small companies—counts with investors and creates the right atmosphere for business success. The reform of our labour laws has also been telling. Employers and employees alike need to know where they stand. Everybody's rights and interests should be protected in a clear and fair way. Sensible labour laws breed good industrial relations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.732.5", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or politicians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ld in Wales knows what industry wants. We must encourage joint ventures, initiatives and exchanges of ideas and personnel to maximise the enormous opportunities before us. I also want working for oneself to be an option. The brightest and best leaving college and university should not automatically want to become journalists, civil servants or commentators writing elegantly about Europe's decline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.732.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.732.5", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ekend, I announced 58 jobs for Swansea at Addis and another 160 new jobs are on the threshold of announcement as we meet tonight. That is winning for Wales, based on an agenda for a competitive Wales. Fortress Europe or castle Wales could not succeed. Turning away foreign investors or putting them off with high taxes, strikes or too many regulations is the road to ruin, not the path to prosperity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.732.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "preceding_text": "would be decimated. It is very easy for a party with no prospects of forming a Government to argue for increased resources without saying where those resources will come from. The hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) described Wales, in his usual belittling fashion, as the exhaust pipe of the motor of growth. It would have been better if the hon. Gentleman, who has not stayed in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " talking to business people …\" But we do spend time talking to business people. Before he came to this place my hon. Friend the Member for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley) spent his life in industry. We speak to industrialists in our constituencies and we understand the problems of industry in Wales. The Secretary of State should recognise that. We gave the Government a test and they have failed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.759.4", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister answer a, simple question that we argued long about in our Committee proceedings? Why should a Labour Member of Parliament sponsored by a trade union, who is under no particular pressure from that union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.759.4", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister answer a, simple question that we argued long about in our Committee proceedings? Why should a Labour Member of Parliament sponsored by a trade union, who is under no particular pressure from that union— [Interruption.] That is the case. We are talking about £600 per annum. Let us move into the real world. The fact is that £600 a year is a very small amount of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The figures that the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Smith) quoted are fascinating because when I wrote a paper on this issue for the Committee at no stage could I establish the figure. We are talking about large sums of money paid at a local level to constituency associations on a regular basis—payments of £500, £600, £700, £800, £900 or £1,000 a year are often made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "emocracy in that organisations, interest groups, charities and individuals want to bring their views and problems to the attention of Members of Parliament, Departments and Ministers. What is new, however, is the increased organisation and professionalism of that process. Much lobbying is conducted by or on the advice of professional consultancies, which charge substantial fees for their services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": " services and are in competition with one another for the available business. Because of that competitive environment with large sums of money at stake, there is naturally a concern that traditional lobbying, which is undoubtedly an aid to healthy parliamentary democracy, may evolve step by imperceptible step, into forms of covert pressure and persuasion that could ultimately damage our democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-28", "file": "debates1993-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c545777d0d12f8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": " and all the panoply of the Palace of Westminster. I object to that, but if people want to do it they should not be ashamed of it and do it in secret. It is time that those bookings were published. International News Services books those dining rooms and encourages Members of Parliament to attend dinners and lunches. It hired a yacht on the Thames and encouraged Members to go down into the Thames—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-28a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.807.15", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": "The Minister is well aware that that figure, which I believe is the April 1993 figure, represents a considerable increase over the two years to that date. The long-term unemployed have increased from 26 to 36 per cent. of the total. He is also aware that the Government's plans for very little coal mean that the numbers are likely to increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.807.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.809.5", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that answer and congratulate Ministers on their success in the negotiations. Does my hon. Friend agree that the British Government have guaranteed that there will be no compulsory time limit for working hours, and that that has been welcomed by employers throughout the European Community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.809.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that in the 1980s we were still suffering from the problems that we inherited from the Labour Government in the 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that in the 1980s we were still suffering from the problems that we inherited from the Labour Government in the 1970s— [Interruption.] However, I am happy to talk about peaks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I will, Madam Speaker—I am happy to do so. Perhaps I can assist you and the House if I tell you that I have had this script looked at very carefully by a senior lawyer with exactly that in mind. I have no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I inform the hon. Gentleman that I certainly do have the authority to stop him reading it out if I thought it to be sub judice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.829.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "hich papers he wanted to see, and to call at the trustees' offices during working hours when he could examine them, but not take them away. I remind the House that they were his own papers. I turn finally to what the House may view as the most serious aspect of this whole affair, namely, that quite improper pressure has apparently been exercised by the SFO upon the trial judge, Mr. Justice Tucker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.830.7", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "s that I have mentioned were named. At the end of the interview his solicitor inquired whether any other of the suspected conspirators had been arrested or interviewed. The House will not be surprised to know that the answer to that was no. I have the verbatim transcripts of the court proceedings, which substantiate everything that I have said. Of course, I shall make them available to an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.830.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "What about the victims of drug trafficking who have to inhabit the estates and tower blocks where lift wells, lifts and entrance halls are used by drug traffickers? What compensation will those victims of the offence of drug trafficking receive? One understands the work that is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "criminal law does not benefit from instant judgments of this kind. It is a piecemeal approach which has disfigured our statute book and led to a number of monstrous injustices being enshrined in the law, almost in response to the headline of the day. I do not wholly agree with the hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth that unit fines should have been abolished, if that was what he was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-29", "file": "debates1993-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "061f6b2738ea4d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "bout part I, he is repeating what his predecessor said more than a month ago, which was that he would be writing to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who would presumably communicate with me and my right hon. and hon. Friends. I wonder when the Secretary of State will make the effort to read the communications and reply to us. Nevertheless, as I said in relation to an earlier amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-29a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I wish to make a statement following the resignation statement made yesterday by my hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "preceding_text": " that stage that a responsible person should court unnecessary media attention by placing them in the public domain. However, following the partial publication of so much of their substance by my hon. Friend yesterday in his statement, and the fact that the rest of the correspondence is likely to be the subject of intense search and speculation, it now seems to me that, subject to certain editing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "eys. Under all those circumstances, the Attorney-General is right to examine these matters. There must be the greatest concern if there is also any evidence of a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. I know that the Attorney-General wants to restrict himself on these matters, but can he say how much of a prima facie case there is? What is the strength of the evidence available to him? When—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "can be obtained or a clever inference drawn by those with plenty of time and money to chase up these matters. I deplore that, and the SFO will do everything it can to prevent it. That is as much as I can say on that. On the publication of the correspondence, I think that I am right that one should not publish the correspondence in general. Hon. Members should be able to approach me in private and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.970.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "What term is there to the pursuit of this projected trial, and when would this sub judice rule lapse? As regards the correspondence, why does the Attorney-General refer to \"all parts of the House\", when he knows perfectly well that no one on this side of the House put in any applications on behalf of Asil Nadir?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.4", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The sub judice rule is a matter for you, Madam Speaker. Briefly, we regard matters as sub judice while they are outstanding matters before the courts. As to the question of who did or did not make representations to me, I am in a better position to know than the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Dealing with that second matter—it seems to be a matter of intense interest to the House—no representation that has been made to me has been in any way improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Dealing with that second matter—it seems to be a matter of intense interest to the House—no representation that has been made to me has been in any way improper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them, then.\"] No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Serious Fraud Office", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Dealing with that second matter—it seems to be a matter of intense interest to the House—no representation that has been made to me has been in any way improper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them, then.\"] No. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Because if I set a precedent of naming people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "tement, nor did I vet the statement yesterday. There is a lot of disquiet in the House about such statements. I have received a letter from the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, which I have not yet had the opportunity to read, but I believe that it suggests that the Committee may well look into that whole area. I am sure that many hon. Members will welcome the Procedure Committee's initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "preceding_text": "On the question of cost, I should like to ask my right hon. and learned Friend what I ought to say to those of my constituents who believe tht there are already too many MEPs, do not know what those MEPs do, and who say—perhaps unfairly—that they never see or hear of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1001.6", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "f the process were to be put back to mid-December, which is not impossible, that could be done within the proper time scale and would allow for the public inquiry to take place. I understand elements such as the transcripts and commissioners' consideration and other matters. I return to the powerful point that the Government, if anyone, are responsible for the delay. They have dragged their heels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ituencies is enhanced. Let us not forget that we are dealing with the provision of greater powers. I have pointed out that the European Parliament is now engaged, under the Maastricht treaty, in a process of co-decision which has been greatly underestimated. People who know most about the subject believe that the European Parliament is getting considerably greater powers than many had anticipated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "'s record in similar circumstances, it is hard to be reassured. One thinks of local health authorities and of the new police authorities that were announced yesterday—no doubt, to be presented as paragons of impartiality and independence, but more likely to be ad hoc committees composed of the usual crop of well-trusted Tory party appointees and apparatchiks, and staffed by the politically vetted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "timetable is realistic and that the timetable of the hon. Member for Sedgefield is unrealistic, but we shall look at it open mindedly because we want as much opportunity for review and representation as possible, as does the hon. Gentleman. If we are shown to be wrong we shall adopt an alternative procedure. Although I do not think that that will be the case, we should be happy to talk it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "We have witnessed an extraordinary exhibition by Labour Members, who had every opportunity to defeat the Government, but turned it down. Any more from them about how easy it would be to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1069.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1069.10", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have explained that the money resolution is very narrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1069.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "there might be some justification for the committee funds that the House is now being asked to approve. As it is, there is no provision for an examination of Scotland. That is another reason for not asking the taxpayers for this money. The third point is that we are to have committees rather than boundary commissions. During both Divisions tonight, Labour Members were conspicuous by their absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1070.4", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "er opportunities for consultation and public inquiry. Instead of the inherent independence of a boundary commission, we are moving to more quangos, set up by the Government with the agreement of the Labour party. This is so inconsistent with our democratic conditions that Parliament should not be asked to approve the expenditure of taxpayers' money. This is not the Government's money or our money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1070.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ond Reading and through the money resolution Conservative Members, who represent a minority of people in the country, spent millions of pounds on a system which was wholly discredited from the beginning and which had to be reversed. We are now being asked to do something more serious. If the money resolution is passed, we shall be authorising an electoral system that is illegal under European law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] It is not rubbish; it is likely that the system will have to be reversed in due course. It will discredit the United Kingdom in the eyes of our neighbours and partners in the European Community. If we pass the money resolution, we shall be distorting democracy not only in this country—that is bad enough because we are already a laughing stock to the world's new democracies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "In many respects and on many other subjects, the hon. Member for Esher is well informed, but his ignorance on this subject is such that he thinks that the money resolution will authorise a system that is more democratic than any in the European Community. I challenge him to get an independent assessment by any professor of electoral law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "mocracy. Yet we are meant to be the founders of democracy and we call this the mother of Parliaments. We are talking about my money—the people's money—and I am blowed if I will authorise the expenditure of my money by allowing a distorted, discredited Government, who were elected by a minority of the people, to push this resolution through. I sincerely hope that, with the help of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-06-30", "file": "debates1993-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e81818c2ce1c953f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ugh the Lobby, when will it be paid back? If our electoral system is shown to be unfair and unreasonable, will the Government pay the money back? Oh no—as on previous occasions when the Government have pushed through Bills with money resolutions, the people of Britain will pay. The Government, their Ministers or even the civil servants will not pay it—only the people. I want to say one last thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-06-30a.1071.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1092.5", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that the reaction that he has just given, and that which the Prime Minister gave yesterday, to that academic document, which I understand is not a Labour party policy document and which I have never seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1092.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that the implication of that treaty is that there will be an ever-closer union of the people of Ireland within Europe—from a nationalist point of view-and of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State appreciate that many in the House and outside it were disappointed at his overreaction and that of the Prime Minister on Tuesday? They welcome honest intellectual debate about some of the options that might move us away from the certainty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "earned Gentleman confirm that the union of Ireland with Great Britain was imposed, and that not one Irish Member—not even a Northern Ireland Member—voted for the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and for the start of Stormont? Will the Secretary of State therefore repudiate the suggestion that such discussion documents are a recipe for disaster, although the Opposition accept that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1096.7", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "We do not know—that is the trouble—whether the policy document constitutes fresh air, hot air or the declared policy of the Labour party. I believe that we are entitled to know that. The hon. Gentleman's constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1096.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I have a great number of replies to give to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, though I thought that I was asking the questions. The hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Duncan Smith) who asked Question 1 left after the reply from the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"] I should have thought that he might at least have waited to hear the supplementary questions. Let me make the position of the leaked document clear. It was a discussion document. In my party, party policy is not made at the whim of official spokesmen, but by party conferences, after free discussion and properly gathered. The spokesmen have a duty to lead forward discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1097.4", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "You have put me in a difficult position, Madam Speaker, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1097.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1102.5", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State and the Minister of State visited Magherafelt and Coleraine in my constituency last week, they had an opportunity to see the results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1102.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1103.10", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Following the revelation that the taxpayer was defrauded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1103.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "preceding_text": "ek. May we have a full debate on the subject, especially in view of the fact that the French and Germans have considerably tightened their immigration regulations and in view of the very real fear in this country, especially among the elderly, that there will be economic migration within the EC and into this country by people who wish to take advantage of the very generous benefits structure here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "rale. I agree that police morale is low, and it is low for a variety of reasons, including underfunding, lack of support from the House and also because of documents such as those which have been published this week. Police officers are deeply cynical about the Government's intentions. The Government announced a little while ago that they were setting up the Sheehy inquiry into pay and conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "ith which people can identify. The western was set in some sort of make-believe land with which people could not so easily identify. The Church has been far too wishy-washy for years on the question of moral values. Whatever happened to the hell fire and damnation vicars that we used to have in my childhood? They did a great deal to encourage people and to help them to understand right from wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-01", "file": "debates1993-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b418023753c539f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": " of 121 per cent. All that has developed because we have seen the greatest rise in crimes of violence and, in volume, crimes such as home burglary and car crime which are so damaging to so many individuals and communities. The hon. and learned Member for Burton (Sir I. Lawrence), after making a cheap jibe at my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield, suggested that rising crime was all in the mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-01a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-02", "file": "debates1993-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd6e9cdb11335011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-02a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bail (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "offences. I wonder whether the magistrates had full access to his previous record. Furthermore, do magistrates have access to the full records of all the people who appear in front of them? The reason for the deep offence caused to the public and for their strong feelings about the amendment is that car-related crime is a curse. In my Sutton constituency, which I have made something of a landmark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-02a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-02", "file": "debates1993-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd6e9cdb11335011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-02a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bail (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "I support the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. Banks) about semantics as to whether the word \"representations\" or \"objected\" is used. The public do not want wishy-washy words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-02a.1259.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I remember another recommendation made by the Select Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "gas-fired station will result in increasing job opportunities in that industry. It is most important to offer real hope for the future. That will not be done by seeking to persuade miners that they have long-term employment prospects in an industry faced with a contracting market. They know that themselves. When they go down the pits, they know that most of those pits have a strictly limited life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "together with Lord Walker and the then National Coal Board, I created an organisation called British Coal Enterprise Ltd. That organisation has just published its annual review of activities, the eighth such report, for 1992–93 and I hope that the hon. Gentleman will read it. It lists 87,500 job opportunities that have been created since 1984–85. I believe that that is a good result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " other industry, must depend on the industry's success. The reality is that the market has changed. Industrial change cannot be avoided. It would be totally wrong to destroy jobs by imposing high electricity prices on industry. This country cannot, in a very competitive world, afford to have an economy preserved in the past. Our industries have to be efficient if they are to compete in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.58.6", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The Minister is totally wrong. The interconnector was a physical connector, and the contract with the French was signed subsequently. The Minister's assertion is like saying that if one orders a ship, one must have ordered it to import goods from Japan. Ships are capable of carrying goods both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.58.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": "the Government for what is happening. I am just as disappointed as the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) in the Minister's antics. I want to treat the matter very seriously. I come from a mining background. The Secretary of State clowned around and used statistics and a host of other items that were totally irrelevant to the crisis that the people in the Public Gallery and elsewhere have to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "preceding_text": "ming unrealistic and unsustainable as its neighbours such as Korea started to develop their own docks. Japan did not fight that logical progression. Instead, it chose to diversify its industrial and manufacturing base into new and developing sectors where it could once again be a market leader. The past few months have seen a debate about the future of the British coal industry rage at all levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "is a dirty, difficult and dangerous task. I cannot help but think that many of those people who are outraged by the recent and necessary closure of mines have perhaps an over-romantic vision of what coal mining entails. I know many miners who have health problems—dust on their lungs, shortness of breath, eyesight permanently damaged by working in low light and hearing impaired by industrial noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": " has beautifully encapsulated all the fallacies of his position. First, gas reserves, like oil reserves, are extensive, but both are finite. Secondly, it is not for Members of Parliament to make commercial judgments in a field in which professionals are better able to judge. The further we remove ourselves from those decisions, the better. It is not for us to judge whether gas or oil will run out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "British Coal suppliers from April 1993 onwards, the avoidable cost of generating electricity from large existing coal fired power stations (using 500 MW turbines) is generally less than the full costs of a new CCGT, assuming both run on baseload. On the radio this morning, the Minister for Energy said that if there was a difference between the two it could be attributed to combined heat and power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.109.6", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": " on this matter. I have been in regular close touch with British Coal on it. I have been assured by the chairman of British Coal that no assets employed at Bevercotes will be redeployed unnecessarily and that the corporation will take each decision to salvage major equipment from those pits on the basis of all the economic criteria. Of course, that includes the use of that equipment in other pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.109.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pit Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": ", such contracts must be broken. It is worse than that, because the Opposition have not sketched out their long-term vision of Britain's coal industry, except for the hon. Member for Livingston who said that he would oppose its privatisation. He and his hon. Friends have not said whether they would renationalise the industry. The hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) is nodding in agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.123.7", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Sales (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "of our coal compared with world coal, and for such matters as chlorine and sulphur content, it is generally felt that the world price landed at ports is quite considerably less than £1 a gigajoule, although there is an argument about whether that is spot or contract prices. Transport costs must be considered as well. A difficult and complicated assessment must be made to arrive at the world price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.123.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Sales (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had made the position clear; I apologise if I did not. British Coal has not come to us, and I think, although I am not certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Sales (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "We noted that we might produce 20 per cent. of our energy from all the renewable sources, including wind and wave power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "e Trentham pit and prospectively the closure of the Silverdale pit. That is offset by the Government's minimal response to the amount of money that those pits require to remain open. I recall very well the Minister's response at a private meeting that we had last October, when he was incapable of answering the questions that we put to him, and the extremely insipid response that we have had since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": " Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns), has used language that must be completely and utterly out of order in the House. The coal industry faces a serious problem and that has been completely overlooked in the response of the Minister and the Secretary of State today. We are facing a critical problem in relation to the energy policy of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-05", "file": "debates1993-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "d6b99efbf6caa089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has left us, because I had intended to draw attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-05a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.178.4", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.178.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.178.9", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I was going to say that I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Dr. Spink) was asking about the Government's attitude to such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.178.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that, at this period of time, Nottingham city council—in common with others—has full freedom to spend capital receipts. It can also take advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.179.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "t Runciman and his colleagues on the report of the Royal Commission on criminal justice, which has been published today? Although many of its recommendations will require a great deal of thought and consideration, does my right hon. Friend agree that some improvements in our criminal justice system are desirable not just to protect the innocent but to ensure that the guilty are properly convicted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.196.5", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Europe, but not one that has been approved by the electorate—for democratic representation as expressed at the ballot box, and it is for that that we are pleading today. Apart from Tory Ministers and those who support the Tory arguments in Committee today, Scotland is completely united on the issue. We have the support of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the Constitutional Convention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I suspect that it may be a combination of a number of things. My point—this relates to what the hon. Lady said about local government boundaries—is that we have similar sides of the same coin. The Conservative party had a lack of success in Scotland and the Liberal Democrats were even less successful. We both ended up with no seats in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My speech is founded on a good Scottish base. \"Scotland in the Union—A Partnership for Good\" is a recent publication from the Scottish Office and refers to the need to promote Scotland's profile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.206.7", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": " a Northern Ireland Member were to arrive and engage in this debate, his contribution would be most welcome. I shall simply consider the position of England, Wales and Scotland. It is proposed that England should have an additional five MEPs and Wales an additional one MEP. England's average electorate is 512,835; Wales's average electorate is 444,525; and Scotland's average electorate is 491,429—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.206.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.210.5", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "istent on the first-past-the-post system as they appear to be, we are in difficulty, because some of the constituencies are so large that it can be difficult to identify a community of interests. That would apply even more to the new boundaries, with 71 rather than the present 66 seats. The average size in England would be 512,835 hectares, and Wales and Scotland would be the figures I have given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "ting another principle—fair representation. I am sure that the hon. Member for Lewes would warm to that proposal, not least because it would achieve some representation for his party in Scotland. There is a community of identity in Scotland. But clearly, if one were to have the best of all worlds, we would do away with the first-past-the-post system and have a proper system of fair representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "t party is the political minority in Scotland. Not only is the Conservative party given a voice in the proper operation of Scottish democracy: it dominates Scottish democracy. It runs every aspect of Scotland on the basis of only a handful of votes cast in its favour and a handful of seats. The latest opinion poll in Scotland gives the Conservative party 16 per cent. support among Scottish people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "ament for Scotland. There is a case for electing such a Member—and, indeed, for electing the whole lot of them—by proportional representation. The hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) moved the lead amendment in this important group. Does she trust the Home Office or the Scottish Office to do the business of providing an extra seat for Scotland? I must not be drawn into speculation about boundaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": " from The Scotsman —are reminiscent of the Vance-Owen agreement. We seem to have corridors not of Muslims but of Tories—being kept in an enclave to ensure that no one encroaches on their positions. There are some boundary changes that we should like to be made: we should like to have Berwick-upon-Tweed back, for example. Berwick belongs to the Scottish nation and was stolen from us many years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.239.8", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I should make some progress, because I sense that the Committee would like me to conclude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.239.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, because the Committee wants the debate to come to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.240.9", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I must say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.240.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to respond to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "elationship of Scotland to this Parliament and to the Community. It is clear that the Community is changing. That development will have an impact on the lives of us all. I welcome that development; as part of it, the relationship of Scotland as a nation to the Community as a whole is of critical importance. The Parliament to which we have directly elected representation is of paramount importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ts. We must also have the settlement and negotiation of national interests between the different countries to ensure that we find an appropriate formula for proceeding. Our purpose in tabling the amendment is to point out that an appropriate formula has not been found to represent the national interest of Scotland. In that connection, during the debates in the 1970s, the present Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.244.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.265.15", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.265.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Lofthouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. Is it in order for the right hon. Gentleman to question your judgment, because that is exactly what he is doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman pressed me to give him a truthful answer. I am seeking to do that. Will he just listen while I answer him? He put it to me that this is all about the Christchurch by-election, yet, throughout the earlier proceedings, we were accused—and the Minister made the same accusation—of debating matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.271.4", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a significant point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "I am having difficulty in making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-06", "file": "debates1993-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64988dda353d3555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Oh, Mr. Lofthouse, how difficult my task becomes when extraneous activities flourish, when toings and froings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-06a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Not all young people want a training place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.328.8", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ll of Natwest Securities is advising his corporate clients that they can buy franchises in Scottish Water in early 1995? Is it not a scandal that financiers in the City are informed of these matters before either Parliament or the people concerned? Will he confirm that up to 20 per cent. of jobs will go; that 10 English companies, three Spanish companies and one American company will bid and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.328.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "the hon. Members for Dover (Mr. Shaw) and for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) as well as a Minister of the Crown, the hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart). At a succession of Scottish Question Times, matters have been raised concerning Monklands district council. They have been raised mainly by the hon. Member for Dover, whom we can disregard because he is held in contempt on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Have you passed your driving test yet? The hon. Member for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Mr. Hogg) accused me of accusing the Leader of the Opposition of corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.340.5", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e all the boundaries had to be drawn for the first time. We were dealing not with six additional seats. as we are here, but with all the European seats, for which boundary inquires would have had to be held. Everything was being done for the first time, so the administrative and procedural difficulties were necessarily all the greater. Thirdly, the European Parliament had less power then than now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "rkmanship. The Government should never take away people's right to be heard. They cannot expect everyone to sit down and write out their objections. I represent a constituency which epitomises the solid working-class in Britain. Most people in my constituency do not have work, perhaps as a result of Government policies. I have spoken to folk about many things, and I have fallen into the same trap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "tion. I find it appalling that a member of the Labour party should talk about gerrymandering, when what Lord Callaghan did then was the worst example of gerrymandering in the history of this country. I am somewhat surprised that some hon. Members seem to believe that members of the general public are anxious to attend public inquiries, to give evidence and to be cross-examined by slick barristers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.407.7", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The gravy train.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "greater democracy. The Assembly in Strasbourg is still a consultative assembly. It has not been given legislative powers. Legislative powers in the Common Market are still in the hands of the Council of Ministers, which meets in secret. There is no public scrutiny. Legislation is administered by unaccountable, appointed Commissioners. The idea that there has been an increase in democracy is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.407.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman so despises the European Parliament, or assembly as he calls it, why on earth did he sit in it for five years and join the gravy train that he is denouncing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, increase them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that a substantial number of responsible fishermen accept that conservation is necessary? They understand and are aware that we are in danger of eliminating fish stocks around our coasts. However, instead of following the path that is being proposed, would it not be far better to reduce the mesh size of the nets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.414.4", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "The message that my hon. Friend can give to the wives of her fishermen is that they have a Member of Parliament who is assiduous in the way that she has supported their interests. She campaigns for the interests of the fishermen in that part of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "It will not go down well in Northern Ireland that the Minister has gone out of his way to ignore Northern Ireland Members this evening. We were not howling at what the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Mrs. Lait) was saying. We were howling because she voted against the interests of her fishermen throughout the earlier stages of the Bill. I simply want to ask the Minister whether this is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "reland that the Minister has gone out of his way to ignore Northern Ireland Members this evening. We were not howling at what the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Mrs. Lait) was saying. We were howling because she voted against the interests of her fishermen throughout the earlier stages of the Bill. I simply want to ask the Minister whether this is— [Interruption.] The Minister is not listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "th it in my own time with the permission of the Deputy Speaker and not because of Conservative Members' comments from a sedentary position. The scheme that we are asked to approve applies to British fishing vessels—those of Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland—but not to those from elsewhere in the European Community. It discriminates against the interests of the British fishing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that we might have a more sensible intervention after all that shouting. The right hon. Gentleman may not be aware that every country in the Community has signed up to the system of the multi-annual guidance programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Minister's announcement. He is a great improvement on his predecessor, and the Secretary of State is an even bigger improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.425.4", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": " rather than scrapping them? They could be sunk to create artificial reefs, which could be used for fish conservation, for marine diving, for rod fishermen or for the protection of conservation areas. I am sure that the hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Harris) would not object to a few scuttled boats in the south-west mackerel box to protect fish stocks there. I shall bring my speech to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-07", "file": "debates1993-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a78c6a8aaff5a26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A general election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": " fishing industry is taking a positive approach to what we all recognise to be a very difficult problem. I am pleased that my hon. Friend paid tribute to his predecessor. He had a difficult time—the understatement of the year—in fishing matters. However, he was instrumental in getting £25 million from the Treasury, as my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledges. He did that largely because there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-07a.426.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.455.9", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "At least I am not a barrel of lard like the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.455.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Naturally, we always hope that our British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I must say that I am not suprised, in view of the contrast between my right hon. Friend's success in Tokyo and the right hon. and learned Gentleman's catastrophe in Bournemouth, that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "The whole House will wish to congratulate my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on his considerable success at the G7 economic summit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "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": "With permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman find the money for his absurd and unwanted proposals? Which services does the Scottish Office intend to cut? On water privatisation, the people of Scotland are entitled to claim that at least this unlistening Government have, in some respects—but some only—heard their voice, but only because the Secretary of State has abandoned his ludicrous proposals for outright privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.475.4", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I take points of order after statements. If the House were not so noisy, we could hear what hon. Members said. I think that there is some concern that the hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) used the word \"corrupt\". I did not hear it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.475.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "May I say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "preceding_text": "I have an inkling towards all-purpose authorities. An obvious all-purpose authority would have been Ayrshire, with Kilmarnock as its capital. I cannot see for the life of me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "ker, and with great respect to you, that my hon. Friends will proceed to Downing street to ask for the resignation of this pathetic Secretary of State. He has yet again destroyed Scotland's interest. In the words of Leo Amery to Chamberlain's Government: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing … In the name of God, go!\"— Official Report , 7 May 1940; Vol. 360, c. 1150.]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "ets of Britain, it would be discussed every day of the week by a packed House until the problem was resolved? Does he agree that the fact that it is discussed only occasionally late on a Thursday night to let British Members have a long weekend shows clearly that, in spite of the repeated guarantees that the Government give—such guarantees were given often in the past week to buy votes on 22 July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1993–94", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ee only a few weeks ago. Senior officials from the Department for Education were asked a simple question: what was the difference between an authority in which 74 per cent. of schools had opted out and an authority in which 76 per cent. of schools had opted out? The answer was: I think it might be wise if we offered a note on that question …we are at the edge of our expertise here, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1993–94", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "ished. The strife is such that many people wonder why the Secretary of State for Education kept his job in the mini-reshuffle while the Chancellor of the Exchequer lost his. Bearing in mind the fact that I defeated Mr. Christopher Patten in the general election, I explain it by paraphrasing Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell—to lose one Patten may be unfortunate, but to lose two looks like carelessness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1993–94", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lidington", "preceding_text": "expenditure plans. In their document on spending plans, the Government have set their own test of the effectiveness of their expenditure programme. To use the jargon, they have said that they wish to be judged on outputs as much as on inputs. That is a healthy sign. The hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Mr. Jamieson) criticised what he called the language of finance, accountancy and efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1993–94", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lidington", "preceding_text": "thnic minority intake, and grammar schools and upper schools taking many hundreds of pupils from within and outside the county. I have found dedicated teachers who enjoy the confidence and support of their governors and of the parents of the children in their charge. There might be cross-party agreement on the fact that one does not seek militants, revolutionaries or bolsheviks in Buckinghamshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-08", "file": "debates1993-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e4a2e66d188c214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1993–94", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": " great change is that we cannot go back to chalk and talk. Schools now use technology and computers. Children watch television outside the classroom and teachers must make the way that they teach as effective as the messages that children receive from various media outside school. There was the day when a poster of a dinosaur in a classroom was meant to motivate children to learn about prehistory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-08a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": " From memory, the most visited country in Europe is France. Anybody who has been to a French town or village will remember that large signs outside the village actually direct people to hotels. If one wants to stay at the Hotel de Paris or the Hotel Plage, one will see the sign for it. If we are serious about tourism, we must do that too. I will look at what the French are doing during the recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": "ional costs that those measures will inevitably impose on companies. Yet, to the utter dismay of ABTA, the Consumers Association and trading standards officers, the Government decided not to establish an authority to license all operators or, for that matter, a back-up fund and instead left it up to each organisation to have its own security for refunds and repatriation in the event of insolvency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ll this country has done in attracting record numbers of overseas tourists in recent years. We all applaud that. Although Britain remains fifth in the world in terms of tourist earnings, our position is under threat from competitors, which are recording higher levels of growth. According to the British Tourist Authority, Britain recorded an average growth of about 7 per cent. between 1980 and 1990", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are Opposition Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "try and from other hon. Members today. Tourism is too important an industry to be ignored any longer by any Government. The Opposition have every intention of ensuring that the industry is neglected no longer. The Government have neglected it; the industry knows that it has been neglected. We are making inroads, as never before, into the tourist industry's thinking, and we shall continue to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Cox", "preceding_text": "s had to put up with, and despite the savage cuts in investment programmes experienced by the London bus and underground network, London Transport has managed to build up a good system. This debate, however, is about deregulation, and London Members know that high on the priority list for privatisation come the London bus service and London's transport system generally, which is to be deregulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend's comments about London's red buses and black cabs. Hon. Members in all parts of the House acknowledge the significance of the London red bus. It will be interesting to hear the comments of Conservative Members who represent London constituencies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes, it has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "preceding_text": "on, which allows me to express some concern on behalf of my constituents and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Mr. Butterfill). My hon. Friend has asked to be associated with my comments; a heavy programme of constituency engagements prevents him from being present. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Minister on his return to his old job, which has not been mentioned so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "for the sake of it. I have a personal dream that one day in the not-too-distant future there will be a heritage theme park in London that is easily accessible to visitors and which is based on the history of the British Labour party. It will be populated with life-size working models of old Labour politicians—a sort of Jurassic park of the Labour party. It would be a tremendous tourism attraction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-09", "file": "debates1993-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1881a706f99c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I am a pervert because I happen to prefer my Camembert and Brie cold out of the fridge. It is still a soft cheese in comparison with Cheddar and one can still get the taste of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-09a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.663.7", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, they have not. Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the factual premise of the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question. Most people, I think, have made it clear whether they wrote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.663.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Economic Summit (Tokyo)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that he gave to parts of the agreement that have been reached. Whatever cross-party support is available is always helpful on these occasions internationally. The right hon. and learned Gentleman referred to the report in The Independent. As is so often the case with newspaper reports, I am a little baffled by what the right hon. and learned Gentleman was quoting from, or what he might mean by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.751.3", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "embers are not moved to vote against the measure because it breaks an election pledge, they should certainly vote against it because of its effect on the elderly, the poor and the disabled. Pensioners up and down the country have signed our petition against VAT because, as my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) said, they already struggle to pay their gas and electricity bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ith a group of members of the Confederation of British Industry on Friday. Surprisingly, many of those at that meeting would have been perfectly happy to see the Government increase the standard and 40 per cent. taxation rates to get the country's economy right. I am honoured to have represented my constituency for 22 years in this place—rather longer than the overwhelming majority of the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.777.13", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is appropriate that, having discussed one tax rise, albeit an overt tax rise, we now proceed to discuss a substantial concealed tax rise, and one which bears in a most unfair way on charities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.777.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.777.15", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members, whose consciences must already be pricking them, should stay and listen to my exposition of what is intended to be a relieving measure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.777.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.777.15", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e that we have received a substantial number of written representations about the point. It would probably do Tory Members some good—at least it would inform them—if I read each and every one of those representations into the record. It would take some time. However, they might prefer it if I broadly outlined the Opposition's case, and if I were heard in silence it would be easier for me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.777.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "panies would be denied the benefit of the change, at least those with charities on their shareholders' register, and in the worst case it might make the charity undesirable and unwelcome as a shareholder. The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East seems to be learning the lesson of his hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor because he is building for himself a lectern on the Opposition Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "st have been acting on instructions from the British Government. Perhaps the Minister will now tell the House how he justifies that decision. I would be glad if the Minister would take time from my speech to answer that point. I would prefer that to the glib platitudes that a civil servant has written for the Minister. I would like the Minister to answer a few relevant points about accountability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "programmes even with the destructive consequences that I mentioned they are still not offered a crumb of debt relief—as the G7 summit in Tokyo last week revealed only too clearly? The expansion of cocoa production and the revival of the timber industry in Ghana are both conditions for structural adjustment loans to that country, yet they cause massive destruction of Ghana's last remaining forests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.793.5", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not listen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I am glad to know that the Wapenhans report will be addressed. There is a great deal of difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.793.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-12", "file": "debates1993-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b23545f4cd60a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " to have Supply day debates on these important issues. Indeed, some of the subjects that the Opposition choose for debate are so uninteresting that I should have thought that occasionally they would want to choose the subject of aid, which is so close to the heart of the Labour party. I want to make a few comments about environmental protection and sustainability. The hon. Member for Oldham, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-12a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's comments, and I echo them. Testing and the national curriculum have raised standards in schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "The nature of discretionary grants is such that LEAs must use their discretion when choosing whether to award them. We continue to fund them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister clearly does not want to hear a reference to his VAT commitment. Let me remind him what he said in the \"Conservative Campaign Guide\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.827.7", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milligan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milligan", "preceding_text": "end agree that the reason that there is one member, one vote in the trade union movement was that the Government gave financial encouragement for postal ballots and actively helped democracy in the trade unions? Given that the campaign of the Leader of the Opposition to introduce one member, one vote in the Labour party will clearly either be fudged or abandoned, what measures will the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.827.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. I must disclose an interest in this matter. I am the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who is also the Minister with responsibility for public service and science, and who is an excellent contributor to the thinking on how our civil service should develop. If he were in the Chamber, I would pay him a tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.852.4", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ctive. They are concerned about whether we should reduce our present deficit by reducing expenditure or increasing revenues. They consider where increases or reductions in revenues in the tax system and in general public spending should fall. That is the stuff of our debates in the House on Treasury matters, and there are a number of opportunities to discuss such matters in the course of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.852.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.852.4", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ates in the House on Treasury matters, and there are a number of opportunities to discuss such matters in the course of the year. [Laughter.] The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East is laughing—no doubt I take advantage of those opportunities, but he never fails to do so either. I always appreciate the hon. Gentleman's interventions, which are invariably well thought through and interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.852.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ike to state that I have never avoided an opportunity to stand up in public and defend the Government's decision on VAT, which I believe to be fundamentally correct, though it may be costly in the short term. Correct and courageous Government decisions often are politically costly in a party political sense in the short term. The Government are to be more, not less, commended for taking that move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "igh import penetration of our domestic economy, which remains a worry for industry. I was tempted to intervene in the speech of the hon. Member for Slough (Mr. Watts) to say that he was pouring petrol over the Government but not putting a match to it. On the other hand, the hon. Member for Corby (Mr. Powell) last night poured domestic fuel over the Government and put a match to it by pointing out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "mbers' Interests, in particular of my connection with NatWest Securities, Dewe Rogerson and the Institute of Taxation. We had a characteristic performance this afternoon by the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman). It was certainly long on charm and on what my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary rightly called fragrance. On substance, however, it was short, I fear, to the point of superficiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "this year, next year and the year after. It is a necessary move. Therefore, I hope that it takes place. As for VAT, I know that the Government will not be discouraged by the fundamentally synthetic agitation of the Opposition, none of which was accompanied by an explicit commitment by the Labour party to abolish VAT on domestic fuel should the Labour party, by some mischance, be returned to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ds of foreign states have also gained from the Bill. Those with an interest in foreign affairs will be pleased to learn that they remain relieved of any obligation to pay tax on their British income. The hereditary rulers of Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Oman are now treated more favourably than our sovereign, but they gave large sums of money to the Conservative party and our sovereign did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-13", "file": "debates1993-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "35ff2609501dd710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "d private education from public funds. They not only continue to subsidise private schools: they intend to increase that subsidy tonight. When the right hon. Member for Brent, North (Sir R. Boyson) was an Education Minister, he said that the scheme was intended for able children from the poorest homes. Why he thought able children from the poorest homes would want to go to public schools beats me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-13a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not give a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "f his party, and to move a step closer to the selling of Scottish water. Both proposals have already been visited on other parts of the United Kingdom. The people of Scotland, having seen the so-called future, in Tory eyes, know that it does not work. The fact is that the Government have one overriding conviction, and have adopted it in Scotland as well: if they cannot win elections, abolish them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ically separated from Midlothian, and Musselburgh and Prestonpans are thrown in for good measure. West Lothian is three times as large as Berwickshire and East Lothian. Are we to conclude that it is now official policy that three voters for a Labour council may be compared with one for a Tory council? That is hardly a model for a modern democracy. Stirling, the model toytown council, spent a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "ntleman remind me of the doggerel by Mr. Hughes Mearns: As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again to-day. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. Judging by the hon. Gentleman's speech today, he was not there again today. I am glad that we have this early opportunity for a debate, but it is a pity that the Opposition thought that it was only worth half a day of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "l council. He has made it abundantly clear how strongly his local authority, like many others in Scotland, is committed to decentralisation. I was addressing the baleful influence of socialism across the central belt of Scotland and beyond. I suggest that the Labour party is gerrymandering in reverse. It seeks to keep in place the distorted instruments of its unfair hegemony over central Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "I said neither \"adept\" nor \"adapt\" when referring to the hon. Gentleman's quotation; I said inept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "preceding_text": "On Thursday when the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke) replied to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State he said: we are being asked to consider a White Paper for which there is no consensus in Scotland, no support, no demand\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "The White Paper and the Secretary of State's speech were sad efforts—an exercise in brute force and ignorance, with the stress on ignorance. That was made obvious by an intervention by my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell). The Secretary of State's theme was taken up by the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Robertson), who has now left the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I will respond to that point later.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "best to represent the interests of his constituents. I understand that he has argued for an all-Ayrshire authority in the past, but perhaps I am wrong: perhaps he has argued for the retention of Strathclyde region. I leave him to look after his own interests, but I am aware of anxieties in a part of his constituency with which I have a great affiliation. My third point involves community councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "re appointed in Strathclyde region to protect the poor and those who needed protection. Many men and women in my constituency got a great deal of benefit from the advice given by those officers. Some of them were former soldiers who gave six years of their lives and did not see their friends come back. They were denied their right to services of Government Departments until Strathclyde stepped in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "onstituency. The White Paper says that the proposal is for the city of Glasgow. I am entitled to comment on a proposal that will take a place that has been part of Glasgow for a long time—Toryglen—and put it into south Lanarkshire. The logic of the Minister's argument is that at one time Toryglen did not belong to Glasgow. Springburn, Keppochhill and Maryhill did not belong to Glasgow at one time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "years against the Government's political chicanery. I will be brief but my anger goes deeper than this debate will allow. From the poll tax fiasco to Rosyth and Ravenscraig, the Tory roll of shame in Scotland is long and the Government have the gall to add this political deceit to it. The Government's plans are irretrievably rushed. There has been no real consultation on these fundamental changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1032.6", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Minister is responsible for his own speech, and no Standing Committee is involved in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "The Minister should know from our submissions to the Secretary of State that the Scottish Liberal Democrats have always been in favour of single-tier local authorities, but with a Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Water (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Minister says that he does not know whether the Opposition support a commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "that will need to be put in place in Geneva by all the participants to ensure a successful conclusion to the Uruguay round. As I have indicated, that success is crucial to the developing world. The reason—and this is the context in which the debate should be placed—is that developing countries earn three times as much income from trade flows as from aid. Trade is essential to the developing world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "If Opposition Members truly believe that, it is clear that there is a fundamental divide between us. I utterly reject that sort of thinking. Let me explain why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1046.10", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "required to help the poor of the world. As the hon. Member for Oldham, West highlighted, it is important that aid is well targeted. A debt strategy is also important. I hope that I shall be able to demonstrate to the House that that strategy was taken a stage further by discussion at Tokyo. The other overwhelmingly important element is trade and investment by other countries in the poor countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1046.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister's original proposal at Trinidad in 1990. The stage is therefore set for building on the consensus of the seven participants at the summit for further concrete proposals within the Paris Club. I am glad that the hon. Member for Oldham, West has been reasonably patient because I am about to discuss two issues that he raised—net flows and commercial debt. The figures from the OECD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "rn. In our efforts to promote development, the poorest have been the focus of our attention. Action on trade and debt is essential for developing countries' prospects but many of them, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, will continue to need access to concessional finance for the foreseeable future. Our aid is part of an overall international effort and has helped to bring about progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "solution must remain diversification and not continued over-reliance on volatile commodities. The effectiveness of our aid programme has been widely recognised, even if the hon. Member for Oldham, West is not prepared to give it that credit. Elements of quality include its focus on the poorest: 80 per cent. of bilateral aid goes to countries with per capita incomes of less than $700 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "F policies have failed the most. My hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) pointed out that more money comes out of Africa now than is put in. The hon. Member for Broxtowe valuably pointed out, as he usually does, the amount of money that is spent on emergency relief. The reason for that is that we failed in many cases to take preventive steps early enough by diplomatic initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-14", "file": "debates1993-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "de076c2bb2439203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debt, Trade and Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "' exports. We would not deny them the opportunities to compete in that sector, which is why the United Kingdom supports the phasing out of textiles as a commodity and better access to our markets. However, that was not always the view of Opposition Members. I have articles, admittedly from 1985, entitled Labour's plan to save the textile makers and Labour aims to curtail flood of textile imports\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-14a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1101.6", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "I know that the Chancellor is not readily given to embarrassment, but does he feel a tiny twinge of guilt at having been elected on a promise of lower taxes and now to be presiding over some of the largest increases in our country's history. Or am I being naive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman has forgotten what he said about the social chapter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Open Government", "cue_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Asil Nadir.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": " to the public. I ask hon. Members to reflect on the fact that that Minister will be one of the very Ministers who, in the past year, have refused to give information on the legal advice on Maastricht and the Matrix Churchill affair—the Minister who refused to put Lord Scott into the public domain, and refused to publish the accounts and records of the pits, the facts about the privatised prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Open Government", "cue_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "inister will be one of the very Ministers who, in the past year, have refused to give information on the legal advice on Maastricht and the Matrix Churchill affair—the Minister who refused to put Lord Scott into the public domain, and refused to publish the accounts and records of the pits, the facts about the privatised prisons—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Asil Nadir.\"]—and Asil Nadir and political donations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1116.5", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Open Government", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "To suggest that that will be the mechanism for appeals will not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1116.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Open Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "hat protect privacy and make it a criminal offence to release private information should be swept away? Of course not. Lord Franks was perfectly right about that, and we have re-endorsed what he said. There was very little else in what the hon. Lady said, except for her usual round of abuse about my college at Oxford, which obviously causes her to have a chip on her shoulder. I apologise for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "ed with giving the Welsh language enacted official status in the body of the measure. The reasons given for that preference seem to be distilled into an assertion that there may be legal problems and that it may do nothing more than provide work for lawyers. Perhaps I should declare my interest as a lawyer practising in Wales. I have done that for the last 21 years. I am proud of that achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "and the changes to one or two other words are welcome. However, the core issue is that for centuries the Welsh language has been treated as inferior, yet nothing in the Bill deals with that problem. I do not deny that there have been some cosmetic changes, one or two of them quite substantial—but by and large the important amendments dealing with the core issue have been ignored by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": "tion of official status, my colleagues and I find it impossible to support the Bill. Despite what I have said so far, I am prepared to concede that those who drafted the Bill, and in particular the Minister of State, seem to have been well intentioned. Theoretically, through the mechanism of the schemes, much could be achieved on certain conditions. What are the conditions which must be fulfilled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "While the Bill serves to confirm the status which the language enjoys, it is not the intention of the Bill to confer that status on the language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman will know that Wales has always been referred to as \"Gwlad y menyg gwynion\" and I am sure that few large fraud trials emanate from Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Some schools in my constituency have been categorised as mainly Welsh medium, and 90 per cent. of the children come from English-speaking homes. In most of my constituency, 50 per cent. of people are from Welsh-speaking homes and 50 per cent. are from English-speaking homes. In rural areas, there is the deliberate exclusion of the English language between the ages of five and seven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-15", "file": "debates1993-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7add4c94c99fbaed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welsh Language Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Redwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Redwood)", "preceding_text": "guage speakers and will be good news for the Welsh language. Yet there they sit on the Labour Benches—all four or so of them—not knowing what to do, gripped by indecision and quite unable to reach a conclusion. I pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend the Minister of State. He has worked tirelessly and well in the interests of the Welsh language and has brought good measures to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-15a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-16", "file": "debates1993-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7163eeca4bd50be3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-16a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Social Security Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "rap to which the Minister alluded—in previous debates some of those who have spoken have done no credit to themselves. They did not further the cause of ensuring that the debate is taken seriously. The Secretary of State's speech at last year's Tory party conference had more to do with rallying his supporters and perhaps strengthening his position in the Cabinet than addressing the issue of fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-16a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-16", "file": "debates1993-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7163eeca4bd50be3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-16a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Social Security Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "No one was suggesting for a moment, Madam Deputy Speaker, that you were trying to rent out a flat for £150 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-16a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-16", "file": "debates1993-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7163eeca4bd50be3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-16a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Social Security Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "ously. The hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) reminded me of bygone days. A decade ago, I served with the hon. Gentleman on Haringey council. It was wonderful in the early days. If it had not existed, the Sun would have had to invent it—it did everything that was expected from a loony left Labour council. It was marvellous. There were three political parties on the council at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-16a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "At some time in his busy schedule, will the Minister take time to instruct his stool pigeons who are brought forward to ask questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Water!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right and I shall give a couple of examples. British Telecom's prices have fallen by one third since 1984 and 96 per cent. of call boxes work, compared with 75 per cent. previously. British Gas prices for domestic users have fallen 13 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "My mother is Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.21.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.21.9", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have not finished. On today's Order Paper, only 22 questions were tabled for the Secretary of State for Wales. Usually, 30 questions are printed. Insufficient questions were handed in to the Table Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.21.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can answer the hon. Gentleman only by saying that he did not table a question today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Supplemental provisions with respect to certain proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "nitial procedure and saw the long delays and waste of time. The guts of the debate is simple. We are bent on the task of saving the Opposition from themselves. They are unable to prioritise their concerns or manage their time effectively or deploy their arguments. We must impose order on the structure of the debate. We are anxious to proceed with the debate and get on with the substantive issues——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "In such circumstances, women will be very bitter, because they will emerge from higher education with a rather mediocre degree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "The Minister is doing nothing of the sort. The grant to which the hon. Lady refers comes from the Home Office, not the Department for Education. No doubt the hon. Lady will look that up later. I am indebted to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing us to have this very important micro-debate within the general debate. The general debate is about driving up standards of education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "If I am not mistaken, that document has been made available to the Public Accounts Committee in commercial confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-19", "file": "debates1993-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "af37aa32859b988a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.88.2", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "Let me begin by reiterating as strongly as I can that this is not an ideological Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-19a.88.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.190.6", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister accept the opinion expressed by the great constitutional expert, Professor Dicey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.190.10", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.190.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.190.11", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House will come to order. There is a great deal of nonsense going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.190.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.191.10", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " His Government are imposing 17·5 per cent. VAT on domestic fuel and attacking those who are on invalidity benefit, and now there is a cloud over state pensions. How does he reconcile that contradiction, as a nation can never be at ease with itself when there are such attacks on the underprivileged in society? I suggest that it might have something to do with his family's circus background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.191.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I suggest that at an early age the Prime Minister was taught to stand on his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that matter in a minute or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I have not read that quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surely skull?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I have not read that quote—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] I am, however, glad that the right hon. Gentleman has mentioned it, because I do not think that a simple message has yet penetrated his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wriggling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "d an important point. There has to be housing for families who find themselves without a roof. I would strongly object to the removal from the priority list, under the homeless persons legislation, of a family with a child simply because it happened to be a single-parent family, rather than what we all consider desirable—a two-parent family. The housing situation has to deal with social realities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "ough I am surprised that the subject should have been chosen for this Opposition day debate. I can think of only two reasons for that. The first is that it is a bit of cheap public relations activity for the Commission on Social Justice. As the Secretary of State said, it is the first time that an Opposition party—or, indeed, any other party—-has decided to contract out its policy-making activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": " and the people to work together. One of the areas in which the social fabric has been most challenged in the past 30 years is the inner cities. Thirty years ago, they were the powerhouse of our economic activity and the driving force behind much of our growth and wealth creation. Then, for various reasons, they began to decline. In every case, the decline can be traced back to socialist policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "atised utilities that would kill off their investment plans for several years to come. We know that, if we want more jobs in this country, we should reject policies such as the social chapter, and adopt policies that reduce bureaucracy and red tape. That is why the economy is now turning round. My local experience tells me that it is turning around much faster than the official statistics suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ticket collector, \"I am not a customer; I am a passenger.\" He said, \"No, you are not; you are a customer.\" If I go to hospital, am I a customer for an operation? If I am hauled up before the magistrate, will he call me \"customer at the bar\"? Does the Archbishop of Canterbury talk about \"dearly beloved customers\"? Does the Queen, in her Christmas broadcast, refer to -our customers here and abroad\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what it is all about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " my dad saying to me once that the pre-war Liberal Government of 1910 made the nation's health a national interest, and long before the health service. I thought that that was silly and that everybody knew that, but that is no longer true. The nation's health is an optional extra like white-walled tyres. People buy treatment if they can afford it, and if they cannot. they go down to a lower grade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "t I come from a different school: if anyone accused me of sanctimonious humbug I would dig them right up. That is not the type of language that we are used to hearing from Ministers on whom millions of people rely to have a bit of heart instead of a hard head and a stupid tongue. The Minister should get his language right because personal attacks do not do any of us any good. They are for outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.282.5", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "mission on Social Justice complains about differences in the geographical dispersal of infant mortality. It is an interesting criticism because since 1979 infant mortality has substantially diminished. In the past 20 years, it has fallen by half in all areas, including those to which the commission refers. Perhaps the commission would be happier with a uniform but higher level of infant mortality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.282.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "ild care. If child care was flexible, affordable and accessible, many young parents would be able to move out of their current poverty. My hon. Friends the Members for Nottingham, South (Mr. Simpson) and for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) spoke about the lives of young people. My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax referred to them as \"Thatcher's children\". We cannot ignore what is happening to young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "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": "nsure themselves. So there is common ground, although one would not think so when one listened to the hon. Member for Garscadden opening the debate today. Clearly we can agree with those themes. I differ from the Commission on Social Justice in its gloomy picture and analysis of Britain today, which is not a picture that I recognise. I believe that Opposition Members live in a world in which they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": " that the Immigration (Restricted Right of Appeal against Deportation) (Exemption) Order 1993 (S.I., 1993, No. 1656), dated 2nd July 1993, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5th July, be annulled. There is something fundamentally wrong with a Parliament that allows such matters of life and death to be put not in a Bill but in rules to be discussed briefly at night, or even in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": " Deportation) (Exemption) Order 1993 (S.I., 1993, No. 1656), dated 2nd July 1993, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5th July, be annulled. There is something fundamentally wrong with a Parliament that allows such matters of life and death to be put not in a Bill but in rules to be discussed briefly at night, or even in Committee. [Interruption.] Even so, the Minister must now be clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "Even so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.299.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-20", "file": "debates1993-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4e7b620409f49e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "It is with great honour and humility that I present to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-20a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I know of no such representations to renationalise British Telecom, even from the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Arts Council (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Andrew Faulds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "the virtual dismemberment of the system of regional theatres? Is he aware that regional theatres are the backbone of what has made British theatre among the best in the world? Does he know that all the great British actors and actresses, from Gielgud, Olivier and Albert Finney to Antony Sher, Ian McKellen, Julie Walters, Judy Dench and Glenda Jackson, came up through the regional theatre movement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Arts Council (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "or Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) said that he had received a copy of the statement. I happen to think that it is perfectly sensible and courteous of the Secretary of State to give a copy to my right hon. Friend, who is the Chairman of the Select Committee. However, if the Chairman of the National Heritage Select Committee receives one, why does not the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " do not want to get into the detailed geography of the area, because I do not know it very well, having looked at the area on the map at fairly short notice, and also because it has been a long time since my grandmother lived in Beckenham and I used to go out to some of those places. If I were pushed, I could take the House on a ramble around my childhood activities in the area and point out that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " gone bust while building the greatest buildings in London. It may be a fate that will perennially beset developers with imagination. The last thing that happened was that the local council occupied the building or knocked it down. The facility is there and it will continue. The merits of the scheme embodied in the Bill are such that I can invite the House to support it. The Government support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "pose that it welcomes its environmental impact. For those three reasons—social, economic and environmental—I support the Bill. However, my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, South made a good point when he talked of the need to enable and encourage British companies to contribute fully to the scheme. As one of his humble constituents, I like to agree with him, and I agree with him on that matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "offence was trivial or committed a long time ago or where there is reason to believe that the accusation was not made in good faith or in the interests of justice. Genuine political refugees have nothing to fear from the treaty or from the order. Our law will continue to preclude extradition where we believe that the request has been politically motivated, and the treaty contemplates nothing less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I deliberately kept my speech short to allow as many hon. Members as possible to intervene. I have already given way a number of times in this short debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.448.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Watts", "preceding_text": "the fact that the Indian Government were expressing a willingness to open up to Amnesty International and take action on human rights was to be welcomed. Does he agree that it would have been better if the British Government had waited until the measures were in place so that the Indian Government could point to an improved human rights record before the order was brought before the House tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "nsider the basic premise of the 1977 measure and produce some new scheme. It might have come to Parliament saying that the whole system was wrong, which might have been rather controversial. It might have come to us and said that parsons should hold their office only for a limited number of years. It might have said that there should be performance criteria or standards that they should observe —.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-21", "file": "debates1993-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f6e066924c8704d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Croydon Tramlink Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruptioni", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " fallen out with his parishioners. What does he do? He gets hold of my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth to defend him before a tribunal. Can hon. Members think of anything more calculated to bring the Church of England into disrepute than a public row when a rector has fallen out with his parishioners in very sensitive and difficult circumstances, perhaps because he has lost his mental balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-21a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.487.16", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ed and currently occupied and it is estimated that at least another 16 places are needed in the west midlands. Why do not the Government give that support? I have a letter from the local police who say that, as well as more secure units, they want to see more supervision of young people on bail and more support for offenders' families. If the Government are really committed to tackling crime, why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.487.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.501.11", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is one of those rare occasions when I am unable to share a view with my hon. Friend. I believe that she is entirely wrong and I hope that she will reconsider her position before 10 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.501.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.6", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend is right, both on the specifics of exports and on the general point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.6", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend is right, both on the specifics of exports and on the general point. [Interruption.] Exports to non-Community countries were up 15 per cent. last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.6", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend is right, both on the specifics of exports and on the general point. [Interruption.] Exports to non-Community countries were up 15 per cent. last year. [Interruption.] That is a real credit to British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.8", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a real credit to British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.502.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": " legal position of Scotland in the context of that ruling. The Bill of Rights defined clearly that parliamentary sovereignty in England existed in Parliament. The Claim of Right, the equivalent document in Scotland, which was passed one year prior, defined clearly that sovereignty lay with the Scottish people. The Act of Union of 1707 incorporated neither the Bill of Rights nor the Claim of Right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Lord", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend knows that, for many years, I have opposed the social chapter because of the effect that it would have on companies such as ICI in Stowmarket, which is in my constituency. I urge the Prime Minister to continue to oppose the social chapter as strongly as he can. I will be voting against the social chapter and in support of the Government in the Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.523.4", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope that the gesture of the hon. Member for Durham, North (Mr. Radice) is intended to indicate that we have one hon. Member on our side, and nothing else. My hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Central (Mr. Lord) referred to ICI. ICI is one of the biggest employers in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.523.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. If he thinks back to the story of the young boy fishing, does he recall that not only is an eel \"one that wriggles\", but that eels are excessively slippery?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I had not, I must confess, envisaged the hon. Gentleman as a British industrialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.5", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "It will come as a matter of total astonishment to this House to hear that a bunch of Tory business men say that they are on the side of the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.7", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I shall quote to the right hon. Gentleman the precise remarks of the general secretary of UNICE, the employers' organisation, on precisely this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.8", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.9", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "small part of the picture … So it's … really … gross over simplification to reduce the whole thing to the costs of labour. He is right. That is the view of UNICE, just as it is the view of the European TUC. If the Conservative party is so right on this subject, why is it that the only political party in the rest of the Community that supports it is Mr. Le Pen's National Front?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.531.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is about time that hon. Members settled down —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is about time that hon. Members settled down — [Interruption.] —in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. The Secretary of State for Employment is misleading the House. He has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.9", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Ministers, speaking on behalf of UNICE. I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman to consider this: I want to finish my statement with an urgent call for negative action. This is an appeal from the heart on behalf of the millions of companies which UNICE represents. Governments and the Community expect those companies to produce wealth to invest and to create jobs. He concluded with these words —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.532.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the House will come to order, it will hear what is being said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is true that interventions should be short and to the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.4", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I do not know why Opposition Members are trying to destroy the Leader of the Opposition's speech. I shall quote directly from the statement made on behalf of UNICE. The president—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.6", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The president said to the Council of Ministers: Then please stop taking measures\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.9", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman, and those making noisy interventions on his behalf, was not seeking to destroy a speech, it is hard to work out what he was trying to do. I quoted exactly and precisely what the general secretary of UNICE said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.533.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.534.8", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ves our shores behind, the Prime Minister is transformed into a diplomatic megastar. There he is, Britain's diplomatic megastar, his Superman shirt tucked neatly into his underpants; there he is, a very special kind of hero, shaping the very destiny of Europe, clutching his Maastricht optout as his colleagues gently take him to the door marked \"Sortie\". What the Prime Minister does not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.534.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.534.8", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "tar, his Superman shirt tucked neatly into his underpants; there he is, a very special kind of hero, shaping the very destiny of Europe, clutching his Maastricht optout as his colleagues gently take him to the door marked \"Sortie\". What the Prime Minister does not understand— [Interruption.] I do not think that the Conservative party will gain very much by making rowdy noises throughout my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.534.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman recall what was said in the press when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister returned from his negotiations? In France, it was said: Holding his own\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "f the Board of Trade. One also hears them from Conservative Members of the European Parliament. In a debate in the European Parliament on 27 May this year, Sir Christopher Prout, whom I understand to be the leader of the Conservative MEPs, could not have put matters more plainly. What he said is on the record of the European Parliament: The Conservative Party is in favour of the social dimension\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "d weigh in the balance the comments that I read in newspapers such as The Sunday Telegraph. Last week that newspaper quoted a Dutch Christian Democrat, Jean Penders, on the attitudes of Tory MEPs. Mr. Penders said that at first he was doubtful about his new British colleagues in the European People's party, but that now he is full of praise: Oh, they all believe in the Social Chapter, all of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "esto will be based on its policies and positions and the British Tories will have to defend every word. It seems that quite a lot of talking will have to take place. The problem for the Tories is that the European People's party has not been reticent about its views on federalism and the social chapter. I shall quote from the Athens declaration of the ninth congress of the European People's party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "h today, when a British Government actually place adverts in the German business press advertising Britain as a low-wage economy. Not for our skills, technology or productivity are we to be recommended—we are to be recommended just for our low wages. There are low wages in a society in which income equality has dramatically widened over 14 Conservative years. Let me just remind the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ersonnel gave evidence the other day to the Select Committee on Employment. He dismissed the social chapter as a significant factor in respect of inward investment. It is also highly revealing that many Japanese firms in Britain bring with them much better working practices than are common in British firms and which far exceed anything that would he required by the social chapter. A recent survey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "omeone in 1909 understood something which members of the Conservative party have not yet realised in the 1990s. Churchill said that when he was a Liberal. Apparently Conservatives only pay attention to what Churchill said when he was a Conservative, such is the narrow and partisan view of history and reality adopted by the Conservative party. What the Chancellor of the Exchequer should understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "y. What the Chancellor of the Exchequer should understand— [Interruption.] —I hope that he will listen carefully to this—is that a recent survey of the pay and employment conditions in eight major Japanese-owned companies employing 15,000 people in the United Kingdom found that wages, maternity and paternity leave and fringe benefits in those companies were far more generous than those in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "ment, which I understand he supports, that would impose the social protocol, which he has criticised on so many occasions. The second vote will then be in accordance with the motion on the Order Paper. As I understand it, there is a motion on the Order Paper provided the amendment is defeated. The question which the Prime Minister put to the right hon. Gentleman, and which he had not yet answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I gave way, because I knew that my hon. Friend would be long-winded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "·9 an hour. But the production lines in the United Kingdom are doing far better than both those major competitors. If we adopt the social chapter tonight, by whatever means, it will be a devastating effect on a company like that in terms of increased costs, which we would then have to bear because of the social benefits that would have to be brought in under the terms of the social chapter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.563.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "You ratted last time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "we have come a long way and that we have fired many warnings shots across the Government, warning them that we must not again embark on such an exercise without the full-hearted consent of the Conservative Benches or the people. Tonight's debate is purely on the social chapter. Those are the words on the Order Paper, which I believe will be voted on at 10 o'clock tonight and I want to reject them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will answer the hon. Gentleman. I hope that hon. Members on both sides of the House will read the protocol carefully to see what is contains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I can tell my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) that I have here the legal case that we propose to put before the European Court when fighting the working time directive. However, if we accept the Opposition's amendment tonight, I might as well tear up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [interruption.] Order. Mr. Banks!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-22", "file": "debates1993-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "efa530e81f8e04b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Treaty of Maastricht (Social Protocol)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-22a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.621.15", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "93; Vol. 229, c. 526.] The Prime Minister was determining which votes were valid and which votes were not, and he was doing it by the authority that he has as Prime Minister. Secondly, and more significantly, the Government have indicated that if they lose today's vote there will be an election. Does the Prime Minister have the authority from the Queen? Has she said that there will be an election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.621.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Under the rules of the House of Commons as they pertain on a Friday, have you had any request from the Foreign Secreetary to make a statement on the significant compromise reached a few hours ago by the United Nations negotiators in Baghdad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I have the honour to present a petition bearing the signatures of 4,895 residents of Caithness and Sutherland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "en and women working hard to hold down jobs, bring up families and improve their working conditions. At any time, the social chapter would be an unwarranted intrusion into British life; but now, just when recovery is beginning to emerge, it would put recovery at risk. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman does not want to take my word for it, perhaps he will take the word of the chairman of ICI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.627.6", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interrupt ion.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to know in reality how unready the Liberal Democrates are for an election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.627.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You will recall that I spent nearly four years in the Whips Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You will recall that I spent nearly four years in the Whips Office—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] During that time, I was instructed not to apply any overt duress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have given way sufficiently. As the president of the CBI said in The Times yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sense and competitiveness in Europe by sevaral years. The right hon. and learned Gentleman will shortly be the first Labour leader to speak to the CBI; perhaps before he goes he should start listening to the CBI, too. Other countries around the world are beginning to realise the effect of excessive social costs. The chairmen of our leading banks yesterday may it perfectly clear that their concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If Conservative economic policies for this country are so wise, I could ask the hon. Gentleman why it is that we have millions of unemployed people here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman why it is that we have millions of unemployed people here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Quiet. It is time that some members of the Cabinet went on their holidays. They might come back a little calmer and a little quieter. They should not allow the prospect of electoral suicide to upset them in the way that, apparently, it is doing, but they sit there worrying about electoral suicide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "preceding_text": "As a connoisseur of knock-about, I congratulate the right hon. and learned Gentleman, though knock-about is not very prime ministerial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that I can say this to the right hon. and learned Gentleman: his speech was a little more effective than the Prime Minister's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "thing else, the issue of pay is not a part of the social protocol, as I said in yesterday's debate. The Prime Minister's case is that other countries in Europe are seeking to follow the British Conservative party's fearless way forward. I see that the Secretary of State for Employment is nodding—no doubt he will give that message to the European People's party in his little office in Smith square—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " sitting looking at me—is how the Prime Minister managed to get himself into this mess. After all, he must have known—as they must have known—that the House of Commons could not indefinitely be denied the opportunity to vote on whether the social chapter should be part of the treaty. The Prime Minister tried to duck and weave, to postpone and evade throughout the lengthy deliberations on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. The serious point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "No, just sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "No, I did not. One has only to look at me to know that I am not in favour of a federal Europe, and the hon. Gentleman knows that as well as anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " of sound, sensible and firm government from the Prime Minister, whom I am delighted to be able to support. Today, it is necessary to ensure that we have a resounding vote in support of the Prime Minister's motion and a resounding defeat of the Labour party amendment. The Conservative party will then be able to leave for the summer recess with its tail up, in the knowledge that it is beginning to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman will pay so much attention to the House of Lords, but that is his prerogative. Of course, he must not say that Lord Rees-Mogg is a Conservative Peer—he sits on the Cross Benches. I used to know Lord Rees-Mogg when he was a Conservative. Indeed, I appointed him chairman of the Arts Council. I thought that he was rather good. That is a royal prerogative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.659.7", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "e of what the right hon. Member for Chesterfield said, it is highly probable—if not virtually certain—that Parliament will be dissolved. Do my right hon. and hon. Friends believe that that is desirable at the moment? On what course do we want to set the country? The Conservatives won an extraordinarily large victory last year although it was not rewarded by as many seats as we might have expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "election again. I do not think that I told a single lie during the campaign. I see no point in fighting the battles of the last election again. Indeed, I hope that we shall not have to fight those of the next election too soon. As the economy improves, and as people realise that conditions in this country are getting better, in stark contrast to those in most of the rest of the European Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.660.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.687.5", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Favouritism.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Yes, the hon. Gentleman is acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.687.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "atter of confidence in the Government, and on that issue, every Conservative should support the Government because if they are defeated there will be a general election. It states that the treaty will be ratified by Britain, and only the continuance of a Conservative Government can guarantee that it will be ratified without the job-destroying social chapter. One or two hon. Members mentioned that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": " had been willing to say that he would obey the will of Parliament, he had perhaps disqualified himself, but I fear that now we know the truth. The senior fireman has been deployed because the Government knew all along that they would lose yesterday, so he had to be kept in reserve. In the course of the Foreign Secretary's other occupation, he occasionally allows his inner feelings to be revealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "self, but I fear that now we know the truth. The senior fireman has been deployed because the Government knew all along that they would lose yesterday, so he had to be kept in reserve. In the course of the Foreign Secretary's other occupation, he occasionally allows his inner feelings to be revealed. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"] Those inner feelings are of considerable importance. In his last book —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "ployed because the Government knew all along that they would lose yesterday, so he had to be kept in reserve. In the course of the Foreign Secretary's other occupation, he occasionally allows his inner feelings to be revealed. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"] Those inner feelings are of considerable importance. In his last book — [Interruption.] I ask the House to listen carefully—the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "ary's other occupation, he occasionally allows his inner feelings to be revealed. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"] Those inner feelings are of considerable importance. In his last book — [Interruption.] I ask the House to listen carefully—the Foreign Secretary— [Interruption.] We can tell a lot about the Conservatives and how uncomfortable they are because of the situation in which they find themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "e Foreign Secretary described the career of a disillusioned Foreign Office Minister who had fallen out with his Prime Minister, his wife and his constituents. The Minister went to Africa. \"Edward abstracted himself\", the book says. It adds: He had a speech typed fair in front of him, produced by Sally in a neat folder from the depths of her despatch case … He put nothing of himself into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "Before he started on his rather lengthy peroration, the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) made some remarks about the winding-up speech last night. It is not entirely bizarre that a debate on employment law and practice should be wound up by the Secretary of State for Employment. This is the last speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "r lengthy peroration, the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) made some remarks about the winding-up speech last night. It is not entirely bizarre that a debate on employment law and practice should be wound up by the Secretary of State for Employment. This is the last speech—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] This is the last speech in the last debate on the ratification of the Maastricht treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "e Opposition made the point that the hon. Gentleman has just summarised, but he misrepresented our position. We believe that we should be at the heart of the argument in Europe on those matters that the Community needs to discuss and to decide. The Leader of the Opposition implied that that doctrine should be extended and that every domestic matter should be discussed and decided by the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-23", "file": "debates1993-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a3949a11c7b9ee5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Queen Mary's University Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mellor", "preceding_text": "challenging agenda for the Government. In the Lobby just now, a fellow London Member of Parliament who today presented a petition concerning a hospital in his constituency said to me, \"It's the Government that's in intensive care at the moment, not the health service.\" Ministers ought to bear that in mind when making their dispensations. My judgment is that the future of the London health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-23a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.735.7", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State assure me that the privatisation of railways will not prejudice investment in the west coast main line, which is of major importance to us in Northern Ireland, as the Larne-Lochryan-Carlisle route is the major route used to carry the commercial traffic of Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.735.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are dealing with Staffordshire at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.741.10", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the sale of bus companies is good for employees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.741.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Assisted Areas", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It must be pretty obvious to the House that I cannot call all the hon. Members who are standing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Assisted Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "It is a little early to start talking about delegations when we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Assisted Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "le early to start talking about delegations when we have— [Interruption.] Wait for it—the information on new travel-to-work areas. Consideration of objective 2 and/or objective 5(b) status is in the immediate future. The new travel-to-work areas will not be considered before 1995 at the earliest. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that unemployment in his travel-to-work area is only 9·7 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You don't believe that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "t Mr. Nadir's present position would focus attention on northern Cyprus. I do not think that it is likely that the Conservative party will pursue the issue with any vigour. One of the saddest documents I have read in the past year was an article in the July/August issue of Business Age on the funding of the Conservative party. Among a number of major donors named in the article was Mr. Asil Nadir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Latin America", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "erica, 19 million live in poverty and 13 million live in extreme and abject poverty. That is hardly a success story for free enterprise. As a result, millions of people have been forced to work in the informal economy. People who once worked together on farmers' and workers' co-operatives are now having to sell sweets and cigarettes in the city, competing with each other just to get enough to eat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yugoslavia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": " people and sometimes Government spokesmen say that all groups have perpetrated atrocities. Yet the only ones which we hear about in the media are those committed by Serbs. Undoubtedly, atrocities have been committed. How many people in the Chamber tonight have referred to Muslim atrocities? They have certainly taken place, but the Muslims are running a good PR operation, especially from New York.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yugoslavia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "want to see. It is interesting that many of my hon. Friends are keen to see British troops withdrawn from Northern Ireland and rushed to Yugoslavia. Sanctions have prevented the Serbs from putting across their case. Ian Greer and Associates acted for the Serbs at the beginning of the conflict but they are prevented from doing so now because of the sanctions. That is also true in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-26", "file": "debates1993-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8edadaf8c54536cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " to plan adequately given that uncertainty? In November 1991 the then Secretary of State for Transport pledged the necessary investment and said that by 1993–94 London Underground investment in the existing railway should be more than £700 million a year taking into account the Monopolies and Mergers Commission statement that that amount was needed to provide an adequately modern framework.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-26a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-27", "file": "debates1993-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c2d84ffcac58889f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-27a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "preceding_text": "e slowest bureaucracy this side of the Kremlin and the sooner it was abolished, the better. Of course, the Labour party in London valued the GLC because it was prepared to finance lunatic left-wing activity. That source of funds for bizarre extremist groups has dried up and no longer is the hon. Gentleman able to lavish money on such bodies as the Marx Memorial library and Babies Against the Bomb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-27a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-27", "file": "debates1993-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c2d84ffcac58889f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-27a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The hon. Gentleman wallpapered about 15 minutes' worth of Hansard with ailegations, using parliamentary privilege to do so. When he had the stewardship of the GLC in 1984–85, it spent £20 million on Labour propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-27a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-07-27", "file": "debates1993-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c2d84ffcac58889f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-27a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "at, when the Labour party had control of the GLC, its standards were despicable. It was the hon. Member for Brent, East who declared: Fighting alongside the miners we can create the conditions for a general strike to defeat the Tory Government. Of course, during those times in Lambeth there were instances of funeral cars carrying white feathers being sent to those who wanted to set a legal budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-07-27a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.6.7", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The level of unemployment since the end of the second world war has depended on a range of factors, including international conditions, demographic change, technological change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.6.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.8.7", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman anticipates the uprating statement. I wish that he and others of his hon. Friends understood that low inflation is the friend of pensioners and not their enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.8.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "bly in Copenhagen in support of a resolution to seek ways in which to achieve the objective of a nuclear-free world. The resolution concluded with the aim: To study ways in which an international deterrent regime could be brought about which would allow the reduction of nuclear weapons in a co-ordinated fashion so that national arsenals can be reduced to a minimum level or even totally abolished\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lucky you\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "esence in the Persian gulf for the past 13 years, which today comprises two destroyers or frigates assigned to the Armilla patrol throughout the year. The Navy has had a destroyer or frigate plus tanker continuously on station in the south Atlantic since 1982 and in the West Indies for at least the past 20 years. I recently had the privilege of spending a week on HMS Cumberland in the West Indies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jerry Wiggin", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Inspector general\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jerry Wiggin", "preceding_text": "in airfield defence. It may be argued that that threat is somewhat lessened, but a locally recruited modest army on site who could get to know the area, the people and the ground concerned was always a cheap way to defend airfields. I am delighted to hear that my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro), whom I had the honour to appoint to a post as honorary chair or something like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.86.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That, in respect of the European Economic Area Bill [Lords] , notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time.— [Mr. Conway.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.121.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-18", "file": "debates1993-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "11a796033a658c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the European Economic Area Bill [Lords] be committed to a Committee of the whole House, further proceedings on the Bill shall stand postponed and that, as soon as the proceedings on any Resolutions come to by the House on the European Economic Area Bill [Lords] [Money] and [Ways and Means] have been concluded, this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill.— [Mr. Conway.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-18a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.130.9", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I cannot quite follow the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.130.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I need no lectures from the Opposition on opportunities for the young, because when we took over in 1979 only 28 per cent. of them stayed on in further education in schools. Today the figure is 56 per cent. We are devoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.136.7", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the evidence for that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " not prepared to contemplate the imposition, under the treaty of Rome, of statutory works councils in Europe. As my hon. Friend is aware, the social protocol, which Opposition Members would have us sign, exists and it now remains for the Eleven to consider how to proceed. I must tell my hon. Friend, however, that there is increasing evidence that our partners are coming round to our point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.136.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "people. Just 27 are left, 13 of which have been sold to Mr. Patrick Doyle. Why have they been sold to Mr. Patrick Doyle? It cannot be because he has a reputation for integrity, because he was imprisoned for forgery and fraud; it cannot be because he has experience of running training schemes, because he has none. Is it because he has raised fuunds for the Conservative party? That he certainly has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.143.7", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do myself believe, as I have made clear, that prison is effective. I certainly support its use, where appropriate. None of us seeks an antiquarian prison system, but I want an effective prison system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.143.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Redwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Redwood)", "preceding_text": "hich the chairman gave details this morning. I believe that the chairman and the board of the Welsh Development Agency have taken tough action to deal with the criticisms in the PAC report and to ensure that in future the importance of compliance is understood. It is clear from the report that my predecessors were not to blame, and that the primary responsibility lay at executive level in the WDA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.147.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": "esses that have been supported by the excellent work of the WDA, will be appalled by the laughter this afternoon at the work undertaken by that agency? Whatever the position on the internal affairs of the agency—matters that have been exposed and are properly the subject of serious criticism —it is important that the work of the WDA is recognised. I urge my right hon. Friend to reassure the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Pardon for Solidiers of the Great War", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Pardon for Solidiers of the Great War", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the hon. Gentleman do have leave to bring in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that there are Conservative Members for whom a cut of £1 billion would not be acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.167.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That, in respect of the European Economic Area Bill [Lords], notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time.— [Mr. Lightbown.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.251.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-19", "file": "debates1993-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b367d319b09a0555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.251.7", "colnum": "251", "heading": "European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e European Economic Area Bill [Lords] be committed to a Committee of the whole House, further proceedings on the Bill shall stand postponed and that, as soon as the proceedings on any Resolutions come to by the House on the European Economic Area Bill [Lords] [Money] and [Ways and Means] have been concluded, this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill.— [Mr. Lightbown.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-19a.251.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-20", "file": "debates1993-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0ea67b507b0ea371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "lion is the cost of the redundancy as a result of the Government's strategy for the coal industry, that, despite the public outcry, more than half the jobs in Britain's pits have gone in the past year, and that Britain, with the largest coal reserves in Europe, is now on course by next spring to have a mining work force of barely 1,000 men? Is not that the real message of the Minister's statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-20", "file": "debates1993-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0ea67b507b0ea371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "t the threat of further closures finally exposes the Government's White Paper of last March as a total fraud? Will he admit that his statement today that they have managed to sell extra coal to British Alcan merely throws into relief the fact that not a single bag of coal has been bought by either of the major generators, even though that coal would produce cheaper electricity than any other fuel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-20", "file": "debates1993-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0ea67b507b0ea371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " of the House if I speak briefly about the second motion at the same time. I do not need to detain the House for a great length of time. It is perhaps unusual for the House to be debating the motions in this way and I shall give the background as a fact, rather than as a conclusive argument. It has been agreed through the usual channels that the Bill should be taken through all its stages tomorrow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-20", "file": "debates1993-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0ea67b507b0ea371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "National Lottery Etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": " a Tory Minister it is even more pleasurable. I refer to the Minister specifically. He argued in Committee that a top prize of more than £500,000 would be detrimental to the aims of a national lottery. He went on to say that it would create a series of \"mini national lotteries\". Since then, wiser counsels have prevailed. With the benefit of hindsight, he can say that he was bent by our arguments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-20a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.386.6", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Is it Harry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.386.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.404.3", "colnum": "404", "heading": "National Health Service (Management)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " want an evolving health service which is responsive to local needs, we must ensure that the district has the authority. The advantage of direct elections to health authorities is a myth. I have said time and again that that aspect was rejected when the NHS was first drawn up. I do not think that anybody can seriously believe that the health service would benefit from that party political process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.404.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "National Health Service (Management)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard the answer before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "might be able to think of a different question to ask. Members of the Labour party, like members of all parties, are welcome to submit names for health authority appointments; they come from many different regions. I have to give the same answer that I gave before—that, if any Opposition Members wish, I can put them in touch with many of their party associates who are involved in the improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.423.5", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " confidence. If that is reconquering the high ground, it astonishes me to think that the Foreign Secretary ever knows where the high ground is. We have seen the Government fritter away the opportunities of having a European central bank in London. They tell the nation how the City of London will be protected and enhanced by their action, yet we have lost all hope of having a European central bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "months of long and lengthy debate. The social chapter is agreed by the other nation states and would be agreed by Sweden and the EFTA countries. It was astonishing to see the Government scuttled on so-called black Wednesday, when the pound came out of the exchange rate mechanism. We saw how the Government took refuge in a straightforward devaluation of the pound to become the party of devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Economic Area Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " not foreseen: the enormous strengthening of the Commission's powers as it sought uniformity on the most massive scale. The reaction against that can be seen in the importance that the Government now attribute to subsidiarity. I believe that subsidiarity is a means of trying to check and reverse the Commission's growing power under the Single European Act. It is a great challenge, which I welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-21", "file": "debates1993-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "657e1916b1e96d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Education (North-West Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "our chief education officer. He had always behaved in a truly professional manner, and I was never directly aware of the immense dissatisfaction and disaffection he inwardly felt towards Government education policy. I cannot remember an expression of major concern—although I may be wrong—by Mr. Pryke to me about grant-maintained schools. I am sure that my colleagues from Kent will back me on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-21a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I understand that, in a short space of time, the necessary Bill will come forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "We can form a judgment and answer the hon. Gentleman's question when the Secretary of State publishes the documents which form the basis of the hon. Gentleman's statement. Only then can we reach that conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "national Parliament in the House of Commons, and Northern Ireland Members will continue to be here in the House of Commons, be there devolution or not. I thank the hon. Gentleman for his response. Although it did not go the whole way, he has none the less been more helpful than he has been throughout the debate, so that is progress. We will appeal to his heart even further, perhaps, as we proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"That is a threat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "the Anglo-Irish Agreement stays in place. I do not know whether it is so, but I was told today that an Anglo-Irish conference is to be convened in Stormont on Wednesday. If that is so, the Government should think again. To hold an Anglo-Irish conference meeting in Northern Ireland at this time would be not only highly insensitive but could provoke a reaction which would be horrible to contemplate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Martin Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Martin Smyth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Foyle (Mr. Hume) and other members of his party have been making those allegations time and again. He has been asked to repeat them outside the House or even to print them on the record here. The harsh reality is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.5", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "I have not degenerated anything", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.7", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Gerry Adams?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "No. I am replying to the hon. Members who have made accusations in, and outside, the House. I have never sat down with paramilitary organisations. To work together with them and to achieve a political objective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.7", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "No. I am replying to the hon. Members who have made accusations in, and outside, the House. I have never sat down with paramilitary organisations. To work together with them and to achieve a political objective—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Gerry Adams?\"] To work together with them, to achieve a political objective", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.10", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "Both Unionist parties in the House sat around the table with a body called the Ulster Workers Council, which included paramilitaries, to bring down the only partnership and power-sharing Executive for which the House ever voted and which we ever had in Northren Ireland. There is no doubt about that. Northern Ireland was set up when the sovereignty of this Parliament was overthrown in 1912—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.14", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "I have been dealing with what I described as the Unionists' mind set, which is to hold all power in their own hands and exclude everyone else. I have also been replying to the accusations that they have made against me—wholly false accusations, of course—which are dangerous and irresponsible in the present atmosphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.527.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "At the end of the day, I have said publicly that the dialogue in which I am engaged has been the most hopeful sign of lasting peace that I have seen in 20 years. I do not make statements like that lightly. I believe that the dialogue in which I have been engaged is a dialogue of real hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-22", "file": "debates1993-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "65b0b72977071008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "At the end of the day, I have said publicly that the dialogue in which I am engaged has been the most hopeful sign of lasting peace that I have seen in 20 years. I do not make statements like that lightly. I believe that the dialogue in which I have been engaged is a dialogue of real hope. [Interruption.] The proposals that have been put to the Irish Government and, as our statement makes clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-22a.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-25", "file": "debates1993-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "559193fb3086c01f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "which the accounting officer is still responsible, had managed to schedule 13,000. That figure must be seen against the background figure of 60,000. Between 1984 and 1992, another 800 were scheduled. When the accounting officer was asked a direct question by the Chairman of the PAC about when he expected to finish the job, he said that he thought that 70 to 80 per cent. would be scheduled by 2003.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-25", "file": "debates1993-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "559193fb3086c01f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "chairman could not see that there was something unacceptable about telling one bidder in a privatisation process that it had a contract for £2 million in its pocket and not letting the other bidders know. Intrinsic to the privatisation-via-agency route is the temptation to make the megabuck very quickly. It is the one chance that someone working in the public sector has to make it financially big—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-25", "file": "debates1993-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "559193fb3086c01f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why is the Minister laughing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "orthern area, it is £69, and in the southern area, it is £49. Those prices have been already paid by consumers towards what the Government call the receipts from the privatisation of the electricity industry. Interestingly, at a time when there is a public outcry about the possible imposition of VAT on fuel, the public do not realise that they are already paying a privatisation tax on electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-25", "file": "debates1993-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "559193fb3086c01f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am half apologetic for being yet another Welsh Member to speak in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-25", "file": "debates1993-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "559193fb3086c01f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "play has been made of the fact that the Shapes model agency was unregistered. It had been registered at one time but the registration had lapsed. Is that the most important issue, or is it that the agency was run by a convicted brothel keeper? The latter is probably a better indication of the dangerous waters into which the WDA was entering. The full flavour of that has not come out in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-25", "file": "debates1993-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "559193fb3086c01f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "arrived. Therefore, I was not able to get hold of the relevant reports until this morning. I regret that and I wish that there were some way of providing longer notice of debates. I do not intend to speak to any of the reports that are listed for special consideration. I want to concentrate my remarks on the 20th report on the national health service accident and emergency departments in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-25a.649.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.671.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.672.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ting to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against the Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.672.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted: That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.673.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.683.4", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that there are still relatively few specialist units around the country and that most are in the private sector? That means that women who rely on the national health service do not have access to such treatment unless they can afford to pay for it. Given the amazing benefit from that treatment, of which I am an amazing example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.683.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milligan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milligan", "preceding_text": "That is exceptionally good news, especially for those people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.684.5", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "Do people in Hampshire have to wait two or three years for referral to a pain relief clinic, as they do in Preston? I am informed by the Preston health authority that people in Preston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.684.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " strict observance of Community rules, including quotas. We therefore welcome the control regulations, which will help to ensure consistent enforcement. One of the areas of the Maastricht treaty perhaps not generally recognised by everyone is that it now gives greater power to ensure that everyone across the Community obeys Community regulations and can face substantial fines if they do not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "order, Madam Speaker. It has been the custom and practice of the House, certainly while I have been here and, I believe, from time immemorial, that former hon. Members are able to come to the Members' Lobby so that hon. Members may have the opportunity to meet them. You will know that in the recess I invited the president of Sinn Fein to come so that hon. Members could hear directly his proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Mines (Health and Safety)", "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": "We have listened to a disgraceful speech, a vicious and unwarranted attack on a tripartite body, the Health and Safety Commission, and the Executive to which it is responsible. The Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations were not dreamt up by me, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment or the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Mines (Health and Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The Health and Safety Commission includes representatives from the Trades Union Congress. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that the TUC is in the Government's pocket, he is mistaken.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Mines (Health and Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "tions is that each mine must have a management structure with suitably qualified people who will give precedence to health, safety and welfare above all other duties. That must be a step forward and not a step back, despite what the hon. Gentleman says. We have two large codes of practice. They are not flimsy documents; they are detailed and the duties are specific on safety, health and first aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Mines (Health and Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the word \"shysters\" as applied collectively to the current Administration was entirely appropriate. However, I do not wish to incur your disapproval in any way, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so if I can replace the word \"shysters\" with the words \"this group of venal men\", I am happy to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Mines (Health and Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "to save lives. The right hon. Member for Selby was right to ask about safety and responsibility. The arrangements will weaken the capacity which has served our industry well, which has made it safe and which has made it a model to which mining industries in other parts of the world can turn to ensure that they have safe arrangements. The regulations are intended to assist privatisation and profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Mines (Health and Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ry requirement which does not have statutory force. The hon. Member for Barnsley, Central also said that no evidence was being produced for the need for a new law. However, in submitting the MASHAM proposals, the Health and Safety Commission made it clear that they were necessary to deal with some defects and anomalies in existing law, chiefly that those in immediate charge in a deputy's district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": " the improvements which we all want to see in our schools than by giving teachers a real incentive to improve their performance. I believe that the new structure will give governing bodies ample opportunities to exercise their discretion and reward good classroom performance. Local education authorities will also have their part to play, by ensuring that enough funds are made available to schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "ne of the principal differences between the interim advisory committee and the new review body is that the new body will not operate within a predetermined financial envelope. He also said: The Government are submitting themselves to the objective judgment of a body which will recommend the right pay, terms and conditions for teachers.\"—[ Official Report, 6 June 1991; Vol. 192, c. 433–34.]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Who set up the Dearing committee? What the hon. Gentleman says is absolute poppycock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-26", "file": "debates1993-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd097570cc26d5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " of the document, the Secretary of State ignored that advice and went ahead with 14 pilot schools. Other hon. Members have referred to the fact that some of those 14 schools have already dropped out, but I think that the House would like to know how many of those 14 schools have dropped out. My understanding—I look for confirmation from the Minister—is that five out of 14 schools have dropped out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-26a.782.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.805.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.806.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ting to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against the Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.806.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted: That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.807.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I must wholly disagree with the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "t, to become reskilled and retrained and so enhance their opportunities to get back to work as quickly as possible. To my mind, the most important role of Government, and of individual Members of Parliament, is to seek to encourage as much expansion and improvement in the economy as possible, and to minimise unemployment so that people have more opportunities to get into work and to earn a living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "d or should not do. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Livingston is not in his place to hear the debate, because it is an important debate for all Members of the House. It seems sad that the 20-second sound bite for tonight's television news is more important to the hon. Gentleman than being in the Chamber to listen to the debate and to the concerns of all hon. Members on this important subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.858.7", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "dvanced Gas-cooled Reactor … programme which committed Britain to the construction of five more nuclear power stations, and by the end of the Callaghan government\"— in those far-off days of 1978–79, when we were in the hands of the IMF, when we had cuts in our hospitals, education and everything else; those halcyon days— a commitment had been made to a two further AGR stations. Yet\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.858.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "s been reduced by two. The fact that in the past year my hon. Friends the Members for Christchurch (Mrs. Maddock), who is with me on the Bench, and for Newbury (Mr. Rendel) have taken seats from the Tory party is more to do with the Government's failure to understand the rejection of their economic, employment and energy policies and their interrelationship in this country than with anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ive that that is done before any decisions are taken about any of the collieries that are still under threat. The problem is that the Government are obsessed with price as opposed to cost. If one adds up all the costs of the coal industry and compares them with all the costs involved in the nuclear generation of electricity, the assessment is honest and honourable, but the Government do not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winston Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winston Churchill", "preceding_text": "own by Ministers to the vested interests that were established in the wake of electricity privatisation. I am glad that in opening today's debate the Minister did not once again trot out his hoary old chestnut that we have a free market in energy. It is patently clear to everyone in the land that there is no free market in energy. We have the most rigged market that it would be possible to devise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winston Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak, speak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winston Churchill", "preceding_text": "Minister for Energy recall being present in the room of the President of the Board of Trade when that undertaking was given to me and several of our hon. Friends on the evening of 24 March? If so, could he perhaps tell me, the House and our mineworkers what steps he has taken personally with his ministerial colleagues to honour that promise? I willingly would give way to him if he cares to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "preceding_text": "sh Coal's experiments there with continuous mining machines for driving roadways, and other innovations, have achieved striking results. That pit is now due to close— it is on the Government's list— despite the fact that productivity has massively increased and it still has great resources. That it is due to close is a waste and a scandal which will come back to haunt the Government in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "eech. I am pleased to see that the Minister is almost in his place. When someone meets the Minister, he is always pleasant and polite and gives the impression that he is listening to what is being said to him. However, I always judge people by what they do rather than by what they say. Having listened to the second half of the Minister's speech today, all I can say is that it was full of evilness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "d as a candidate in Grimsby. He said that he used to watch the boats going in and out. The only thing one can watch now is fishermen burning their boats because the industry has been destroyed. Now, the Government are continuing their obsession with destroying the coal industry, too. In 1979 there was a change of Government. The new Government did not have the same confidence in the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "ot have a comprehensive energy policy in place until the 1995 Labour party conference. I should have thought that the people whom Labour represent have a right to expect the Opposition to have in place an energy policy that can be examined and criticised, or praised, depending on one's point of view. We are entitled to know how many pits the Labour party would keep open if it came into government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ency or the region of his constituency, and of course he speaks with passion and knowledge about the coal industry. The only thing that is surprising about the debate— it must cause the hon. Gentleman great distress— is how little Labour Members who spoke with such feeling about the coal industry have been supported by the main body of the Labour party. If there had been a debate on this subject —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows that I cannot give a precise figure. As was pointed out earlier in the debate, the principal recommendation in the Select Committee report was that the Government should make available a subsidy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.917.5", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I strongly believe that the sooner the coal industry goes into the private sector, the more secure will be the future of the coal miners. That is felt not only by the Government but by some members of the Opposition. Time and time again we have asked what the Labour party would do if it ever returned to government. Would it renationalise the coal industry once it had moved into the private sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.917.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-27", "file": "debates1993-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4ad889e5e052800f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.940.4", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Assisted Areas", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the House give leave for the Minister to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-27a.940.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.953.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "pt of his predecessors? When will he and his colleagues listen to the industry, to the people in the south-west and to the Select Committee on Agriculture and, in particular, to what they have to say about the size of the decommissioning budget, the tie-up provisions and days at sea? When will he listen to his own district inspector from whom I have received a copy of the following recommendation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is precisely to produce a better deal for taxpayers and travellers that we are bringing in private sector skills to ensure that British Rail is run more efficiently. The Labour party on this, as on other issues, really needs to make up its mind. The right hon. and learned Gentleman effectively accuses us of making sham concessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.970.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.995.4", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the conduct of some of the newspapers and film companies and, in particular, on the great offence that is caused to all our constituents when the media pay large sums to criminals and their relatives for their stories? It is time that we had a debate leading to legislation to ban that scandalous practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "n element of constructive hope and discipline during their time in either secure or local authority accommodation. Before the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) asked such a facile question he should have found out more about the details of schemes supported by the Government and the Home Office. The Labour party has made constructive proposals, which have been voted down by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "ime. That is the Government's record—failure on the grounds that the Minister selected, and voting down the Opposition's positive proposals. Recently, the Home Secretary said that thousands of people live in fear of the burglar coming back and that too many people are imprisoned in their own homes, afraid to go out in case they are attacked or burgled. That is the legacy of 14 years of Tory rule.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will listen to at least a sentence he might understand some of my arguments. I realise that Conservative Members have been pushed into the Chamber to try to disrupt this debate. I am sure that that is a matter of regret to the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan), who opened it. I understand their embarrassment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not serious. If he were he would have joined us in the Lobby on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "It has already been mentioned that the Liberal Democrat party's Scottish conference voted to legalise the possession of cannabis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "s seriousness. In the film, the two young ladies were portrayed as victims. I submit that the victims of international drug running are those who end up buying such materials on the street. I note with regret that Mr. Jakobi, the solicitor who acted for the two young ladies and sought to glamourise them, had stood as an official candidate for the Liberal Democrats on no fewer than seven occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-28", "file": "debates1993-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfd1d31d7a1286f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Low Pay (Lancashire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": " about people who are working for poverty levels. I could produce pages and pages of statistics from citizens advice bureaux, Lancashire county council, the Low Pay Unit and from Burnley borough council. People cannot impove their houses because they do not have enough money to do it. The Government have rejected the case for a national minimum wage. It is time that we had a national minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-28a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-29", "file": "debates1993-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "159a1a8f37eb6441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Priests (Ordination of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing the Church Commissioners)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing the Church Commissioners)", "preceding_text": "ituents. I shall briefly consider the controversy that has surrounded the motion that springs from the varying views in the Christian Church on whether the tradition of an all-male priesthood can be properly modified and whether the Church has authority to make such a change. Right hon. and hon. Members will not expect me as a layman to give an exhaustive and expert account of theological matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-29", "file": "debates1993-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "159a1a8f37eb6441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Priests (Ordination of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing the Church Commissioners)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing the Church Commissioners)", "preceding_text": "ton, that ambassador, if he is male, can properly represent Her Majesty. He does not have to be a representation of Her Majesty or, in other words, a women who looks exactly like the Queen. He can be a full representative of Her Majesty as a male. If one argues that it has to be a precise representation, one should argue that not only should the priest be male, but that he should be a Jew as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-29", "file": "debates1993-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "159a1a8f37eb6441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Priests (Ordination of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chesterfield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "No, because other groups of priests are not covered. Although I want the young priests to be covered by the Measure, there will also be others. The hon. Member for Bristol, North-West (Mr. Stern), who intervened before I gave way to the right hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-29", "file": "debates1993-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "159a1a8f37eb6441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Priests (Ordination of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "The speech that we have just heard from the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) must have been made many hundreds of times over many hundreds of years, for example, against the admission of Catholics into Parliament, against the admission of Jews into Parliament —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-29", "file": "debates1993-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "159a1a8f37eb6441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Priests (Ordination of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "quate. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Selby said, it does not cover, except in a discretionary sense, a man who has spent five years studying at theological college, a further two years as curate, who has been ordained for 30 years in the Church of England, whose wife has given up her career to support his priesthood but who is, instead of an incumbent of a parish in the Church of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-10-29", "file": "debates1993-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "159a1a8f37eb6441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Priests (Ordination of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Orthodox Churches. However, the overwhelming view of those of Catholic and Apostolic belief is that it is not possible for a woman to be a priest. In using the word \"possible\", I ask those hon. Members of the female sex to accept that it is a question not of equality, but of difference. I do not believe that a woman can be a priest any more than she can be a father. To me, it is as simple as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-10-29a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.14.8", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " schools, in my long experience of schools, comes from that administered to children by their peers? They make the wisest and fairest decisions and ones that are most respected by other children. Does my hon. Friend agree that younger magistrates are needed to cope with the current problems of juvenile crime—and end the fuddy-duddy approach of some of the older magistrates and judges in this area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.14.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"RSI?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "In the case of magistrates, I think that personal suitability is fairly well defined as good character and repute and the ability to command the confidence of both the public and colleagues. As for judges, which the question is not about, there are already arrangements under which unfit judges may retire on health grounds whatever their age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or she.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I have answered a similar question from the hon. Gentleman in the past. The critical thing about the judge's appointment is that he takes a judicial oath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "European Council (Special Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "bs and the large number of secondary jobs that will be created as a result of that institution coming here. The European Monetary Institute has gone to Germany. That was the consensus among the Community, and since we are not committed to stage 3, it is unsurprising that the consensus was that it should go elsewhere. The activities of the Opposition last year did not help our negotiating position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.23.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "European Council (Special Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.26.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is the point.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "We are not discussing the process for the bidding for franchises. The hon. Gentleman knows that that subject will be dealt with in the debate on a grouping of amendments in due course. We are talking about a general duty that is placed on the Secretary of State to promote management and employee buy outs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": " reminded of something that I read yesterday when I was browsing through Lady Thatcher's memoirs—it is good for insomnia. I quote from page 835 under the heading, \"Men in Lifeboats\": But I still wanted a new face at Education where John MacGregor's limitations as a public spokesman were costing us dear in an area of great importance. If he was a failure at education, he is a disaster at transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "nds who spoke with great clarity. No hon. Member can escape the fact that competition, however it is done and however imperfect—and it is difficult to get perfect competition—is beneficial. We should aim for maximum competition, and I thank the Government for breaking the monopoly because it has always been illegal for anyone other than British Rail to operate a railway system. That is a big step.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ublic sector railway. It should be subject to public accountability and meet public needs. We have made clear our position on that point; it could not be clearer. We want managers who believe in the system. I hope that managers who make bids remind themselves that, if it goes back to a publicly owned system, we might look elsewhere for managers rather than look to those who have shown their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " example, that track charges will be based on avoidable costs, widening the section 8 criteria for grants to new rail terminals, and the track subsidy regime—are intended to promote the use of rail freight. The hon. Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. Heppell) asked about private sector interest and whether it has materialised. I repeat the assertion that I made at the beginning: I have visited most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Cunninghame, North quoted the survey conducted by TSSA, one of the three major rail unions. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East was good enough to admit that it might be a little partisan. That does not square with the evidence before the Department. There is significant interest on the part of senior rail managers who actually run the trains in the different divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "No, I must finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Lords amendment No. 4 is grouped with a number of other amendments for the convenience of the debate. The main purpose of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.79.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " the staff and given the impression that, for the first time in years, there is a Minister wo is interested in one of the most important lines in commuter land—that between Southend-on-Sea and Fenchurch Street station. That busy line is known as the misery line because, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon) will confirm, the signalling in the station is older than me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ut of passengers, but that might not be the same as providing the best possible service with the least inconvenience to passengers. I am worried about what the Government are doing through the clause. I shall wait and see what happens. There will come a time when there is a different Administration. This incompetent Government are on their last legs because they have introduced such stupid Bills —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "uld expect that, when we franchise rail services, there will be an improvement in the situation of stations which are either unmanned or partially manned, for two reasons. First I would expect the franchisees, and certainly Railtrack, to experiment with introducing greater commercial activity at some stations. Even quite small stations can benefit from shops, or perhaps even restaurant facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.122.6", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that those who sat on the Committee can confirm that the Bill has been examined line by line, clause by clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.122.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-01", "file": "debates1993-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "75e84e45932178ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Cervical Smears Inquiry (Greenock)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-01a.126.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.133.7", "colnum": "133", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Standing Order 205 (Notice of Third Reading) be suspended and that the Bill be now read the third time.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.133.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.133.10", "colnum": "133", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.133.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.134.9", "colnum": "134", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of course I can. I think that is a very common-sense approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.134.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.148.8", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the imposition of a guillotine on the Railways Bill is an affront to democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.148.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "lved—and although the measure is controversial and the job of the Opposition is to oppose and to use all the techniques available to do so—it is wrong of the Opposition to assume that the debate will continue beyond 10 o'clock so that the Opposition can harry the Government? Surely that is the role of the Opposition. The Government know that 80 per cent. of the British public do not want the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance, because what has just been said is not correct. I was in the Chamber throughout the debates but I did not contribute to them, and that is what is misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that, if the hon. Member for Southport (Mr. Banks) is wrong, he will want to withdraw what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I said: the 60 per cent. stays in the fund, without any conditions. The issue is when the extra funding from the taxpayer comes in. That is the issue which I want to spell out now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with the two points. What I said is absolutely clear and in accordance with what has been happening up until now in the British Rail fund and, indeed, any other funds. There is a clear reason why the surpluses stay in the fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": " from the substantial changes imposed in the House of Lords. Issues of real substance are involved here, rather than merely technical matters. The case presented by the Secretary of State and the manner of its presentation remind me of the quotation that we heard yesterday from my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson)—Mrs. Thatcher's observation about the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " had we wanted to filibuster or delay, because there was no guillotine: that would have taken weeks of parliamentary time. If we had wanted to filibuster, we could have done so from the beginning, but we chose not to. The first debate yesterday concerned management buy-outs. One cannot possibly say that that was a simple, technical amendment—it was an important change in the Government's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "preceding_text": "suggests that the hon. Gentleman is less than aware of his own verbosity. The hon. Gentleman was accurate when he said that there was agreement between both sides on Committee. There was a fair debate, with no attempts to filibuster, and the issues were discussed fairly. However, yesterday afternoon something went badly wrong, and there was an outbreak of verbal diarrhoea among Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "preceding_text": "y. The hon. Gentleman was accurate when he said that there was agreement between both sides on Committee. There was a fair debate, with no attempts to filibuster, and the issues were discussed fairly. However, yesterday afternoon something went badly wrong, and there was an outbreak of verbal diarrhoea among Opposition Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not here.\"] I was not here for a good reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "have missed either of them. The hon. Member for Eastleigh made one of the longest speeches of yesterday or today, yet he complains that Opposition Members filibustered. He showed himself up. He was not here yesterday except during the first part of the debate. The only helpful comment that the Minister made about British Rail Maintenance Ltd. was in essence to say that there would be redundancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heppell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heppell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that it would be unparliamentary of me to suggest such a thing. I will let the facts speak for themselves. On 22 April the Minister made a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) has many endearing qualities, but careful attention to the clock to allow sufficient time to respond to a debate is not one of them. Before I deal with the extremely important issue of pensions, may I say to the hon. Member for Hugh Bayley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) has many endearing qualities, but careful attention to the clock to allow sufficient time to respond to a debate is not one of them. Before I deal with the extremely important issue of pensions, may I say to the hon. Member for Hugh Bayley—[ Laughter. ] I meant the hon. Member for York (Mr. Bayley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.220.6", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ed managers\". He has got something right. Of course there is not a limitless supply; in fact, there is a distinctly limited supply. What will happen while the wonderful management buy-outs bids are being prepared? We understand that managers involved in the bids will have to separate themselves from British Rail while the bids are put together for a period of six months, or perhaps even 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "hmark against which new entrants to the Rail industry will and can be judged. I must tell the House, however, that I was concerned about the reference in the amendment to preventing or reducing the dominance of any person or persons\". That is a highly judgmental factor and one which, if abused, could give the franchising director carte blanche to buy bids by the British Railways board willy-nilly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " the Member for Lewes, and I hope that I have them correctly. First, we did not manage to table the amendments to deal with the ability of the railway museum to acquire artefacts from the private sector. I will reply to the director of the railway museum. I give an assurance that I will have a meeting with him. It may be that we will be able to achieve the same objectives, but not via the statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "ies on the Secretary of State in making orders. We believe that there may be numerous other examples on the statute book\". I do not think that anyone can argue that the opinions and the evidence that I have presented in this debate come from a party political stance. As hon. Members know, I have the great honour to be a Member sponsored by the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The performance by the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) was dramatic, but it was at variance with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "e Government under the 1980 Transport Act might represent of the fund. The hon. Gentleman quoted a example of 70 per cent. We do not recognise that figure; the actuarial advice to the Government is that the proportion will be closer to 20 per cent.—a normal proportion of any pension fund represented by gilt-edged securities. The hon. Gentleman also raised the issue of the 60 per cent. of the fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-02", "file": "debates1993-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f55d0c2cfe0fe36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "It is not contrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-02a.288.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.325.7", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "g to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.325.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that today the PLO has admitted that Ron Arad is still being held in captivity, seven years after he became a prisoner of war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Adoption (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Gyles Brandreth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Adoption (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": ", we constantly see about people here going abroad and buying children on the open market. That is disgraceful and it is something which we must examine. I welcome the Hague convention. It will give us much more protection for children being adopted from overseas. Yesterday, my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) mentioned the work of the Child Migrants Trust and the revelations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Adoption (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I draw the attention of the hon. Lady to the fact that she is not winding up a major debate? She is making a few pithy comments on a statement which I understand she already welcomes very much. She has been speaking for four full minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Supplemental", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": " considerably abridged by the omission of a matter under new clause 22, which I may come to later in the debate. I see that the Minister is shaking his head. Obviously, the reason for that is his own tangled involvement with clause 22. He denied that the clause would re-hybridise the Bill when I directly put it to him in the Standing Committee. Does the hon. Gentleman wish to challenge me on that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure why Government Back Benchers, having been anxious to pass the guillotine, are spinning out proceedings on this amendment by asking idle questions. Are they perhaps extremely worried about the vote on the next business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "There was no information on the annunciators to tell hon. Members that a business statement disguised as a point of order was being made. In addition, I raised a further point of order at that time—only a relatively short time ago. I said that the further information about the way that the House was going to deal with Lords messages on the Bill should be on the enumerator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "int of order was being made. In addition, I raised a further point of order at that time—only a relatively short time ago. I said that the further information about the way that the House was going to deal with Lords messages on the Bill should be on the enumerator— [Interruption.] I mean the annunciator. This vital issue is being trivialised by the pin-striped hooligans on the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.412.6", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "and breadth of the Palace. I understand that the information has been changing rapidly and that it did not get the usual amount of time that is allocated to a change of this nature. The unusual and exceptional circumstances have been brought about by the Government's incompetence. They are organising the prorogation of the House on Friday, not the Opposition. We are prepared to come back and work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "uld have made a business statement, and there was no excuse for his not making one, once the Lords disagreed with the Commons earlier this evening. There is an issue more important than either of those examples, and it follows the point of order made by the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). It was announced that the House of Lords had been \"suspended during pleasure\"—that slightly odd phrase", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "No amendments have been submitted to the Lords amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to acquaint the House that the message has been brought from the Lords by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to acquaint the House that the message has been brought from the Lords by— [Interruption.] Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to acquaint the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.9", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth disagree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.419.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the House has agreed to take the Question forthwith. The clock is running, so I hope that the hon. Gentleman will bear that in mind and bring his point of order to a rapid conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment. I shall also be asking the House to disagree with the other two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.5", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must settle down. I gave the hon. Member for Newham, South the opportunity to put his point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.6", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "please confirm that the timetable motion, which was moved by Her Majesty's Government a couple of days ago and accepted by the House, precludes that safeguard for keeping the minorities' rights alive? Therefore, the fact that the Question that has just been put, which was taken forthwith without opposition, means that we will not have the opportunity to move the Adjournment of the House? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.7", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In an attempt to cool down the excitement, I inform the House that the hon. Member approached the Chair and asked to put that point of order. I took it to be a point of order and that is why I allowed it. I have now got the hon. Member's message, so I call the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.8", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I have already begged to move that the House doth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment, and I shall be asking the House to disagree with the other two as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.420.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " I know that many hon. Members wish to speak. There is not much time, and it is important that the House understands what we are discussing. I intend to address that, rather then what was said in the other place. The first two amendments effectively say that the eligibility of a British Rail bid will be decided at the time of awarding the franchise rather than at the time of invitation for tender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "mendments effectively say that the eligibility of a British Rail bid will be decided at the time of awarding the franchise rather than at the time of invitation for tender. [Interruption.] I am not at all surprised that Opposition Members do not wish to hear the arguments on the amendments; they have never done. That is part of the problem. They do not address the real issues. That is exactly why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "It was made perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House made it clear that we might be considering Lords amendments this week when he made his business statement. This is a perfectly normal procedure at this stage of the Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ome back from the other place. The third amendment is closely linked to the other two. It has two main effects—it will delete the promotion of competition for franchises from the criteria which the franchising director must take into account, and insert instead a requirement that the transfer of services to the private sector should not significantly increase the costs of the franchising director.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "y, because the process that we have made clear—the process that is involved in our proposals, which I have talked about on many occasions—means that the franchising director will take into account the costs in any awards that he makes, not least because he will have as his benchmark the historic track record of the existing passenger franchise, the new shadow franchise, when he examines the bids.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "viour, under a serious misapprehension about what is in the Bill. Let there be no doubt: the state railways of Germany, France, Ireland and other countries will be in a position superior to that of British Rail if they choose to bid for BR franchises. None of those state railways will be subject to the four conditions that can be used by the franchise director to preclude British Rail involvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": " in The Guardian ; there are no such plans. The hon. Member for York (Mr. Bayley) said that we cannot substantiate in debate our arguments. Not only have we had 190 hours of debate, but we have dealt with the issues at great length. We spent two and a half hours on amendment No. 31 and we won by a majority of 34. We debated specific issues concerning the responsibility of the franchising director.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "f the franchising director. [Interruption.] Yes, we did. Perhaps the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Ms Walley) was not listening to the debate. 9.30 pm We discussed when the franchising director would exercise his responsibilities under clause 22 in order to disqualify British Rail from bidding in certain circumstances. I speak for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) did not refer to passengers at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "East (Mr. Prescott) did not refer to passengers at all. [Interruption.] No, he did not. We are motivated by one clear aim—to improve the quality of service for the passengers. The second reason why we must reject the Lords amendments is that, if the franchising director allows British Rail to prepare bids in all circumstances and then decides to disqualify it at the time of awarding the franchise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.441.11", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I understand that, yet again, the Aye Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.441.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.447.8", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Clause 22", "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": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I wish to make the point that yesterday I was accused of constitutional outrage for moving a timetable motion on this Bill. It should be registered that what we are experiencing tonight is a constitutional outrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.447.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Beverages (VAT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "uperior to any other pay formula affecting anyone in the public service? As everybody knows, there is one group of workers who have such a specific, dedicated fomula and it was to be overturned—the firefighters. Although that did not happen, there was such a specific formula. Why should the linkage for our salaries be superior to any other linkage operating in the public sector? Could he also say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "t of increasing our pay. If we do that, the wage bill increases by £1 million in any one year. That £1 million could be spent differently; it need not go to us. I do not in any way say that Members of Parliament do not deserve the money or should not have it, but I want to register the fact that at any one time there is a link between the level of pay awards and the number of people in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not done it very well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "on could be spent differently; it need not go to us. I do not in any way say that Members of Parliament do not deserve the money or should not have it, but I want to register the fact that at any one time there is a link between the level of pay awards and the number of people in employment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it.\"] I have been trying to prove that case with my argument about the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the two amendments in my name and those of my hon. Friends have not been selected for a Division. In reality, there are two classes of Members in this House. There are those who depend entirely on their parliamentary salary for their livelihood and those who, when elected, obtain parliamentary adviserships and company directorships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "ments in my name and those of my hon. Friends have not been selected for a Division. In reality, there are two classes of Members in this House. There are those who depend entirely on their parliamentary salary for their livelihood and those who, when elected, obtain parliamentary adviserships and company directorships— [Interruption.] —are paid by lobby organisations and, sometimes, by the media.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "For an ex-Euro Member of Parliament to make such a speech brings unctuousness to a new achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-03", "file": "debates1993-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "9147875c89454a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Members' Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "is one of my two reservations about the motion. The other is this. When I first became a Member of Parliament, I was told that I should buy a Ford Sierra with diesel. When I asked why, I was told, \"It is the Member of Parliament's car. You get an allowance of 68·2p a mile if you drive a motor car with an engine capacity of more than 2300 cc.\" That is outrageous: it rewards vice, not virtue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-03a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.499.11", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Yes, Madam Speaker. Since the Act was passed, there has been—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.499.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.509.7", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "tion at the time, was a minor technical change. We have always taxed manufactured fruit juice in this country. There was a dispute and there have been tribunal cases about whether orange juice produced in factories was a manufactured fruit juice. When the matter was scrutinised in Committee it took about half an hour and the vote last night was eminently sensible and fair to apple juice producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.509.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has a justified reputation for his skill as a negotiator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has a justified reputation for his skill as a negotiator— [Interruption.] Does he realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Regional and Urban Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ration budget announced today are the 22nd repackaging of inner-city and urban aid programmes, from urban capital partnerships to city action teams, enterprise zones, urban programme schemes and long-forgotten business breakfasts? Does he accept that, as the packages get ever glossier, the money gets ever smaller? Bitter experience has taught us that what starts as fanfare always end as thin fare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Regional and Urban Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "money that I receive. The problem with the Labour party is that it prefers to have twice as much money half as well spent. Labour would consider that a victory. Labour does not understand that we need to achieve 100p value for every £1 that we spend. That would be true if we had twice as much to spend, half as much to spend or any amount of money to spend. The money would be better spent. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Regional and Urban Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point altogether. These are Whitehall offices that have been there even since the long time ago that his party was in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Statute Law (Repeals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "ude such measures as the River Suck Drainage (Provision of Funds) Act and important measures that relate to the Dublin corporation. While I appreciate that the measures are no longer of importance to hon. Members, it is not clear that the Government of the Irish Republic—the Dail Eireann and Senate—has been consulted about the repeal of these measures. I think that they should have been consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.596.10", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.596.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "he purposes for which Short money was to be used. There is a need for a properly funded Opposition set-up, and that is not in dispute between any of the parties. It is one thing to be in government, but it is another to make sure that the Government justify themselves, and if the Government are to be tested, the Opposition parties must be ready and armed in intellect, research documents and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.605.6", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not even in the Caribbean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I had seen the brief before, but, I had never heard the advocate. The brief might have been worth something, but I do not think that the person to whom it was given would get paid a lot for that performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.605.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.605.6", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " Woodspring (Dr. Fox), who intervened a few minutes ago, clearly was not present for the speech by the Leader of the House. We are discussing the first increase since 1987. It reflects the changes in the size of the Opposition parties. The amount that parties get reflects their size in the House. If the Labour party gets more this time, it is because it has a larger number of Members in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.605.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " members. It is so that political parties in this place can have some collective specialist ability to do their job. It does not fund more than a single figure number of staff for my party. There are about seven or eight paid staff and some equipment to serve the whole panoply of Departments for those of us who have parliamentary spokesmanship jobs. I shadow seven or eight Ministers in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-04", "file": "debates1993-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "629fb6c3fdb1b448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " Opposition, we cannot do anything other than support my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House if we look at the matter fairly and objectively. I would include just one amendment to the motion. I believe that the money should be a little more widely spread. I should like the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) to be able to go abroad and to visit all the countries of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-04a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Metropolitan Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "preceding_text": "May I confirm everything that has been said? A police officer told me that it was more than his job was worth to allow me through. If that police officer were to come forward and identify himself, would you, Madam Speaker, give him a red hat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.5.3", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Metropolitan Police", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "l Order is to authorise the police to deal with obstructions put in the way of hon. Members coming to Parliament. Hon. Members do not enjoy—I am sure that they do not seek to enjoy—immunity from the ordinary operation of the law relating to traffic regulations. Nor do I believe that they seek permission to leave their cars unattended in areas where there are signs saying, \"No parking\". I am aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.5.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "county of East Sussex and stretches southwards from East Grinstead in the north to within a few miles of Pevensey Bay and Eastbourne. My constituency embraces four small towns, many small villages, and some attractive—largely unspoilt—rolling and wooded countryside. Timber from one of our villages is used to support the hammer frame roof in Westminster hall. The wide open spaces of Ashdown forest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "sident of the club, and the former hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme. They observed that I hooked an unbelievably large trout, which was probably about 2 ft long—anyway, it was big. I was extremely worried that the slender leader, which connected the line to the hook, was unequal to the weight of the fish. Observing my concern, they asked what the trouble was. I replied that my leader was weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": " large trout, which was probably about 2 ft long—anyway, it was big. I was extremely worried that the slender leader, which connected the line to the hook, was unequal to the weight of the fish. Observing my concern, they asked what the trouble was. I replied that my leader was weak. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] They asked, \"What was that you said?\" I replied that I had no confidence in my leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] They asked, \"What was that you said?\" I replied that I had no confidence in my leader. [Interruption.] I think that hon. Members had better wait for it. Turning to the press on the bank, they said, \"Did you hear that? There's Tory loyalty for you, and only yesterday he was in the birthday honours list.\" You will infer from that, Madam Speaker, that it was many years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "House, he had a distinguished career as a broadcaster. He was a founding member of the famous \"Tonight\" team. Of course, those were the days when interviewers were a much more courteous bunch than they are today. \"Tonight\" has developed to become \"Newsnight\", but I am glad to say that the hon. Gentleman is much too stylish and urbane a performer ever to be compared with the likes of Jeremy Paxman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ions of our fellow citizens denied the opportunity, dignity and responsibility of work. Let us look at the other dismal record-breaking achievements of the Government. Record levels of crime—up by a massive 120 per cent. since they came to power; record levels of homelessness; record numbers of families living in poverty; and the gap between the rich and the poor wider now than in Victorian times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "an in Victorian times. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] With a record like that, it is no wonder that they want to divert attention from their own responsibility. Their means of diverting attention is the oldest trick in the book—create a diversion, search out a scapegoat and put the blame on someone else. They know that it is no longer convincing to blame the last Labour Government or the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ault. Do the Government really believe all this? Do they seriously expect anyone in the country to believe it? Clearly it is not just a few Conservative Back Benchers who are barmy. I do not know to which of the two B teams the Home Secretary has been assigned. For all I know he may have sought to qualify for membership of both. I mentioned evidence. The Government's view is clearly that not only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "king a constant appeal to prejudice. If they get contrary evidence, what do they do with it? They have a simple solution—bin it. Even the evidence of their own advisers at the Home Office, the Department for Education and the Cabinet Office is treated to the same response—\"Just bin it\". Perhaps they should also shred it, for sometimes it comes out. In the leaked memorandum from the Cabinet Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " response—\"Just bin it\". Perhaps they should also shred it, for sometimes it comes out. In the leaked memorandum from the Cabinet Office— [Interruption.] Hon. Members do not like reference to be made to that memorandum from the Cabinet Office. I am glad to say that it has now made its way into the public domain despite the fact that every single page has stamped at the top, \"Policy in Confidence\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "al problems of suburbs, small towns and villages on the one hand and inner cities and that that was not the fault of 14 years of Conservative Government but was down to socialism. As the Home Secretary knows well, when the evidence is examined, it can be seen that crime in rural areas is, regrettably, rising much faster than in the inner cities. But when did facts ever get in the Government's way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ed enough already by the imposition of VAT on fuel without extra costs being caused by a lowering of standards, which inevitably will cause greater energy waste. Hard though it is to believe, I understand that one of he regulations being reviewed is the obligation on employers to provide toilet paper and soap in workplace lavatories. What kind of uncivilised nonsense are the Government engaged in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ance. Does he agree with the right-wing Prime Minister of France, who said that despite its austerity programme the minimum wage would be preserved because it was part of the social compact with the people of France? The hon. Gentleman will not ask me about VAT and nor will other Conservative Members because they stood at the last election on a manifesto that said that they would not increase VAT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "leman, has a genuine sense of proportion and of fairness—I take his comments as an indication that he may speak on that later and I hope that he does—why not ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer why he does not begin to block up the tax loopholes that cost the country's taxpayers billions of pounds? If that was an aspect of fairness that had passed him by until now, he can mention it in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "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": " that the House will join me in wishing him and his daughter and her husband a happy day. Neither convention nor conviction compels me to be as complimentary about the speech by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East—as ever, it was Monklands music hall. It was excellent for the Palace of Varieties, but a touch light for the Palace of Westminster. It was the old content-free regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "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": "speech by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East—as ever, it was Monklands music hall. It was excellent for the Palace of Varieties, but a touch light for the Palace of Westminster. It was the old content-free regime. [Interruption.] It was an agreeable speech that said nothing at length, as always. I shall turn to the speech of the right hon. and learned Gentleman in a few moments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " East, in his celebrated speech to the Confederation of British Industry, in which he said so little about the matters on which it would have wished to hear, did not remind the CBI that he had described ballots for union elections as \"intellectually disreputable\". Perhaps that explains why the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) remains a member of the shadow Cabinet, despite losing in the ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rs vote. In the Gracious Speech we propose to introduce legislation to improve the training of teachers. Our best schools are as good as any in the world, but we aim to raise the standards of all our schools to those of the best. The process is already under way with the national curriculum, annual reports, regular inspections and regular pencil and paper tests, not beloved by some Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-18", "file": "debates1993-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8bafd3136adb0e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may say that. If he looks at the Division List—I am afraid that we are taking up the time of the House—he will discover that on every occasion that it was available to me to do so, I voted and spoke against the Single European Act. I have a record of consistently opposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-18a.79.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-19", "file": "debates1993-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d8812f12caa6c001", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-19a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I do not think that this is the place to debate the NAO report on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-19a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "No. I am addressing the point specifically to the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and his colleague the shadow Secretary of State for Wales. Is such a constitutional change the official policy of Her Majesty's Opposition? Do the hon. Gentlemen agree with it? I will give way to either of them if they would like to clear up the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "I should like the Secretary of State to deal with one particular point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I have given way many times and I do not wish to detain the House much longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "r, and our respective Bills will provide for that. Progress in the debate and progress in the reform of local government will be helped enormously if we have answers to the questions that I have raised today with the hon. Member for Hamilton. I shall remind him of what those questions are. First, does he share the view of his party leader that only Scottish Members should vote on Scottish matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be implying that the Conservative party does not have a mandate to govern in Scotland and Wales", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They've had 14 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "mbly would have the right to decide on the best way or reorganising local government. That is the way to do it, and not in the gerrymandering fashion that is proposed. I am sure that Welsh colleagues will find it interesting beyond belief that the Minister can stand up to make such a debating point, but he cannot inform the House what the time table for local government reorganisation is in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You think?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head. If it is not, why does he not listen to us and heed what we are saying? It will not do much damage to his Bill or to the system of local government. I think that we were delivering local government services in Merthyr Tydfil long before the Secretary of State knew where it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.237.4", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "bly. There has been much talk of the powers that such an assembly would either suck in or have redistributed. We have heard very little from Opposition Members on the cost of such an assembly. The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) and the hon. Member for Fife, Central should take that on board when they are talking about changes in the constitutional arrangements in Scotland. In finalising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "e local government reform. Constant reorganisation is no good for local services, and they are what counts. I understand the fears of those who work in local government, but local government does not exist simply to provide people with work. It is necessary that local government does that, but that is not the reason for having local government in the first place: it is not a job creation exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ne opens an open-ended can of possibilities as each interest is examined and each argument developed. One is then immediately faced with a difficulty. If a consensus that has evolved over hundreds of years has been destroyed, how can my right hon. Friend be persuaded that in Merthyr Tydfil a simple easy consensus can be restored? That is the difficulty of revolution and the difficulty of the left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "y. If we implement the arrangements which my right hon. Friend has introduced and which I welcome, what will happen in those parts of Wales where county boundaries as traditionally understood have no place in future arrangements? For example, will my right hon. Friend preserve the county boundary of Gwent for any purpose, for example for the purposes of the lord lieutenancy or the high shrievalty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "preceding_text": "I have been present for virtually all the debate. I listened to the full contributions from the Front-Bench spokesmen and I have been absent for just 45 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "preceding_text": "I have been present for virtually all the debate. I listened to the full contributions from the Front-Bench spokesmen and I have been absent for just 45 minutes. [Interruption.] I was aware that that point had been referred to, but I thought that it was important to draw attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "and it has already generated much unrest within those constituencies. It is a time-bomb waiting to explode. I notice that the black section of the Labour party is now saying that 30 inner-city seats should be devoted specifically to black candidates. I would have thought that people should be appointed as candidates on merit. That is certainly the way that we go about it in the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.283.4", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": "come to Breconshire. That being so, I welcome the announcement made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, although I recognise that some people in that community will be disappointed by it and would have wished to have been placed within a Monmouth local authority area. Sadly, we could not debate this matter without further accusations of political gerrymandering being made in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " is that such Bills should not be introduced in the House of Lords. Another convention of the constitution was that there was an attempt to keep some sort of political balance when appointments were made to quangos. Certainly, when my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Aberavon (Mr. Morris) was Secretary of State for Wales, he was too fair—he appointed too many people from other parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "hit with problems at the most vulnerable settling-in period. There has been no mention of a timetable for CCT, but it was mentioned in the Queen's Speech. The White Paper speaks about the need to avoid overloading the management of Councils during the transitional period. What do the Government intend to do, because CCT will hit those councils when they are at their most vulnerable? In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Redwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Redwood)", "preceding_text": " Members from Wales had all the important things that they needed for today's debate about boundaries and about the number of councillors. I shall come to the issue about which I did not release information, on timing. Local government matters. It is because the Government believe that it matters that they are introducing Bills to reorganise the structure of local government in Wales and Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-22", "file": "debates1993-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9382c2671b9a1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point or order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it not right that the debate has been continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-22a.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that areas such as Chelmsford are heavily reliant on defence orders and have an excellent record of exporting first-class products and services? Does he agree that there would be substantial job losses if we were to adopt the policy of a 50 per cent. cut in the defence budget between now and the end of the century, as advocated by the Liberal Democrats?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.318.7", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Olner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Olner", "preceding_text": "Surely the Secretary of State will recognise that it is gross negligence on the part of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.318.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.318.7", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Olner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Olner", "preceding_text": "Surely the Secretary of State will recognise that it is gross negligence on the part of the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—not to match the resources and capabilities of our armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.318.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I can join my hon. Friend in welcoming the latest reduction in interest rates. The last time interest rates were this low was in 1977—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, we all wish to keep pits open wherever practicable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "In that case, let me answer the hon. Lady's point of order. So far as I am aware, no new policy has been announced to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.329.12", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "efield seems bent on squeezing every ounce of advantage from the right to silence before we finally deal with it, but I must caution him. Everything that he says will be used in evidence, and the evidence is overwhelming that the hon. Gentleman has not the faintest idea of what he would or would not do if he had any responsibility for these matters. The right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown )—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.329.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "g asked reasonable questions about where they were. Those are not my words, but those of the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett), a shadow Cabinet colleague of the hon. Member for Sedgefield. Does the hon. Member for Sedgefield agree with his colleague? I think it is about time we were told. I shall be happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman if he wishes to lay any doubts to rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about that particular suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "he royal commission's conclusions, which abrogate the right to silence but retain it in the police station where there are no proper safeguards for the accused, were wrong. Everyone agrees that there should be a duty of co-operation. The question is at what point that duty arises and under what conditions. I support the royal commission's recommendations in this respect, which were to ensure that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that prison should not be the centrepiece of a strategy, for the very reason that I gave. The Home Secretary puts that question as though I had not already made the position clear, as I have on many occasions. Prison is necessary; those who ought to go to prison should be put there, and if that means more prisons, more prisons must be built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ut of date. It is completely untrue. When that allegation was first made by the previous Home Secretary it was rebutted in detail. Labour local authorities have been trying to ensure that secure accommodation is built—in Leeds, for example. I appreciate that truth has become a pretty scarce commodity in what is said from the Government Front Bench, but the allegation is absolute and utter rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "hon. and learned Friend demonstrated that he knows what he is talking about. I also draw attention to the speech of the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr. Molyneaux). All hon. Members will look carefully at what he said about the difficult set of circumstances in Northern Ireland. That is particularly the case with regard to those hon. Members who take an interest in Northern Ireland affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "I am not going to tell my hon. Friend what the offence was. I talked to others who were in a similar situation to me, their having broken the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "entatives are bad and not all business representatives are good. I hope that the Government have an open mind about who should be represented on police authorities. I am not arguing for local authorities, but many people in the community who are not business men could give good service. I assume that that aspect will be in the police Bill, although of course I do not know. Let me finish by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": " conference I launched a book—the name of which I would not dream of mentioning in this debate—and I held a book-signing at W. H. Smith's book shop. While I was signing the books I noticed an extremely shifty character walking around the shelves. He was dressed in a scruffy manner. The manager was standing beside me opening the books for me to sign as there was a very long queue of people waiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a fine way with words. \"Rubbish\" is how he sums up his hon. Friend's contribution. My right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, by contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": " training, and obviously, as several of my hon. Friends, and the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, have said, there has to be a balance between elements of higher education and elements of practical experience. However, what worries us especially is the Secretary of State's keenness to talk about a trendy establishment that he seems to think holds such sway in schools throughout the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "says, that is drivel, but the Secretary of State continues to repeat those allegations. The right hon. Gentleman is clearly wrong. He frequently says that he often goes into schools, although I suspect that he cannot do so as often as my hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire, West. If the Secretary of State spends so much time in schools, I do not know where he finds all those trendy 1960s people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.416.7", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "In that case, I wish the hon. Gentleman a return to full health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.416.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.416.7", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "reading and arithmetic. After all, it was Ofsted—the independent inspectorate—that found, according to a report that it published recently, that only about 50 per cent. of all new entrants to primary teaching felt that they were adequately prepared to teach reading at all. In many instances, that was after four years in a teacher training college. We need to put that right, as a matter of urgency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.416.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "suddenly realised that we were looking at one of the creations of the hon. Member for Hartlepool when he was simply Mr. Mandelson, the Svengali of the Labour party. He was extremely fond of creating for the Labour party a number of public relations persons rather than a number of politicians. When looking at and listening to the hon. Member for Sedgefield, I was also reminded of Senator Gary Hart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "y Mr. Mandelson, the Svengali of the Labour party. He was extremely fond of creating for the Labour party a number of public relations persons rather than a number of politicians. When looking at and listening to the hon. Member for Sedgefield, I was also reminded of Senator Gary Hart. [Interruption.] Hon. Members must remember the question about Senator Hart—\"Where's the beef?\" It is quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "It was quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-23", "file": "debates1993-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8df626cbd52f62d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "There was no substance to the speech of the hon. Member for Sedgefield. There was no description of any Labour party policy on crime. It is clear that Sedgefield is a policy-free zone; it is a beef-free zone. I was puzzled why he should behave like that, when he is clearly not a stupid person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-23a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.435.10", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I welcome all measuress to help small businesses, but why have the Government done so little to crack down on the banks that are persecuting so many small businesses? Is he aware of the survey carried out by the Forum of Private Business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.435.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.437.6", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "The most important factor in encouraging technology transfer from the defence industries is to have the right climate to encourage innovation. That is what the Government are determined to support and the Opposition persistently oppose. Let me remind the hon. Gentleman of some of the schemes we have. Apart from the budget for industrial revolution", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The basic fact that Opposition Members are quite incapable of understanding is that, throughout the advanced economic world, there has been a shift away from manufacturing. If one looks at this country's record, it can be seen broadly that we have marched in line with other similar economies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "ry sector have been examining regulations on the statute book to see whether they can be scrapped, modified or improved. Even then, primary legislation can stand in the way of reform. That is why we are introducing a deregulation Bill to cut the red tape and open up the opportunities for business. The Bill will include specific deregulation measures, as well as a means to deregulate in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "p in the next three years; 400 new jobs at David Hall in the next four years; 400 new jobs at IMTEC. I could continue with the list in his constituency alone. So why are there no press releases about all that? Where are all those menacing fingers? They are itching to get to work in the hon. Gentleman's constituency, with the new technologies, new factories and new British opportunities. What else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "esto for Euro-socialism. It supports a European policy on waste\". Let us start by ripping up the manifesto itself. To what does it actually add up? Every competitive advantage that this country possesses will be thrown away. To pursue the international brotherhood of man is one thing, but to sell the dear old country down the river to get it is another. The Leader of the Opposition made much play—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "reat appeal to certain elements of the manufacturing community. I was particularly interested by a speech made recently in Harrogate by Mr. Iain Valiance, chairman of British Telecom. Mr. Valiance is a man of bigness in every sense —starting with his salary, which according to my calculations is equal to the entire parliamentary salary bill of the parliamentary Liberal party, give or take a touch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "rliamentary language, no doubt I shall be told—tear-arsing, and it was a common or garden thing. Before regulations on eye protection, my father lost an eye in a most painful way while maintaining a pair of dies. For the last 15 years of his life, he received a miserable pension. Like many of us, I will not tolerate a return to the practices, in small or large companies, that led to such injuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "ned of him. Why were fellow Englishmen so cowed by a bureaucrat? Englishmen, who decades previously had commanded a quarter of the earth's land mass and one third of its population; Englishmen who had changed the face of continents with their cities, railways and other great engineering projects; Englishmen who had changed the way of life of entire peoples and stamped their values on civilisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "to exercise his influence. He can do so through a large number of agencies. Let us consider one—local government. I served on Kirklees council for some years. Kirklees was spawned by the absurd Local Government Act 1974, since when its vast gridlock structure has clamped itself securely to almost every aspect of local life. Kirklees is a council with more than its fair share of Labour councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "ent at the same time. It means listening to, and working with, industry. There is now a real partnership betwen the DTI and industry aimed at developing the skills that the country will need in the years to come. Setting the framework means encouraging good labour relations as well. It comes as no surprise that we have recently enjoyed the lowest level of strikes since records began 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From The Guardian? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "hat is not only unhealthy for parliamentary democracy but downright wrong, and we oppose it absolutely. Our second objection derives from our doubt about whether this move is even constitutional. Characteristically, the President of the Board of Trade simply deflected any consideration of that important issue. Our view is, however, shared by the Minister's chief officials, I have with me a letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "Mr. Straw) is on record as saying: There is a wide acceptance that the division between contractor and provider that compulsory competitive tendering has produced is sensible. It has meant that in areas of basic services there are now clear definitions of what services should be provided. According to Dr. Lawrence Silverman, who is the Labour leader of Berkshire county council, albeit temporarily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ristopher Booker, all the examples written about in the Sunday Telegraph and all the examples given by my hon. Friends the Members for Ludlow (Mr. Gill) and for Scarborough have simply passed the Labour party by. It will go into the trenches to defend every single regulation when it comes to it. There is one exception to the trend, the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry and Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The speech was given in Chatham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "position said recently that the burden on British industry from regulation was putting jobs and businesses at greater risk. He went to the Confederation of British Industry and said much the same. That rather reminds me of the famous occasion when Harold Wilson went to Portsmouth to make a speech and said, \"And why am I speaking about the Navy?\" He paused and he said, \"Because I am in Portsmouth.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-24", "file": "debates1993-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "95076dba217677dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Llin Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Llin Golding", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-24a.553.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.563.7", "colnum": "563", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ss; That, in relation to the Bill, Standing Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the last Session.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.563.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be reminded of what the Prime Minister said at the general election about such a proposal for VAT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.595.6", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would have an answer if he read the energy and environmental programme that was put out by my hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn. The energy efficiency measures included the insulation of people's homes to cut the amount of energy that people would have to use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.595.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.596.4", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I notice that, when challenged, the hon. Gentleman could not read out our commitment to put VAT on fuel. He should apologise to the House for wasting time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Our policies are going before the Commission on Social Justice, and we will produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Every country in the developed world is in recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I will give way as generously as the hon. Gentleman did if I am allowed to make a little more progress. Let me just turn to the paucity of any response to that. It is no good trying to pretend that a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not relevant to the view that the principal Opposition party has to take about our present position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "h I personally am not party—I do not have a vote. The hon. Gentleman treads on some delicate ground. We have not had our party elections yet. We know that the Labour party has had party elections. It is clear that, to get northern and Scottish members of the Labour movement to vote for women, one has to give them no choice. That is what was revealed the last time they had internal party elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ic position. He did not deal with that because it is now much more encouraging than in any other major economy in the European Union. I have been in opposition; I am one of those veteran Members who recalls the time when the Conservative party was in opposition. I understand the difficulty of having an Opposition day to debate the economy at a time when it is clearly recovering and getting better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ent recovery. I agree with the sensible prevailing view that there is a recovery, but that it is fragile and needs to be stronger. If the leader of the EEF and the hon. Gentleman both believe that the recovery is over, it is my opinion that they are talking nonsense. Indeed, I do not know whether the EEF has been quoted accurately. I shall quote an unlikely source, the editor of The Sunday Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.606.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Try it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t is plainly necessary to keep to the instinctual policies of the Conservative party if we are to keep that good comparative performance. Having listened to today's debate, nobody in their right mind would contemplate the reckless step of putting the Labour party back into any kind of responsible office dealing with such an important and delicate situation as the revival of our industrial economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ry union. I made my first speech in the House in favour of it in 1971 or 1972 and have not changed my views. I have always thought, as have the Government, that the timetable for economic and monetary union set out in the Maastricht treaty was nonsense. That is now plain and we should not proceed on any automatic timetable and I do not know when we will ever get back into any process of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ed goods, it did not mention domestic fuel. Did the Labour party have the kind of thoughts that were also contained in Liberal Democrat policy documents? Labour's environment spokesman spoke about hitting the Rio targets by a combination of tax and other measures. What taxes, pray, did Labour have in mind for hitting those environmental targets, if not taxes on the fuels which cause the emissions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "before I quoted them. Time does not permit me to go on to explore the previous occasion when it might have been possible to find out what the economic policy of the Labour party was. The European socialist manifesto, to which the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East signed up last week, makes the position clear. It is said that the commitment to a 35-hour week is not in the manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "RS: \"Read it out.\"] The manifesto is said not to have a commitment, although the whole tone of the document favours high spending. The manifesto is committed to the social chapter and to costs on employers. It uses the rather telling phrase that the principle of free trade should not interfere with social standards in Europe. I thought that that was a rather dangerous retreat from previous policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "irst 8 per cent. and then 17.5 per cent., who do not even own their houses and have not the means to insulate those houses effectively. An energy tax should not be a revenue-raising measure, as the Government's VAT is; it should be a behaviour-changing measure, preceded by provisions enabling people to insulate their houses, thus reducing rather than increasing their net gas and electricity bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "preceding_text": "economy is to increase unemployment. The policy of a minimum wage which the Opposition Front Bench recommends is a policy for minimum employment. Many companies in my constituency do not pay high wages—for instance, a company that provides home helps for elderly people. If a minimum wage were introduced that company would be bust, jobs would be lost and the help for those elderly people would end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milligan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milligan", "preceding_text": "o adapt their skills. Men have to learn a lesson from women. In order to get and create jobs today, it is essential to match oneself to the needs of employers. The flexibility of our labour market is in stark contrast to what happens on the continent. We heard a long speech from the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown). It was full of fury, but did not contain a single idea or suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "rned of VAT on energy before the election? How many will vote for VAT on energy now? How many of them warned of increases in national insurance before the election; how many will vote for such increases now? How many Conservatives warned of cuts in mortgage interest relief? I am waiting for volunteers from the Conservative Benches—I will give way readily to any Conservative who wants to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "ip. What a waste of time it is to look for leadership from the Government. What do they get? Scapegoats and slogans. One reason for the scapegoating rhetoric of the recent \"back to basics\" campaign is that the Government know that many people, whether they live in leafy suburbs, country towns or major cities, live in the fear of crime that today touches every family in the country. And especially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-25", "file": "debates1993-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57d0c31adf652027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M62 Relief Road", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Roads and Traffic (Mr. Robert Key)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Roads and Traffic (Mr. Robert Key)", "preceding_text": "cepted 84 and have had 35 applications for discretionary purchase. A housing co-ordinator has been appointed and is in post, and she is currently establishing contact with local authorities and other interested bodies. Bury metropolitan borough council and Manchester City council have accepted our invitation to join the M62 liaison committee, which has been formed to consider wider housing issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-25a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-26", "file": "debates1993-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c20c3b14b111f0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-26a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I note that you are about to intervene, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I thank you for saving me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-26a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-26", "file": "debates1993-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c20c3b14b111f0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-26a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are right behind him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "our post-16 qualification system, and that involves changing our post-16 qualification system, and that involves changing A-levels. The Secretary of State has mentioned A-levels only in passing today, but he ought to understand just how isolated he is when it comes to reform of A-levels. There is no body of education opinion behind him in his determination to preserve A-levels at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-26a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-26", "file": "debates1993-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c20c3b14b111f0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-26a.755.5", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ely in the case of the Opposition. The hon. Member for Stretford suggested that skill shortages are at such a high level that employers are having difficulty in recruiting. The Skill Needs in Britain survey 1993 covers 4,000 establishments with more than 25 employees. The survey found that only 6 per cent. of establishments were experiencing recruiting difficulties attributable to skill shortages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-26a.755.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "ast few weeks, made up of £250 million for the Jubilee line and £150 million for Networkers. That is an excellent start. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we must move from a situation of companies going from order by order to one in which they can look forward 10 years. The best way to achieve that is to put the rolling stock companies and the train operating companies into the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "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. I can assure her that the Tarka line, like many other small branch lines, has an excellent future. I am not aware of any proposals for closure. She is right. We look to the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "e study work on the infrastructure requirements and all the detailed assessments that must be made before final decisions can be taken about the west coast main line. I assure the hon. Gentleman, who does not seem interested in the answer, given the way in which he is looking around, that there is no question of waffle. We are getting on rather rapidly, with the prospects of a joint venture study—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.776.5", "colnum": "776", "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. He is absolutely right. Since 1989, bus mileage has increased by about 20 per cent. and operating costs per mile have fallen by about 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Investment in the existing underground network is higher than it was at any time in the 1970s and 1980s, including the period of the Labour Government. Moreover, the Central line is benefiting from a £750 million modernisation scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "t adopt, any prior objective of 'ending of partition'. The British Government cannot enter a talks process, or expect others to do so, with the purpose of achieving a predetermined outcome, whether the 'ending of partition' or anything else. It has accepted that the eventual outcome of such a process could be a united Ireland, but only on the basis of the consent of the people of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "would have to continue to be countered. 9. It is important to establish whether this provides a basis for the way forward. We are ready to answer specific questions or to give further explanation. It is clear that that message was consistent with our declared policy: namely, that if such people wanted to enter into talks or negotiations with the Government they first had genuinely to end violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The first part of the right hon. Gentleman's question relates to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara). The hon. Gentleman speaks for himself. Perhaps that occasionally gets him into some difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "In accordance with the power given me by Standing Order No. 42, I order the hon. Member to withdraw immediately from the House for the remainder of this day's sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not talks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that the people of Warrington and my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington, South (Mr. Hall) and I bow to no one in our desire to pursue the quest for peace? Does he also accept, however, that there was a feeling of outrage and revulsion in Warrington at the fact that talks with Sinn Fein actually took place two days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will bear in mind the fact that the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh (Mr. Mallon) spoke about the backlash of despair. Unfortunately, there is already a backlash of despair in Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State said that the Government entered into these negotiations in February.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "t message, and that is a matter for this occasion. I say to the House—and to the hon. Gentleman in particular—that it would have been culpable in the extreme if we had not replied. The hon. Gentleman then asked why Martin McGuinness had not been arrested. I must tell him—as a Northern Ireland Member, he should know this perfectly well—that the prosecuting authorities are independent of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I think that what the hon. Gentleman would describe as imagination, most of the people of our country would describe as appeasement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State, as it is a very important point. If the House agrees to total deregulation, that will mean that we will get universal opening in Scotland, which we do not have at the moment, contrary to what was said earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-29", "file": "debates1993-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8492984aef626032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "he Government's views on the social chapter and their general attitude towards workers' protection. We must then ask ourselves why, at this late hour, they have included schedule 4 to the Bill. It is the Government's last stand to compensate their financial backers for the hundreds of thousands of pounds that they have paid into Tory party funds. It is a reward for the further sell-out of workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-29a.833.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.901.10", "colnum": "901", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s; That, in relation to the Bill, Standing Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the last Session.—[ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.901.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I must tell the hon. Lady that, in the UK, there has not been a substantial increase in casual or temporary working. Those are the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I must tell the hon. Lady that, in the UK, there has not been a substantial increase in casual or temporary working. Those are the facts. [Interruption.] There has not been a substantial increase. The increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The job that I am paid to do is not to be led into using the Department's investigation resources by the mere speculation of the Opposition. Why does not the hon. Gentleman confine himself to some facts? Instead of spreading gloom and despondency, why does he not point out that unemployment in his constituency has fallen by 13 per cent. since January?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.910.4", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I am sad that the hon. Gentleman did not welcome the fall in unemployment of 137,000 this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.910.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "During the recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "t that is to be made by the Chancellor this afternoon. This is the first occasion on which we have had a unified Budget with announcements on expenditure as well as taxation. Clearly, any announcement on expenditure can be taken as an idea of the revenue to be raised by the Chancellor. Such an indication has been given by the Secretary of State for Education by way of a press release this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. [Interruption.] Listen, you berks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In his excellent Budget in March, my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Thames (Mr. Lamont)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "To reduce borrowing, we had to raise revenue. In a full year, VAT on domestic fuel will raise nearly £3 billion, without affecting the job-creating sectors of the economy. It will also help to meet Britain's commitment to aim to return carbon dioxide emissions to their 1990 levels by the end of this decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.927.6", "colnum": "927", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That cannot be right. The Government have therefore decided to introduce next autumn a new allowance available to those on family credit who need to pay for childcare. This will be worth up to £28 each week per family and it should help tens of thousands of mothers to get back into work and off income support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.927.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.933.11", "colnum": "933", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Suggesting that Budgets should close tax loopholes is stating the obvious. Every Budget over the last 14 years, and indeed every Budget that I have listened to before that, has closed some tax loopholes. It is not a big new idea. The tax avoidance industry is always ingenious, but it is one industry which this Government has certainly never helped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.933.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.939.9", "colnum": "939", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " export business, is facing problems similar to the brewers'. I know that my proposals will be warmly welcomed by the House, and will give right hon. and hon. Members from Scotland something to celebrate on St Andrew's day. For wine, sparkling wine and cider, I propose to raise the duty in line with inflation. This will add 2p to a bottle of wine. But it will not take effect until after Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.939.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rms. Therefore, let us be careful about the Government's boasts. Let us also be aware of what has happened, and what the Chancellor told us has happened, to public expenditure. There will be a cut in the money available to the Housing Corporation. These were the parts of his speech through which the Chancellor hurried. I noticed that he had a tendency to increase his rate of delivery when he came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The quality of life in Britain is maintained by public expenditure on our social welfare system and our economic infrastructure and on proper welfare benefits, which the Chancellor has done so much to undermine in the Budget today. There will clearly be fierce debates about the Budget, and so there should be. I have already said that it will cost the average British family £8.50 per week in April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisolm", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisolm", "preceding_text": "r taxes. At the end of the Chancellor's speech, I noticed that Tory Members behind him were very impressed. That gave the game away. What we had from the Chancellor today was not a Budget for jobs, quite clearly. It was not a Budget for the poor, quite obviously, and we do not expect that from the Conservative party. What we had from the Chancellor today was a Budget for winning the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-11-30", "file": "debates1993-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "03d46866c2c0fcb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "id that the wicked Conservative Government would not help them to meet their fuel bills. Like other Conservative Members, I have been pleasantly surprised by the generosity of the package which has been introduced. It provides help for all pensioners. That shows that the Government have gone further than they needed to. Obviously, there are pensioners who do not need help to pay their VAT on fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-11-30a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "The Labour party has always been in favour of extending the advantages of home ownership to as many people as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1025.7", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "rity principle which, if rigorously applied, would mean that there would be no need for a directive on drinking water. Secondly, given that we are trying to improve the drinking water directive, we intend to apply the latest scientific research results produced by the World Health Organisation. That is the only point of difference between us and the EC at present. On nitrates—I am sorry, nitrogen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1025.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I think that it would have been more accurate if the hon. Gentleman had read out the whole list. He would then have seen that we are well on course for a 15 per cent. reduction overall and that green Ministers in each Department are committed to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Social Security Uprating", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I cannot say precisely how the hon. Gentleman would perform under the new tests, but we could ask him to participate in the evaluation exercise. What was the first question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Social Security Uprating", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman.", "preceding_text": "If the Minister has such a genuine concern for those who legitimately claim invalidity benefit, why does he continue to refuse to accept the judgment of Commissioner Skinner in April 1992?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ary said in Enfield: The Conservatives want to cut your taxes. People would not know that from what has been done in the last few months. The Chief Secretary is nodding because he obviously believes it. He also said: Higher tax and national insurance would hit those who work harder and do overtime. So why is he imposing rises in national insurance and breaking all the promises that have been made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is not what my hon. Friend said. Let me put a challenge to the Conservative Members who signed the early-day motion calling for compensation for all pensioners. They said that compensation had to cover in full the VAT rise. Why is it not doing that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ost all of them wrong. I consider, however, that the Chief Secretary's highest point on the question of tax was reached when he published a pamphlet—only a few months ago, before he became Chief Secretary. It was entitled \"A Vision for the 1990s\", and one of the main chapters was entitled \"Towards an Ultra-Low Tax Economy\"—not a low-tax economy, or a very low-tax economy; an ultra-low-tax economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "We are keeping the most fundamental promise of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was it a Liberal council?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "en I went upstairs, I discovered that the four children shared one pair of bunk beds. In a third room, another daughter who was married lived with her husband and their one son. Needless to say, the family was under considerable stress. I fought to get them rehoused, or at least the eldest daughter and her husband and child. Sadly, I was not successful and eventually the parents had to evict them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Legg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Legg", "preceding_text": "ges in the spending figures for next year are reflected in reductions in debt charges and in cyclical spending. That shows the merits of our overall policies. By getting down the overall level of borrowing we are driving down debt charges, and by coming out of recession we are getting a reduction in cyclical spending. The Budget is being well received in the markets. Today, both the equity market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Legg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Legg", "preceding_text": "ancing the books in the medium term has now been established by my right hon. and learned Friend. When I spoke in the Queen's Speech debate, I said that the concept of reducing the public sector borrowing requirement towards balance over the medium term was too vague a policy objective. Yesterday, that changed. My right hon. and learned Friend introduced plans in the Red Book to balance the books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman because he spoke for ages and bored hon. Members rigid, especially me. I know the hon. Gentleman's father well. To show family values, the old man goes to the House of Lords and the son comes to the House of Commons. The Tories know all about family values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "an tell him about this place. There is no more unreceptive an audience than when it is made up of people who are simply waiting for the hon. Gentleman to shut up and sit down so that they can get up and speak. I have three minutes and I shall relish them, and the hon. Gentleman will sit there and listen. The Chancellor could have said something about the Northern line. It is called the misery line", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "preceding_text": "No, it will be 35p a week. I hope that that is what I said. It is what I intended to say and it is what my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor told us yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "preceding_text": "d to spelling out the Government's view of what should be done and the plans for doing it. The day following the Budget is usually the opportunity for Opposition parties to set out their alternatives. Neither the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel) who spoke for the Liberal Democratic party nor the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) who spoke for the Labour party took that opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-01", "file": "debates1993-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e7f85afa0c750f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "preceding_text": "is usually the opportunity for Opposition parties to set out their alternatives. Neither the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel) who spoke for the Liberal Democratic party nor the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) who spoke for the Labour party took that opportunity. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Newbury said that the Liberal Democrats would abolish mortgage interest tax relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-01a.1134.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1147.7", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relation to the Bill, Standing Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the last Session.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1158.4", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the answer very well. He had better come out openly and ask whether a deal has been done between the Government and the Ulster Unionist party. If he asks that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not understand that in the real world in which, unfortunately, unemployed people have to live, if their partners work more than 24 hours per week they move from unemployment benefit to nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time to reflect today on the overwhelming vote of support that the other place gave the Government last night?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1162.2", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "oral register, I think that the right course is for me to bring the right hon. Lady's observations to the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary. I hope also that, in the light of what the right hon. Lady said, the people who are responsible for those matters in Brent might also give them some consideration. The right hon. Lady might care to transmit that message as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Abuse.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange for an early, urgent debate on the policies that are being followed by local education authorities controlled by Labour and Liberal Democrat coalitions, not least in the county of Kent, where up to £100,000 of council tax payers' money is being set aside to encourage schools vigorously not to embark upon a policy of securing grant-maintained status?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1168.3", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is on Wednesday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "may we have some enlightenment and some news worthy of celebration from the Leader of the House? May we hear details, set out in a logical way, of when the Government expect to introduce the legislation mentioned in the Queen's Speech, for which they obtained the assent of the House, so that we have some idea of the timetable for the year, especially in relation to the Sunday trading option votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "In a general statement on ministerial answers, Madam Speaker, you asked for answers to be kept short. However, I must tell the hon. Member for Black burn (Mr. Straw) that he does his cause no good by trying to produce false comparisons in the figures and seeking to avoid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ion of London Authorities, who said on the radio this morning that London would lose more than £800 million. Mr Harris's figures were £1 billion out. The only comparable error in figures was made this afternoon by the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw). It seems that innumeracy is a quality shared by most Labour local government spokesmen. Despite that, there is a particular problem with Brent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "r: I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that, even if spending on education is taken into account, a considerable amount of extra money goes into Newham, because of its difficulties. But when we compare Newham —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "isis, too. The problems in our public finances are in part due to the policies that the Government pursued in the 1980s. They wasted £100 billion worth of oil revenue—£10 billion or £15 billion a year. They privatised nationalised industries, stealing the silver to put quick money into the Treasury's coffers while losing the revenue flow from those nationalised industries—about £10 billion a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State has talked of 10,000 to 40,000 apprentices. I could not keep up with the right hon. Gentleman because somehow he shot off to talk about a figure of 150,000. I do not know what period of time he was talking about. I understood that there were to be 10,000 national vocational qualifications, rising to 30,000 or 40,000. Is the figure of 150,000 to be achieved in the next century?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "at will not only find favour across and in all sections of the country but deal with the economic and financial needs of our nation. In addition, the Budget projects us forward out of recession and back into growth and prosperity. It is at the same time an innovative and practical Budget and it should inspire considerable confidence in financiers, industrialists and the man or woman in the street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": " paid in the final year of the 20-year period, the private sector contribution would be worth precisely £20 million of the £400 million originally promised. With that sort of track record, one would not want the Secretary of State for Transport even to sell one's used car. That is not the end of the story. One of the principal merits of the Jubilee line extension, in all the cost benefit analyses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-02", "file": "debates1993-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b2076bcce740d837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "sponse to the Budget? What was the response of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) on television last night? The hon. Gentleman went, as usual, as the disciple of despair—an ambassador for Armageddon. He stood up bleakly in front of the British people and trotted out figures that brought the country down again. He brought out a colourful bar chart showing selective dates and figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-02a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-03", "file": "debates1993-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "68428d40e1c9e919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-03a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "Yes. We remember some of the hardships that occurred during that time; some of us have long memories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-03a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-03", "file": "debates1993-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "68428d40e1c9e919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-03a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the inflation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "there has been hardly any local authority building. As for unemployment, I would merely comment that it stood at 1·25 million when the Labour Government left office. I voted against that Government 150-odd times; I was not altogether happy with what they were doing. But I can tell the House that most of my constituents would settle for 1·25 million unemployed now, given half a chance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-03a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-03", "file": "debates1993-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "68428d40e1c9e919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-03a.1315.3", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "nt on the Order Paper or whether it is the official policy of the Opposition not to have a recess. I see from the Order Paper that the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) wants the House to sit until 24 December, and among others, my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester, North (Mr. Jenkin), assiduous as are all Essex Members of Parliament, wishes the House to resume on Sunday 26 December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-03a.1315.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "sponsibility from those in the education system. It is a matter of grave distress to me to have to report the irresponsible acts that have happened on various university campuses over the past couple of days. I am sure that no hon. Member would support those activities. The first matter was the outrageous attack and jostling of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " than 100 students were sitting outside and blocking my way. They refused to let me and my helper, Mr. Austin Griffiths, a man in his seventies and a parish councillor, leave. They were led by a lot of yobs from Balliol college, who were easily identifiable by a large banner that had \"Balliol JCR\" on it. We were driven back into the hall, the doors had to be locked and the police had to be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "As I have told the House many times, the plans are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "nderstand—perhaps that is why she is not usually allowed out to speak these days —that the parents, higher education and further education charters have signalled a revolution in the availability of information. There is more and more evidence that performance tables are stimulating individual schools and colleges to look hard at what their students achieve and how they can be helped to do better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I never comment on stolen documents inside or outside the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "so much the national targets for education and training which were the subject of such lively debate among Conservative Members two Fridays ago, when not one Labour Member, apart from the hon. Member for Dewsbury, turned up. That was disgraceful. These targets enjoy the absolute commitment of the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Employment and all of us involved in the education service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " many teachers this year as there were last year. The hon. Gentleman also said: councils will be short of £200 million in cash, comparing this year's budgets with next year's settlement;\"—[ 0fficial Report, 26 November, 1992; Vol. 214, c. 1012.] The hon. Gentleman said that there would be huge cuts in education, but LEAs increased their spending by more than 2 per cent. at a time of low inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " serious business of running their schools properly. At a meeting of the Lib-Lab-controlled Oxfordshire county council 10 days ago, about half the time was spent attacking fox hunters and the other half was spent attacking me. That is a real case of the inarticulate and the politically irrelevant pursuing the splendid—in both cases. The sooner local authorities such as Oxfordshire county council —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "that this is the last time that I shall have to refer to it, but I am happy to do so. The Secretary of State will know what I am about to say because he has had a letter on the subject. I received a telephone call before the Budget from a journalist who wished to run past me—I think that that was the phrase used—some possibilities to see whether I thought that they were likely to be in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "roblems with the public sector borrowing requirement because he anticipated sudden and exponential growth, he is living in some sort of extended fool's paradise. That is the sort of optimism that has been the hallmark of Conservative predictions for several years. People will remember the Prime Minister telling the electorate, with all the panache of an under-manager of the local building society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.47.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nottingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "17·5 per cent. rate straight away rather than for moving to 8 per cent. next spring and then to 17·5 per cent. after that. I in no way complain about—on the contrary, I greatly welcome—my right hon. and learned Friend's proposal for helping those on pensions and those on low incomes who will be affected by the tax. My right hon. and learned Friend has emerged as a kind of Robin Hood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "n the honours list could depend on how many people each head of Department had been able to dispense with, and how much money had been saved. That could transform the country. I give that idea free to the Minister. The leap should come not from the bottom but from the top. I am not asking for any more money for London. I just want money moved from one pocket to another, because the money is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "st months, as joint chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on homelessness. Initially, any attempt to reduce the housing budget would be viewed with concern throughout the House, but the more I consider the proposals in the Budget, the more I think that there are elements there which, through creative thinking, will enable us to tackle the problems of homelessness and of bad housing better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "ople. We can consider those aspects without even thinking about how we can contain demand. Over the past 14 years, there has been a net increase of 2 million houses, yet demand has outstripped supply. In addition to the measures that the Government are taking on housing, measures are being taken by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning, whom I am pleased to see in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-06", "file": "debates1993-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fcd640c328c74fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " cent. increase in real terms in business investment and a 70 per cent. increase in real terms in investment in plant and machinery. In the 1970s, United Kingdom investment grew at a rate roughly two thirds of the G7 average, whereas in the 1980s it grew at a rate roughly 175 per cent. of the G7 average. The Government's record of promoting and creating the circumstances for growth of investment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-06a.113.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister being unbelievably complacent on this serious issue? Will he treat the issue with the seriousness that it deserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elletson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elletson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that one of my constituents, a pensioner, died last week from hypothermia? Does he agree that, although his death was tragic and avoidable, it was nothing whatever to do with the extension of VAT to fuel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the research by Professor Khaw at Cambridge university, which has established a clear link between the increase in winter deaths, in winter, obviously, and fuel poverty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.139.8", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "re caused by Christmas unless the Government act immediately on the recommendations of the Social Security Select Committee on the operation of the Child Support Agency? Will the Prime Minister take personal charge of framing the Government's response to that report— (Interruption.] —so that the recommendations can be taken as a whole and acted upon before the House rises for the Christmas recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.139.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "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 a formidable fighter for Prestwick and for Jetstream. I am aware, of course, of the tradition of success of the Jetstream turbo-prop aircraft. As my hon. Friend knows from his meeting with my right hon. Friend the Minister for Industry, both the Department of Trade and Industry and the Scottish Office remain in close touch with Jetstream about the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.145.8", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would not want to be any more out of touch at this point than the rest of his speech will demonstrate. He is obviously unaware that the Sunday People printed a retraction on Sunday of the statement by the Opposition social security spokesman, and admitted that he never put forward such a figure. My hon. Friend's criticism stands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.145.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am waiting for the interruptions, because the House will have already recognised those words of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor presides over a bigger Government deficit than there was when the IMF came in under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "any hon. Member. No one went on radio or television, and no one suggested in the House that 15 million people would be helped by proposals which amount to £1,200 million. The most that anyone suggested was around £500 million to £700 million. That generosity caught out the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) who suggested that 50p a week would do the business and would help pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I have read it, and it is quite clear that Mr. Nelson's article is based on an incorrect leak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "red accountant, I find it all the more remarkable that it is a lawyer in the Treasury who has at long last adopted this system. I have been saddened not to hear any serious policies advanced by the Opposition during the Budget debate. Indeed, the Labour party seems short on ideas of a serious nature. We have heard plenty of ideas for new taxes, but none that would raise a sensible amount of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "he west country. In my opinion, the most important aspect of the Budget is the way in which it has been received. Its first goal was that it should not damage the recovery. That is why the reception of ordinary men and women up and down the country has been so important. I am one of many Conservative Members who—unlike Opposition Members, I suspect—are in touch with real people outside this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "s there is a partnership, and this Government will not be involved in a partnership. They just pass the buck to the private sector-that is why it will not work. In his Budget the Chancellor proudly told us that the Government were giving the go-ahead to three substantial new transport projects, under the private finance initiative. He cited the extension of the docklands light railway to Lewisham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.231.4", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "o end tax abuses by the richest and which makes ordinary families pay the price of the Government's economic mismanagement. Above all, we have seen a Budget that breaks election promises and demonstrates contempt for democracy. The promise on public spending has been broken. The promise on transport investment—broken. The promise on protecting those in need—broken. The promise on taxation —broken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.231.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "If one puts the explanation of the journalist, Mr. Nigel Nelson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to accept the hon. Gentleman's word when he speaks of his honour, and I am therefore prepared to accept that he was scandalously misquoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON., MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a second, once I have confronted the hon. Gentleman with a policy to which I shall try to nail the Liberal party. The Commission's proposal is for a $10 rate on the price of fuels, both domestic and industrial. The effect of the Liberal proposal on domestic bills would lead to an increase in the price of gas by 17 per cent., domestic coal by 27 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have confronted the hon. Gentleman with a policy to which I shall try to nail the Liberal party. The Commission's proposal is for a $10 rate on the price of fuels, both domestic and industrial. The effect of the Liberal proposal on domestic bills would lead to an increase in the price of gas by 17 per cent., domestic coal by 27 per cent.—[HON., MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—electricity by 14 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ters and health capital. The hon. Lady was saying that things have not come to fruition, so let us look at London. The Jubilee line is being built with private sector participation—the first underground line built in London since the Victoria line. Heathrow Express is being constructed. She says that the other projects that I have announced, including the critically important west coast main line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The European Investment Bank raises its money on the private market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-07", "file": "debates1993-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "7336d2f5d9f0f8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The European Investment Bank raises its money on the private market. [Interruption.] It is only one participant in the banks that are investing in the Jubilee line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-07a.239.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "Minister aware that, despite that per capita rate in Scotland, a constituent of mine who attends the Paisley trust hospital must wait until 21 March for an appointment to see a urologist? That poor man, who is 78, must wait four and a half months, although he cannot walk 100 yd without going to the toilet. is the hon. Gentleman happy with that situation? He would not like it if it were his father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to welcome that important announcement by my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor in his Budget statement. In addition, as my hon. Friend knows extremely well, because he was very much involved, the decision by Digital to centre its European operations in my hon. Friend's constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "nning at 1·7 per cent. It may well rise from that figure before the end of 1994–95, but the Chancellor indicated in his Budget speech that he expected it to be around the lower level of 1 to 4 per cent. As to going on television this evening, I was under the impression that I was going to spend quite some considerable time on television after this, and I look forward to the occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.326.7", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": " had the votes on the three different options. That puts those of us who do not object to extra trading on Sundays but who have serious worries about the efficacy of the employment protections offered in the Bill in a difficult situation. Would you consider changing the order so that we can have a debate on the employment protection aspects of the Bill before voting on the three different options?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.326.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are in Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I had not intended that. If it can be proved to me, we can alter it easily enough in Committee, because it is more a Committee point than a general one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.332.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "eman is aware that the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, USDAW, has sent a letter to a number of hon. Members, which states: Your support is crucial to ensure the six hour option receives a clear majority support. Does he accept that USDAW and the Transport and General Workers Union support the option advocated by the Shopping Hours Reform Council and not the option that he supports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "I will never listen to anyone from the Conservative party who tries to use the trade union movement to influence our view. What the hon. Gentleman has quoted is a load of rubbish. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the letter.\") I have seen that letter, but I am also aware that particular motion was not carried at USDAW's annual conference. I do not want to fall out with USDAW.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "n from superstores and hypermarkets. In the past 30 years, the number of small, neighbourhood stores has fallen from 145,000 in 1950 to 36,000 today. If total or partial deregulation were to occur, corner stores all over Britain would disappear and vandalism would raise its ugly head, bringing increased crime. Our inner cities would resemble the downtown areas of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I will give way to my hon. Friend if I can get on a little bit. My hon. Friend, incidentally, has a bee in his bonnet about antique shops. Antiques, under the Keep Sunday Special proposals, will be saleable—antiques will be saleable in DIYs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.357.5", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "plete what I am trying to say on the subject. My right hon. Friend the Member for Honiton and other honourable colleagues have not appreciated the flexibility of the framework in the Keep Sunday Special proposals, which uses the phrase \"wholly or mainly\". If the smaller kind of DIY shops choose, because they think that there is a market for antiques, one will be able to buy antiques in a DIY shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.358.6", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "The English public, then. For the Harris Research Centre survey of 1989 respondents were asked to list the five most popular things to do on a Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.358.6", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"DIY.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "The English public, then. For the Harris Research Centre survey of 1989 respondents were asked to list the five most popular things to do on a Sunday— [Laughter.] I know from long parliamentary experience that if one talks of asking people to list the five most popular things to do on a Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.358.6", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "tary experience that if one talks of asking people to list the five most popular things to do on a Sunday—[HON. MEMBERS: \"DIY.\"]—one must immediately continue, without leaving a gap for hon. Members to fill. Let me tell hon. Members, including my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Sir N. Fairbairn), who I know will sympathise, the list of what people prefer to do on Sundays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " freedoms. That is a dangerous argument which the right hon. Lady made. One cannot argue for regulation to be left to local authorities and yet argue that they cannot do the enforcing, which is one of the difficulties of the present law. The Minister argued that we live in a market economy. In a market economy, the big fish eat the little fish, and the little fish increasingly are no longer there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. French", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. French", "preceding_text": "But shops change all the time. No doubt my hon. Friend, as a surveyor, sees some benefit in that arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. French", "preceding_text": "cult as that criticised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Selby in respect of the proposals of my right hon. Friend the Member for Honiton. In a nutshell, amendment No. 35 would keep Sunday morning special and has many attractive features. It is an appropriate solution, not least because of the obvious inadequacies of other proposals before the Committee. Partial deregulation is not credible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "t is a farm shop, is it selling \"wholly or mainly\" home-grown produce? If a very small shop claiming to be 10 sq m or less is being investigated, is it 10·25 sq m, or 11·2 sq m, and so on? That is crazy. If hon. Members want to hear me make a speech against my interests as a lawyer, I am making one now. Having as many regulations as we can is a wonderful way to give money to lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dame Janet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "s to protect the consciences of those who do not choose to work. That is an important matter and I am delighted that the Government have come round to the idea of accepting all the requirements of those most closely concerned with that aspect. The Government have given that protection in total regulation, as in all others, and I do not need to repeat those provisions. I am driven, Miss Fookes, to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "he business of telling them to go back and tell their members that they are wrong. Nor am I in the business of telling them to go back and renegotiate. That is an important point, and so far as I am concerned, it deals with that issue. My second point is about small shops. Again, if I felt that a measure that extended shopping hours would cripple small shops, I would be tempted to vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "y now, I will go on a Monday, but if I can go on a Sunday, I will not go on a Monday. If hon. Members really believe that Sunday opening will lead to the decline of the small shop, they should listen to my experience. Only a couple of years ago a couple of large stores—both Sainsbury—opened in my area within about five miles of each other with my main patch, Shepherd's Bush, right in between them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady recognise that the chairman of the Independent Television Commission, Sir George Russell, said that there has been much more stability in the independent television industry following the 1990 Act than there was following other franchise changes, for example, the change 10 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.442.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.443.4", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "sm of the British Government, we are leaving our small regional television companies totally exposed to European companies which, as the hon. Gentleman knows, are built into consortia with cross-media ownership, which is difficult to break into. That is what we mean by a moratorium. We want that moratorium to continue because the Government have exposed our regional companies in an outrageous way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady is aware of my interest in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-08", "file": "debates1993-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "d99c5442263ec914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "hip, with the essential guarantee of regional programmes, were such a vital necessity, why did the existing ITV companies reduce such regional programming, when it is not regionally owned? The real guarantees of regionality are in the ITC agreement. The second guarantee is the powers available to the ITC, and I outlined that in my intervention to the hon. Member for Redcar, and earlier in my talk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-08a.454.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Why, having run away from a debate on VAT on fuel this Tuesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.482.5", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Why am I having to put down question after question after question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.489.4", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "y aspect of the Budget before the Chancellor has spoken had to resign? That was in the good old days when conduct of government was more honest. More recently, such people have had to apologise. Will the right hon. Gentleman point out to the Prime Minister that the Secretary of State for Education, having been summoned to the House by Madam Speaker to hear her reprimand, did not have the courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ty has a role, action at European level must be the exception, not the rule. That is the principle of subsidiarity now enshrined in the treaty as article 3b. I am well aware, from all the debates we had about subsidiarity, that some people, including perhaps my hon. Friend, regarded this as a bit of an ugly duckling. But I am happy to say that it is developing slowly into quite an impressive swan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "emember the nonsense about the Community classifying carrots as fruit in a directive on jam. The Commission is now moving right away from its attempt to say what should and should not be in particular foods. Its only concern should be to ensure that safe, properly labelled products are freely traded in the Community under the single market. Food legislation needs to focus on that simple objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.521.5", "colnum": "521", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the White Paper in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.521.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "sources\", but the Government have demobilised this country's scientific and technological effort more often than not. The second is to pay closer attention to lifelong education and training, raising the skills of everybody from young children to experienced working people. The answer to the right hon. and learned Gentleman is an emphatic yes; we share all the aims and objectives of the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "eed for the European Union to start confronting more actively the horrendous outbreaks of racism and fascism that we are seeing, including that in this country. I am not one of those apologists for Britain who says that it is going on in France, Germany and Italy but not here. That is not true either. That is one reason why we support the appointment of a European Commissioner for racial equality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is that the Government and my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is that the Government and my hon. Friends— [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Esher (Mr. Taylor) does not agree. But he is a good guy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "post along the way. Indeed, it is simply the beginning of further aspects of integration and European development. Last week we were talking about the European investment fund and the European Investment Bank. Given that we are in the festive period of the year, it may be best to say that with Maastricht we planted the tree but we will see decorations and baubles being added to it as time goes by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " than that of almost every other country in Europe. While it has risen in Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark and most of the other countries in Europe, Britain has seen a fall in national income since the beginning of the decade. Employment has fallen by 7 per cent. in Britain, while it has risen by 7 per cent. in Luxembourg, 4 per cent. in Portugal, 7 per cent. in Spain and 2 per cent. in Denmark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Luxembourg, 4 per cent. in Portugal, 7 per cent. in Spain and 2 per cent. in Denmark. [Laughter] Ministers may laugh, but Britain has had the biggest fall in employment during the 1990s. Ministers should be ashamed that they went into the previous election with promises that the recovery would begin the day after the election. For months afterwards, unemployment rose as a result of their policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The latest figures show that investment, employment and manufacturing employment are still falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.572.7", "colnum": "572", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at is not to help us out of this recession, but to help us out of the next recession because the starting date has been moved backwards and backwards and is now 2003. Conservative Members should be ashamed because there is national humiliation in the fact that trains will be able to travel at 185 mph from Paris to Calais, 85 mph through the tunnel and then, at best, at 47 mph from Dover to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.572.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "I have seen the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) in autodrive before, but I have never seen him unable to stop. He went past the buffers and his argument reached a state of chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": " The irony of the situation—which no doubt baffles anyone who listened from the Galleries to the hon. Gentleman's diatribe—is that many of my views on the European Union are not so very different from his. The same applied to the previous shadow spokesman whom I faced at the Dispatch Box. I certainly agree that Europe needs to tackle the problems involved in employment, growth and competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "When the design is completed, the route settled and the private investment is introduced. It is not being held up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No. Let us try to have a sensible debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.7", "colnum": "577", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "With the assistance of the European Investment Bank we are already building the Jubilee line extension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.7", "colnum": "577", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "With the assistance of the European Investment Bank we are already building the Jubilee line extension— [Interruption.] —the Severn bridge project and the Manchester light railway, all of which were financed by borrowings from the European Investment Bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.577.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "he GATT round, which I hope will be concluded successfully in the next few days—especially for the countries of eastern and central Europe. That is the second item of the positive agenda that we are pressing ahead in Europe. The first item is economic convergence, the second is open markets and free trade. The third part of our agenda, the true European agenda, is encouraging enterprise in the EC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "acy that there is one lump of labour and the approach should be to ration it and share it out. I also challenge the fallacy that Europe can compete better with the Japanese and the rest of the world by working shorter hours. Hon. Members ask me to prove that we are winning the argument. The proof is here. Where is the work sharing which the Labour party would have advocated and bought a month ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ing significant growth in 1993. It is not only I who predict that growth in Britain will improve in 1994—so do the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the Organisation for European Co-operation and Development. Apart from the hon. Gentleman, there is no one in Britain who does not believe that the British economy will be the fastest growing in the European Community next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-09", "file": "debates1993-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de833cea7100b1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "European Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The channel tunnel link has to be designed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-09a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-10", "file": "debates1993-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7971470fff42a62b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-10a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Business and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "n the Pennines would be. The tearing up of moorland for opencast mining and the implementation of giant wind farms, both of which are unwanted in a fragile setting, is unjustifiable in the minds of many of my constituents. Wind farms are not only a Yorkshire problem. I have chosen the Western Mail, as the Welsh are further down that windy road than we are. In it, a Welshman man called Mario Basini", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-10a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-10", "file": "debates1993-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7971470fff42a62b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-10a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill and Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " 1974 and 1979, when we governed with a majority of one until John Stonehouse disappeared, after which we had no majority at all and governed on a minority. Yet, despite their majority, the Government insist on imposing guillotine after guillotine. It is fair to say that the Labour Government were in a somewhat different position from the present Government, who have enjoyed an enormous advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-10a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-10", "file": "debates1993-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7971470fff42a62b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-10a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill and Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I cannot follow my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) down that road because you have made it clear, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that we are considering a narrow procedural motion. I was about to say—this is in order—that, instead of having this narrow procedural motion, we should be talking about the problems of the people outside this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-10a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.675.7", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has a tight grip on the Arts Council and has managed to give it an extra £800,000 that it did not expect to get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.675.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rity agreed by member states at the Birmingham European Council last year reiterated the point. It said: It is for each Member State to decide how its powers should be exercised domestically. Devolution is a separate issue. The principle of subsidiarity does not apply to the internal arrangements in member states. Indeed, such an idea would fly in the face of the principle itself, which expresses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is quite right to the extent that some of the provisions will hurt individual countries. Some of them will not be amenable to this country, the United States, Japan or Germany. All countries will find that some issues do not help them. However, because of the substantial anticipated growth in world trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I know of the hon. Gentleman's constituency interest. I shall come to the GATT situation later. I have been in the House for three years and I do not know how up to date I will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Havant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "That is extremely ingenious. The hon. Member, whose constituency I cannot remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ty, which is to help British industry to remain competitive. The Minister has to explain that away and tell us from where the increase will come that will more than offset the reduction in expenditure that may result. I recognise that the Minister of State is not a Treasury Minister, but he is obviously expert in such matters, and is no doubt well briefed. I am asking him to complete my education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " us from where the increase will come that will more than offset the reduction in expenditure that may result. I recognise that the Minister of State is not a Treasury Minister, but he is obviously expert in such matters, and is no doubt well briefed. I am asking him to complete my education— [Laughter.] —on this narrow subject. I recognise that we are all capable of improvement over a wide field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "My intervention will take only a couple of minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-13", "file": "debates1993-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "8af40672695c8313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Policing (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The subject is important—for Derbyshire and for other places in the country. In 1991 the inspector found a shortfall of police on duty on the streets. He also found a low level of morale and a high rate of sickness. Despite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-13a.804.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.816.8", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "y that we are awaiting the result of the inspection report. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will wish to study that report before determining the next steps to take. The hon. Gentleman is also right to say that the school's examination results in the past year were disappointing, but it would be unusual if we were to take excessive action on the basis of one year's examination results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.816.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, neither did I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "I agree absolutely with my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.819.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "constituency have opted out of local authority control and that one of them—the Anglo-European school, which has an international reputation—is under threat from Essex county council because of a decision by the Liberal Democrat and Labour coalition to withdraw discretionary fares? That school has been the jewel in the crown of Essex. It has a high reputation for language training, and represents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "hat one of them—the Anglo-European school, which has an international reputation—is under threat from Essex county council because of a decision by the Liberal Democrat and Labour coalition to withdraw discretionary fares? That school has been the jewel in the crown of Essex. It has a high reputation for language training, and represents— [Interruption] Will my right hon. Friend join me in saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "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 would do better to go back and read the evidence that was taken and then frame his question in a more accurate way. The reality of what the Chief Secretary said yesterday makes no difference in practice. All social security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "t into line with England, or did he succumb to Treasury pressure? Because the increase in external finance is less than the increase in spending, will that not mean a minimum increase of 15 per cent. for council tax payers in Wales? Has the Secretary of State heard from local authorities in Wales that provision of care in the community is in a state of crisis due to a chronic lack of underfunding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill and Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before Second Reading?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The nearest comparison that I can make is with the Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill two or three years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill and Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The nearest comparison that I can make is with the Community Charges (General Reduction) Bill two or three years ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Before Second Reading?\"] Yes, before Second Reading; I think that is right. In another respect, we face entirely new circumstances this year. It is the first unified Budget for a considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill and Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "preceding_text": "I accept that explanation from the Leader of the House, but no doubt others will challenge it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill and Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": " the answer to the question that was posed by the right hon. Member for Derby, South, it is quite wrong to say that there is no compensation for small business men. They enjoy the national insurance contribution reduction in the same way as all other business men do. In addition, they get the protection of having 100 per cent. of the statutory sick pay rebated to them after four weeks of sickness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill and Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), and I suspect that he can look after himself. That intervention, helpful or otherwise, should not have been addressed to me. I have already offered to act as bookie's runner between the two Front Benches. For a small fee, I am anybody's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay Bill and Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "de him think that it was necessary to have that paragraph in the motion. Those paragraphs are extraneous, irrelevant and totally unnecessary. Why do we allow Ministers to table timetable motions that no one inside the House understands, let alone anyone outside the House? I spent the morning with the Clerks —and very helpful they were too—but how many other hon. Members spend time with the Clerks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "in fishing effort and was relatively successful. Therefore, decommissioning is one way to tackle the problem. It reduces capacity. If the Minister wants to know how much we would spend on such a scheme, I answered that question at a press conference, given during the last general election campaign in a hotel in Aberdeen. I leave it to his researchers to find it out, because it was well publicised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Marchioness Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "her reason why the Government do not want an inquiry is that they and their powerful friends are scared witless at the prospect of corporate manslaughter being accepted as the law of this land. That is why they do not want a full and thorough investigation. All the investigations into major disasters of recent times have been inadequate in one way or another. We need a review of the whole process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Marchioness Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "uote from a woman who was not interviewed for the \"World in Action\" programme, but who put her case well to a journalist from The Sunday Times. She said: In the past, when I was working and desperate for money, the courts used to listen to the fathers' excuses about why they couldn't afford to pay, and women got a pittance. The CSA seems like a good thing, and I just wish it had been there for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-14", "file": "debates1993-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c99d0b5a5aae6bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": " I just wish it had been there for me. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Barnsley, Central (Mr. Illsley) is laughing. I did not laugh at the stories told by Labour Members tonight about the real concerns of some of their constituents. I do not expect them to laugh when they hear about the other side of the coin, which is all too rarely put. We must not be nostalgic for what the court system was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-14a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1054.9", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend seen the opinion polls in Scandinavian countries, which unfortunately show a decline in the popularity of the view that they should enter the European Community? I hope that I am not being reverist by suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1054.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with what my hon. Friend has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ves articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution? Surely that is the very nub of the controversy. Why does this paper not even mention that? A member of the Government said to me outside, \"Oh, yes, but look at page 5.\" I have read the document carefully. In fact, I was able to receive from Dublin 24 hours before this document was available to other people all the information that I put in my letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ensive to be told that, in three months' time, if the IRA ceases its violence without any conditions for handing over its weapons or its bomb-making material or any of its military prowess, the IRA will be invited, as constitutional politicians, to sit down at the table. That goes to the very gut of the resentment of the people of Northern Ireland who have been slaughtered, butchered and murdered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "ength of their convictions and not with any form of coercion or physical force. Let us remember at this time that it is people who have rights, not territory, and that humanity transcends nationality. May the House share with me at this moment the hope of all our people that today will be the first major step on a road that will remove for ever the gun and the bomb from our small island of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1080.5", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It may be rather difficult in practice to find out precisely where it is and who has it; that is the practical difficulty that we face. We have said, beyond any doubt, that there must be the clearest possible public renunciation of violence and then a decontamination period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1080.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Both sides.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and who has it; that is the practical difficulty that we face. We have said, beyond any doubt, that there must be the clearest possible public renunciation of violence and then a decontamination period—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Both sides.\"]—so that it is clear that that renunciation of violence will be held and there will be no violence. Then one can determine whether Sinn Fein can enter into discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1080.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "loyalist paramilitaries will also be expected to lay down their arms? Can he tell us what he means about the concurrent referendums? For instance, we now know from questions that he has answered that the referendums may not be on the same day. If the decision of the referendum in the south of the country is in favour, and the decision of the referendum in the north is against, do they add them up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "In view of paragraph 4 of the declaration that the British Government have no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland\", will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government still have a \"strategic or economic interest\" in Wolverhampton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Well— [Interruption.] Don't tempt me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Ireland (Joint Declaration)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " has done so. The hon. Gentleman is quite right to say that the violence spreads beyond an individual constituency, however bad things may have been in that constituency. The hon. Gentleman's second point returns to a point made by one of my hon. Friends a few moments ago: nothing will do more for the economic well-being of Northern Ireland, in the short and the long term, than an end to violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Radioactive Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "peration of THORP, my right hon. Friend and I have reached the judgment that there is a sufficient balance of advantage in favour of the operation of THORP, and we are satisfied that the activities giving rise to the discharges permitted by the authorisations are justified. For the reasons set out in detail in the full decision, we have concluded that, had these wider considerations been relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Radioactive Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. With the remainder of today's business in mind, I require hon. Members to put their questions briskly, and to be given brisk answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1099.2", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Radioactive Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "nd inquired into since this project was introduced by the right hon. Members for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) in the 1970s, when the House has endorsed the project three times, when we had the 100-day inquiry, which was the longest that there had ever been, and over the past two years there has been a whole series of other consultations and approval by the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1099.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Radioactive Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must now come to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1106.8", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "points of order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am on my feet. But I cannot approve of hon. Members being incited to play games with our proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1106.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "points of order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with that point of order, thank you very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "points of order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, the matter has nothing to do with the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I must confess—probably some of my colleagues may think that it is a confession—that I often read the works of the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who has earned a reputation of being one of the most abrasive members of the House in many ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I understand the point about the rebate. Employers' federations—in this case I can only reflect their anxieties—feel that they are still heavily burdened, and fear that they will be much more heavily burdened in the future if the present policy continues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "eans tomorrow—some women in work will be able to draw both their pensions and statutory sick pay, whereas men will not be able to do the same beyond their retirement age. There may well be complications there. It is an interesting matter for speculation and discussion, and perhaps the Minister of State will tell us—I notice that the Minister of State is pointing straight at the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "and discussion, and perhaps the Minister of State will tell us—I notice that the Minister of State is pointing straight at the Secretary of State— [Interruption.] No, he was pointing at the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, who is apparently to be allowed to trot out. In any event, the Minister who replies may tell us whether the Government have considered those legal matters. Now I am done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members have always supported good industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1128.5", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": ". of sick pay reclaimed by the majority of employers. Clearly, that must involve a great deal of paperwork. It must involve the monitoring, processing and satisfying of claims. If all that is to be swept away, that is a big plus which presumably would result in a reduction in the administration expenses for which the Minister is responsible.\"— [Official Report, 14 December 1993; Vol. 234, c. 791.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1130.2", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": " is worth while his intervening on someone else. It is just another example of the games that Conservative Members have played in the past few days. In the Budget, the increase in national contributions was 1 per cent., and a person earning £18,000 a year will have to pay an extra £150 a year. At the same time, the Government are dismantling the advantages of the welfare state. That is despicable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "ase the scope of VAT or national insurance contributions. We know what has happened to those promises—even if they were made, in the immortal words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on a wet night in Dudley. The Labour party and the country at large now know that, when Ministers say that they have no plans to do something, they mean exactly the opposite. We have learnt to read between the lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": " the additional burden of having to take on temporary employees—usually through agencies and usually at premium rates of pay. One of the problems that we face in dealing with the Bill in such a short time is that we cannot give full consideration and full weight to those issues. Instead, we have to rely on dubious evidence submitted to the Committee by the Secretary of State. The only other point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "e in dealing with the Bill in such a short time is that we cannot give full consideration and full weight to those issues. Instead, we have to rely on dubious evidence submitted to the Committee by the Secretary of State. The only other point— [Interruption.] Does my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) want to say something? If so, he should get up and say it. As I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": "What will happen to Remploy, which has an especially high proportion of disabled employees? Will there be special provision for that company, which will inevitably experience more incidence of sickness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1184.7", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " interminable orders and almost no primary legislation. They must be at a considerable disadvantage in terms of the role of scrutiny which falls to the House. I make no apologies for saying that, when I read clauses such as clause 2, little alarm bells start ringing, my antennae start bristling and I wonder whether I am being taken for a ride by the Executive and the legislature is being bypassed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Start again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may say what she likes, but I am referring to clause 1. I am afraid that she has not followed my argument and it may be my fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1187.5", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "t-looking amendments repay some examination. The more we look at them, the more we come to the conclusion that there are matters at stake which should be clarified before we move on. Obviously, I shall listen carefully to what the Minister has to say. It may be that I will want to speak again when I have heard his explanation. Some of my hon. Friends may also want to participate in the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1187.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "y being transferred at a strobe, just like that, to employers, it could be phased in. No doubt if the Secretary of State were here he would have no truck with that kind of thing. He would want to put the boot in to the employers straight away. But he is not here at this stage of the evening, and the rest of us are all right behind the Minister of State, because we know that he is a reasonable man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1190.7", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": ", we must provide clear guidelines for employers explaining how the change will work in practice on 6 April next year, when the new arrangements come into effect. It is said that, when Adam and Eve were leaving the garden of Eden in somewhat difficult circumstances, Adam tried to reassure Eve by saying, \"We live in an age of transition, my dear.\" Whether that was any comfort to Eve, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1190.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "re. Any statutory instruments made under clause 2(3) will, of course, be laid before Parliament, open to the tabling of a prayer and debatable in the House. But I can assure the hon. Member for Garscadden and the Committee that any statutory instruments introduced under the arrangements in the clause will not be controversial—even in his estimation; they will be aimed solely at providing sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "hop. Some of the Tories cheered because the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer had got the sack for losing £10 billion in an afternoon. No one held him up with a gun, did they? It just went. Some of the same Ministers are glorying in the fact that the ex-Chancellor now has to look after the safe at Rothschilds. I would not have him handling the safe if I were Rothschilds—not after losing £10 billion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1233.6", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "d idea for the Government to bring back another piece of retrospective legislation, since they are now into retrospective legislation, which would deem that they had never reduced the top rate of income tax? Just think how much money would be available for the national health service, community care and the many other things that people are crying out for if they extended the principle of deeming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-15", "file": "debates1993-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d65beebf0bd148c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am not going down the road that strays from the Bill£", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-15a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1251.7", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relation to the Bill, Standing Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the last Session.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1251.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1252.4", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We cannot hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Nelson)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has received a number of letters supporting the Budget announcement of consultation on measures to promote prompt payment. Responses to the consultation paper, which should be addressed to the Department of Trade and Industry, should reach that Department by 31 March 1994.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "FIN, including the French and the Germans. Now we have to concentrate on achieving convergence in our economic performance to achieve that stability of exchange rates, which will follow. My French and German colleagues are as keen as I am on getting inflation down to the levels that the British are now achieving and on getting public sector deficits down to the level that we are now on course for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We are borrowing more money from the European investment bank than any other member state and investing it in Britain's infrastructure—for example, the Heathrow express, the Jubilee line extension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "xpress, the Jubilee line extension— [Interruption.] They are under construction. Until recently, expenditure on Britain's road programme was about 40 per cent. higher in real terms and railway investment in Britain was 40 or 50 per cent. higher than five years ago. We are investing heavily in our infrastructure and we are ahead of our partners in Europe in developing it using European instruments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e right hon. and learned Gentleman clearly does not realise that he is referring to the cost of Budget measures over the next three years. He is obviously deficient in understanding and has produced an entirely spurious one-off tax increase. I can understand why. I quote what the acting general secretary of the Fabian Society wrote about the right hon. and learned Gentleman in the \"Labour Review\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.4", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "May I put a straight question to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.5", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman deny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.5", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman deny—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] Does he deny what his hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) said about unemployment? He has had nothing to say today about unemployment, nothing about inflation and nothing about the eight taxes to which he is committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.6", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must settle down. I want to hear the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1265.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cy will be restrained under the ceilings that were agreed at the Edinburgh summit, in terms of the financial perspective of the Community. I do not have any quarrel with the outcome on the trade dispute mechanism. I do not have the same affection for the ILO as the right hon. and learned Gentleman—that is a difference between us, as I am sure that he knows—but I share his views about child labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ping and they were improved so that action could be taken more speedily at the Foreign Affairs Council yesterday, which was attended by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary. As for Africa, it is the view of the African states that this GATT round is of assistance to them. They made that perfectly clear at the Commonwealth conference where a large number of African states, both rich and poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1278.5", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "So what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chairman of the Procedure Committee not long ago undertook some consideration of questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "The House would welcome an early opportunity to debate local government in inner London. Many of my hon. Friends would welcome an opportunity to demonstrate that the worst councils—in terms of empty houses, poor collection of the council tax —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have already said that it might be appropriate for someone to run a seminar for the Opposition dealing with the tabling of amendments to Budget motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "xecutive share options, advance corporation tax and scrip dividends, has been put on the table by my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor. It would greatly improve the knowledge of the hon. Member for Ribble Valley—I have no doubt that he would enjoy the task—to read some of my hon. Friend's speeches. There is a great deal of concern about the shadow Budget and about national insurance contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "We shall have to wait and see what is proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "That neatly puts the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1315.4", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Anyone know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend—to the hon. Lady. I almost said \"my hon. Friend\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1361.4", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "nd of brothers which was here at 3 o'clock this morning, together with the Government Whip. He is wearing an exciting tie but I suspect that he will be feeling slightly jaded if, like me, he survived through the long passage of arms over the Ways and Means resolution. I appear in a somewhat unlikely but not uncharacteristic guise because I suspect that I am on the Government's side in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1363.2", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "on was a set proportion of that percentage. However, with the 1989 Act, the initial percentage became just 2 per cent. It was generally agreed in the House and elsewhere that, because the figure was so low, the national health service allocation should apply only to the higher range of earnings on which contributions were paid—that is, between the lower earnings limit and the upper earnings limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "y be only that the de minimis rule has gone slightly wrong. I am happy that is should be put right in this way. My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer has done us a service. I hope that he will not be hurt when I say that there are occasions, coming late through the corridors when I have heard Members, usually Conservative Members, saying uncharitable things about my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1379.0", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "to guard the gate. My misgiving about the use of that word is that the Spanish word for gatekeeper is portillo. That may be some sort of sign. I have attended almost every minute of the debate and I have been slightly distressed to see that the Secretary of State has had trouble keeping his eyes open. Earlier today, I had a conversation with a Treasury Minister who was purchasing mints downstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "im as of right when he is past work an income adequate enough to maintain him. Let me tell the hon. Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman) what Beveridge also concluded. He published his report in 1942. He thoroughly investigated the life assurance schemes. His conclusion was that the cost of administration consumed half the money paid in by members. He said that the door-to-door insurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-16", "file": "debates1993-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e63c461d7e2977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1386.4", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": " will be tax, tax, tax. That from a party that went into the general election saying that it was the party of low taxation, that it had no plans and no need to raise taxation. Its hoardings argued against the Labour party's tax policies. Yet look what the country is having to suffer as a result cif the mismanagement of the economy by these Ministers and all their guilty colleagues. We have failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-16a.1386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1993-12-17", "file": "debates1993-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb0c4372f0d24e73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-17a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Cyprus", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "ke rapid progress with the confidence-building measures, after the election in northern Cyprus, and that we looked to the Turkish Government to use their influence and best endeavours to accelerate that process. We all want a just, viable and lasting settlement, which must be reached by the two communities together. No great imperial power can impose a settlement. The days of colonialism are past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1993-12-17a.1452.0"}