{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.12.8", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend indicate early in the process the elements and units in the front line that are unlikely to be affected by the review and those that are more likely to be affected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.12.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the barometers of the British economy is the housing industry? Does he therefore share my satisfaction —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.14.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Sit down. Part VIII of the Bill takes forward the Government's commitment to involve the private sector in the provision of prisons, prisoner escorts and some prison services. It widens and improves my current powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ity sentences to ensure that they are properly demanding punishments in which the courts and public can have confidence. I am reviewing many of the rules in our prisons, especially those governing testing for drugs and home leave. I am determined to do all that I can to encourage a real partnership between the police and the public. On Sunday night I went out on patrol with town watch in Sandwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " The prison works slogan—a return to the short sharp shock, and we have been there before—is to be put to work in relation to juvenile offenders. As I have been asked about it before, let me make quite clear the difference between the two sides. We do not disagree that those who are out of control and making life hell—there are juvenile offenders who are doing that—must be in secure accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I really must press on. We have also discovered an internal Government document which specifically compares young offenders institutions with secure local authority units and finds that for local authority units there is not only a better record on education and training but a better rate of reconviction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.40.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "e it and want to continue with their countryside sports. Frankly, I was astonished that the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) —if I could have his attention for a second—felt obliged to throw a sop to his left-wing colleagues by saying that he did not see why police officers should be employed to prevent violent disorder from surrounding hunt activities and meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I agree ought to have been reversed sooner, we have spent more taxpayers' money on crime prevention, policing, the courts, lawyers and prisons than would have been possible under Labour and we have given the police more powers and better equipment, training and leaders. All those measures have undoubtedly reduced crime from the level that it would have reached if those measures had not been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": " If the world crime wave continues to grow, we may achieve a cut in the growth of crime, but not a cut in the present figure. We shall simply have to wait and see. A sensible Opposition would realise that there can be no guarantee of bringing the figure down but that action would still be required to do what was likely to reduce crime. In a worldwide crime wave, the measures that we have proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "e for the best part of 30 years, and I shall never forget a comment that an inspector made to me in the late 1960s. That was before the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and before many modern devices, at a time when we employed enough police officers, paid them and equipped them. The inspector said, \"Gerry, when I arrest someone, I don't need to interview them; I've already got the evidence.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A different point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "If the Home Secretary was not so remote from reality, he would realise that the crime rate has doubled and tripled since 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not here, so he would not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "rs to try to have such systems automatically fitted to all vehicles. Only in that way will we reduce the curse of car crime. I discovered that the effect of new tax regulations on company cars is that an employee who fits a car alarm at a cost of £500 will have to pay between £45 and £70 extra in tax each year. That is an extraordinary effect of taxation by a Government dedicated to curbing crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "to the magistrates. But I have no doubt at all that, if either of the two socialist parties—I see that the Liberal Democrats are as usual conspicuous by their absence from this important debate —had been in power, matters would have been a great deal worse. This Bill is the third step in this Parliament towards the restoration of common sense to Britain's criminal justice system, and I welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman does not want to be diverted, why does he not give a straight answer to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Gerrard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Gerrard", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief because I realise that other hon. Members wish to speak and that we are short of time. I shall refer to two points on the money resolution, both of which have been referred to by previous speakers. The first concerns clauses 1 to 15, and the design and build of secure training centres and their operation being put out to private tender—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but there are too many private conversations taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "I was surprised to hear the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson) describe last year's system as relatively satisfactory. He admitted that, last year, local government sent out one set of bills to commercial ratepayers and then sent out a second set; he forgot to tell the House that that involved a cost to the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.142.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on, answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "undamental shift in policy since his predecessor announced to the House on 13 May last year that the Government would pay full compensation to the fund and that if there were a shortfall it would not be a power but a duty for the Government to make it up. He has failed to answer that question today and I hope that in the brief time available he will give the House the explanation that it deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.145.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he Minister is going to reply to the debate, or is the abuse of procedure going to be doubled? Not only are the proceedings on the Bill to be compressed, but the Minister is not going to reply to the debate at all. It is standard procedure that a Minister answers the points raised. Is he going to keep his feet on the Table and refuse to answer the questions that have been raised during the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-11", "file": "debates1994-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "47e1a0e5ca12baea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "s to obtain that information. It is true that there may well be only a short gap between the principle being debated and the money resolution being forwarded, none the less it is there. It seems to me to be an outrage that the Minister is not attempting in any shape or form to contribute to the debate. That demonstrates that the Government are treating the House with contempt. I warn the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-11a.146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely sure that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary would have put it in quite that crisp fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "roduced by the Conservative party, we accepted had to take place in a day. This Bill is not to deal with an emergency but to provide relief for businesses in respect of their business rates for the next financial year which starts on 1 April. Last year and the year before, the Committee stages of those Bills were separated from the Second Reading by well over a week, which is the normal procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.202.6", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " in the 1988 Act and came into operation in April 1990 as part of the poll tax fiasco of that year. The decision to establish a uniform business rate is spelt out in the rantings of the former Prime Minister, now Lady Thatcher, which I have read—although I must tell my hon. Friends, in case they think that I have gone soft, that I have not purchased them, but merely borrowed them from the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "y question that she asks contains a major error of fact. If I were allowed to offer a wager across the Floor of the House that spending by Lancashire county council increased by 186 per cent. in, I guess, the first year or so of Labour taking control of the council in 1981, I would not just put a tenner on it. I think that the hon. Lady accepts the wager. If she means in a period of 15 years that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.204.5", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ir policy proposal for going to a national business rate—that high business rates lost jobs. No Opposition Member—it is rather different on the Government Benches these days—wants taxation of any type to be a pound more than it should be. The Conservative party is, as we know, the party of high taxation, which breaks its tax promises, and Labour is the party of probity on tax, as on other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.204.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "No. The truth is that billing authorities need to send out rate bills from late February.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. One of the Government Whips has just failed to move the 10 o'clock motion. I have long thought that the Government Whips Office was incompetent, but tonight's action is confirmation of its utter inability to run the business of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insider Dealing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ce in the same week as a poacher in Scotland got three months in prison for poaching salmon. The record of sentencing in the courts in Britain is abysmal. In the same week that the Government have been lecturing the nation on law and order and their policy of \"back to basics\", we have heard absolutely nothing about that branch of the law. We should remember that Gerald Ronson was fined £5 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insider Dealing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "asics\", we have heard absolutely nothing about that branch of the law. We should remember that Gerald Ronson was fined £5 million— [Interruption.] I know that Conservative Members are getting very upset because they know that their record is abysmal. Gerald Ronson had £2 million of his fine paid by his own colleagues. They thought so much of his conduct that they now have him back behind his desk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insider Dealing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": " they simply passed the parcel within the business and helped themselves to the commission—which in some cases they shared with the underwriters. When, however, the risk had been split up, rebundled and passed on 20 times, all the premium income had gone in commission. In many cases, so vague were the details of what was in the bundle of risk that some underwriters ended up reinsuring themselves.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insider Dealing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "nder the Financial Services Act. It is, therefore, the criminal justice system that needs to be addressed. Is not it a strange coincidence that tonight the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central attacked such scandals, yet last night his party did not support the Second Reading of a Bill that sought to address some of the weaknesses in the criminal justice system which are the cause of the difficulty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insider Dealing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "The difficulty about that argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insider Dealing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "h Britain is well known and we shall ensure that the legislative changes that have taken place in recent years are respected. I was asked in particular about the number of convictions and prosecutions that have been brought. Some 22 individuals have been convicted of insider dealing, out of a total of 49, but what is much more important is the deterrent message that that sends to a wider audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "en a Second Reading debate curtailed at 10 o'clock, as is the norm in the House. Does not he recognise that the country will see that the Government are running away, first, from a perfectly normal process of debate on matters which are of considerable interest to British business in every constituency, every town and every village in the country and, secondly, from a debate on the health service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "Is not it quite outrageous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.304.8", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Skinner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.304.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-12", "file": "debates1994-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0532cceceb17ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.308.9", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. May I check with you that it is the case that we have heard a statement getting rid of the supply day today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-12a.308.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.317.14", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "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/1994-01-13a.317.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows full well that that is a matter for the district auditor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.326.9", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "day the work being done by Town Watch in Sandwich, patrolling the streets to reduce crime in the area and to escort elderly citizens who want to be taken out at night to visit their friends and neighbours. I went out with Sandwich Town Watch on Sunday night, and I was greatly impressed by what I saw. Such work should receive a tribute from the Labour party, not the derision that we saw on Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.326.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.326.10", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must settle down. There are far too many noisy conversations going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.326.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend but such schemes are of use not only in rural areas. I have told the House of my experiences in Sandwich on Sunday night; last Thursday night I patrolled in a similar way with a group of concerned citizens in Washington DC. They said to me, \"People behave differently if they know that they are being watched.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " agree with my hon. Friend but such schemes are of use not only in rural areas. I have told the House of my experiences in Sandwich on Sunday night; last Thursday night I patrolled in a similar way with a group of concerned citizens in Washington DC. They said to me, \"People behave differently if they know that they are being watched.\" [Laughter.] That is the principle behind neighbourhood watch.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.331.8", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.331.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Westminster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time soon to debate the appalling management of council housing finance in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rder, it is possible to condemn a crime now without prejudging the issue of who was guilty of committing the crime. Why does not the Secretary of State practise what he and other Ministers preach on the issue of law and order? Does not the Secretary of State accept that, if the findings are upheld, this will be a case of political corruption and gerrymandering on a scale unknown in modern Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Today, on the radio, there was an investigation into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.4", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I am coming to it. I ask you, Madam Speaker, to urge the Secretary of State to make a statement about the district auditor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.6", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The country will see the way in which Conservative Members are so windy about the disclosure of corruption and maladministration in Westminster on a scale that has never occurred before in modern Britain that they try gratuitously to disrupt the proceedings of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The country will see the way in which Conservative Members are so windy about the disclosure of corruption and maladministration in Westminster on a scale that has never occurred before in modern Britain that they try gratuitously to disrupt the proceedings of the House. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The first is law and order.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.362.5", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Westminster City Council (Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order and your ruling, Madam Speaker. The second point that I would have made was that in no sense did I make an allegation against the hon. Gentleman. I said that it would have been as wrong to condemn him on the basis of a preliminary report, as it would have been to condemn present council members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.362.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright (Hernsworth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Leader of the House is leaving; he has had enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright (Hernsworth)", "preceding_text": "t one of the hon. Members who bored the Lord President of the Council so much yesterday—not because my speech coruscated and was laced with wit, but because so many hon. Members wanted to speak and there was so much to discuss that I could not get in. Only Opposition Members were speaking yesterday, but these are very serious issues. What worries me is the arrogance of power, which we saw earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ebated for an hour and a half. I do not know whether Government Back Benchers are happy about that, but I hope that the Lord President will accept it when I say that we do not regard it as satisfactory when a controversial issue is to be debated for only one and a half hours. I am sure that many hon. Members will wish to participate. It is merely another subject on which debate is being curtailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": " and so suddenly in the perspective of the Opposition parties? The Confederation of British Industry and the Association of Chambers of Commerce demanded access. Undoubtedly, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his rather agreeable mixed hereditament across the river, was pressing to make representations. There was not a squeak, not a whimper, not a hint or a sound in terms of representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ld me that they were burning to make representations. Who is right? The hon. Gentleman says that they do not want to make representations; the hon. Member for Leicester, East says that they want to make representations. The hon. Member should co-ordinate his time with his colleagues. He should not accuse me of wasting time. Labour Members wasted a day and a half, and they do not appear to like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "and time again. Of course, the most obvious way would indeed be to top up the rating pool by a compensating amount. That is what we have done for the past two years and what we propose to do for 1994–95, but it is not the only conceivable option. For example, we could decide instead to give local government as a whole a larger amount of revenue support grant than it would otherwise receive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "mentary cycle and we are happy that Second Reading took place in January. We are not happy, and we are extremely worried, that the Government forced through the measure without due concern for the representations which might have been made by concerned parties on the impact of the Bill. All along, the Opposition have been intent on making sure that the democratic processes take place in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-13", "file": "debates1994-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "54e75da775994626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Non-Domestic Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Betts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Betts", "preceding_text": " have not heard a clear and simple answer. Only a few moments ago, the Under-Secretary of State sought to explain that, as the transitional arrangements were not fixed and could vary from year to year, the legislation could not include a commitment to compensate in a particular way for any losses because of those arrangements. I simply do not accept that and he did not explain why it was the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-13a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-14", "file": "debates1994-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7bac68159534b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "I keep emphasising, for the benefit of the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, that I feel that a well run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-14", "file": "debates1994-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7bac68159534b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "ort timber and dairy products. Perhaps, in the interests of greater efficiency, some tightening up of the way in which the Forestry Commission is managed may be necessary, but it is my earnest hope that the forestry review group will recommend that the maintenance of the status quo is the right way forward. I know that I am not alone in that aspiration because many other hon. Members in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-14", "file": "debates1994-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7bac68159534b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "lable for export credit guarantees should be balanced with the needs of the taxpayer, who has to foot the bill. The hon. Member for Newark said that the taxpayers' money should be used as prudently as possible. However, that is not necessarily the only source of money for the Treasury or the Department of Trade and Industry to use in its export credit guarantees programme. There are ways in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-14", "file": "debates1994-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7bac68159534b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "l around the world and dominating all those pink parts of the map. Much of the exports were in coal, but the hon. Gentleman gives the impression that, somehow or the other, we have lost that wonderful position by accident. The truth is that most of the countries now exporting to us, and other countries, support their own industries. As the Parliamentary Secretary is here, that big bladder of lard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-14a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "as for which it is responsible. Its members will see our exchanges today and I trust that it will redouble its efforts in my hon. Friend's constituency. Where the board sites its office is, of course, a matter for it. Again, its members will see my hon. Friend's remarks. Meanwhile, it is a fact that strikes, inflation and interest rates are down, while productivity, output and jobs numbers are up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.516.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is this a point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Are you aware that today, in the Jubilee Room in the Palace of Westminster, a meeting was addressed by members of Sinn Fein, an organisation that sponsors terrorism? I would like to express my deep outrage that such a meeting took place. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "It is obvious from the interventions that the Secretary of State has already accepted that the most burning issue in the minds of most hon. Members is the boundary map at the end of the process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "terests of good local government and the people of Scotland. I know that it is difficult for it to admit how seriously it has miscalculated, and that it must regret its short-sighted posturing and the way in which it has split its members and paralysed its own organisation. Its policy has failed, but it is time to look forward, not back. I for one shall not seek to make any political capital from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "l\" and \"improper\" in one order or another. In any Government with any shame, decency or honour left, those words would be ringing around the Cabinet room. Does any gentle soul—for instance, the innocents among the Conservative Back Benchers about to be condemned to serving on the Standing Committee that will consider the Bill—still care to believe that the Secretary of State for Scotland is right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ncil's castigation look at the sheer imagination of the proposed Clackmannan and Falkirk council. Two distinct communities divided by the River Forth and connected only by a bridge are to be carved out artificially and unwillingly from the kingdom of Fife. Let the Secretary of State, wriggling away as he is from the charge of gerrymandering, explain the separation of Conservative Helensburgh from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "divided by the River Forth and connected only by a bridge are to be carved out artificially and unwillingly from the kingdom of Fife. Let the Secretary of State, wriggling away as he is from the charge of gerrymandering, explain the separation of Conservative Helensburgh from— [Interruption.] I can tell the Secretary of State's Parliamentary Private Secretary what page it is on. It is on page 117—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ver Mr. Peterken's employment with Greater Glasgow health board, which would have amounted to £185,444. That was submitted with the knowledge and, in Lord Fraser's words, \"the support\" of his Department and him. The Secretary of State says that he has been assured that Mr. Fyfe was told that he could not make that submission, but in the Select Committee Lord Fraser seemed to contradict him flatly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Kynoch", "preceding_text": " as functions will be better achieved with fewer people. COSLA should direct its efforts towards the people who employ it rather than the people whom it employs. Scottish taxpayers are interested in seeing more efficient and less costly local government. The Liberal Democrats smile happily when I discuss Labour opposition. I wonder whether they will smile when I read their 1992 Scottish manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Kynoch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More, more.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Kynoch", "preceding_text": "ill smile when I read their 1992 Scottish manifesto— [Interruption.] I am glad to hear that they have read it. Had they done so, they might not have opposed the Bill, because it clearly said: We will: reform and strengthen local government, reducing it to a single tier. We will introduce a single-tier of local government, to deliver most of the services currently provided by districts and regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No, I am certainly not saying that. If the hon. Gentleman will allow me to develop my case, I will make positive arguments for its being part of Dumbartonshire. I pointed out that historically we are part of Dumbartonshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": " will be long remembered. When the poll tax—the community charge—was introduced, people in local authorities encouraged non-compliance with the laws of the land. That attitude has rebounded in a most horrific way on many hon. Members' constituents. I hope that there will be a constructive debate in Committee. Part I, schedule 1, will be considered very early in Committee. I can certainly see much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "bers at the time of consultation. I wanted a separate south Ayrshire—a Kyle and Carrick. That was recognised in the Secretary of State's proposals. In the main, it appeared that other hon. Members from Ayrshire wanted an all-Ayrshire authority. The Secretary of State has democratically recognised those representations and, as closely as possible, has met the combined views of all Ayrshire Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "even the confused Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) will recognise that he cannot have second, third and fourth preferences that are all the same—it is not logical. However, that does not surprise me. I ask all Ayrshire Members to back Ayrshire local authorities. Perhaps Opposition Members will support the amendment that I intend to move in Committee, given the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) wishes to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) wishes to intervene. [Interruption.] Obviously, the hon. Gentleman does not want to intervene. I shall cover a few general issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "As I have said all along, I intend to listen carefully to the debate. I shall attempt to persuade Ministers along the lines of my feelings, and at the end of the day I will take a combined judgment with my colleagues about the way in which the Bill should proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman plays the Tory game in his own way. The authorities should be based on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "on was set up in 1966 but did not report until three years later, in 1969. Other commissions and committees, such as those headed by Baines, Maude and Paterson, also examined management structures. How can you expect Strathclyde region or Glasgow district council to respect the Government's proposals? Let us consider what those bodies had to deal with: pupil-teacher ratios, a declining population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "de (Mr. Kynoch) is not in his seat. I tried to intervene earlier when he made an outrageous attack on council members from Monk lands. We have heard enough accusations in this place from hon. Members who do not come up with any proof of their allegations; they will make them in here, but will not open their mouths outwith this place. I am sorry that the hon. Member is not here to hear my rebuttal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "quangos who have not been elected, they can give proper salaries to councillors—and I mean proper salaries. People who would otherwise consider standing for office may not do so because they cannot afford it, because they see that there is no career for them and because their pension rights will not be protected. Are our councillors to be old-age pensioners or Tory wifies who happen to be married—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ereas most Scots want to see decent services provided by people who matter. It is evident from the debate that—the Secretary of State should be aware, even though he is completely out of touch—the proposals are not supported by the people. The proposals have been abused by the media, ridiculed by the Opposition, exposed by academics, barely tolerated by the business community and opposed by COSLA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "es the Secretary of State not have the guts to put his gerrymandering proposals to an independent commission? The answer is clear. The Government know that if their proposals were put to any objective test, they would simply fail. No one will demur from that answer. Conservative Members are slouching on the Benches, but they know in their hearts that they are trying to pull off a political wheeze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "n in housing. the education service should, in our view, be responsive to this interest. If, in order to get this responsiveness it was necessary to move housing from region to district, it is worth while taking education out of the hands of a very large authority and giving it to a smaller authority. I shall repeat the last phrase for the benefit of the hon. Member for East Kilbride (Mr. Ingram)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "mes which authorities draw up on decentralisation services. We regard those schemes as extremely important. Part of making local government more local is unquestionably local community councils having a right and proper role. The Bill will confirm that firmly. I should like to make one point absolutely clear to the hon. Members for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) and for Midlothian (Mr. Clarke)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc (Scotland) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Allan Stewart.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston), the late Betty Harvie Anderson and by Ames Imrie. It was a serious attempt to make some sort of constructive proposal. This time round it is totally different. Can the Secretary of State tell us where the demand for change is coming from? We all heard him say that many people supported his point of view. I interrupted to ask whom he had in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc (Scotland) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolutely none.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "nd about the lack of proper consultation on issues which are of fundamental importance to the people of Scotland. The signatories to this document call for a Royal Commission on Scottish Education\"— and let us remember who the signatories are. The implications for education have not been thought through and warrant more detailed consideration. What thought has been given to the education costings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc (Scotland) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "have referred to the Touche Ross report. Not only did we have that report: there were comments on that report, which we have taken fully into account in the figures that have been published. Figures for 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 have been announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. They relate to the Touche Ross figures as amended in the light of consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the Conservative Government are doing the same thing to the Post Office? It is required to pay such sums to the Secretary of State as he may direct. That is crippling the service and making it more difficult for the Post Office to improve its services. It is perhaps paving the way for the privatisation of the Post Office. In the same way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not take advantage of all the perks on offer to councillors, which were scandalous: that was a thing for Labour councillors to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.669.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.669.4", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Just like Maastricht.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ues, who are moaning and shouting, that if they had a good argument and put it nicely and constructively to the Secretary of State, he would accept their case. I did just that to save King's Park from the indignity of being part of Lanarkshire. Why not try that? Opposition Members should ask the Government nicely, reasonably and sensibly to consider their case. They might be amazed at the results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.669.5", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Please.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "I would be flabbergasted, absolutely amazed or any other adjective that the hon. Gentleman might like to use. Will the Government withdraw this nonsense of the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.669.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "I am sure that if I asked you nicely, Madam Deputy Speaker, you might consider it. Will the Secretary of State consider withdrawing this ridiculous measure which 95 per cent. of the people of Scotland do not support?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. May I refer to the earlier debate about the cost of the reform? Perhaps some people in the Scottish Office think that they will understate the cost of the reform and make up for the deficit and additional costs by putting less hidden tax on the water consumer. I am trying to come to the close of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-17", "file": "debates1994-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6a9d3f46d6dc01d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "cency, things that one can trust? Is that what \"back to basics\" means? How can one trust the judgment of a person who is there to so-called represent one on a customers council or a health board, if that person is there by the patronage of a political appointment? Surely, if we talk about decentralisation, whether it be in the case of health boards or whatever, we should have democratic elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-17a.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand the way in which the youth guarantee works, despite patient explanations from the Government. No young people are abandoned by the Government. They are in one of three places. They are either in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.706.7", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend were to visit Worcester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.706.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Abolition of Service Charges in Restaurants", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the levying of service charges in restaurants; and for connected purposes. The Bill will amend the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and prohibit the imposition of service charges to restaurant bills. I wonder whether you, Madam Speaker, have ever had the experience that I have had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "nd the shafts will be plugged. However, the pits will not be closed. They will become merger-seeking pits. I would not want Ministers to be embarrassed as they sit on the Front Bench by appearing to be less well-informed than The Times . I therefore give them the chance to prove that they know as much as The Times . Will they tell the House whether it is true that six pits will shut next February?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "h to discuss safety. The other day, a learned judge—the Minister for Energy knows which case I am referring to—perceived a mining industry which, in future, may see privatisation and, thus, an end to much of the regulation that British Coal has put in place. We have been told that it dismantled much of the safety structure, and the President of the Board of Trade boasted about that this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "usiness have always prevented it. It will be left to the private sector to achieve that possibility. It is worth noting that, in the United States, deep-mined coal from mines exactly like Ellington colliery in Northumberland and Wearmouth colliery in Tyne and Wear can land coal on the surface for £7 a tonne in West Virginia. Such a target is ultimately achievable in British deep-mining collieries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "Another scab.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " was too inflexible to allow the nationalised industries to act commercially. We had blinkers, handcuffs and financial embargoes on the nationalised coal industry, which was not working properly. Let us get the whole issue straight and put the blame where it belongs. Privatisation is a political decision, not an economic one. It is the politics and economics of madness to close down such an asset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": ".5 million of today. It was the fuel source for our railway system and our ships. It provided the coke for the gas and steel industry. It fuelled our electricity generation. With markets like those, it must have taken a particularly spectacular form of incompetence in the private owners not to be able to run their industry at a profit or in a manner that was safe and which afforded the work force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "ncoming Conservative Government—on the back of coal nationalisation—introduced the Miners' Welfare Bill, which created the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation as we know it today. It plays an invaluable part in the lives of communities associated with the mining industry. Apart from the welfare institutions and the clubs, its regional system of social workers complements the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.793.5", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "ate monopoly for the production of coal, and that is all. Are hon. Members opposite\"— Labour Members— really certain that the bulk of their supporters are enthusiastic for such a monopoly; and are they sure that the evils of monopoly disappear, once it comes under the aegis of the State?\"—[ Official Report , 29 January 1946; Vol. 418, c. 718.] Winding up for the Conservatives, Mr. Macmillan said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.793.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.805.8", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "ent need not look far beyond the end of their noses—if, indeed, they need to look that far. We need to take a long-term view of our energy needs. We should not consider coal, electricity, nuclear power or gas in isolation, but should take account of our long-term energy needs in their entirety. That is very far from what is suggested in the resolution. Britain requires an integrated energy policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.805.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.820.4", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "preceding_text": "I take on board your warning, Madam Deputy Speaker. Paragraph (a) of the motion states: the making by the Coal Authority established by the Act of charges for things done in the exercise and performance of its powers and duties ;\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.820.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "preceding_text": "ing to accept that, or are they likely to say that they want little to do with the service and do not see why they should pay for it because that duty should be placed on the Government as a residual liability? The Government have not dealt with residual liabilities in the motion. The mines rescue service has considerable expertise, equipment, land and buildings. Obviously a great deal of thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "sion not long before he became a Member of Parliament when he was a voluntary fireman. He attended an incident in which some land had collapsed in order to rescue two cows that had fallen down a long-disused mine. This is a true story, Madam Deputy Speaker, and is entirely relevant to the point that my hon. Friend was making. Conservative Members will recall Allen McKay, and he informed the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "preceding_text": "This is the penultimate point, and it relates to concessionary coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "e or two points that I did not have time to mention then. I hope that the Minister will pay attention to my points and, if he cannot reply to them tonight, reply to them at an early and I recognise that the matter is very narrow. Paragraph (a) of the resolution refers to the making of the Coal Authority … of charges for things done in the exercise and performance of its powers and duties.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I shall try to make the matter clear. The Coal Authority would be empowered to charge for the exercise of its responsibilities, but who will pay the charges if the pit that is responsible for the problem ceased to exist 150 or 200 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Michael Jack)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Michael Jack)", "preceding_text": "e assistance for farmers to help curb production. It was decided that aid should be switched away from investments intended to increase productive capacity and that the benefits to farmers should be in the form of help with conservation schemes and schemes to benefit the environment. To that end, I must start by making some announcements about improvements to the farm and conservation grant scheme", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-18", "file": "debates1994-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b8f2dbda99c1593b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "of those factors was cold weather and violent storms some years ago, which destroyed the hedge pattern of the islands. I was pleased to accompany my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) to the islands when he was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He announced the application of the scheme to the islands with particular reference to replacing some of the hedges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-18a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is clearly in fine form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Because Wandsworth has the largest cut in grant and, therefore, attracts a larger amount of the damping system which covers all London boroughs and especially benefits Labour London boroughs. It is rare that I have to say this and I shall say it directly to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that extremely welcome news, but does he agree that it is disappointing that the Labour party persists in putting forward their own campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.881.6", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "using and homelessness crisis? There are 1 million people with negative equity, 500,000 people with mortgage arrears, 1·5 million on local authority waiting lists, 150,000 statutorily homeless people and 63,000 people in temporary accommodation. Will not he accept the acute and absolute shortage of homes to rent and acknowledge that Labour authorities have the most effective housing record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.881.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "My point is very simple. To allege gerrymandering without any evidence is surely unparliamentary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry, but I will not welcome the Mickey Mouse schemes set up by the Government, because they do not any good. They keep the unemployed off the streets, if that is what the Minister means, and out of the statistics. If that is the objective, of course we understand why the Government welcome the schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " beastly to the well-meaning Government, let me cite Mr. Martin Pollard. He is the chief executive of the joint council between employers and unions in the electrical contracting industry, so his comments are highly relevant to the debate. Mr. Pollard said that one of the problems for young people undertaking the TECs' two-year courses is that they find jobs as electricians although they have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.905.8", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Give me a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.905.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "hed because they were not fulfilling the role desired by the Government. According to the Government White Paper published in 1988, ITBs had 'not succeeded in raising the standard and the quantity of training in the sectors they covered to the level of our major competitors·\"' Since then, in those industries where the Government misguidedly abolished training boards, training has collapsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "preceding_text": "k for some other business, thus acting in competition with the original employer. Thus, a central statutory requirement is essential, and the need for a training levy proven. I thank the Minister for allowing the CITB an extended life of five years, thus giving it time to plan strategically for the training function of the future. A second major development has been the improvement in the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "nybody knows that a Government who will not invest in houses, schools and hospitals to give bread and butter to the electors will not survive. We are looking at a fallen House. The Government are out and they know it. They are on the run and that is why they have little to say. The former Prime Minister has moved to the hierarchy and many more will follow, and the Prime Minister is running scared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "ts feet. We will not get the country back on its feet by squandering money and looking for as many jobs as, we can get. The Conservatives are into every till in the City. They have been exposed. The Government have been disgraced. For the past few weeks, they have been embarrassed to come to Westminster. I would not say that they do not know their asses from their elbows because they certainly do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.929.4", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godsiff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godsiff", "preceding_text": "ve the Government done? They have halved the number of apprenticeships, which has resulted in the disappearance of more than 500,000 jobs in the construction industry—that figure applies to one industry alone. It is absurd that 500,000 jobs should go in an industry that is desperately important to the improvement of the infrastructure which, in many places—not least in Birmingham—is falling apart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "n the person of the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Lloyd) and then in the person of the hon. Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle), that they intend to oppose the orders and to divide the House. That statement has been made by Labour Members who, throughout the debate, have stood up and said that they represent the \"working class\". I would not use that phrase because I find it patronising, but they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " within the construction industry and the engineering construction industry, if the boards are not allowed to raise the sums that they wish to raise in order to deliver training that they assess to be necessary, we shall face the situation that I have just outlined. The hon. Member for Stretford says that if the Opposition defeat the order, the Government will come back and do something different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.937.7", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, from a sedentary position, which I understood that Madam Deputy Speaker had forbidden, asked, \"What strategy?\" I shall tell him. The reason why I want to tell him is not because I do not think that he does not know, but because I want to put on the record exactly what the Government are doing, not only for the young people of this country, but for those of later years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.937.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The trouble with the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The trouble with the hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I will. The hon. Gentleman interrupted just as I was getting to the point that I was trying to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The Minister might like to care to listen to what I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "British Waterways Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is all a question of the right people, as the hon. Gentleman perspicaciously remarks. I think that he would probably define himself as one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House welcomes the hon. Member for Oldham Central and Royton (Mr. Davies) on his first outing on Labour's Front Bench in an education debate. However, this debate was initiated by Liberal Democrats, demonstrating once again the high degree of importance that my party attaches to education. This debate concerns a broken Government promise. It will highlight the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.992.8", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make some progress—then I will give way to the hon. Lady. Students are having to cope with inadequately maintained buildings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.992.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that I have received figures from Durham students' union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "preceding_text": "m, the hon. Gentleman that I may have been taking a sabbatical but I was keeping a fairly beady eye on the proceedings of the House from a vantage point that gave me a clear analysis of the horrors which the Government have been visiting on the British people in recent years. The loan system does nothing for part-time students. It does nothing to help the growing crisis in post-graduate education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "preceding_text": " the British people in recent years. The loan system does nothing for part-time students. It does nothing to help the growing crisis in post-graduate education. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Of course, it does nothing to deal with the problems in further education, which also need our attention to develop the skills of our people. Even the Minister suggested that he could not explain why 57 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I sought to point out to the Minister earlier that we are addressing the debate to the proposals of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-19", "file": "debates1994-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfb4dd19b09ec29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I sought to point out to the Minister earlier that we are addressing the debate to the proposals of the Government. [Interruption.] We are in the process of developing clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-19a.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "On the subject of listening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "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/1994-01-20a.1034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1034.6", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I shall have to start naming Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1034.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister must be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1038.7", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider introducing next week certain recommendations made by the Procedure Committee since 1984—a process that culminated in the Jopling report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1038.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " Tory councillor; Malcolm Nothard, who is in insurance, is a Tory councillor; Eileen Tuff is a chair of the local Tory association; and Janet Dunn happens to be the wife of the local Tory MP. May I mention the names of a few other spouses? Mr. T. Shephard of King's Lynn; Mrs. S. Taylor of Southend; Mrs. S. Biffen of Shropshire; and Mrs. Gardiner of Surrey ambulance service—who are they married to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "is a chair of the local Tory association; and Janet Dunn happens to be the wife of the local Tory MP. May I mention the names of a few other spouses? Mr. T. Shephard of King's Lynn; Mrs. S. Taylor of Southend; Mrs. S. Biffen of Shropshire; and Mrs. Gardiner of Surrey ambulance service—who are they married to? [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman) shouted,\"Sexist..\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " beds, bandages or of press notices—anything but patients. The hon. Member will not recognise that it is the patients who count. The hon. Member for Brightside forgot to mention in his speech that the NHS hospitals are on course to treat 8 million patients this year. That is 1 million more than in the year before the reforms, but it is 3 million more than it was when the Labour party was in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "reased to five months. Ten years ago, only one in eight patients were able to have a hospital operation and go home the same day. That is now one in four. That is what our-policies are achieving. The Labour party cannot bear to hear the accurate statistics of the achievements of the national health service because the figures highlight even more clearly its abject failure to come up with a policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "One of the examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "preceding_text": "nry Willink, the Conservative Minister for health in the wartime coalition Government. The irony is that the only significant change made by Mr. Aneurin Bevan was to go against the declared policy of the Labour party for locally based and controlled health units and opt for a nationalised hospital service. It is the nationalised hospital service which has caused so many problems over the 40 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the BMA has denounced the Government's two-tier health system, which was created by fundholders who allow patients to jump the queue, ahead of other people in greater need. The hon. Gentleman also knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "\"In this form\"—if ever there was the small print, that was it. Why does the hon. Lady not tell the House that, for every manager—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1131.4", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-20", "file": "debates1994-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "e93a47dfd18cbbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Dr. Brian Mawhinney)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Dr. Brian Mawhinney)", "preceding_text": "ouse welcome that. It is good patient care and more patient care, but it makes no difference to the Opposition. Under the last Labour Government, the number of patients treated increased by 1 per cent. a year. During the 1980s under this Government, the number increased by more than 2 per cent. a year. Since reforms were introduced in 1990, the number has increased by more than 5 per cent. a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-20a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-21", "file": "debates1994-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc969f52de39d6ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-21a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-21a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-21", "file": "debates1994-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc969f52de39d6ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-21a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) would not expect me to go down the road that he has been following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-21a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Not content with selling the family silver, it seems that the more zealous members of the Minister's party want to sell the table, too. Will the Minister confirm that within two and a half months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.2.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "It is very noticeable that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "er of a Government who failed even to tell their own Cabinet about Chevaline because they did not trust the left-wing Cabinet members—at that time, he was a fiery left-winger, but since then he has become more middle class—let alone announce it to the House of Commons. The hon. Gentleman should give up doing his failed Presiley Baxendale act. He does it much more incompetently than that barrister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " Presiley Baxendale act. He does it much more incompetently than that barrister— [Interruption.] If the hon. Members behind the Opposition Front Bench could have heard comments made by those on it, they would rightly have spoken of sexism. They should listen to the rubbish spoken by their own Front Bench. The hon. Gentleman had no other points to make today except one, which he made in The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I do not recall the statement in 1986 because I was not present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that that issue will arise in due course. I pointed out that the number of people drawing this benefit has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Can it really be that Britain's health is getting so much worse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.36.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.36.10", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ake work. However, successive commissioner rulings and court case law have resulted in non-medical factors being taken into account. As a result, the rules have been progressively widened and complicated. General practitioners have the job of assessing whether their patients are medically too unfit to work and are therefore entitled to the benefit. That has always put GPs in an invidious position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.36.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend rightly draws attention to some of the abuses. He is aware that I had a very pleasant day close to my constituency last year, when I attended the grand national. Is my right hon. Friend aware that the man who waved the flag at the grand national was on invalidity benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "y claimants and also to unfair views of the back pain sufferer as a malingerer. A move towards a more 'objective' test would thus be welcomed. The NBPA is pleased to note that the added emphasis on self-assessment in the proposed process. The association adds: However, this organisation feels that the ability to sit must be added to the list of functions assessed. We have duly added that function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. Invalidity benefit is a more attractive benefit than the back-to-work benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "e and chronic conditions. I can give the House an up-to-date list of conditions that we propose to exempt from any review at all in future. The proposed list of serious chronic, degenerative conditions is as follows: tetraplegia, paraplegia, persistent vegetative state, registererd blindness, severe learning difficulties, severe and progressive neurological or muscle-wasting diseases or disorders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "n up-to-date list of conditions that we propose to exempt from any review at all in future. The proposed list of serious chronic, degenerative conditions is as follows: tetraplegia, paraplegia, persistent vegetative state, registererd blindness, severe learning difficulties, severe and progressive neurological or muscle-wasting diseases or disorders— [Interruption.] Hon. Members find this humorous", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.44.6", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "That is quite correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.44.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "·10, which he would have received under invalidity benefit. He loses £3·60 a week. The adult dependency allowance was £33·70. It will now be £26·40. So he loses £7·30. He received £10·95 for each of his two children under the invalidity benefit system. Between the 28th and 52nd week he will receive no children's allowance, so he loses £21·90 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has still not told us what alternatives the Labour party has in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "nd are already suffering as a result of the freeze on personal allowances, which hits those who are just marginally above the tax barriers. The cumulative impact of the changes resulting from this Bill will be considerable. I have done rough and ready calculations—I am open to correction later—and it looks to me as though about 25 per cent. of the cost of invalidity benefit will rapidly disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "o change in the medical condition. Let me give an example. We heard today about a patient suffering from angina. I do not know the circumstances of that particular case, although they sounded rather doubtful and perhaps worthy of re-examination. Clearly, a patient suffering from angina who subsequently has surgical treatment—a coronary artery by-pass—may well be fit to resume a normal way of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": " eligibility for benefit at a later stage. That is not a healthy attitude. As I have said, we must look at the effects of a disease upon patients and not at diseases themselves. With all due respect to them, for far too long hospital doctors have regarded patients as pathology with a name. We must now regard patients as individuals. Of course, we GPs have regarded patients as such for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.107.6", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxes are going up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "dity benefit represents one of the largest and most rapidly growing areas of expenditure in the whole system. If money is going where it is not supposed to go, it must be checked. If that flow is not checked, and if money is not targeted on those who really need it, either taxes will have to go up and up to ensure that the bill is met or those in real need will be denied access to proper benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.107.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.125.6", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "hat someone they have seen walking past their house on a crutch all week has suddenly put his crutch under his arm and run for the bus. Those people would love to be on the benefit that he is on, but that cannot be. Take the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours). He comes limping in on a stick. I myself have arrived on crutches on occasion. I have had a trapped nerve from time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.125.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruptioni", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "itehall bureaucrats who will oppress the poor and sick on invalidity benefit to produce those savings. There are other savings elsewhere, but by and large that is a reasonable example to use. The proposed changes to invalidity benefit, together with the taxes that the Tory Government have increased more than any Labour Government ever did, will mean that the so-called recovery, which Tory Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-24", "file": "debates1994-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "91f8aebfd7597d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ambulance Service (Staffordshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "uity of specification in the basis on which they were bidding. Clearly there are points to be made about wage structure. The hon. Lady has told the House that the wages offered are a quarter less than those currently being offered. She should be aware, however, that, although the basic wage is lower, there are allowances that make up the total remuneration to a figure above what is now being paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-24a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "Whatever my hon. Friend decides on the general issues of inspection, will he set up a special inspection of Surrey county council's social services department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "Whatever my hon. Friend decides on the general issues of inspection, will he set up a special inspection of Surrey county council's social services department. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Is he aware of his inspectorate's report on six child deaths in Surrey which apparently arose from child abuse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ware of his inspectorate's report on six child deaths in Surrey which apparently arose from child abuse? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Is he further aware of the non-accidental injuries and severe brain damage caused to my constituent, Thomas Harris, at the hands of a registered child minder? In the light of the judge's criticisms last Thursday of the county council's team adviser, whom he described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": " rate since 1989? Is that fact not exemplified by Long Products, a company in my constituency, which now exports 85 per cent. of its output and has recently won orders from countries as diverse as Indonesia and Kuwait? Does not that company's success and the CBI survey show that, thanks to the Government's sound economic policy, the United Kingdom economy is the motor leading to European recovery?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Voted against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Conservative Government. I invite the House to recall what has occurred in recent years to prove that point. We cut the basic rate of income tax from 33p to 25p, and the Labour party voted against it. We cut the top rate from 83p to 40p, and the Labour party voted against it. We lowered the starting rate to 20p, and the Labour party voted against it. We cut corporation tax, and the Labour party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Walley", "preceding_text": "able to go out and unable to afford to heat their home. As the Prime Minister thinks that he has a question about VAT on fuel and as he is raising these taxes at the moment, will he tell us why there is so much incompetence and bungling in his Government that he has failed to raise £1·5 billion from uncollected taxes? Why is he making my constituents pay in fuel bills for uncollected taxes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Employment Protection (Government Communications Headquarters)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "preceding_text": "vent bloodshed and deter aggression. By the timely deployment of troops, or by diplomatic initiatives or other suitable counter-measures, the ill-disposed despot can be prevented from launching an invasion. Pearl Harbour, the Falklands war, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Yom Kippur are all classic, textbook examples of how failure to collect, analyse and disseminate intelligence can lead to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "Will the Chief Secretary give way? Mr. Portillo: What would Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is a long-standing Member of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.177.5", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House believes that the Finance Bill is not an acceptable and effective measure because it fails to make any proposal to repeal section 42 of the Finance Act 1993, which imposed value added tax on domestic fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "May I point out to the right hon. Member for Horsham that the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not in order that you remind the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) to move the amendment, because she forgot to table it last time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.179.3", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which taxes would you cut?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "to pay for high unemployment, and tax which hits hardest those who can least afford it. Perhaps the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Forman) should be reminded of what he said in his election address to his constituents, and perhaps he will vote with us against the Finance Bill. He said: The burden of income tax has been reduced and only the Conservatives promise further reductions\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.180.5", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is on the list\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I am going to press on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.180.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I listened carefully to the speech of the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I listened carefully to the speech of the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman). [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not here.\"] I have been here throughout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1978.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "nsideration of the economy that will dominate the next two or three years and will be central to what will be debated and resolved at the next general election. I should like to share with the House a passing thought inspired by the speech of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary. He talked about the Denis Healey Budget of 1974, which cut taxes in a situation in which that was clearly damaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I am not advocating anything of the kind, but I am saying that, unless we accept the idea that work is important to individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I believe that people's views should be represented here according to the votes cast. The Tory party is over-represented in terms of votes in the ballot box, which is why it is in trouble now and why it is wholly bewildered by the fact that the country is up in arms not in support of its policies but against them. The Tories did not have a majority to start with, but I do not want to get diverted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "of the biggest killer in this country —coronary heart disease, which kills 300,000 people a year. It is a tragic loss of life, and it is heavily based on the people's propensity to smoke. Although I would not wish to ban smoking—that would be crazy—we may be able to use the price mechanism to price people into good health. There is nothing wrong with that. It is a tax increase that we can support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "et process which is supposed to bring together tax decisions and spending decisions? Northing of the kind has happened. This is a complete sham. I urge the House to reassert the principle of annual scrutiny of Government tax measures and to reassert its right annually to refuse supply. It is perfectly possible for Conservative Members to vote for our amendment without ultimately opposing the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-25", "file": "debates1994-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "af6ca1af9cd9b2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Dorrell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Dorrell)", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz), who railed against what he called the inability and unwillingness of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to provide extra money for public expenditure on London. On Thursday, the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett), who makes the others look like amateurs, was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for City of Chester (Mr. Brandreth) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-25a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "For one thing, I hope that we can get the Bill into Committee so that we can start looking at it. Opposition Members seem remarkably reluctant to allow the Committee to get under way. They deny all the established conventions and procedures of the Committee of Selection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "f municipal socialism in housing, in planning and in education, I am not at all surprised that there are problems in Glasgow. The hon. Gentleman mentioned unemployment and I hope that he is pleased that unemployment in his constituency has dropped by well over 500 in the past year—2,500 down on the figures for January 1987. I emphasise the facts to the hon. Gentleman that Glasgow district council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.281.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "Is it permissible for the hon. Member who represents one constituency to mention the name of an industrial complex in the constituency of another hon. Member? If so, was it in order for the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South (Mr. Donohoe) to have hurled abuse at me from a sedentary position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.287.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law regarding privity of contract and estate for future but not existing leases; and for connected purposes. If the small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have been kind and gentle to Conservative Members. I warned them about not listening to or following Conservative party research documents. I have seen the same one. Unfortunately, I have here a Department of Environment \"housing investment programme all items\" print. It shows for Hackney, not that 9 per cent. of the homes are empty and available for letting, but 1.54 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.302.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.302.6", "colnum": "302", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do your homework!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "Let me make some progress and then I shall give way. I want to contrast our portfolio of ideas on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "o come from the Opposition parties. There is a huge policy vacuum there, waiting to be filled with imaginative ideas. Before I move on, I shall deal with the question of Hackney council. The hon. Member for Blackburn may have read, inadvertently, from the wrong line. The figures that we have in the Department from local authorities show that in Westminster the total number of management vacancies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have a copy of the printout. I was quoting the figures—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"] The person who should apologise is the hon. Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall). He had the figures the wrong way around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I too walk around that part of London. People have slept rough of their own volition in that area for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. Lady's intervention. I am dealing with official figures which have been provided by Westminster council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": " is whether the owners are seeking an extension of the lease. I welcome the consultation paper on the review of homelessness legislation, which was published last week. It is vital that the Government take action to remove some of the distortions in the current housing structure. Like all other hon. Members, I receive many letters about housing. Most of these come not from people who are homeless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "in person, but she seems somewhat reluctant to return to the United Kingdom. In a long speech, the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Sir P. Beresford) gave us a list of justifications for what had happened in Wandsworth. In my view, however, Wandsworth was trying to do exactly what Westminster did, and its behavour was equally shameful. In some respects, there is no difference between the parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ng to do exactly what Westminster did, and its behavour was equally shameful. In some respects, there is no difference between the parties— [Interruption.] I hope that Conservative Members will listen to what I am saying. The parties agree that most people want to buy homes of their own. That is entirely acceptable, and there has never been any dispute about it. Labour Members are owner-occupiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "t is only in this country that the socially rented sector is more than twice the size of the privately rented sector. There is clearly a major imbalance. The Housing Act 1988 was described by Mr. Philip Gibbs, the president of the North West Landlords Association, as a brilliant piece of legislation. I have no doubt that it has changed the climate in which we can develop the private rented sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": " head to take homeless people from Westminster as part of the plan to make Westminster fit for Conservatives to live in. That is what it was all about. What the Conservatives have failed to do since 1983 is make Lancashire—in particular, north-east Lancashire—a decent place for people to live in. Our housing stock is crumbling. Even the Minister has said that we have a unique cocktail of problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) to produce a photocopy of a copyrighted pamphlet? Is he not in breach of copyright law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-26", "file": "debates1994-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "922a3dd893e7ca12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "y 40 minutes —more than 40 minutes—and gave way twice. Some 1·9 million households have bought their council houses since 1979. That is good news for them and good news for local authorities, because right to buy raises receipts for local authorities. The capital receipts holiday last year is expected to yield to local authorities £1·3 million for spending on local authority housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-26a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend not only on his question—whatever that was—but on Janice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend probably realises that June is the 50th anniversary of the landings in Normandy. I am sure that the whole House will want to celebrate the wonderful sacrifice by our troops and their allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have to say, not for the first time, that I detect some division above and below the Opposition Gangway. That sounds to me exactly the sort of proposition that caused the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) to find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a Minister of State. I understand that the hon. Gentleman to his left is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a Minister of State. I understand that the hon. Gentleman to his left is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Forgive me, I got that wrong. However, from what the Minister was saying, I understand that, as Minister of State, he has some responsibility for defence sales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "That is fine by me. I will return to that issue later. The short answer is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "The point is that it is not safe in the Government's hands. The Minister said today from the Dispatch Box that he intends to ignore consultations. It is a disgrace for Conservative Members to make political capital out of 850 people's jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and I hope that Minister will give us some clarification on the exact figures. It would be wrong to continue to pretend to the industry that the Government are going to order 250 if they know that is not likely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "g to do. When other people are going out with their families during the lovely summer days, a volunteer disappears and is not seen all weekend. To do that for one year is something, and so is to do it for five years. To do it for 10, 20 or 30 years is quite an achievement. I have been doing it for damn near 40 years—and I am astonished that my wife is still married to me. She is a remarkable lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-27", "file": "debates1994-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6d42cfc667361d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "ment document to disguise the consequences of cutting the fleet size. The really worrying aspect of the changes is the way in which the aircraft are to be distributed. Moving the flight from Manston to Wattisham will lead to a significant deterioration in search-and-rescue cover in the east of the English channel, particularly in the Dover straits which are the busiest shipping lanes in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-27a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-28", "file": "debates1994-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "88536690378b7e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-28a.526.5", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very unusual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "I am hoping to reopen old wounds later. At this very moment, I am trying to be helpful and moderate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-28a.526.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-28", "file": "debates1994-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "88536690378b7e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-28a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " create new institutions to manage the day-to-day aspects of Government business, he must accept that it is important to ensure that those institutions are accepted not just in different parts of the House, but by the country, as legitimate in terms of the exercise of the power that they would be given. Institutional legitimacy, surely, is an important criterion in the testing of any such changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-28a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-28", "file": "debates1994-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "88536690378b7e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-28a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "preceding_text": "casions give me great pleasure. Like many of the best pleasures in life, it is becoming increasingly infrequent as the years roll by. We should be aware of what the Bill would mean for the people whom we represent. There is not the slightest doubt that it would be bad news. I was delighted to find that my reminding the House of what happened in Russia pleased the Financial Secretary. The truth is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-28a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "onal Audit Office, the Select Committee on Trade and Industry and the Opposition all said that Rover had been sold too cheap? Now that the company has been bought at five times the price for which the Government sold it, why does not the Minister admit that they were all right? Is not today's deal proof that Rover was sold at a knockdown price to British Aerospace and at a rip-off to the taxpayer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": " said: I have no idea what his political affiliations are. I wish to put this point directly to you, Madam Speaker. It is now clear that the Secretary of State for Wales had received a copy of a curriculum vitae, which featured prominently a political position that Mr. Rowe-Beddoe was holding as chairperson of the Monte Carlo branch of Conservatives Abroad. That post was responsible for gathering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the Treasury's researchers have not yet come up with an airport tax such as they have proposed in the plethora of policy documents that we Liberal Democrats seem to put out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is a matter between the hon. Gentleman and members of the Scottish National party. No doubt the hon. Gentleman will ensure that his words are noted in the appropriate quarter. I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's parallel. I do not know many two-year-olds who go into a shop and buy their own sweeties. So far as I know, sweeties are not subject to VAT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "liday this summer, particularly if they are thinking of going to one of the destinations abroad for which there is fierce competition in the package holiday market, will wonder whether they can afford the extra cost. My constituents in Ashfield will wonder whether they can contemplate the extra cost imposed by the tax. If they have two or three children, the tax will make a significant difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "Es the hon. Gentleman arguing against the main plank of the Government's policy, which is to shift the balance from direct taxation to VAT? That is a policy with which I wholly disagree. But in the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-01-31", "file": "debates1994-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "18bccdbf32c6bc38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.712.5", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I was not clear whether it was a business statement because it started with a point of order and you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, taking points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-01-31a.712.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "Despite the blatant bribes that the Government have made to opt-out schools, and despite the vast amounts of money that have been spent on advertising opt-out schools, the policy is a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.726.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "The previous Secretary of State told us that there would be an avalanche of schools opting out. That has not happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I think that the House will be much more interested in knowing whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.4", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.10", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "I deduce, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.13", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I deduce from that pre-prepared second question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.13", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I deduce from that pre-prepared second question— [Interruption.] —that the right hon. and learned Gentleman did not listen to the answer. Is he suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.736.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.738.8", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "May I remind my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister of the excellent and far-sighted speech that he made a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.738.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.738.8", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "May I remind my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister of the excellent and far-sighted speech that he made a year ago— [Interruption.] —at the Carlton club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.738.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.738.8", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "on.] —at the Carlton club— [Interruption.] —in which he suggested that the unemployed might be offered work or even required to work? May I thank him for setting up the North Norfolk action pilot scheme, which has proved a great success and is already saving £1,500 a year per person engaged in it? If that scheme were introduced throughout the country, would not it save £4 billion? Could I ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.738.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "lumn 631 of Hansard, deemed that it was in order to use the word \"shifty\" as long as it did not personally attack the person concerned. However, the word used by the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Burt) did concern the conduct of my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), as appears from column 605 of Hansard of social security questions yesterday. That raises the difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Alistair Burt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Alistair Burt)", "preceding_text": "I am happy to withdraw the expression. I wrote to the hon. Member for Garscadden immediately after questions to give the proper construction of the remarks. The hon. Gentleman is not shifty. We have the warmest possible relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Hon. Member for Banff and Buchan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "ood may conceivably come from that debate for Scottish communities, so will the hon. Gentleman please accept that there are hon. Members representing non-Scottish constituencies who have a deep and genuine interest in Scottish affairs? Whether that extends to Conservative Members, especially on the Bill in question, is another matter, but let us not divide the House or the country on racist lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.746.4", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Hon. Member for Banff and Buchan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Tom Oswald.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I meant to refer to a late Labour Member whose constituency was Edinburgh, Central, I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Hon. Member for Banff and Buchan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan yesterday. That statement is therefore about as accurate as the rest of the hon. Gentleman's speech. Is the hon. Gentleman now saying that such co-operation cannot exist? I have met him on those occasions and he knows that I sent my apologies to the meeting last night. I suggest that he would do better to concentrate his fire power on the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What obstruction?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "In view of the obvious obstruction that we saw yesterday in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "If the motion were accepted, and the Standing Committee were to sit on Tuesdays and Thursdays from now to the finishing date that I have set —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House accept that the Bill is twice the normal size? It contains 244 clauses, as against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " accept that the Bill is twice the normal size? It contains 244 clauses, as against— [Interruption.] My hon. Friends tell me that it is 40 per cent. longer. Surely that requires additional time for hon. Members to debate the Bill. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman maintains that yesterday a small number of Members gave long speeches. That is the basis on which he justifies the guillotine motion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.776.7", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "First, let me make it clear that I rest my case on the combination of factors on which I touched in my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.776.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " exposed and explained. To no legislation does that apply with greater force than legislation on the Budget. To no Budget does it apply with greater force than one that implements the biggest tax hike in British history. Increasingly, the Government are held in contempt, because they consistently treat others with contempt. This is the fourth guillotine motion in the past four parliamentary weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and I are clearly at cross purposes. We cannot table a new clause at this stage in the proceedings. The Government chose the topic, as they always do, for this stage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-01", "file": "debates1994-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c5ca8cbb5638844", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Whip\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " may remember that fondly, some not so fondly—we were always being given the example of the poor widow who lived in the big house. Well, the poor widow who lives in a big house may have a larger insurance bill than someone living in a small house, yet the Paymaster General, who I do not remember being a rebel on the poll tax although I may be wrong and perhaps he will refresh our memory if he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-01a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "preceding_text": " As the hon. Lady mentioned, the Children Act 1989 is in force, and any single case of abuse would be a breach of the existing law. There is no possible reason for extending registration to smaller units that provide an extremely important service. Some of the homes in my constituency that provide such a service come into conflict with the local authority, which of course is always keen to extend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason) acted quite correctly. He opposed by saying, \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ne but the AFRC has historically had a mission to support farming efficiency and food safety. How can we be sure that those important roles will be protected in the priorities of the new organisation? Thirdly, there is what I may perhaps refer to as the missing research council, the dog that did not bark in the night, or the one that the Government are not creating—the humanities research council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "of user communities should be interpreted in the broadest fashion. The whole idea should not be confined to the short-term need for answers to specific questions. If companies want that, they can perfectly well get it for themselves, from their own laboratories, or they can pay for it if they need to use the science base. The Select Committee continues—I quote this passage because I agree with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Here, I intend to concentrate on one issue—the large hadron collider. Apart from all the other arguments that I intend to adduce in my personal support for this worthy project—I am grateful for the letter that I received today from the Chancellor, in which the right hon. Gentleman answered some of the questions that I put to him—I have to say that no Higgs Boson, to which he has committed himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "With respect, I must tell the right hon. Gentleman that the Select Committee, which had the opportunity to say, \"Tear the whole thing up, because it is a fraud, and it is not working\", did not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "I am coming to a conclusion and want to allow more opportunities for hon. Members later. I shall be winding up and I shall have an opportunity later to deal with their concerns. It is not possible to meet all concerns that have been raised by the Child Support Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because there is little time and many hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.976.9", "colnum": "976", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "preceding_text": "The case of.Mrs. Janis Richards was described in an article in The Times last Monday. She said: I didn't know what to do until the CSA took on the case\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.976.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "The Minister shakes his head. I will take the matter up with him at another time because time is short this evening, but as a practising lawyer I can tell him that that is absolutely correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "What has happened tonight has been a tale of two debates. One debate has been on the narrow issue of the Government's regulations, which, I remind the House, were sneaked out three days before Christmas and after the House had risen for the recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-02", "file": "debates1994-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "626ba9028bc5ea14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is one of two hon. Members who take that view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-02a.981.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Well, they are all being progressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1016.5", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e in developing the channel tunnel rail link, as I have already described, involves the decisions that my right hon. Friends will announce on the routes, terminals and intermediate stations. Those decisions matter to the people of Kent and east London. The next stage is to have a competition for the private sector—the managers and financiers of the project. A Bill also has to go through the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1016.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1021.5", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "that the hon. Gentleman could have heard the answer that I gave him. He asked me how much the tax burden had gone up, by implication, as a result of the changes that my right hon. and learned Friend announced, compared with what the position would have been in 1978–79. The answer that I gave him, which he very understandably did not follow up, was that our tax burden, the direct tax burden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ly ill women are being kept in at Ashworth special hospital on Merseyside? That report follows the public inquiry undertaken by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC into the conditions at that hospital and the scandalous behaviour of staff employed there. The chair of the special hospital has refused right hon. and hon. Members access to details of that report. As a result we cannot represent our constituents", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "When are the Government likely to make a statement about the apology that they should be extending to the Council of Europe, the Western European Union, NATO, foreign visits by CPA and IPU delegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "When are the Government likely to make a statement about the apology that they should be extending to the Council of Europe, the Western European Union, NATO, foreign visits by CPA and IPU delegations— [Interruption.] —let me finish, If you would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I am deeply grateful to the Minister for giving way at last. I really appreciate it. I want him to know that. While he is on the subject of London, he will just occasionally have picked up the argument for an elected authority for London so that London's planning, transport, housing and other issues can be properly co-ordinated. Every other capital city around the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ral office alleged that the cost of ending capping and compulsory competitive tendering—as I made clear in a speech in Brighton on 1 October 1993—would be £800 million. Were the Secretary of State or his political advisers or officials consulted about that figure? Where did it come from? If not, was the statement a straightforward invention—like so many statements from Conservative central office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Minister is making the utterly absurd proposition that local government should entirely write its own rules. Of course it should not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Minister is making the utterly absurd proposition that local government should entirely write its own rules. Of course it should not do that. [Interruption.] Local government is part of the national democratic framework, or should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "I am sorry—I have been asked by the Speaker's Office to finish quickly and not take interventions. I have already taken one intervention, which is one more than I should have taken. The Secretary of State will have a chance to respond at the end of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "er for Attercliffe talked about. South Oxfordshire. I should like to talk about Tameside council, which is currently being investigated by Greater Manchester police fraud squad. It is investigating £2 million losses by Tameside Enterprises Ltd.—a company created by the council to look after old persons' homes. I shall not go into the various allegations because they are still under investigation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-03", "file": "debates1994-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e740288447dbfc86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendersonf", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendersonf", "preceding_text": "that ties down resource allocations exclusively to the statistical whims of officials in Marsham street. The country cannot afford its democracy to be undermined by the evils of capping; it cannot afford to accept a capital programme for local authorities that will not rebuild our crumbling schools, repair our leaking roofs or re-equip our aging transport systems and that leaves our roads in decay", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-03a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-04", "file": "debates1994-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "6dd5e58c37d16c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-04a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "ridays often generate the best debates in the House of Commons. People talk about the standard of debate in the House and the quality of the work of hon. Members, but I only wish that the press in the Gallery would report more fully our Friday debates. Those debates are worth while, and I make no apology for taking up a few moments to say that Friday debates are worthy of more and better coverage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-04a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-04", "file": "debates1994-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "6dd5e58c37d16c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-04a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": ", my hon. Friend the Minister will have an opportunity to spell out the position. If, reverting to my old profession of schoolmaster, I made out a report on the Government's progress, it would not be a eulogy—I would not give them an alpha-plus or anything like that. I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister would be satisifed if, as one of his supporters, I talked in terms of a beta or a beta-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-04a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-04", "file": "debates1994-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "6dd5e58c37d16c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-04a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Milligan", "preceding_text": "ere last night. As the hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Powell) is sitting on the Front Bench, I thank him personally for the sensitive and co-operative way in which the Labour Whips Office is administering the policy of non-co-operation. It has been of great advantage that that has not been administered too tightly; as a result, some hon. Members have been enabled to leave the House from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-04a.1202.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "n, have long experience of the harm that can be done. That was best expressed in a poem by Hopkins, in which he wrote: Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. Hopkins expressed his anguish at seeing the destruction and loss from industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I agree absolutely that we must use the most effective measures. Deregulation is not about getting rid of necessary regulations, but unnecessary ones. The hon. Lady should ask hon. Members on the Opposition Front Bench, who have steadfastly refused to support the fiscal measures that are necessary to deliver the carbon dioxide commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.84.6", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which taxes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has talked at length about the matter. The right hon. Gentleman is trying to justify VAT on fuel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.84.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.85.2", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State spoils a debate on important issues with this banter, which all hon. Members could enter into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.85.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.86.5", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ad nauseam.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I will be very happy to hear the argument and no doubt we will hear in extenso—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.86.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.86.5", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " the insulation necessary for their homes. Those measures represent just 30 per cent. of our target. We must consider transport, which is an important part of the equation, although it is responsible for less carbon than that produced from domestic sources. The car is perhaps the single most emancipating manufactured product yet devised. We need to retain the freedom which car owning has provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.86.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert B. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert B. Jones", "preceding_text": " I had the honour to be one of the four Members of Parliament who attended the IPU follow-up conference in Rio, in November 1992. Considerable interest was expressed in some of our United Kingdom activities—especially the annual reports of the Department of the Environment, which are extremely well set out and coherent, and contribute greatly to debate on a factual rather than a suppository basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.96.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.110.3", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "nd of their effectiveness or otherwise. My hon. Friend the Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Williams) as usual made a knowledgeable speech, and brought the benefit of his great expertise on the subject to the House. The Secretary of State made great play in his opening speech of a piece of work by Gerard Manley Hopkins. I thought that it would be appropriate to look for a response in the form of poetry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-07", "file": "debates1994-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "715e05e31676f1d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.110.3", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Sustainable Development (Rio Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "ebate is whether the Secretary of State has dealt with the grand issues, and, indeed, how at ease he is with them. That seems to be the crucial test. The Secretary of State made a few interesting points tonight. Over the past few months, I have studied him and I accept that he has a genuine set of green intentions. He feels strongly about some issues, about which he sometimes rants in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-07a.110.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.140.4", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Horses (Protective Headgear for Young Riders) (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ng one example of regulations passed under a Conservative Government and then one of measures passed under a Labour Government, but the Opposition cannot resist the temptation to deal with this important issue in the traditional banging about of party politics. As the Opposition have tried to provoke me, let me be provoked and quote from the 1976 Excise Office order. It states: Relief in respect\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.148.4", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I wish to make other arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.149.10", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. The place must calm down, if I may suggest it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.149.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.149.10", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "to rely on the advice of the people who had drafted the regulations in the first place. Therefore, we invited Lord Sainsbury to chair eight task forces, which were drawn largely from the private sector, as they began to work their way through the thousands of regulations that actually exist. As a result of that intense work, the business task forces have made more than 600 recommendations. We have", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.149.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "No. I am not giving way any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "e 9 pm watershed, in case he frightens young strangers. May I make a confession: I have a sneaking respect for the hon. Gentleman, based on the fact that I know where he stands. Usually so many miles to the right, he is visible only on a clear day. How did the Minister for deregulation choose to relax on the night of his Bill's publication? He spent it among friends, with the Libertarian Alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have given way generously during this debate, and I have given way to the hon. Gentleman on many other occasions. There is, of course, a double standard that is represented by this Bill. The Government are so keen to deregulate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "e 1889 Act that prohibits the sale of methylated spirit on Sunday and the repeal of the Pedlar Act 1887 are no doubt worthy tidying-up measures, but they are modest provisions that will not improve our international competitiveness. They are not a substitute for the industrial strategy that Britain needs. Last week, Britain's economy became the first major one in Europe without a car manufacturer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Burden", "preceding_text": "It is with some trepidation that I rise to speak in a debate where the phrase used perhaps more than any other concerns the undesirability of \"burdens\". I must tell the House that burdens are not always undesirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": " that I could not contemplate handing to the Executive the right to do away with legislation completely, not through debate or scrutiny and the testing of propositions but in an hour and a half's debate after which we have unamendable legislation. We do not know, however, whether that will be the procedure recommended by the Select Committee on Procedure. We are, in effect, buying a pig in a poke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "itions but in an hour and a half's debate after which we have unamendable legislation. We do not know, however, whether that will be the procedure recommended by the Select Committee on Procedure. We are, in effect, buying a pig in a poke— [Interruption.] I understand the Bill, but, at the end of the day, it is the House that in theory makes the regulations and the Standing Orders. It is up to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": " should entrust that same group of people with the power of wiping legislation out left, right and centre. If they cannot be trusted to set up regulations properly, how can they be trusted to wipe legislation out unilaterally? The most effective mechanism for dealing with the Government's lack of competence concerning regulations is for them to resign and let someone with a clearer head have a go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs(Mr. Neil Hamilton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs(Mr. Neil Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "gislation. That is not so. Evidently, he did not get very far in his reading because clause 1(5) (c) states that the Bill will apply only to Acts passed before or in the same Session as the Bill. That appears at the bottom of page 2, so I hope that he will get a little further into the Bill before the Committee stage begins. A wise man once said—I am not going to quote from my speech at Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs(Mr. Neil Hamilton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs(Mr. Neil Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "oblem, not part of the solution. There is in this country today a widespread demand for deregulation. It is expressed in the columns of newspapers by luminaries such as Mr. Christopher Booker, who was mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Chingford (Mr. Duncan Smith). Every Member of Parliament's postbag has been groaning with complaints about excessive regulation. Small and large businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a joke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "e have, therefore, got rid of those—for example, the Florists Overtime Regulations 1938; the Bread, Flour, Confectionery and Sausage Manufacture (Commencement of Employment) Regulations 1939; the Glass Bottles and Jars (Overtime) Regulations 1938. All that garbage has been cleared away from the statute book. In no way does that prejudice the health and safety of people working in those industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "deregulation measure. In the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896, which hon. Members will no doubt remember, the provisions of the Locomotives Act 1865 were repealed. In particular, it said that any locomotive in motion must be preceded by not less than 60 yards by a man carrying a red flag, constantly displayed. When we repealed the \"red flag\" Act, we enabled the British motor industry to be set up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.245.6", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting out Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "t rule. For example, such people cannot produce delegated legislation. The House should not approve the motion, which gives a person designated as an office-holder the power to demand money given to him by the measure. We are talking not about authorising a Minister to obtain money from Parliament but about giving money to someone outside Parliament and Government who is appointed by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.245.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-08", "file": "debates1994-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6abe4e6754c6a262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting out Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "er words, the Parliamentary Commissioner thinks that the current definition would allow the role of the Parliamentary Commissioner to be privatised and given to independent contractors. The House will have noticed that in his wind-up speech the Minister failed to deal with the point. It may be that he was short of time or that he failed to remember that point. In the eight minutes still available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-08a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that Liberal Democrats very much welcome the Government's conversion to opening up the gas market to greater competition, which we called for at the time of the privatisation of gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I do agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is a suggestion among the British Association of Colliery Management people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "o much to expect the hon. Gentleman to recognise the benefits to British Aerospace's aircraft interests that have been brought about by the sale which I mentioned, but perhaps even he will recognise that the figures to which he has referred—figures that he, like me, will have seen in the press—arise from the very significant increase in the value of BAe's shares. That increase reflects the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Public Inquiries (Improved Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "xpertise in matters such as road programmes that emerges among constituents during such inquiries. None the less, one may have to write 80 or 100 pages of detailed analysis to present the so-called proof of evidence. That is all very well, but the absurdity is that one is then required to read out that proof of evidence at the public inquiry, which can only be described as a field day for lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "astage is caused by employees helping themselves to some of the stock at the end of the day. If someone told a retailer that he was a dedicated Christian and therefore did not want to work on a Sunday but promised to give value for money on the other days, I happen to believe that the retailer would appoint him because he would know that he was honest and a man of integrity. I should have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": " to insert into the policing arrangements in paragraph 7 the provisions in the Employment Act 1978 under which an employer has to prove that an employee was not unfairly dismissed as opposed to an employee having to prove that he was unfairly dismissed. The Minister may think that the schedule places the burden of proof on one group in a dispute under the Sunday Trading Bill as opposed to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause he read a Second time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not rich enough\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause he read a Second time— [interruption.] Conservative Members may wish this to be a mere formality, and I am anxious to oblige them so that they can rush away to their clubs, but they would only have to rush back again later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Statutory Sick Pay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " regulations spawned by the amendment be approved on an affirmative or a negative basis? If regulations are to be introduced, the House should know that. I hope that, by that time, the usual channels will have got back into kilter, so that we shall not have to debate every motion and statutory instrument on the Floor of the House. If that goes on much longer, we shall all end up in lunatic asylums", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "eft-wing Conservatism into the next century. So replete was it with references to social obligation, the importance of public service and the rejection of jingoism that it could not, by any stretch of the imagination, have been given at last year's flag-waving Conservative conference. It did not register so much as an attack upon the Labour party as, perhaps, a putative application for membership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e made that speech were very much closer to home. Let me give an illustration. The Financial Secretary said: Patriotism—like freedom—is a much-abused concept. The Conservative is well aware of the dangers and rejects the exaggerated histrionics of flag-waving nationalists. They offer symbols in place of substance—a cheap imitation of the real thing. I wonder to whom that could have been referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "fornia. One has to have massive fiscal transfers to pay for the discrepancies between the different parts of the economic unit. The United Kingdom has a single currecy, but a widely divergent economic performance. We must pay for wide disparities in public expenditure—which is 18 per cent. per head higher in Scotland and 41 per cent. higher in Northern Ireland—to maintain a cohesive economic unit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "debts in instalments—and the Japanese, who are lending less. Unfortunately, the ever-increasing borrowing will soon meet non-available lending, which will have a pretty devastating effect on interest rates in Europe. Please, will the Minister let himself be told what is happening? We tabled an amendment asking that the House of Commons be told what instructions or advice is given to member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "of single European currency. When I spoke a few weeks ago to five Christian Democrat Members of Parliament—from the sister party of the British Conservatives in the European People's party—they told me and my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead (Ms Quin) that the policies of the British Labour party were much closer to their policies than those of their supposed friends in the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "esident Mitterrand and the domestic unpopularity of that Government. If the Dutch are moving that way, if the Germans continue to move that way, and if the French, across the political spectrum and including the Conservative party's supposed allies in the European People's party and the majority of its Gaullist friends, move that way, where is Britain? It is nowhere. It is sitting on the sideline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-09", "file": "debates1994-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d2b4ec333a81ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assessment of Deficits (European Community)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "s continue to move that way, and if the French, across the political spectrum and including the Conservative party's supposed allies in the European People's party and the majority of its Gaullist friends, move that way, where is Britain? It is nowhere. It is sitting on the sideline. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is here.\"] Yes, it may be here but why is it not over there in Europe as well? I shall conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-09a.412.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Health Service (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "by that accident and emergency department. I shall not conceal from the hon. Lady the judgment and balance in that decision, but a decision had to be taken. As for the extra money, the hon. Lady will know that, unlike the Opposition, who had to edit the price tag out of their policy document—after a row with the shadow Chancellor the £6 billion price tag disappeared up the chimney—we were able to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.465.5", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Health Service (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " to take decisions. No change is no option, and I would urge the hon. Gentleman to read the speech on the subject by the Opposition spokesman in the House of Lords before Christmas. She said then that when the changes to Bart's and the Royal London hospital were implemented, could we please make sure that they were properly funded. Those changes needed to be taken across London? I can also report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.465.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "een signed by more than one third of the Members of the House of Commons? As there is no co-operation, between the Front Benches on the business of the House, and as we cannot scrutinise Bills properly, because we are having to stay up so late, does my right hon. Friend think that he, as the protector of Back-Bench interests, has a duty to bring the report before the House to be debated forthwith?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "tion from Tony Newton, the Social Security Secretary, and from the Lord Chancellor's Department—I insisted that a new Child Support Agency be set up\". I do not say that to make a cheap point, but to illustrate the fact that there have been doubts on both sides of the House about what was happening and about how the new policy was implemented. Unusually, I advance Lady Thatcher as evidence of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "A lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "eflected in his housing costs, and therefore everything is all right and he has come out at least with justice and honour satisfied. I do not believe that is true in a financial or a property settlement. I need hardly say that an awful lot of people agree with that point of view. I do not often get annoyed with the Government's documents, or at least not in the way in which I did on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "n maintenance orders, no fundamental change had been made in that respect; the only alteration had been in the mechanism whereby maintenance assessments were updated, in connection with recipients on income support. The asessment relating to the applicant in the Crozier case, in fact, had been increased as a result of a DSS application under the old system. It happened then, and it can happen now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hicks", "preceding_text": " the principles underlying the new system. Both parents should be responsible for maintaining their children and the state should be involved only when parents do not have the means to support those children. Having supported the legislation and the creation of the Child Support Agency, I am disappointed by the adverse practical effects. All Members of Parliament receive scores of representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.521.4", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "No. Opposition criticism then centred mainly on the welfare of the children and on the needs of the caring parent. For most of the time, they looked in the opposite direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.521.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.542.2", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": " demanded from them are unworkable. Who would benefit from that? Not the family, not the father and not the Exchequer. Some fathers slip through the net altogether. I was advised that when fathers are really absent, because they are resident abroad, the agency can take no action. The giveaway was making the agency chief executive into a bounty hunter. When the Secretary of State opened the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.542.8", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "le's children. I do not regard money spent on children as wasted, unlike the tens of millions of pounds that were lost pushing ahead with the iniquitous poll tax and then scrapping it, or the administrative bungling recently unearthed by the Public Accounts Committee, the £48 million Whitehall project. There have been all sorts of losses. I say to hon. Gentleman, and to the Minister in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.542.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.542.8", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "s of millions of pounds that were lost pushing ahead with the iniquitous poll tax and then scrapping it, or the administrative bungling recently unearthed by the Public Accounts Committee, the £48 million Whitehall project. There have been all sorts of losses. I say to hon. Gentleman, and to the Minister in particular— [interruption.] —and hon. Ladies—that most people in this country would prefer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.542.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady said that they are not here, but outside. Few have got up and stood for the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-10", "file": "debates1994-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9ab1f3a9303ee415", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "No. I must refuse to give way to many of my hon. Friends because time is short. I cannot recommend the Opposition's motion to the House because of my uncertainties about it. Let me now comment on the question of absent parents—this may help hon. Members on both sides of the House. An absent parent does not mean an errant parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-10a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Some 400 or 500 of my constituents are employed by Gallaghers; I have no commercial interest of my own. I do not smoke, and I have caned children for smoking because I do not believe that children should smoke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "he 'Reg' campaign. It is clear that people in the south of England are not familiar with that campaign. They do not know the extent to which it is plastered over billboards, certainly in my constituency, near schools, and is clearly aimed at youngsters. There might be hon. Members who still do not understand exactly what the campaign is. It concerns a balding, somewhat absurd character who thinks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "Drug pusher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " so to do. However, the Government have taken such steps. The libertarian argument is that if something is legal, it ought to be able to be advertised. That is the type of statement that we hear from those people. There are a number of things that are legal but which cannot be advertised. That is not anything unusual. A barrister is legal—in more senses than one—but he is not allowed to advertise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "he effect of the price of tobacco. They have given a commitment to work with the European Community to encourage other European countries with prices lower than the United Kingdom to raise them to match our own. The Government have dealt with the illegal sales of tobacco, health education, banning harmful new products, action in schools, health warnings, Government support to the voluntary sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said that it had been left out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I think that I did refer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I think that I did refer to it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You said that it had been left out.\"] I did refer to effective controls on advertising. Hansard will tell us whether I did refer to advertising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": "I certainly believe that there must be a much greater campaign on the effects of excessive drinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": " ample evidence of the danger of smoking and, sadly, the damage that is caused to millions of people throughout Britain. In an intervention on the right hon. Member for Honiton (Sir. P. Emery) I mentioned Roy Castle's visit. He has never smoked but throughout his life he entertained in clubs where the atmosphere was polluted by smoke. Sadly, that is how he developed cancer—through passive smoking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin-Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin-Walker", "preceding_text": "unt all the other factors, such as price, taxation and health education, the banning of advertising was followed by a fall … which cannot reasonably be attributed to other factors. The Conservative party derives much of its income from the tobacco industry. One wonders whether some Conservative Members might be more concerned about the health of the Tory party than the health of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Sims", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No, we do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Sims", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend' s speech is completely consistent with the case which the Government have made for some years, especially with regard to a voluntary agreement. However, many of us feel that that case has within it gross inconsistency. It must be evident to him from the many speeches that he has heard this morning, that there is strong support in the House for the Bill. We all hope very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "We have heard a catalogue of opinions from the hon. Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Ms Jackson), who has obviously been answering her constituency post for most of the morning—to the delight, perhaps, of some of us. She has given individual opinions. Perhaps we should take more notice of a totally unbiased, non-political census that was made by the Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Congdon:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Congdon:", "preceding_text": "ention. Research shows that, although advertising leads to greater awareness of tobacco among young people, the evidence in terms of consumption among them is less than conclusive. If at any stage we go down the road—I would not wish to do so—of banning advertising, it should be a decision for this Parliament and we should not be influenced by the suggestion of a European directive on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.627.4", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "obstinate support for the voluntary code on tobacco advertising. The Government admit the principle that bans on tobacco advertising are necessary to protect children. Why else do we have the ban on television advertising? The very existence of the voluntary code is an admission that young people must be shielded from tobacco advertising. The Government admit that further bans would be beneficial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.627.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. What is a matter for you is to ensure that there is balanced and fair debate. I know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "enches has, naturally enough, wanted to support the Bill. That has meant, as my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North (Mr. Carlisle) said, that there have been two speeches against the Bill and eight in favour. During my 10 years in the House, I have never attended a debate in which eight hon. Members have been allowed to speak for a Bill and only two allowed to speak against it. That is absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.630.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-02-11", "file": "debates1994-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "dd9c566316b08a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Robert Jackson be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Mr. Richard Tracey be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Conway.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-11a.639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.654.6", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"George Thomas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Did not Dylan Thomas, Gwyn Thomas and other Welsh writers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.654.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Airports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "I apologise. Such was my anger and passion that I had failed to notice that you had occupied the Chair, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Airports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is he a Tory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am unable to do so at the moment. I do not think that it would be appropriate to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Airports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "and Electricity. British Telecom was privatised in 1984 and subscribers in Northern Ireland have benefited from that privatisation, as have subscribers in the rest of the United Kingdom, even if there is no competition. Telephone bills have come down by 20 per cent. in real terms and further cuts were announced the other day. A result of those cuts is that the peak morning rate has been abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland )", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Watson", "preceding_text": "hen set against the total number of homeless in Scotland that figure comes nowhere near to addressing the problem. Over the past few days, there have been comments about the hon. Member for Finchley (Mr. Booth), the most interesting of which was that the hon. Gentleman has three homes. I do not know what anyone does with three homes. I continually meet people who would do anything to get one home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland )", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "s rose by 5 per cent., rental income in Scotland would still be about £235 million short. The Minister must be more realistic in his assumptions. It bears repeating that housing support grant is now the only direct Government support for council housing in Scotland. For next year, projected income has been overstated by about £235 million, with maintenance expenditure overestimated by £18 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland )", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "You would rule me out of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I started on the Child Support Agency. The fathers who are being chased are those whose wives depend on income support. Anyone who does not depend on income support is not chased by the Child Support Agency. If the hon. Gentleman does not know that that is the case, he does not have any working-class constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.774.7", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland )", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I still have a lot to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.774.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-02-14", "file": "debates1994-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e237914113eae6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.779.9", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland )", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Robert Jackson be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Mr. Richard Tracey be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Chapman.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-14a.779.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.797.8", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ng that another good sign for young people, apart from the creation of modern apprenticeships, is that the number waiting more than eight weeks for a youth training place has declined from more than 3,000 to just over 300. There are now a large number of TECs with no young people waiting. Modern apprenticeships will help that process even further. Why are modern apprenticeships not being welcomed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.797.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.801.6", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer this one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and hon. Friends have answered many questions and will continue to answer the questions that the right hon. Lady's colleagues ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.801.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.821.6", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "The bad news for the hon. Gentleman is that Mr. Herman is, in fact, a member of the European People's party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.821.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "lutch of 18 articles plus a schedule, which the Minister did not have the time to go through in great detail, explains why I tabled an amendment to provide that the order should not be approved until the citizens of Gibraltar are represented in the European Parliament. I know that my amendment was not selected and I am not complaining about that. Far from it—I would never complain about the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ot, as it goes through by majority vote in the European Council. Do we need the order at all? Why should we have extra seats just because Germany is getting more? Are we to cave in to French blackmail again, and what will that cost us? We are to send even more people to Strasbourg, Brussels or anywhere else, and the people of Britain are becoming more worried, concerned and perplexed about the EC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ills or allows the council more flexibility in its general finance planning. Local councillors have considerable flexibility in their budgeting. The sums of money that I am describing are large. Revenue and capital spending combined of more than £3,000 million is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales, outside the health service, arid represents a large share of my total budget for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " know, do we not, that they do not count as pledges unless they are declared in the House itself? That is the context of the announcement that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has had to make concerning local government finance in the current year. In spite of these difficulties, Opposition Members seek to quote from reports by treasurers of various local authorities in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "ble to buy music tuition for young people, which is so essential as a base on which to build their future enjoyment of music. The other day, I received a letter from parents at one school in my constituency, which revealed that they are being forced to buy music tuition at a very high price—if they can buy it at all—from a commercial organisation, whereas only a few years ago such tuition was free", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": ", whereas only a few years ago such tuition was free [Interruption.] I wish that the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Evennett) who is sitting behind the Secretary of State and is not a Welsh Member of Parliament, would show a little less exasperation and amusement. Local government finance cuts matter in Wales. They may not matter to him, but they matter to us. Another aspect of education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-15", "file": "debates1994-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "55ee745e4d633b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.908.4", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Gwilym Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Gwilym Jones)", "preceding_text": "desirable if I could come to the Dispatch Box now and say that we have had a good, constructive and worthwhile debate this evening. I noticed that the hon. Member for Torfaen (Mr. Murphy) began his lengthy summing-up by referring to what I think he would want to describe as the wealth of local government experience on the Opposition Benches. But did that contribute to ordered, constructive debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-15a.908.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady knows, a number of local authorities, many of them Labour controlled, are now joining in to decide how best to deal with such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Chelmsford.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Bolsover district council will travel to Chelmsford and they will pass all those cones on the M1 to discuss the important question of the landslip, which they discussed with the Minister, on which six houses have already been demolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "British Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We should leave it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "That might almost be unparliamentary language. I must say to the hon. Gentleman what I said in answer to the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook). We are a member of the European Community, and we adhere to the treaty of Paris. If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that we leave the EC, he is entitled to his view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.950.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "British Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "as yet to go to appeal. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bromsgrove (Mr. Thomason) said, British Steel believes that during the appeal several substantial issues will be considered. It contends that those will support the actions for which it and a number of other companies are being fined. We should not assume that the appeal will go adversely, any more than we should assume that it will succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Those grants involve a few thousands of pounds of public money. It is the sort of expenditure that the hon. Gentleman and his party regularly vote against when it is directed at other hon. Members' constituencies. We should wait and see—I do not accept that trains passing through Kent at night will disturb those who live alongside railway lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " it has planning permission, subject to one major constraint. The speed of progress is obviously up to the promoters, but clearly Landor street capacity is limited and it will not be able to provide the west midlands with the service that will be required in due course. My hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Horam) asked about the regulations for new lines and for the intensification of use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "n up. Since policy has been shunted into those bodies, the poor hon. Member for Garscadden—though theoretically his party's spokesman on social security—has been completely silenced. His role is like nothing so much as a mime artist on the radio: the Marcel Marceau of the social security debate. We urge him, on this occasion, when he has plenty of time and an eager House waiting to hear his words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "y nihilism. In any case, according to the Chief Secretary's interesting speech, a university education is the source of national decline. When we were dealing with last year's uprating, we were told that there was a grand design. At least that was the implication of every comment. Now the Secretary of State—and I understand why—is anxious to say that he does not believe in the \"big bang\" approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " the implication of every comment. Now the Secretary of State—and I understand why—is anxious to say that he does not believe in the \"big bang\" approach. [Interruption.] I mean that, in terms of social security reform, he does not believe in the \"big bang\" approach. Lest the right hon. Gentleman think that I am being risqué, let me make it clear that this is a term that he himself has used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I cannot rule out something that I have not seen in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ember for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) said about means-testing pensions, were most interesting. I shall be keen to see what more he does with the idea, and whether he takes it forward. The Secretary of State knows—in fact, he keeps reminding me—that, at our party conference in Torquay, lost an argument about means-testing pensions. However, in retrospect I am happy to confess that it was right that lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I said that I would not repeat the usual litany of saying that there were not enough funds and please could we have more. I hoped that Conservative Members would not go through the usual litany of asking how we would pay for it. I shall not fall into that trap. It was worth the hon. Member giving it a try, but he will understand why I choose to ignore him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-16", "file": "debates1994-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1104e09f1c4303a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.1030.14", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered): Please keep quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-16a.1030.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1061.9", "colnum": "1061", "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 about the vote yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1061.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1062.5", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ting and monitoring the ceasefire at Sarajevo. The Government agreed this morning to provide some urgent assistance. Two companies of the Coldstream guards will be redeployed from central Bosnia to help in the demilitarisation of Sarajevo. We shall also provide a mortar-locating troop of around 60 soldiers equipped with Cymbeline radar. The United Nations also asked for additional battalions from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1062.5", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s equipped with Cymbeline radar. The United Nations also asked for additional battalions from— [Interruption.] I should have thought that the House might be interested in what is happening in Bosnia. The UN also asked for additional battalions for UNPROFOR from several countries. As Britain already had a large contingent there, we decided not to send an additional battalion as part of the general—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister is answering a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister is answering a— [Interruption.] Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Due to the noise from Opposition Members, perhaps the right hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said a moment ago. I told him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the Leader of the Opposition's campaign of non-cooperation in the House? Can we have a debate on that subject tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "ect tomorrow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow?\"] I mean, next week. We should note that the Leader of the Opposition voted in only three of this year's debates after 10 pm. My right hon. Friend will remember that the Duke of Plaza Toro led his regiment from behind— He found it less exciting. We should reflect on the fact that the Leader of the Opposition is leading his troops in the evenings from his bed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1074.8", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the hon. Gentleman asking a direct question about business next week? If he is, he should get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1074.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "If I may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a woman Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": " level of national life, and there is no reason why they cannot serve in the armed forces, where that is possible. There are certainly areas in which it is still impossible for women to serve. We understand that, but the number of such areas is falling dramatically. We have a woman monarch, and we have had a woman Prime Minister and a woman lord mayor of London. I see no reason why we cannot have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my telephone call to the Minister today seems to have initiated some activity in his Department and that we are now receiving answers on behalf of the children in those schools. I did not seek the answers for myself, but for the children in those schools and their parents. Perhaps, while the Minister has the matter in his mind, I shall turn his attention to another school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1120.3", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "arge number of children who are on the boarding school scheme is Hillsea college in Basingstoke, Hampshire. It received a critical report in June 1991 by Her Majesty's inspectors. I am glad to say that it closed in July 1992, but not because of any action taken by the Ministry of Defence or by the Department for Education. It eventually closed because there were too few pupils going to the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-17", "file": "debates1994-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7fcb8f5d48edca70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": "vening about two defence industrial contractors: Vosper Thorneycroft and Westland. I will then say a quick word about Gibraltar. Vosper Thorneycroft is based in the constituency of the late Stephen Milligan, who was our hon. Friend the Member for Eastleigh, which borders my constituency. I always regarded Stephen Milligan as a very good friend, a trusted colleague and splendid Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-17a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-18", "file": "debates1994-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c6faad5ac858acdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-18a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chiropractors Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "an opportunity. Whatever they may think, all I can say is that I cannot possibly comment. It is a tribute to the robustness of the Osteopaths Act and to my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East that there are so few amendments to be made, many of which are simple, drafting amendments to fine-tune the scheme and to make a first class piece of legislation even better. May I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-18a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-18", "file": "debates1994-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c6faad5ac858acdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-18a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chiropractors Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "ndments to be made, many of which are simple, drafting amendments to fine-tune the scheme and to make a first class piece of legislation even better. May I conclude—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—by reminding the House of what the Bill is all about. It is principally about the back pain that many people suffer all over the world, but is probably aggravated by the way in which many of us sit around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-18a.1211.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.4.6", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend refers to the document published today, which I have read with interest. I am bound to say that it is a consultation document, which contains no proposals. Meanwhile, the Government are getting on with introducing private sector capital to the rail infrastructure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.4.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.24.4", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "However quick it may be, it should be on a new subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no they were not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ose dedicated officers who were murdered when carrying out their duty, including the police officer recently murdered in New Addington, Croydon. If one police officer—or more—had been murdered as a result of the IRA atrocities in Birmingham and Guildford and the hon. Gentleman's proposal had been law, the people convicted would have been executed. However, since then they have been found innocent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "e state system—to which he was subject, in that he was provided with the opportunity for appeal after appeal. The hon. Gentleman is right, however —what could be more inhumane or degrading? A fundamental issue has not yet been mentioned. Whatever the intrinsic merits of capital punishment, the passage of nearly 30 years since it was last carried out must be a compelling factor against restoration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "If it is a fraud on the public, it is a fraud —dare I say—committed by Home Secretaries and by Secretaries of State for Scotland who make that decision, and not by the courts. The life sentence imposed by a court is for life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "Throughout the debate I have listened to hon. Members speak about the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Seven—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "hat the Home Secretary said that it has come up on 13 occasions since the death penalty was abolished. I hope that this will be the last time. Some Conservative Members are persuaded of the logic of the argument advanced by the hon. Member for Croydon, South and the Home Secretary, but lack the courage to stand up to their own party on the issue. I hope that they will have the courage to come out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "of capital punishment in the House in December 1975, the leader of the IRA threatened that if we passed it he would take the life of three British soldiers for every member of the IRA who was hanged. Did he do that because capital punishment was not a deterrent? He did that because he knew perfectly well that if the House agreed to the restoration of capital punishment, it would deter IRA members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "se our duty is to save lives. Most of the debate has concerned the miscarriages of justice. Some cases were no doubt miscarriages of justice, some only may have been, and yet those convicted have been released. However, a number of things have happened since most of those miscarriages of justice took place. No police officer can falsify a confession any longer because interviews are tape recorded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "sible in a court of law, to see whether there is any reason why the man or woman should not die. The question must be whether there is any reasonable reason why a person should not die. Let us consider what such a tribunal would have discovered. Such a tribunal would have heard that Timothy Evans had the mental age of a 12-year-old child and that person would not have been hanged. Such a tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend cannot be saying seriously that we should allow anybody to indulge any preference. I do not think that she can mean genuinely what she has just said. Surely she recognises that there are many activities—for example, child abuse—which individuals find pleasing but which the rest of society does not recognise as valid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.80.6", "colnum": "80", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for giving way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.80.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.86.4", "colnum": "86", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "iew. Much of the argument on this subject is simply based on opinion. Many young people are still sexually uncertain and often disturbed between the ages of 16 and 18. In a talk-in programme on the radio yesterday, an interesting man said that when he was at university he shared a house in which everyone was homosexual except him. He did not become homosexual, but said that he felt under pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.86.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.87.4", "colnum": "87", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "I do not remember that I was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.87.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.95.5", "colnum": "95", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I shall put it again in the words of the Wolfenden committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.95.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.95.6", "colnum": "95", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "If the age of consent becomes 18 and, in the Home Secretary's words, young men may be unsure of where they stand between the ages of 16 and 18, how on earth will they find out what they are unless they experiment? But if they experiment, he will send them to prison. Prison is hardly the place to get people out of homosexuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.95.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.95.7", "colnum": "95", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.95.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We all know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. For those of us who wish to speak in the debate, may I ask whether it would be in order to describe what it is that we are debating—the actual act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-21", "file": "debates1994-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "82e04aa88796f160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.110.3", "colnum": "110", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": " of my right hon. and hon. Friends to take a nice warm bath in my own prejudices but that I did not believe that giving homilies to lone mothers even began to address the problems that we needed to address as the party of Government in the coming decade. The Conservative party has always had the good sense not to tie itself to any dogma, or to have its political philosophy set in tablets of stone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-21a.110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.134.7", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "It is not creeping privatisation. It is a market testing programme to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.134.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.137.4", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Members on both sides of the House would welcome any improvement in primary health care that results from an increase in the number of practice nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.137.4", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Members on both sides of the House would welcome any improvement in primary health care that results from an increase in the number of practice nurses— [Interruption.] Has my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.137.10", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "I am glad to know that that is not a party political point. I remind the hon. Gentleman that when the Labour party was in office in 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.137.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady was being selective in what she said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.146.7", "colnum": "146", "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": "If the hon. Gentleman is concerned about tax bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.146.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Eggs from Foetuses (Prohibition of Use)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the use of eggs taken from aborted human foetuses for fertilisation procedures; and for connected purposes. This small Bill is of great importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "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": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The Bill will not satisfy those who believe that Parliament, the public or the media should be able to scrutinise the operations of the security and intelligence agencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the commissioner. I think that he sometimes declared them and sometimes did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " legislation, and that it was a nod and a wink from the civil servants in the Box that affirmed the position for the House. If the hon. Members who are to be members of the committee will be subject to official secrets legislation, why can they not have access to some operational matters? Why is that wrong in principle? Why can they not have access to some operational matters, in the same way as —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "5. A few years ago, that turned out to be Brigadier Ronnie Stoneham occupying room 103 at Broadcasting House. I had an MI5 agent on the general council of the CND. Some years later, that turned out to be a chap called Harry Newton. As a matter of routine, I had MI5 bugging Labour Ministers. Mr. Peter Wright's book was published some time later and confirmed that at least some of that had occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "y in which we can proceed, and if we do not a number of members of the Committee will explain vociferously.\" We went on sharing the most sensitive and highly secret information and there was never any form of leak. Some of my hon. Friends may have been nervous about the information that was passed over, and it was not always done with the best grace, but it was passed over and nobody was let down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mandelson", "preceding_text": " brushed aside. The right hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King) referred to the variety of arrangements that exist in different countries for providing some oversight of the security services. He offered his own opinion that in each country all the arrangements are different. I suggest that in none of the countries that the right hon. Gentleman has examined are the arrangements quite so toothless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-22", "file": "debates1994-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "72352aaffeb0f5c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": ", there is no legal or constitutional definition. I should like to know what exactly is meant by \"the British islands\". It would be extremely useful if we had a definition before we reached Committee. The Foreign Secretary has now joined us. I enjoyed his opening remarks this afternoon. On certain occasions, I felt that he was not quite sure about the substance of the Bill that he was introducing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-22a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered): Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. Will you ask the Serjeant at Arms to conduct an inquiry into the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ved with the explanatory statement within two months. If he or she does not, the period of notice that the employee may give: if he or she wishes to opt out drops to one month. I hope that those amendments will meet with the approval of the House. Earlier in the debate, reference was made to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill and the power contained in it to repeal protection in a schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.379.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ture of Sunday and the fact that workers have given up potential leisure time to be at work. From our discussions with employers, we have realised that the pool of shopworkers who are willing to work voluntarily on Sundays is drawn from people who find the present premium payments attractive. In Committee, the Government opposed our amendment to provide for double-time payments for Sunday workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "the Government have failed to understand the link between premium pay and the voluntary principle. Before I came to this debate, I was lobbied by workers from my local Tesco—other Members may also have been. I asked them why they had come and why they had been working on Sundays. They came to urge me to vote in favour of the Third Reading and they all said that they worked on Sundays for the money", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "In that case, I was not present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lloyd", "preceding_text": "g to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. For many years the Shops Act 1950 has been acknowledged as needing thoroughgoing reform. I know of no other law that generations of hon. Members have tried so hard to repeal, revise or amend with so little success. It has taken this unique Bill to give the House the chance to break the pattern. It is by providing Parliament with the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.396.8", "colnum": "396", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "though the Bill is a Government Bill, we have been neutral between the options and have helped evenhandedly the various campaigning groups in the preparation of their section of the Bill. Although Sunday trading is an issue which has aroused passionate feeling, our debates have been marked largely by good humour and much good sense, and I think that all of us who have taken part in it have valued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.396.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-23", "file": "debates1994-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cff877ba577c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "they saw fit. Our task was to unite our party around the issue of employment protection and, as the Minister acknowledged, it is on that issue that the House has been divided. Now that a decision has been taken on the options, with a limitation on large shops opening and liberalisation for small shops, if the Bill is given a Third Reading we shall expect those provisions to be rigorously enforced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-23a.398.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I quoted to the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.429.7", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e something about the membership of quangos. Perhaps I might mention some of the well-known contributors to the Conservative party and Tory supporters who are members of quangos. Margaret Hodge, for example, on the Local Government Commission; Baroness Blackstone, for example; Baroness Jay, for example. The hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) is also on a quango—the British Film Institute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.429.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Everyone must be deeply sympathetic to the dreadful murder of Mr. Zito and the appalling effect that it has had on Mrs. Zito's subsequent life. No one will dispute that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Question Time (Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "o ensure that supplementaries consist of a single question rather than a dialogue of queries. I propose, from now on, to enforce that recommendation. In particular, I shall aim to call fewer supplementaries and I shall expect Members to confine them to a single issue. Equally, I shall look for brief answers from Ministers and also the answers should be restricted to the point that has been raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Question Time (Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes, Madam Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "e question rather than a dialogue of queries. I propose, from now on, to enforce that recommendation. In particular, I shall aim to call fewer supplementaries and I shall expect Members to confine them to a single issue. Equally, I shall look for brief answers from Ministers and also the answers should be restricted to the point that has been raised— [Interruption.] Order. Is the House interested?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.434.17", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for his statement. In particular, I thank him, on behalf of all Members, for his early notice of the dates of the Whitsun recess, which confirms that we are to have a break around the date of the European election. Many hon. Members will have anticipated that, but it is very helpful to know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.434.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I cannot promise an early debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "That is very interesting. The fact that it got the Minister to his feet shows how sensitive the matter is. We should like to know whether it is true that Conservative central office checks through the best information available about political affiliations and uses that information to make appointments. Is that true or is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "have taken for themselves they are giving to their friends. Indeed they are. The choice is overwhelmingly Tory men who are in business. Quango board memberships read like a list of Tory nomenclature. For example, analysis of the membership of 372 health trusts, which includes the latest shadow fourth wave of trusts, shows that 61 per cent. of trust chairmen have a business or financial background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well, go on then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " to Tory party funds, including £70,000 from Scottish and Newcastle Breweries and £53,000 from Hambros? Is it a coincidence that Sir Nigel Mobbs was appointed chairman of the Department of Trade and Industry advisory panel on deregulation, when he is also chairman of Slough Estates, which gave £44,000 to the Tories, and also vice-chairman of Kingfisher, which donated £25,000? I could go on and on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the people involved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ore. I am pleased to oblige. The chairmen of more than 20 public bodies have been appointed by Tory Ministers and are associated with companies that donate generously to Tory party funds. They include the takeover panel, the Welsh Development Agency, the Port of London Authority, the London Tourist Board, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Top Salaries Review Body, the Medical Research Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about Scott?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "ht to be aware of the fact that the last Labour Government did so on several occasions. I have before me a note of the 1975 Burmah Oil Company case, in which the Crown, in the shape of the Minister of the day, contended that it was necessary for the proper functioning of the public service for all such documents to be withheld. He should learn a little more about that subject before he criticises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " have a high public profile. They are indeed appointed. However, the hon. Member for Blackburn argues that there are more such appointments now than before the reforms. The exact opposite is the truth. There are now 3,500 such appointments as opposed to 6,500 appointments before. Let me remind the House why. Under the 1974 system, there were three administrative tiers before reaching the hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "he National Dock Labour Board, the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases Managing Committee, the National Economic Development Office, the clothing and allied products industry training board and the Agricultural Statistics Consultative Committee. Looking at Labour Members while I read out those lists, I felt a certain sense of indignation among the Opposition. The Labour party grieves for NEDO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ion. I have already shown how the expansion in expenditure is overwhelmingly because of the increased health service spend, of which we are proud, and I shall return to accountability in a moment. In the health service under the present system there is a far more open and accountable structure of decision-taking than before. There is now a proper analysis of the health status of local populations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.469.7", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was even listening when I referred to him before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.469.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.471.7", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "l the talent is on one side of the political spectrum. We had difficulty with the health service appointments, because before the election the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) threatened Labour councillors and others if they were tempted to take posts on trust boards. As the House will remember, he went further and threatened NHS employees with dismissal if they carried out Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.471.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "o cure the imagined ills that they tell us about Labour Members cannot think beyond the simplistic solution of making local involvement mean local government involvement. Once again, they undermine the real role of councillors. The blinkered thinking that we keep hearing from the Labour party exposes something else that it does not understand—the reality of local government taking place out there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "es that they use demonstrate that they simply do not understand. Labour's most common jibe is that privatisation does not improve services. Well, it did with British Telecom, as we find out if we listen to telephone users, and it did with British Airways, as we find out if we talk to regular air travellers. Another jibe that the Labour party likes to use is that market testing does not save money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Fabricant) wants to intervene as well, I shall willingly give way to him, given the quality of his earlier intervention. I note that he remains seated. If he wants to interrupt from a sedentary position, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am sure that you will deal with him in your usual manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear Hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "m with open government or try to divest the secrecy which surrounds many of those bodies. We are at one on that. May I continue to give an example where obfuscation rather than illumination is the order of day in the quangos? We came across a series of quango committees, some of which I have great difficulty in pronouncing. There are committees on toxicity, on mutagenicity, and on carcinogenicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "essional opinion on such matters. When we look further into the quangos we come across other names that are repeated time and time again. The dread Sir Donald Wilson, the chairman of the Mersey regional health authority, has already been mentioned. The one thing on which I can agree with the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) is probably our mutual loathing for the gentleman in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": " Those appalling words describe the situation in Labour-run councils far more accurately than they do quangos or contractors. Labour-run councils such as Monklands, Lambeth and Tameside lead the field—but, sadly, they lead it in nepotism and corruption. Monklands is extremely significant for the debate, because that is the constituency of the man who wants to be the Prime Minister of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.516.5", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am ready for many points of order, because Labour Members are so sensitive about what I say about Monklands that they are always trying to interrupt my speeches. Monklands is the constituency of John Smith, the man who wants to be Prime Minister of the nation. John Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.516.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.517.9", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "It is not the same point of order. The hon. Member for Dover has constantly referred to a Member of the House by name. He has been in the House long enough to know the convention. If he does not, he should go outside the Chamber and learn it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.517.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.518.4", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I have not yet started my speech—I am still making my opening remarks. I hope that you will bear with me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as I develop my opening remarks to cover the unelected situation that exists and many of the points for which no one was elected in Monklands. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.527.5", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not believe that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "When I talked about allowing other hon. Members to make short speeches, I was thinking of Opposition Members. My hon. Friend has just made his speech and I congratulate him on it. It was extremely good and concise. The debate has again shown the Labour party's belief in the primacy of the politician over the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "A report by Peat Marwick at the end of January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "g negotiated with the Inland Revenue, and asked why an in-house bid was not allowed. That is a fair and reasonable point, which deserves a fair answer. The reason is simple. One of the strategic considerations was allowing the best possible career opportunities for the people who work in that operation. The only way in which that would be allowed and achieved is if they go into the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.535.6", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "n of the council is only the most notable of Conservative casualties. She was replaced by Mrs. Naomi McIntosh, pro-Vice Chancellor of the Open University and a former Labour member of Haringey borough council. The change upset a Labour-Conservative balance at the top of the organisation established as deliberate policy when it was set up by the Conservatives in 1972. That makes that point clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.535.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-24", "file": "debates1994-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f32f2cb6b892dc22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.536.6", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "he muscle power of your union and competence\"— in that order or priority. Competence came third after seniority and union power. That tells us something about what the Labour party has asserted today That was all too much even for one Labour Member of Parliament, who talked about the gravy train and said that the union boys seemed to run smoothly from job to job as if they were on a conveyor belt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-24a.536.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-25", "file": "debates1994-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d60982ef4a3c29d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Malaysia (Contracts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "he poorest countries than other major donors, although one might not think so from listening to the hon. Lady. Our major competitors use tied aid to win contracts overseas and we cannot allow British industry to be at a disadvantage. To date, some £3.9 billion of British exports has been won through aid and trade provision since the scheme started—272 projects in 50 countries worldwide since 1977.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-25", "file": "debates1994-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d60982ef4a3c29d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.580.7", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Malaysia (Contracts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) and the frenzied and exaggerated hysteria of the shadow Front Bench spokesman, the right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham), and others, especially the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours), when crucial British jobs and exports are at stake? Does my right hon. Friend agree that none of this is the fault of the present Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.580.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-25", "file": "debates1994-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d60982ef4a3c29d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Malaysia (Contracts)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "jobs in this country, as I said at the outset, but we shall take no lessons about threats to jobs from a Government under whom there are still 2.8 million people in receipt of benefits and many more unemployed. For every year that they have been in office, they have had many more people unemployed than the last Labour Government ever had. That is the reality. May I say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-25", "file": "debates1994-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d60982ef4a3c29d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Domestic Disconnections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jackson", "preceding_text": "There are clear sanctions for debt collection through the courts for those who do not pay their income tax or local taxes and they should be brought into play, as they are in Scotland and Northern Ireland, for people who do not pay other debts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-25a.616.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Levira Foods plc", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "That has cleared the air very nicely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.654.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "As hon. Members fully appreciate, a private notice question has to meet certain criteria, one of which is a change of policy. In this case, there has been no change of policy; the decision was a logical consequence of existing policy. If a Minister from the Foreign Office or from the Ministry of Defence, however, had wished to make a statement, that of course would now be taking place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "s from countries in central Europe. We should remember that central Europe has received an appalling economic legacy from communism. Industry in central Europe was heavily overmanned, was greatly dependent on intra-COMECON trade and suffered from heavy under-investment and its production was environmentally most unfriendly. The economies of central Europe were distorted by unsustainable subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "ot been here since. What has happened is an abuse, because the matter could have been taken upstairs—the Labour party had no interest in it. There is, at the moment, but one Labour Back Bencher in the Chamber; the rest have played no part whatever in the debate. That is an abuse and the House needs to know that fact. I now turn to what I understand to be the remarks of the hon. Member for Rhondda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.702.8", "colnum": "702", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister is Stalin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "That is an open question—which could be answered by anyone who cares to fill in a postcard and send it to St. Andrew's house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.702.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "First, it is worth quoting Councillor Meek, a close friend and buddy of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": " respond. Some services will be under tremendous pressure as a result of the revenue support grant settlement and the other related order. I am glad to see my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Chisholm) here today. He knows that I used to be the chairman of the Lothian regional education committee. He was one of our excellent teachers before he came to Parliament to waste his time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "orders is that we have little to go on when we try to work out how the different figures in the orders have been arrived at. The Minister would have us believe—I apologise for missing the early part of his remarks—that expenditure figures are calculated according to some sophisticated mathematical formula. He would have us believe that everything is worked out to give authorities their proper due.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "The hon. Members for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) and for Kincardine and Deeside (Mr. Kynoch) said that my area has high expenditure, but it is not much higher than other areas of Scotland. The hon. Member for Tayside, North mentioned addressing the issues, and I shall certainly do so tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "abour exchange from the day their children were born to the day they died. This is the kind of world that the Tories want people to live in. Bad education is hereditary. Why did the Government not take up the recommendations of the Plowden report, which said that areas of deprivation should be made a priority and given nursery education? It also said that the pupil-teacher ratio should be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-02-28", "file": "debates1994-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "64f456292a7cdf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": "ears, but for between five and 10. It had decided to implement policy, but when it had an opportunity to implement the recommendations in the Plowden report, it had to close schools down. Plowden recommended that people living in deprived areas should have a pupil-teacher ratio of 1:10 not 1:20, 1:30 or 1:50, as in the past. That is the kind of education we need for people from humble backgrounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-02-28a.731.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.767.7", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.767.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Air Attack (Bosnia)", "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": "With your permission, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "g slot at Heathrow airport, for which the Treasury had to fork out more than £2 million of public money as compensation to British Airways. I now turn to the deception of Parliament. According to the Alan Clark school of thought, none of it, including possible payments to middle men or politicians into Swiss bank accounts, is at all untoward in the determined pursuit of British business interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "ore open a society is, the more transparent the decisions of government, the more difficult it is to hide corruption and the abuse of human rights. Those are fine words, but tell that to the Malaysians and the Indonesians! My fifth observation relates to the connection between firms that benefit from the aid and trade provision, and donations to the Conservative party and its allied organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "Without notice I cannot give the hon. Gentleman figures for per capita income. However, I can say that our aid to Oman amounts to a mere £750,000—a derisory amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not an intervention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Thank you for permitting me to intervene at this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t is another sign of how the Government see such matters, that, although the debate is being opened by the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it is apparently to be wound up by a Minister from the Department of Trade and Industry. We now see how vested interests have deep control of the Tory party and little to do with the needs of the third world and the poorest in this universe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.818.5", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "As the House knows, the proceedings of the Public Accounts Committee were very public. The National Audit Office, to which I referred, has published a report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.818.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "r troops have been on the receiving end. Would it not be ironic if we found that Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam were in a dispute over the islands in the South China sea and a Foreign Office Minister then came to the House and apologised for our role in providing the arms for such a conflict? Worse still, would it not be ironic if that were associated with our limited overseas development budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Foreigners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "On the basis of the old military adage that attack is the best form of defence, I expected the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to wind up. He could then have said to us, \"If you think that we are bad, look at all these other chaps; they are so much worse.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. The hon. Gentleman asked me a question, and I have given him an answer. I am proud that we are providing decent working conditions for public employees, and I hope that we always do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister made no such proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " the LEA will disclose information to anybody and leave the governing body last, until they have to ask for the information. We also seem to be in the area of flying pickets who go from meeting to meeting, regardless of whether they have an interest in the particular school. That is not how the grant-maintained status option should be considered. It should be considered rationally and impartially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "secondary schools with the Funding Agency for Schools…A yes vote would have taken the percentage of secondary pupils in Devon to 9·95 per cent. It is not in the interests of fairness and impartiality or a matter for the judgment of parents and governors; it is a matter of sustaining an LEA department that is at the fore of the activities perpetrated by the Liberal Democrats in Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "ment for this year, but only £50 million in its budget. We shall again require all authorities to use most of their grant on services provided by the independent sector. Moreover, that condition is cumulative, so that next year authorities' independent sector expenditure must increase significantly over that for this year. I shall also give some thought to our definition of the word \"independent\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.897.7", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": " has been said that the implementation of the community care reforms marked the beginning of a decade of change, rather than an overnight revolution. That is perfectly true. It is now clear that the early days of the reforms represent a satisfactory foundation for that decade —a view shared by many other observers, including the Audit Commission and the Association of Directors of Social Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.897.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "The House will have noticed that the Minister failed to answer the question that I put to him. I repeat that question. Does the 85 per cent. requirement take precedence over the Laming-Langlands letter? it is as simple as that. The House requires an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "It might have been before community care, but that does not make it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "It might have been before community care, but that does not make it— [Interruption.] The lack of resources is still there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "It might have been before community care, but that does not make it— [Interruption.] The lack of resources is still there— [Interruption.] Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to continue with my speech? In response to that, the Secretary of State announced a further £10 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. I should be most grateful if the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) would either listen to the hon. Lady, who is making an important speech, or retire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-01", "file": "debates1994-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d13010e5664a99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "preference to putting people into their homes, when the Government have erected every obstacle to local authorities continuing to act as providers of residential care. The role of local authorities in the provision of that care for the elderly has never been more important. Elderly people are being admitted, on average, to residential care when they are 10 years older than they were 10 years ago —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-01a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.928.3", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I should like to write to the hon. Gentleman on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.935.7", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Is it not about time that we recognised the Taiwanese Government and set up diplomatic relations with them, given the importance of that country to our economy? Will the Minister convey to the Taiwanese authorities the great concern of many of us at the stockpiling of rhino horn in that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.935.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.943.11", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is the most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.943.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.943.11", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is the most— [Interruption.] I must answer that because it is the best point of order I have had for a very long time. I have always been annoyed when Members like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.943.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "As far as I heard, the Minister did answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "They are making cars, they are providing jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.952.5", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the enthusiasm of hon. Members to take part in this debate. I wish to ensure that there is some time for them to take part when I conclude, so if they will forgive me I shall continue my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "There is one reason why British exporters to Malaysia now face the possibility of disruption of their trade and that is the corrupt way in which the Government put together the Malaysian dam deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "in danger of failing if they are the best in Europe? The answer is that it is only the Labour party that wants to create the impression that they will fail in order that Labour Members can pander to the worst anxieties of their constituents in order that they can do what has to be done in their party interest, regardless of the interests of Britain's companies, which are undermined in the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "at has to be done in their party interest, regardless of the interests of Britain's companies, which are undermined in the process. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The third issue singled out by the hon. Member for Livingston was, interestingly enough, airframes. I have been Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Aerospace and Shipping. I have been deeply involved in the aerospace industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " apart. Manufacturing investment was greater under the Tories, up from £13.5 billion to nearly £15 billion between 1979 and 1989. Let us therefore take the hon. Gentleman's own phoney way of dealing with those issues, which is to consider the whole economy. Investment for the whole economy in 1979 was £75.8 billion. The comparable figure for 1992, comparing a peak with a trough, was £94.7 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "No Government anywhere could be as daft as our Government. One despairs of them and of what they are doing to British industry. Rover has been sold. Yet Gareth Rhys, a motor industry expert who offered his expertise to the Select Committee on Trade and Industry when I was there, reported that there could have been a management buy-out of Rover instead of its being sold to a competitor such as BMW—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "I agree with everything that my hon. Friend has said. Will he comment on whether he has experience, as I have, of recently visiting a German manufacturing factory and realising that they not only do not have the technology that we have but they do not have our industrial relations either?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Fibre-optic communications are a miracle which was invented in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": " Inward investment has been a huge success story over the past 12 years. Investment has come from Japan and the United States; 3,500 American companies have invested in this country, and many hundreds of German companies are now investing in it, because they consider it a good place in which to invest. Over the past 14 years, we have had stability of government—and, above all, stability of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "s will not take on a huge number of people; one or two may start up businesses on greenfield sites and employ 500 or so employees, but that is very rare. The Government, in conjunction with the City and the banks, must meet the challenge to ensure that our medium-sized firms have adequate long-term finance. There is undoubtedly a gap there: we have not as many medium-sized firms as we should have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "een priced out of markets because the exchange rate is consistently kept too high for too long. The Government and the Bank are now resuming that policy. Since February 1993, the exchange rate has increased by about 14 per cent. against the deutschmark. The Bank of England is obsessed with inflation, which is now a dead issue. Because of its fear of inflation, which it largely caused in the 1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "aps in the world but certainly in Europe destroyed because of the incapacity of Ministers and the inability of Commissioners properly to pursue policies? I shall give an illustration and then I shall have to finish because of the time limit. Since 1975, the steel labour force in Britain has fallen by 78 per cent. In Germany, it has fallen by 40 per cent., and in Italy it has fallen by 47 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "om the President of the Board of Trade, but he is time-stuck and time-warped in his arguments. He must recognise that the issue of the 1990s is how those skills wil be used in the future. If there is to be a cut in the defence budget, which is clearly happening under the Government, we must ask how that industry's skills and technologies are to be used in the future. The Government have no answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Madam Speaker, and simply make one final appeal to the Minister to give way. but I withdraw the word \"coward\" as you, Madam Speaker, asked me to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1037.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-02", "file": "debates1994-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "4460b5ce8c25e81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1037.6", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": " British industry's competitiveness. The motion does not mention that, but we should not forget that the Opposition are committed to a minimum wage. The minimum wage will lead to the loss of up to 2 million jobs. The Opposition have never denied their commitment to it. It has never worked; there is no logic to it; it does not work in any other country and certainly would not work in Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-02a.1037.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman has returned to the same point three times after having two answers, I will now quote to him what I said to the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook in 1991: I made it perfectly clear when I was Chief Secretary that I do not believe that excessive salary increases are right.\"—[ Official Report , 1991; Vol. 193, c. 857.] That still remains my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1071.6", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have said repeatedly that I propose to make no comment on Lord Justice Scott's report. I propose to make no comment of any sort on Lord Justice Scott's report until he has reported. I set up that report and I gave it very wide terms of reference. I have assured Lord Justice Scott.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1071.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1081.8", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Insley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Insley", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange perhaps next week for a short debate on the timetable on the Finance Bill, as it is preventing sensible debate on the Bill, much to the dismay of outside organisations which take a close interest in it? On some occasions, we find that we have too much to debate in the time allotted, and on other occasions we find that there is too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1081.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I seek your guidance on what I hope is a genuine point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ers to which the hon. Gentleman referred were an important part of that strategy and I hope that, where they are important, we can proceed where it is technically feasible. I have been just as clear about the roads that will be slipping or are being cancelled where there is too much opposition to them, where the economic benefits do not fully justify the environmental damage that they could cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "much higher overall, especially in some schools where the results are well below what is required. I am expecting governors and head teachers in those schools to take action now. I do not want to have to use my powers under the Education Act 1993—I would far rather schools put their own house in order—but I shall use them if there is no action. The inspectors have made clear what needs to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The answer is no, Ron.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I did not. I thought that the hon. Gentleman would be here himself. Besides, he never extends that courtesy to my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "sis for the support is not partisan or party political and they are overwhelmingly supported by Labour Members and by large sections of the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru. Considerable sections of the Conservative party also support the proposals. I ask the Secretary of State once more: will he accept proposals if they are put to him jointly by local government in Wales? I want a direct answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that the Government would introduce legislation to establish a Welsh assembly or a Welsh parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e Conservative party was going to introduce legislation in the current Session to establish an assembly, a parliament or a senate in Wales, I would be happy to engage the hon. Gentleman in that debate. I do not think that it is a realistic proposition. However, I am confident that the issue of establishing an all-Wales tier of government will be central to the outcome of the next general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s in the history of Parliament when the words of ordinary working people, who have been subjected to extreme poverty, will be spoken in this Chamber. Some 50 per cent. of the people in one street of families we surveyed were unemployed. I want to relate the experiences of those people in our community who suffer severe poverty. The first case is that of an unemployed couple with one child at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " the less favoured areas of Wales than in any other area of Wales. That also underlines their difficult position. We shall have to come back to that issue. The tourism industry is always important in the rural parts of Wales, and I am pleased that a number of tourists will be attending a Parliament for Wales campaign meeting this weekend, which will be held in Llandrindod Wells in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-03", "file": "debates1994-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35785ec0bde34434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "An opinion poll conducted by BBC Wales has been referred to this evening, but I do not know whether the question was put in that poll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-03a.1143.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-07", "file": "debates1994-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "650b55bdedb91d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-07a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": "ure restraints. In stark contrast to the quick-fix economic policies of the Government, we have constantly supported sustained training and investment in people and in the infrastructure of Northern Ireland. In last year's debate I mentioned Sir George Quigley, the chairman of the Ulster bank. He has illustrated the point that the potential for an island of Ireland economy is there for the taking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-07a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-07", "file": "debates1994-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "650b55bdedb91d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-07a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. My hon. Friend the Member for Normanton (Mr. O'Brien), who will wind up the debate for the Opposition, is a shadow Environment Minister and I am sure that he will take the hon. Gentleman's argument on board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-07a.46.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the delay of more than two years in the Eurofighter 2000 project will mean not only that there could be a loss of valuable exports of that product, but that the Royal Air Force will have to continue to maintain aging aircraft until Eurofighter comes into service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.144.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.148.8", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spring", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's a hard one, John.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spring", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend confirm that manufacturing output rose by some 1.1 per cent. in January, well above expectations, and that in difficult world trading conditions it is the policies of low inflation, low interest rates and low corporate taxation that has made Britain a beacon of success in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.148.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Jeremy Hanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Jeremy Hanley)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. The hon. Gentleman did not ask one specific question; he asked two specific questions. I answered the first half. He did not give me notice that he was going to ask the second half, and it was not relevant to the first. May I say, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.151.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.189.5", "colnum": "189", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "edical tests were the best that could be worked out among everyone involved could not do so, because the identities of the people who are drawing up the tests are secret. This secret medical test will be coming in August, and we are discussing the Bill in March. If that is not defensible in the country on a matter that will take benefit away from 250,000 people, I do not know what is indefensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": " in 1978, and it is now £366 million. I could give many more statistics, but I shall not do so. Any suggestion that the Government have been mean-minded in relation to the disabled is absolute fantasy, so I do not expect to hear that argument again tonight. 6.45 pm The test of medical incapacity for work has constituted the meat of this discussion. What do we mean by \"medical incapacity for work\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "I have too much to get through. Several hon. Members who were on the Committee and who have been present throughout this debate need answers. The threshold is not one above which it would be reasonable to expect anybody to be able to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "nce, but such an effect can vary in intensity, over time, from mild to severe. We are taking steps to ensure that the needs of people with such conditions are addressed in developing the new tests. As part of the development of the medical assessment, in-house studies have researched the extent to which certain complicating factors, such as pain, stiffness and fatigue, may affect capacity to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "It is as rough as I get: the hon. Gentleman knows that. In relation to anonymity, we decided at the outset that the participants in the expert panel exercise should be anonymous, to ensure that they could give their professional input without the possibility of any external influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "It is as rough as I get: the hon. Gentleman knows that. In relation to anonymity, we decided at the outset that the participants in the expert panel exercise should be anonymous, to ensure that they could give their professional input without the possibility of any external influence. [Interruption.] We have, however, readily agreed to give details of their areas of expertise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.206.5", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The amendments deal with the way in which the rates of incapacity benefit and statutory sick pay set out in the Bill will be revised to take account of the genuine increases in benefit rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.221.4", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "the regulations under clause 4 are contained in a statutory instrument that is not subject to affirmative resolution, negative resolution will apply—that is, after the three-year period. That was omitted during the original drafting of the clause. Hon. Members may ask why we have decided on a period of three years. Why not, for example, make regulations always subject to the affirmative procedure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "uous. Throughout the proceedings on this Bill, we continued vigorously to oppose what the Government are doing. We were determined to tell the British people that the defence of benefits, the defence of the needs of the most vulnerable and the defence of disability benefits is in the hands of the Labour party. People cannot trust the Government. The dismantling of disability benefit will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "eve that we are dealing with some of the glories of English architecture and accept, as I certainly do, that no nation that allows Salisbury cathedral or Sherborne abbey to crumble deserves to call itself civilised, we must recognise our obligation. That duty has been increased by the financial mismanagement of the Church of England in recent months. There has been an appalling waste of resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.252.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.258.9", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed , That Mr. Andrew Robathan be discharged from the Employment Committee and Mr. David Nicholson be added to the Committee.— [Sir Fergus Montgomery, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.258.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-08", "file": "debates1994-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba5910f05c111569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.258.12", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed , That Mr. Martyn Jones be discharged from the Agriculture Committee and Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours be added to the Committee.— [Sir Fergus Montgomery, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-08a.258.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "lions of pounds that his Department spends on company investigations, bearing in mind that, although there have been 82 published reports, only four directors, and no company auditors, have been disbarred? Is he concerned about the fact that, to investigate companies, his Department has often been known to hire accountants from companies that are themselves the subject of investigations, and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply. Does he agree that the British car industry was bankrupt under the weight of unions, nationalisation and socialism? Does he also agree with me that during the past 15 years of Conservative Government this country has never had it so good?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. In view of the claim by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "equest from the right hon. Gentleman to make a statement to clarify that highly damaging doctrine? If not, will you say whether it is consistent with paragraph 27 of the guidance for Ministers, which says that Ministers are to provide as full information as possible about the policies, decisions and actions … and not to deceive or mislead Parliament and the public\"? If it is not consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Decorations for Gallantry (Display)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "s in the Royal Marines. It would be totally wrong to approve a Bill that, in a dispute about where the medal should go, allows the final decision to be made by the Secretary of State for Defence, whatever Government and political party is in control at the time. It would in my view make it a political decision if the Government were to determine to whom medals belonged and to where they should go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "orders. In 1987, Lord Colville, the former Home Office Minister and adviser at that time, recommended in his full review of the PTA that that policy be discontinued. Secondly, the judicial intervention in relation to detention is in accordance with the European Court ruling and with many other matters. We are asking the Home Secretary to respond by having a full and independent review by a senior—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I should like to know what makes the hon. Gentleman think that his judgment about the effectiveness of these measures is to be preferred to that of the police. It is the police who have to deal with the terrorists day by day on our streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.302.7", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ce. What about members of the Labour party? For example, Lord Mason, who held the office of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has said that nothing gives the IRA more joy and encouragement than to see a divided House, and especially the image created by some within Parliament of seeming to be too protective of the terrorists and their political allies, rather than wishing their destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I can understand the hon. Gentleman's reluctance to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.305.8", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He must accept that it is quite an amusing spectacle watching him try to defend the indefensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.305.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Listening to the debate, I feel that we should spare a thought for the families of the victims—the widows, the mothers and the children—who have had to listen to the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) seemingly putting the terrorist before the civil liberties of their loved ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": "offence in a court of law. They have not even had the opportunity to hear the charges against them. By the end of 1993, 71 people remained the subject of exclusion orders, none of whom had the right to be told why they faced internal exile. The only examples of similar powers in 20th century Europe were those exercised by those notable democrats, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and General Franco—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "me for all I know, the views of the hon. Gentleman are different from those of the majority of members of the Procedure Committee, whose Chairman is present and may wish to speak in the debate. It is also clear that the hon. Gentleman's views are not shared by a number of his hon. Friends. My view is with Birkenhead rather than with Walsall on this occasion and, probably, on many future occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's party has no votes in Northern Ireland, but it is to have a majority on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "For two reasons. First, despite our principled objection, we are unlikely to succeed in the voting—although, as my hon. Friend has pointed out, we have such a powerful case that we are certainly winning the argument. Secondly, and more important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "rovince can be allowed to preclude indefinitely the establishment of proper arrangements for the scrutiny by the House of the Northern Ireland Department\". The Select Committee's 1993–94 report concluded: The Committee see nothing to add or subtract from their previous views. The Committee believed that the House and the Government would decide when it was appropriate to set up a Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-09", "file": "debates1994-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8c7c6793539832b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Departmental Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "That is brilliant; I never realised that. That is the most outstanding piece of procedural information that I have heard in the House for many a moon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-09a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.383.11", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary agree that in Basildon, as elsewhere, the battle against crime simply cannot be won unless we fight drugs and drug abuse? Will he undertake now, as a matter of urgency, to wake up to the seriousness of that situation and combine measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.383.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.389.9", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to remind the hon. Lady that we do not invoke the name of the Queen in debate. Can she rephrase her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.389.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.394.6", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may regret, on reflection, the way in which he phrased his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.394.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall turn directly to that point, but I must say that I am extremely surprised that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should pursue that matter on the day after a mortar attack at Heathrow and on the very day on which the Cabinet has been considering sending more troops to Bosnia to deal with an international problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "leman should pursue that matter on the day after a mortar attack at Heathrow and on the very day on which the Cabinet has been considering sending more troops to Bosnia to deal with an international problem. [interruption.] have made the point. The right hon. and learned Gentleman seems to think that these things do not matter. I think that people throughout the country will take a different view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "May I ask please for a debate on Lloyd's?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady knows, the Conservative argument is that deregulation means more jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.429.7", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady please sit down? I shall give way after I have made some progress in my speech", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.429.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was on Tuesday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "It may help my hon. Friend to feel more comfortable with the areas into which he is straying to know that it is International Women's Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coe", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. In the present climate of opinion, it seems reasonable to assume that, as the number of women acquitting themselves with distinction in high office and in other fields of activity continues to increase as it has in recent years, the prospects will improve for all women with ability. I do not believe that women either want or need positive discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate my hon. Friends on the Opposition Benches on bringing the debate to the Floor of the House. I agree with them that it is long overdue and I am delighted that they managed to get the men in their party under control once and for all and got their own way by putting the debate forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman—sorry, hon. Lady—give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way at last. Is she aware that, in the previous shadow Cabinet elections, there were far more votes for women than ever before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "elf-employed women, which has doubled to one woman in four. The best barometer of progress is in my constituency. Angry feminism has never entered their heads, but women play a key role in our society. Not one has ever mentioned to me that she has been a victim of sex discrimination. They all reflect the progress that has been greatly helped by the Government's down-to-earth, practical approaches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "one woman in four. The best barometer of progress is in my constituency. Angry feminism has never entered their heads, but women play a key role in our society. Not one has ever mentioned to me that she has been a victim of sex discrimination. They all reflect the progress that has been greatly helped by the Government's down-to-earth, practical approaches. [ Laughter. ] Let me give some examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chingford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—I regret that I have temporarily, if I ever knew, forgotten his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "red in our debates, at least from the Conservative Benches this afternoon. Reference has been made to the value of women as housewives, almost as though women's work in the house, because essentially it is unpaid work—women in the house do not receive a brown envelope at the end of the week—is not really work. I assure Conservative Members that it is real work, and a great many women undertake it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady demonstrates that she—along with most of her Front-Bench colleagues, I dare say—has absolutely no appreciation of how this ruling has arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "arn something. Opposition Members cannot claim that this ruling was achieved on the merits of the argument. They will find that the Government made little or no effort in court to establish that the alleged indirect discrimination against women was—in the jargon—objectively justified. The Government were principally contesting the vires of the United Kingdom's courts to rule on this matter at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.482.7", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "estioning of our proceedings. Article 9 of the Act reads: 'that the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.\"'.—[ Official Report , 21 July 1993; Vol. 229, c. 351–2.] Who can possibly say that the Equal Opportunities Commission or their Lordships have respected article 9 of the Bill of Rights?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.482.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party had the first woman Prime Minister, and the Labour party has never got over that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-10", "file": "debates1994-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb0b894f1067c518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party had the first woman Prime Minister, and the Labour party has never got over that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Last but not least, what about the poor men? Sex discrimination means that there should not be discrimination against either sex. Quite honestly, the poor old men have had it quite hard too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-10a.498.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-11", "file": "debates1994-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "debbf076bee6c595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-11a.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "t in his seat. He was a little concerned about looking at other people and was told to take something with him to occupy himself on the bus, pay his fare when asked and get off at the right stop. He managed to do that, but, on his first trip alone, he sat in his seat and occupied himself by spreading out a set of water colours. He put them over not only his lap, but that of the person next to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-11a.580.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-14", "file": "debates1994-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3033e30252013db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt about it—many companies in south Wales are operating with machinery that was once in Europe and has been drawn back to Wales because it is more productive there. On our relationships with Europe, my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State has been leading an export mission to Europe and this evening I am going to Barcelona to lead another export mission. My hon. Friend is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.610.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-14", "file": "debates1994-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3033e30252013db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I should tell Conservative Members that it is a pity that there is a Pavlovian response or knee-jerk reaction whenever someone mentions the Greater London council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-14", "file": "debates1994-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3033e30252013db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be best if I did not give way. I am more than happy to give way to Tory Members, but I appreciate that other hon. Members want to speak and I do not want to fall foul of the Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-14", "file": "debates1994-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3033e30252013db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "lties that people face. The right hon. Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir. G. Young) is often given the reputation as a decent, humane and warm-hearted Minister. That is a fairly rare accolade for anyone on the Government Front Bench these days. However, he should pay perhaps a little more attention to what is going on in Tower Hamlets at the moment, which is under the control of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-14", "file": "debates1994-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3033e30252013db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "London Docklands Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "s' money has been poured instead into the marbled halls of the speculators. It is the epitome of all that is wrong with Britain that when people move into the office block that is the most spectacular failure of a property development they will look down on the only part of Britain that has voted for a fascist to represent them in Parliament in recent times—not in Parliament, on the local council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-14", "file": "debates1994-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3033e30252013db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Homosexual Offences (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": " be so, so be it. The continent is out of step with nature. As for the case in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and articles 14 and 18 of the convention, we can face that challenge if we so wish. The Church Society stated in January: There is no culture that accepts homosexuality as natural. All world religions consider it immoral. However, I shall not moralise tonight in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-14a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.736.9", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I beg to differ with the hon. Lady. Britain is not the only country that has had trouble with the Belgian text of the directive on parental leave. The hon. Lady is also wrong to suggest that Britain is alone in not providing parental leave. There is only one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.736.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.740.4", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "One of the purposes of health service trusts is to enable their managers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.742.7", "colnum": "742", "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 hon. Gentleman will see from most of the statistics now being produced that manufacturing industry is in fact recovering and it is recovering rather well. It is increasingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.742.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.742.7", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ly— [Interruption.] There is no point in the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Mr. Miller) waving his finger. If he will give me time, I shall get to his question if he can bear to be patient for a second. Banks are seeking to provide resources for appropriate lending. The question of lending to Rover is of course something that Rover pursues with its own bankers and not with anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.742.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept the need to reduce public borrowing? Is he aware that Ealing Conservative council has now repaid £75 million of the £158 million borrowed between 1986 and 1990 by the then Labour council, and that Birmingham, Hackney and Manchester have debts higher than many third world countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.744.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept the need to reduce public borrowing? Is he aware that Ealing Conservative council has now repaid £75 million of the £158 million borrowed between 1986 and 1990 by the then Labour council, and that Birmingham, Hackney and Manchester have debts higher than many third world countries? [interruption.] All Labour-controlled councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "lock money voted by the local authorities concerned. I wish to return to that matter and I hope that the Committee will return to it. I hope that we shall return to it in the form of guidance and in developing more details of the system. What is important for the statute is that it will provide a guarantee, if the scheme is approved by me, of the local decentralisation sought by local councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have given the hon. Gentleman a clear answer to his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.764.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman ensure that he has put his party's policy absolutely clearly? Is it Labour policy, on the premise of a Welsh assembly, to abolish Gwent county council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, I must say that, with the exception of the hon. Member for Clwyd, North-West (Mr. Richards), I am happy to take interventions from any hon. Member who I believe has a proper interest in the matter under discussion. I know that the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Mr. Thomason) had a former—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"25,000?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomason", "preceding_text": "The size of local government units is critical. I think that the Rowntree Foundation has argued that it is viable to have units of 25,000 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.782.7", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ly, my right hon. Friend considered that it was necessary to include it. If it is to be in the Bill, it must be effective and it should be effective from an early date. Finally, may I raise the ghost of Gwent? Paragraph 1 of schedule 2 contains a peculiar drafting device to preserve counties of Wales in certain cases and not others for the purposes of the Lord Lieutenancy and the High Shrievalty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.782.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to follow the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": ", but—like other Front Benchers—I registered my wish to speak in a debate that affects our constituencies, and, like them, have not been allowed to do so. I understood that Parliament was a body in which we could speak on behalf of our constituents. I know that the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) is an expert on council houses, but I cannot see that he has any locus in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.796.6", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"None of them believes that\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": " the Cardiff boundaries might be altered and the existing Vale of Glamorgan seat could disappear. I do not know what final recommendation the commission will make, but it is important to set the record straight and stress that the reason for the inclusion of Ewenny, St. Bride's Major and Wick is in order to benefit the people of Vale of Glamorgan, including those who live in the three communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.796.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "The vote at the end reflected the fact that some 175 people turned up at a meeting and clearly almost all those individuals had made up their minds beforehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "But with various bits of work being farmed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainger", "preceding_text": "Clause 23 refers to the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "e in the Bill or in the White Paper about the role of members of local authorities. My hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly rightly compared the number of councillors, even with the increase, with the number of members of quangos. There will be 1,200 councillors compared with 1,400 members of various quangos and advisory bodies. Not all those 1,400 members are appointed by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-15", "file": "debates1994-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8ff7a2da07a840a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.848.5", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "r the extraordinary money resolution before us. As a House of Commons we authorise Ministers to make expenditure, and, as usual, the resolution is couched in very general terms. I shall link the general resolution with the explanation entitled Financial effects of the Bill in the explanatory and financial memorandum. We are giving the Secretary of State unlimited authorisation, but the limitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-15a.848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Mining Effluent", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman thinks that my answer is factually correct. That in itself is an achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Average?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The average band C headline council tax is £516.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me explain. I think it only right for me to explain to the House that the Government are not responsible for the activities or the policies of the Labour party at Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.877.6", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — City Pride", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Salford?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "onday night, and I am ashamed to say that the right hon. Gentleman again voted against more resources for my Department. The sum was £213 million, some of which would go to the urban programme. I invite the right hon. Gentleman to hear what Manchester city council said about city pride: The City Council is determined to respond very positively to the Secretary of State's invitation. If Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.877.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Celtic shares?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": ", South (Mr. McMaster) mentioned the revenue from executive boxes. I hope that the Minister will deal with the question of all the outside revenue received by some clubs, which has nothing to do with attendance at matches. The big clubs—Rangers and Celtic in particular—sell a range of products, through shops and other retail outlets: tracksuits, strips, pillow slips and duvet covers, for instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.939.6", "colnum": "939", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "My mathematics tells me that the Government would not have a majority. I am sure that it is absolutely right to say that they would be dependent on the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.939.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.949.8", "colnum": "949", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "yd) and, surprise, surprise, myself. Other hon. Members have asked five to eight questions, but the thrust of the Opposition's argument is that they wish to champion the cause of their constituencies in the Standing Committee. Let us look at a question asked by the hon. Member for Bridgend in order to champion his constituency. On 29 April last year, the hon. Gentleman asked the following question", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.949.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "With respect, while I was speaking the Minister must have been remembering the delicious paella that he was eating in Catalonia 36 hours ago. I dealt with that very point, but I shall remind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "preceding_text": " were certainly in a minority in England and yet, under the first-past-the-post system that we rightly retain, the Government doubtless ensured that they controlled the Committees of the House. It was not regarded as undemocratic by the House or, presumably, by the electorate of England who gave Labour a working majority in October 1974. The Government have a mandate to introduce this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "the conventional way in which we proceed. Ultimately, the Government have a majority. They have a mandate and they must do what is right and proper. The second way of attacking what my right hon. Friend has done this evening is to say that, somehow or other, there is a lack of knowledge of what goes on in Ewenny, Magor or Wick, as my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Mr. Sweeney) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-16", "file": "debates1994-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c4fef1751c7928e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "Because this is a matter of democracy, Madam Deputy Speaker. You interrupted me before I did in fact warm up. The whole process is about democracy. The point of Standing Order No. 86 is to allow every hon. Member elected by the people of Wales to determine Bills that affect Wales, and Wales only. We make no claims to sit on Bills that affect Scotland, Northern Ireland or England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-16a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1005.7", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I agree very much with the first part of the hon. Gentleman's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1005.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend arrange an early debate on education to allow the Liberal Democrats to explain to the House how they will pay for their extra education spending pledges, which amount to £4.4 billion, by putting 1p on income tax, which would raise £–1.6 billion? Is there an inconsistency here that I am not getting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "bout 8.30 or 9 o'clock and continues until about 5.30, when everyone goes home. I do not believe that people should have to work unsocial hours, but many people are ready to work on a shift system. We should have more night-working on major road repairs and there should be weekend work as well. Plenty of people are ready to do overtime, but none of the statutory undertakings seems ready to pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "tention—slightly implausibly, I thought—to the Government's record on crime. He failed to make any proper analysis of the growth of crime or to offer any genuine means of dealing with it, apart from his call for more police on the beat. Many of us think that the rather woolly liberalism that the hon. Gentleman seems to represent has contributed to the problem rather than provided a solution to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "the case, but it is also particularly rich when it comes from: Langbaurgh. Like the hon. Gentleman, I remember the Langbaurgh by-election. I went down to help my friend Ashok Kumar, who won the by-election but, unfortunately, did not retain the seat at the general election. Those of us who took part in that by-election know that racism did raise its ugly head and that certain people encouraged it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2 May)", "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 was put in mind, during the speech of the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ing the speech to the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, observing wryly in passing, however, that I now understand why the hon. Gentleman did not respond when he was asked to tell the House what had happened to crime in Northumbria—because that would not fit in with his speech. I understand that crime in Northumbria fell by 2 per cent. in the 12 months to June 1993—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Traffic (Liberalisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "No. I am winding up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "preceding_text": "I did not vote for the Act that set up this agency, for the simple reason that I was not in the House at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "For two reasons. First, in many cases in the past, when maintenance had not even been thought of and was not being paid to the vast majority of women on income support, their situation would never improve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Line", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know, I instigated an Adjournment debate in July that took place relatively late at night. I have instigated a number of Adjournment debates on London Transport and have raised the subject frequently at Question Time. If the hon. Gentleman compares the number of times that I have raised the matter with that of other hon. Members, the comment that I made at the beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Line", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "The answers to the hon. Gentleman's two questions are yes and no. Yes, the Government are contemplating a leasing deal for Networker trains on Network SouthEast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Line", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "atute book, an aftermarket for rolling stock on the heavy railway is in prospect, allowing the Government to take the view that those trains will be hired by train-operating companies for a period and then transferred to new owners. That is the difference between an operating lease and this lease, which is for 20 years to a single lessee with, at this stage, no prospect whatever of an aftermarket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1177.7", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "The power is controlled, as I was coming on to say, by a small trade union vote, which largely consists of council employees active in the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1177.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-17", "file": "debates1994-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "9f71a084492378ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1194.4", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way again as I have very little time. My hon. Friend the Member for Dover raised some sensible issues about local authority debt. Again, there is no way in which the Opposition can disguise the fact that Birmingham—the largest local authority in the country—has a debt higher than that of Albania. It took 40 years of communist rule to achieve that debt in Albania—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-17a.1194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-18", "file": "debates1994-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0d90c93464820081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Mr. Alexander) on securing such an important debate this Friday morning. I may not be here for the winding-up speeches as a serious regional conflict will be taking place at Twickenham tomorrow afternoon and some of my colleagues are coming from the north, so I shall be looking after them later this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-18", "file": "debates1994-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0d90c93464820081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "f Europe and I wear the 12-star button in my lapel. It is usually incorrectly identified as the flag of the European Union. On 5 May, we shall celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the statute of the Council of Europe in 1949. Perhaps the Minister, the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (Mr. Lennox-Boyd), can spare a moment from his important deliberations to listen to what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-18", "file": "debates1994-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0d90c93464820081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister, closely advised by the Whips. So be it. When I was first elected and arrived in our delegation offices in Strasbourg I was greeted by the then Conservative Member for Streatham, who said, \"What are you doing here? This is a place for people who are finished.\" I found that remark acutely depressing; when I looked around I realised that he was speaking more than a germ of truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-18", "file": "debates1994-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0d90c93464820081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "Human Rights, so busy were they in pursuit of an hon. Gentleman who was not missing at all. I have a great deal of sympathy with the early-day motion about a recent personal tragedy tabled earlier this week by the hon. Member for Staffordshire, South (Mr. Cormack). Another tragedy was the disregard for Gorbachev's speech—perhaps the most important speech heard in Europe, before or since that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-18", "file": "debates1994-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0d90c93464820081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "t are so eager to privatise everything in sight that they do not—or did not—own mechanisms and equipment to guarantee the provision of simultaneous interpretation services. In the end, we made a splendid visit to Yorkshire. We were assisted by Lord Newall in his capacity as chairman of the British Greyhound Racing Board. A greyhound from my constituency managed to win the Council of Europe trophy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-18", "file": "debates1994-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0d90c93464820081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman. It would be completely inappropriate not to recognise the ambassador, whose name I should know as I worked closely with him when I was a parliamentary private secretary at the Foreign Office in the 1970s. I trust that in the banking career that he has begun to pursue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-18a.1275.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-21", "file": "debates1994-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "3185d835649acd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "We have not ruled out a connection between crossrail and the channel tunnel rail link—there are powerful arguments in favour. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State merely ruled out one particular intersection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-21", "file": "debates1994-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "3185d835649acd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "table will look at a situation, and he will have to turn to page 1,035 to check whether the area is subject to an agreement before he can take action. By the time he has looked up the relevant page and clause, the people will have disappeared. So the constable will not be so effective. I regret to say that the paid representative of the British Transport Police Federation has departed the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-21", "file": "debates1994-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "3185d835649acd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I have made the position quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-21", "file": "debates1994-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "3185d835649acd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I have the Leeds Supertram Act here. There is no suggestion anywhere in the Act or in the other two precedents that the Minister has given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-21", "file": "debates1994-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "3185d835649acd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.98.7", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "There is no suggestion that private franchisees should appoint members of the police committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-21a.98.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Public sector values are very much at the heart of the management and operation of the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Public sector values are very much at the heart of the management and operation of the NHS— [Interruption.] —and that will continue to be the case. Like my hon. Friend, I condemn and deplore the way in which the Opposition take every opportunity to denigrate the commitment of those who have achieved a great improvement in patient care in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.130.4", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that national action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.131.7", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider adding to his list of engagements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.131.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows, it has long been the case that customers for a wide range of services can pay for them in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hemsworth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": " out by some men who worked in the mining industry, they have tracked down some 150 people who died in the mining industry in that area. Something similar may be happening across the whole country. We are concerned not just about the past, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsley said. Few people are better equipped for blowing the trumpet of brass bands than my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I was in earlier, my dear. First, let us consider why we are in this position and why coal mines have closed. The hon. Member for Bolsover laid the issue square on the shoulders of the Government, but to my mind that is not correct. I ask hon. Members to cast their minds back to the year-long miners' strike when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "We would still have that motorcycle industry, had not the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) backed one of the companies against the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "Coal Enterprise is helpful; every job that we can get is needed because it might help to stem the social problems that we have identified. Allow me to make one partisan point. Last week the Conservative candidate for the Rotherham by-election was selected, and his message to enliven local political debate was that Rotherham should stop feeling sorry for itself and vote Conservative for employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I am acutely conscious of the difficulties that many in the coalfield communities face as a result not only of the closure of the coal mines but of the general restructuring of the whole basis of business and industry in those areas. Most Opposition Members recognise that coal has been only part of the general employment structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.246.4", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "The amendments are intended to explore one issue: whether the Government have a commitment to ensuring that a mechanism is in place to guarantee a future, no matter how small, for the coal industry in Scotland and Wales, as well as in England. The way in which the Government are proposing to privatise the coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the House too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.247.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-22", "file": "debates1994-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7993cce2992205d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it your pleasure that the amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-22a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.270.4", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend—as I frequently have, although not in the House—to improve signposting in Scotland? Nothing is more dangerous than a person who does not know where he is going?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.272.6", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I normally take points of order at the end of questions, but I have the impression that the hon. Gentleman who has just repeated his question did not repeat it in exactly the same terms. I believe that he said originally that the Chairman of a Standing Committee was prejudiced because he was wearing a badge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.272.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.272.7", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I have no hesitation in obeying your instruction to withdraw remarks because I always accept the decisions of the Chair. I believe that an error of judgment has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.272.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend concede that Edinburgh is rapidly going down the same road as London, with hotel rooms costing a fortune? Does he think that, just as we did away with the last bastion of socialism—the GLC opposite—which is now being made into a hotel, which will help to lower the prices of hotel rooms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. He refers to electricity prices, which have fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.289.13", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "no more casualties in the few remaining months for which Ministers of the Crown remain responsible for an industry that is still in the public sector. As well as being a simple amendment, it is charitable, because it takes Ministers at their word. It accepts the lavish promises that have been made that privatisation will be good for the coal industry and that pits will prosper under privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.289.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ith the odd exception—are engaged in a conspiracy with the Government to line their own pockets. I have said several times in the House that they plan to run a few pits so that they will have little or no competition from outside to provide the captive market of 30 million tonnes to the power stations. I hold no brief for British Coal; as far as I am concerned, it stinks, just like the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "Before the general election, the miners parliamentary group met the then Secretary of State for Energy, who is now the noble Lord Wakeham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "t is rich with shallow coal. It is said that there are 140 million tonnes of reserves in the Douglas valley alone. Therefore, I am concerned with what the House does about opencast. The Clyde valley starts in my constituency. Those who have heard \"Song of the Clyde\" have heard Kenneth McKellar or, before him, Robert Wilson say that the Clyde starts from lead hills and flows all the way to the sea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-23", "file": "debates1994-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "736f18af1da6d80e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Clause 53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": " we reached this part of the Report stage as late as 9.30 this evening and I know that many of my colleagues wish us to proceed as speedily as possible. However, this is a subject which we could debate for one whole day. All hon. Members who have opencast mining in their constituencies know how horrific it is and how it causes dirt and filth. They will also know that opencast mining affects those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-23a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Minister satisfied that the Medical Research Council has all the resources that it needs to do all the research that it can, taking into account the fact that the incubation period for CJD in human beings is very long? Will he welcome the German Government's decision to embark on their own research project to consider the possibility, however remote, of a link between BSE and CJD? In the meantime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "On that subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "In view of the callous and brutal killing of my constituent Jonathan Roberts last year while trying to apprehend a shoplifter at Plymstock Broadway, and in view of the overwhelming outpouring of public concern at the five-year prison sentence which was passed on his killer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.432.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bogus.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainger", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are debating the implementation of CAP prices in the United Kingdom. I understand it to be Government policy that Wales is part of the United Kingdom. I am asking relevant questions about this point, but I am told by the Minister that they are a matter for someone else. May I have your assistance, Madam Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "trary to the present low levels of world markets for wheat, the price will rise, probably to about £90 a tonne. Most wheat producers can survive at that level, provided that they are operating on reasonable land. The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Ainger) referred to support levels for cereal growing in Wales. Many of us wonder why anyone in Wales grows cereals as the land there is not appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "expensive and wasteful. The original scheme proposed some modulation of support, as has been mentioned by the hon. Members who spoke on behalf of small farmers. It is fair to ask whether a limit should be imposed on the people who receive their highest income from agricultural support. In response to a written question, we learned that the highest individual payment to a fanner was £1.25 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " during the last parliamentary Session the House spent 11 hours debating money resolutions. I believe that my hon. Friend was involved in every debate. I always think that my hon. Friend's contributions at the end of the day are like the epilogues that one used to see on television. My hon. Friend plays a useful role also by ensuring that members of staff are provided with taxis to take them home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Ebbsfleet (International Station)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I am responding to my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-24", "file": "debates1994-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "7a80c80df4e578b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Ebbsfleet (International Station)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I am responding to my hon. Friends— [Interruption.] I shall respond; there is time enough. With respect, I am making the point that this important project should be looked on with some enthusiasm and pride. We should be looking beyond our noses to the achievements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-24a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They would say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "ous Mirror Group newspapers said: Nobody could be more enthusiastic about the move to Canary Wharf than the editors of the four Mirror Group titles involved. 'It's a bright new world that represents a new get-up-and-do-it attitude of Britain's young,' says Daily Mirror editor David Banks. It's a quality location for quality staff, a young staff who are ambitious for themselves and for the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "ds that a clear lead has been given. Docklands is testimony to the leadership that the Government have demonstrated in the past decade. What is happening in docklands is being repeated elsewhere. Today's issue of Building magazine gives some evidence. Opposition Members come to the Chamber so often to seek to bury Canary wharf. It is important to make it clear that Canary wharf is a great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "sted in our inner cities for every £1 of public money spent. In six years, more than 2,000 acres of inner-city land have been reclaimed, more than 43,000 jobs have been created and nearly 12,000 new homes provided—all very impressive achievements. For example, in Hull the Victoria docks site is being transformed into a new urban village, with 1,100 new homes on what was 150 acres of derelict land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": " impressive achievements. For example, in Hull the Victoria docks site is being transformed into a new urban village, with 1,100 new homes on what was 150 acres of derelict land. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] In Barnsley, a £10 million grant for the contaminated colliery site is providing 400,000 sq ft of industrial and office space, which will provide more than 1,000 much-needed new jobs in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "cres of derelict land. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] In Barnsley, a £10 million grant for the contaminated colliery site is providing 400,000 sq ft of industrial and office space, which will provide more than 1,000 much-needed new jobs in the area. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] At St. Helens, a £3.6 million grant for the Green Bank housing project is providing more than 300 homes on formerly derelict land", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "s country and in America has generally moved richer people out of cities and left the poorer people in ghettos. Planning policy in Britain, as in America, is now also moving industry out of the cities. We want to avoid the American situation whereby both people and industry have moved out of the cities, leaving craters of destruction. The Europeans have understood that problem better than we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hartley Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hartley Booth", "preceding_text": "r Newcastle upon Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson), even risked the anger of the football-supporting members of the public by pouring scorn on the English football team. We have witnessed amazing gall over the past half hour. I wish to speak because, for my sins, I have had some experience of these matters. Between 1984 and 1988, I was the Government adviser in Downing street behind the veil of secrecy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "All the main cities in Europe from London to Rome have been rebuilt through the centuries. Uniquely, the Tories—to some extent, this was illustrated by the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, North—go to all the people, regardless of whether we have councillors or Tory Members in those inner-city areas. We do it as a matter of principle; we are the party of all the people—the one-nation approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "r of Ford Motors. The next point on the circle is health. There is a Cabinet Committee called the EDR. When one is inside Government, those initials are like an umbrella. There is security in them—one knows them and likes them. That is fine. But outside Government, they are a barrier to all of us. I had better say that EDR stands for economic development and—I had better get it right—regeneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "we completed six and started none. It is impossible for someone such as my constituent Mike to find somewhere in the public sector to live. It is also an impossible situation for people suffering overcrowding. Having read out her briefing note, the hon. Lady has scooted out of the Chamber—no doubt to return to her leafy constituency of Buckinghamshire, after her brief acquaintance with Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": ". All the areas that suffer the deprivation described by some hon. Members might be able to introduce young people to pursuits that will keep them off the streets and keep them out of crime. All that is helpful. I know of the work of some of the councils in inner London and I am especially impressed by one. It will not surprise hon. Members that it is Wandsworth borough council, which has tackled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "l leaders are waiting to take up the challenge to clear derelict land sites, construct new buildings, encourage the private sector to invest, create jobs, provide training opportunities, establish confidence in the area, build or enhance cultural amenities, promote an efficient transport infrastructure and confirm the international importance of their city. It will be a real partnership of equals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.603.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-25", "file": "debates1994-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a7108b9e3c5e0e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.608.4", "colnum": "608", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "than one and a half hours after their commencement; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments to the said Motion which she may have selected and which may then be moved; notwithstanding the practice of the House the said Motion shall be regarded as a single Motion: and the above proceedings may be entered upon and proceeded with, though opposed, after Ten o'clock.— [Mr. Conway.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-25a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.620.7", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I hope that that is a stronger promise than we had from the Ministers on VAT, and that they do not renege on commitments in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.620.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "European Union", "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": "vernmental conference. In that transitional period, the presidency and all members of the Council will be legally bound to work for an agreement on the basis of a 23 vote minority. No specified time limit is set, although the Council will be required to do all in its power to reach a decision on the basis of a 23 vote blocking minority in a reasonable time. Perhaps I can spell that out more fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "European Union", "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": "ke in both areas. We want enlargement to go ahead, while adequately protecting our interests on qualified majority voting. The Cabinet will discuss the question at its meeting tomorrow morning. Let me explain not what the Cabinet will decide, because I cannot predict that, but the nature of the compromise which has been proposed and on which we shall have to take a decision tomorrow. The original—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "like to answer that. The present treaty specifies the level of the qualified majority at 54 votes out of 76. If the question had been left on one side—left untackled—the qualified majority, under an unamended treaty, would have been 54 votes out of 90, which is a blocking minority of 37. I am not sure that many in the House would have supported that. That means that the question had to be tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.638.7", "colnum": "638", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am puzzled by the hon. Gentleman. He grins, but he knows that he is well astray. The right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham), using his undoubted powers of prerogative, has tabled a private notice question, which I welcome. The hon. Member for Ross, Cromarty and Skye (Mr. Kennedy) and the House know perfectly well that the Cabinet will consider the matter tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.638.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ill he also make clear that the question of Britain's so-called veto, the need for unanimity on those decisions that require it is not, and has never been, in question during the discussions? Will he withdraw the false accusation that the Labour party has agreed to give up its power of veto in those matters? It is completely dishonest for the right hon. Gentleman to say that. Is not it also clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "he Minister a couple of questions. Following the comments of the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan), the proposal is at best controversial and at a worst dodgy. The new clause seeks to bring clauses 29 to 33 into Scottish law by way of a military back door. It would appear that much of United Kingdom military law slavishly follows English criminal law and criminal procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.678.2", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I am about to deal with the system. I said that I would do that and the hon. Gentleman, who has not been here for most of the debate, suddenly got up and asked questions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "mingham) shakes his head and winces. I am delighted that he is here to take part in the debate, because I know, as he knows, that one of the greatest complaints from both of us over the years is about the slowness of the payment of legal aid fees. He and I would much rather go to a cash delivery desk immediately we have finished a case and say, \"Pay out £100\" than wait for 12 or 18 months for £150", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "h) Act 1967. The action that the Government propose does nothing to provide the people, the funds, the resources or the strategies to tackle the problems of drugs and drug-related crime. In Committee, the Minister introduced an increase by five times in the maximum fine level for the possession of drugs. It was not asked for and it was irrelevant to the urgent problem to be tackled. Inc identally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "the matter in the House. All I want to do is promote a debate, so that we can be sure that we are judging the situation as it should be judged—dispassionately, coolly and in the interests of the population. I enter a personal note.:I have never in my life taken or used illegal substances such as cannabis. I do not know how many Conservative Members can put their hands on their hearts and say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. If we are talking about personal use, I can give him that assurance. I have never used it in my life and I can assure him that I did not try it or inhale it. I have never tried it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "s, I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. If we are talking about personal use, I can give him that assurance. I have never used it in my life and I can assure him that I did not try it or inhale it. I have never tried it— [Interruption.] I shall tell him why. It was mainly because I thought that some of people whom I saw using it at university were pretty inadequate, weedy souls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.741.2", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "ty, I hope that we can somehow get to the very depths of the case, whether it be the Birmingham, Guildford or Ulster Defence Regiment cases. The House should be seeking the truth, irrespective of what the individual involved represents or of whether, in terms of Northern Ireland, he is from one section of the community or the other. I have not heard much from Opposition Members about the UDR Four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.741.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-28", "file": "debates1994-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "8aa8624953c2fb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.768.6", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e, and Question proposed , That Mr. James Cran, Mr. Charles Hendry, Mr. Andrew Hunter, Sir James Kilfedder, Mr. Eddie McGrady, Mr. Ken Maginnis, Mr. Jim Marshall, Mr. Peter Robinson, Mr. Clive Soley, Mr. Richard Spring, Mr. John D. Taylor, Mr. David Wilshire and Mr. Mark Wolfson be members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.— [Sir Fergus Montgomery. on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-28a.768.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman will know, I shall make a statement on that matter in just a few moments. When there is dissent between 22 and 27, there will not be automatic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.791.7", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman misunderstands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.791.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "European Union (Qualified Majority Voting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was available before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": " majority voting negotiated by my right hon. Friend at the weekend meets many—although not all —of the Government's concerns. We have secured agreement that the review of qualified majority voting at the next intergovernmental conference will now include the question of thresholds. These will be reopened and re-examined, as will the number of votes attributed to each member state in the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "European Union (Qualified Majority Voting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "As no objective observer believes that this so-called compromise has achieved anything of real value for the United Kingdom, and as, as of now, my right hon. Friend has no authority, credibility or identifiable policy in this vital area of policy, why does he not stand aside and make way for somebody else who can provide the party and the country with direction and leadership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "European Union (Qualified Majority Voting)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "As no objective observer believes that this so-called compromise has achieved anything of real value for the United Kingdom, and as, as of now, my right hon. Friend has no authority, credibility or identifiable policy in this vital area of policy, why does he not stand aside and make way for somebody else who can provide the party and the country with direction and leadership? [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "European Union (Qualified Majority Voting)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Anybody listening to what my hon. Friend has had to say, not just today but at any time in the past two and a half years, would in no sense suggest that my hon. Friend was an objective observer of any related matters. I remind my hon. Friend that it might be a useful novelty if, from time to time, he was prepared to support the Government whom he was elected to support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.8", "colnum": "802", "heading": "European Union (Qualified Majority Voting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is incorrect. Twenty-seven is just over 40 per cent. of the votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.802.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "the detail—has my party been consulted. Not once have we been consulted about the times at which meetings would take place. I do not know whether this is a procedure that could be the subject of a point of order but that is the fact of the case. There was supposed to be cross-party support in the House, but we were not even asked about the matter, never mind being invited to give an opinion on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Ulster Unionist party\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "f the House said that the establishment of a Select Committee had been agreed—was obviously a political statement whose intention it was to buy political loyalties. It had nothing at all to do with the needs and requirements of Northern Ireland. Going back to the needs and requirements of the parties in Northern Ireland, one should look at what the leader of the official Unionist party said about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "e that, if any political party in the House had a right to complain that 90 minutes was not sufficient, it would be my party. On 9 March, the two previous complainers in the debate so far—the Labour party's spokesman, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara), and the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady)—took 19 minutes and 11 minutes respectively to speak during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is disgraceful that great, fat pieces of legislation that are really Bills should be dealt with by the Order in Council procedure. I put it to the hon. Gentleman, his hon. Friends and the Ulster Unionist party that the remedy lies in their own hands—in an agreed devolved government for Northern Ireland with a strong Irish dimension contained therein.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to the fact that the talks came to end in November 1992. He mistates the case. The official Unionist party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to the fact that the talks came to end in November 1992. He mistates the case. The official Unionist party [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] Very well; the Ulster Unionist party. The UUP and the DUP withdrew from the talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "No one is interested in solving problems around here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-29", "file": "debates1994-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "2e9986b72c375c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Northern Ireland Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "s. Let me say to any Conservative Members who will be with me on the Committee that I hope they will join me in encouraging it to meet occasionally—I emphasise the word \"occasionally\" deliberately, because of what I just said—in Northern Ireland. That would be useful. It would also be useful if they joined me in suggesting that the Committee visited Dublin from time to time; it will need to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-29a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.920.4", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Young", "preceding_text": "In view of Prince Philip's impending visit to Israel, where he is to receive a posthumous award on behalf of his mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.920.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " is nice to have the right hon. Gentleman so clearly on the back foot and on the defensive. What I did on Monday—or whatever day it was; I am happy to do again today—was remind the right hon. Gentleman what the Leader of the Opposition put his fist to in the Euro-socialist manifesto. I do not know whether he read it before he signed it, but what he said was that majority voting should be the norm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Trunk Roads (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "thdrawn are not part of the programme. The hon. Gentleman commented at length on non-motoring alternatives. He has again failed to take into account the fact that we are spending 40 per cent. of the total of a substantially increased budget on public transport for 10 per cent. of the journeys. In London, the ratio is 3:1 in favour of public transport—in the railways, channel tunnel infrastructure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Trunk Roads (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "t £1.4 billion is not a great deal of money and would happily spend much more, in contrast to his colleagues on the Labour Front Bench who say that they will restrain public spending. The hon. Gentleman was simply talking about spending more. The expenditure currently being devoted to London Underground is six times more in real terms than it was under the Greater London council in the late 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Trunk Roads (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Those first two exchanges have taken precisely 21 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.939.7", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Trunk Roads (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman, but I do not carry the details of every scheme in my head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.939.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "eaker. You rightly ask in the House that Back Benchers make their questions extremely short—we all support that. Is there any way that you can invite Front Benchers on both sides of the House to make their questions and answers equally short? That would have given me the chance to tell the Front Bench the disastrous news that the M62 relief road is still to go ahead and how that is resented by all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.950.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the problem that was outlined in 1986 was that the number of people with occupational pensions had remained static for 20 years, and that the Government were trying to persuade a large number of people to take on the benefits of enhanced pension provision? The 5 million people who have done that since then have acquired real benefits, have they not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; my hon. Friend must have meant that that used to be the position. I assumed that survivors' rights apply in such cases. Following those changes in 1988, individuals can now join an occupational pension scheme if their employer runs one. They can invest in a personal pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I have given way an awful number of times. Could the hon. Gentleman ration himself and possibly intervene again if he is really desperate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "ll not simply include people who are substituting a personal pension for a state earnings-related pension, but will include people who, by transferring out of a contracted-in pension scheme, are giving up a combination of an occupational pension and a state pension for a personal pension. A number of people will have done so with earnings insufficient to cover the charges levied by life insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "ation for certain types of individual. Those who are relatively high earners and those who are likely to change their jobs often may well find that personal pensions suit them a good deal better than occupational schemes. For those people, personal pensions were, and probably remain, entirely appropriate. When all this was going on, there was immense public approval for the Government's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-03-30", "file": "debates1994-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f73a3e3537da385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for clarifying his earlier statement. I hope that all hon. Members, before they make speeches and comments, will ensure that what they have to say is absolutely correct before they stand in the House and make such statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-03-30a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "The Ministry of Defence currently owns about 70,000 domestic residences, of which approximately 10,000 are vacant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that if some of our European allies continue to reduce their defence expenditure at the current rate there will be a real possibility that the concept of the WEU as a European pillar of NATO will fast become a joke?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I agree that, at a time of general instability in Europe when NATO is being called upon to carry out new tasks, it is important that all member states of the alliance—including the smaller states—should continue to make a credible contribution to the defence needs of the alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.13.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "What is the country to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should be more impressed with what the right hon. Lady has to say if she applied precisely the same criteria to many Labour authorities, not just Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.18.7", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "One of the great differences between Westminster and many of the local authorities that the hon. Gentleman is so fond of is that Westminster collects its rents, for example. If one were to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.18.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would need the leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.69.4", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "for their comments. We also attempted to keep Opposition Members informed as our thinking developed. I am well aware of their concerns and will deal with them in a moment, but I can say that we do not consider that there is a great deal between us on the matter. Amendment (a) deals with what constitutes \"a locality\" and a reasonable belief that incidents involving serious violence may take place\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.69.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "be the position if saboteurs had gone on to someone's land and were not engaged in intimidating, obstructing or disrupting anyone? Many people do not want others to come on to their land. Many people with footpaths would much prefer members of the public and their dogs to keep off the footpaths. But that is tough luck; people have a right to use footpaths. Sometimes their dogs stray from the path—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "It may not be normal activity for many people to stroll around the countryside carrying a spade, although I can think of some who have done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "ot apply solely to any specific group of people. The purpose of the proposed legislation is to provide protection for those engaging in lawful activities whoever and whatever they may be\". In other words, my right hon. and learned Friend and my hon. Friend the Minister believe that the Bill is even-handed. I have taken counsel's opinion. I am not at liberty to name him, but I am at liberty to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You should have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "otection for those engaging in lawful activities whoever and whatever they may be\". In other words, my right hon. and learned Friend and my hon. Friend the Minister believe that the Bill is even-handed. I have taken counsel's opinion. I am not at liberty to name him, but I am at liberty to say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"] I shall not, only because I have not sought the man's permission to name him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "he Member for Upminster is a very learned silk. I went to the Queen's Counsel and sought his advice, because my right hon. and learned Friend is also a learned silk, I am not a lawyer and I wanted to match legal brain power with legal brain power. The counsel's opinion was: You ask three questions: Does the Bill at present reflect the stated intentions of the Home Secretary? Answer: Yes, and no.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.117.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.119.4", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is a QC.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I have said no once. We are short of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I shall answer the question. I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman for placing in order a comment that I might otherwise not have been able to make. I do not propose to support the new clause tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.120.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.120.5", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "On that very point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": " 10,000 children have been born through IVF in the United Kingdom. That is 10,000 children who are wanted and loved, and who are growing into healthy and happy individuals. The problem is that IVF has proved so popular that there is a great shortage of eggs relative to the demand, and the HFEA has issued a consultation paper with three possible sources of ovarian tissue to keep up with the demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "dividuals. The problem is that IVF has proved so popular that there is a great shortage of eggs relative to the demand, and the HFEA has issued a consultation paper with three possible sources of ovarian tissue to keep up with the demand. [Interruption.] One of them is the possibility which has sparked such a chorus of indignation: to use foetal ovaries from abortions, stillbirths or miscarriages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-12", "file": "debates1994-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7e2357048f872b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ully by the service personnel authorities, and they and Ministers have concluded that the Select Committee's recommendation should be accepted … It is now the Government's view, following the advice of the Select Committee, that such criminal proceedings should no longer be brought. My Department has therefore accepted that the special provisions of section 1(5) of the Sexual Offences Act\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-12a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that that confidence is rooted in the fact that Britain is now a low interest rate, low inflation and growing economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.197.8", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.197.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.209.8", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Points, of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "oom of Bob Cryer. The matter concerns not just him, although it occurs to me now as he was a good friend of mine over a long period. But it would be friendly if the House could find an opportunity at 3.30 so that, when our colleagues pass away, Members who knew them well can stand up and say something about them. Will you consider that, because it would be in line with the feeling of hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.209.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ve laws on statute in Scotland where instructions have been given to the police to practise the application of those laws in what is deemed to be a favourable manner to the community. There is nothing odd about the police having such discretion—it happens all the time. In particular, it has given me cause for concern about certain homosexual activities in my constituency with regard to discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": " 1970s—indeed, to the 1960s. I refer to the false confessions, the verbals. Why did police officers verbal and invent false confessions? Because they were frustrated by the right to silence. Just when they felt that they would be able to secure the evidence demonstrating a man's guilt, the rules of evidence and the rules of the court prevented them from asking the questions or getting the answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "erbals. Why did police officers verbal and invent false confessions? Because they were frustrated by the right to silence. Just when they felt that they would be able to secure the evidence demonstrating a man's guilt, the rules of evidence and the rules of the court prevented them from asking the questions or getting the answers. [Interruption.] I do not for one moment justify any false activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I thought that we were making some progress, but that was a mealy-mouthed intervention. It is not a question of one or two cases. Everyone who has studied the matter in detail knows that more than 200 cases have been recorded and more occur each hunting season.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "nto the law. The only way to deal with the hunting issue is to have a straight vote on it—either one is for it or against it. Despite the hon. Gentleman's attempt, from a sedentary position—he took exception to that in the case of his hon. Friend—to misrepresent the position, the choice was not put before the House last night. The aim of my hon. and right hon. Friends in approaching these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " their land. It is entirely up to chief constables how they deploy their resources. It does not happen in England at the moment, even in areas where there is disruption. No landowner has the right to say, \"I want a team of policemen guarding my shoot, my ploughing match or fishing match.\" It is entirely up to the chief constables to decide whether there are sufficient grounds or sufficient public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "n in areas where there is disruption. No landowner has the right to say, \"I want a team of policemen guarding my shoot, my ploughing match or fishing match.\" It is entirely up to the chief constables to decide whether there are sufficient grounds or sufficient public— [Interruption.] We want to make progress tonight. If the Opposition want to shout me down, I am happy to resume my seat right now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " full weight of the law. It would be deplorable if anyone behaved in that way at the moment, but it will be even more so in future, and he will then be caught by the law. The point of interest for my hon. Friend is that it would be up to the courts to decide proof of intention after a notice had been served to the effect that a landowner did not want someone on his land. I cannot give a guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to delay the proceedings of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "he menace of touting does not arise. A figure of 6,000 ticket sales will cover No. 1 court and the centre court at Wimbledon. It is of particular concern to that sport, because there is much evidence that significant criminal elements are hijacking the smooth running of the championships. Our information is that activities of ticket touts are now a major and growing criminal problem. We recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "icket, football, rugby, tennis, golf and so on—the potential that they offer to the criminal element who tout tickets. I intend to highlight some of those problems. Suffice to say, I have had letters of support from various bodies, including the Professional Golfers Association, the Rugby Football Union, the Football Association, the Test and County Cricket Board and Lord's cricket ground as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Like my hon. Friend the Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Galbraith), I deplore the fact that what should have been the united voice of the Opposition parties was divided by a rather bitter and unpleasant attack on the Labour party by the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "sals, people will be breaking the law when they go to some of those areas; it will be aggravated trespass. Many people in Scotland may spend a weekend of pleasure perhaps by driving—they may even drive from my area of Linwood. Perhaps a busload of men and women who have worked hard all week will drive to the north of Scotland, cross to the beach, bring out their rods and fish without any problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "nd about sunbathing, all of them free in Scotland. I will tell the House a story and ask hon. Members to think about it. I am an hon. Member, and last year, in the company of my wife, my 15-year-old son and a friend who is very knowledgeable about the countryside, I went for a drive in the north of Scotland. We drove into an area called Inverpolly. I hope that the House is listening to this story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "d last year, in the company of my wife, my 15-year-old son and a friend who is very knowledgeable about the countryside, I went for a drive in the north of Scotland. We drove into an area called Inverpolly. I hope that the House is listening to this story. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] We stopped in a beautiful part of Sutherland, known as Inverpolly nature reserve. My friend, my young son and I got out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "and I got out. [Laughter.] This is important. Maybe we have some laughing Members here and maybe they do not want to listen to a serious point, but they could be put in the situation that I was put in. My son was shown various sorts of fauna, things that were very rare. I am not skilled in these things, but my friend happens to be. A Land Rover drew up, and a young man got out with a Welsh accent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "embers here and maybe they do not want to listen to a serious point, but they could be put in the situation that I was put in. My son was shown various sorts of fauna, things that were very rare. I am not skilled in these things, but my friend happens to be. A Land Rover drew up, and a young man got out with a Welsh accent. [Laughter.] He shouted to myself and my family, \"What are you doing here?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "or your support in this serious matter, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The gentleman proceeded to ask what we were doing there. I said that we happened to be looking at the fauna, and that my friend was explaining to my son what it is, what it means and how it arrived in Scotland. It arrived long before any Welshmen came to the area. I did not enter into any argument with the man, but I asked him who he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "e the interest in the countryside. However, there is that individual who can abuse the law, deny that freedom of movement, damage the reputation of this country and of tourism in this country, and can cost us a fortune in earnings which we desperately need. I say to the Minister that this is bad legislation. The Government are trying to crack an ant and use a tank. It is nonsense. I love Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "ve badly. A landowner can bring in an interdict to prevent a group of people from behaving badly on other people's property, so why are the Government doing this?\" I told him that it is because Scottish Office Ministers are the puppets of the Home Secretary, who says that, if England must have the legislation, Scotland must also have it. Scottish Office Ministers will come to regret that, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " saboteurs. We have one policy for the nation as a whole. The hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham) made a most striking speech. He said that he was asked, \"What are you doing here?\" He is not the only Member to have been asked that. Brian Walden asked me that question on my first day in the House of Commons and I told him that I had been elected. I can tell the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.378.2", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ense, directed against him, against hill roamers, or against anyone of that kind. The clause refers clearly to circumstances where the trespasser \"intends to intimidate\". The hon. Gentleman has never intimidated anyone with his fishing rod or anything else. I also make the point that, unless hill walkers, ramblers, Munro baggers, cyclists, anglers, ornithologists and the like intend to intimidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " these people intend to intimidate, disrupt or obstruct, there will be no question of the clause militating against them. Scotland is not immune to this kind of activity. There have been incidents—although very few—of this kind in the past. Scotland has been fortunate in not having witnessed the scale of problems encountered in parts of England, but there is every reason to take preventive action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The occupant of the Chair must be able to see an hon. Member on his feet, and I did not see anyone on his feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.380.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-13", "file": "debates1994-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "a03f38c469010e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.380.4", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The occupant of the Chair must be able to see an hon. Member on his feet, and I did not see anyone on his feet. [Interruption.] Order. I repeat that the occupant of the Chair is supposed to see an hon. Member on his feet and I did not see anyone on his feet. I have called a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-13a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.413.7", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "hancellor now answer the question that my colleagues have asked about the extension of VAT beyond fuel? Will he confirm that he has personally voted for VAT on children's clothes? Will he confirm also that he has said that it is anomalous not to have VAT on food, on books and newspapers, on rail and bus fares? In the light of those statements, will he now give the House an unconditional assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.413.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Despite the fact that the right hon. Lady has peddled an untruth and continues to do so, there is no policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.6", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Despite the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Despite the fact that what the right hon. Lady says is inaccurate and she has just been told so again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.9", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do wish that the House would listen to the comments that are being made and not make such a row. I have asked the Prime Minister politely to reflect and I hope that he will withdraw what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.10", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is aware, from what I said a few moments ago, that in both cases she has misled the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.11", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is aware, from what I said a few moments ago, that in both cases she has misled the House. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] In neither instance was treatment withheld from those patients. In both instances, they were offered better treatment. I hope that the right hon. Lady will now withdraw the imputation of a few moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.415.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Janice takes quite a lot of interest in this place and she would like to know whether it was a Conservative party that won the last four general elections, with a record 14 million votes in the last election? Could he also tell Janice whether it was a Conservative Government who imposed a higher rate of tax in 1978? Was it 40p?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Janice takes quite a lot of interest in this place and she would like to know whether it was a Conservative party that won the last four general elections, with a record 14 million votes in the last election? Could he also tell Janice whether it was a Conservative Government who imposed a higher rate of tax in 1978? Was it 40p? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Was it 60p?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "at Janice takes quite a lot of interest in this place and she would like to know whether it was a Conservative party that won the last four general elections, with a record 14 million votes in the last election? Could he also tell Janice whether it was a Conservative Government who imposed a higher rate of tax in 1978? Was it 40p? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Was it 60p? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Was it 70p?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "erest in this place and she would like to know whether it was a Conservative party that won the last four general elections, with a record 14 million votes in the last election? Could he also tell Janice whether it was a Conservative Government who imposed a higher rate of tax in 1978? Was it 40p? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Was it 60p? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Was it 70p? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Was it 90p?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.417.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.419.7", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have a procedure whereby points of order always come after business questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share my disdain at last night's attempt by BBC television to present the D-day celebrations as some kind of European election stunt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "May I add my voice to those calling for a debate on the council tax to enable the Liberal Democrats to explain in the Chamber how on earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.427.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I try to wipe the slate clean on each occasion. That is why the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) and I are such good friends today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.438.7", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Let him tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is getting his women muddled up. I was asked what my views were on universal child benefits. I said that I believed in them. I do believe in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.438.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "into school at the age of four and then not allow them to have proper nursery education, when we all believe—the Government have said this—that nursery education is good for children up to the age of five. All the research shows that nursery education is good for children. Nobody in this House disputes that. All children need it. Not only does it encourage their social and educational development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Once again, the Labour party misunderstands and misrepresents the situation. I think that most families would understand without great difficulty that the real take-home pay today of a man on average earnings has risen by more than £80 a week compared with the figure in 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "an £80 a week compared with the figure in 1979. [Interruption.] We can expect an onslaught from the Labour party: Opposition Members will not want me to inform the House that the figure rose by £1.60 in the years during which they were in power. The comparison between £80 a week and £1.60 a week speaks for itself. Families will certainly know which party will support their interests most strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend rightly says, that is a good argument for the CSA. It is also a good argument for the measures that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor announced in the Budget in terms of assistance with child care, and, indeed, for the dramatic improvements in family credit—whereas around 80,000 people benefited when the Labour party was in power around 500,000 people benefit now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "r an argument that policy issues about work and the family and the need for family-friendly employment policies must be among the agenda issues that we should be discussing. We can have fun with one another across the Floor of the House about where the money will come from and about spending commitments. As a Back Bencher, I can make billions of pounds of spending commitments and no one will care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": " party's spokesman for children. If she and her hon. Friend the Member for s Croydon, North-West shared a place on the Opposition Front Bench, with the hon. Gentleman speaking for families, it might help the Labour party to have a two-pronged approach to such issues. Many hon. Members present today will have missed the speech that I made on 17 December 1982, when I promoted a debate on the family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her contribution, and suggest that it would have been helpful if she had been at our press conference this morning. She would perhaps have got the true figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.472.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. We were promised lower income tax. We were told in the Conservative manifesto of 1992: We will make further progress towards a basic Income Tax rate of 20p. We were told by John Major: I have no plans to raise the top rate of tax or the level of national insurance contributions.\"— [Official Report, 28 January 1992; Vol. 202, c. 808.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "d with national insurance rate than people earning £7,000. That is extremely unfair, but it is not new to us. We have seen that it is part of the long-term Conservative programme. It is like Robin Hood in reverse —the Government rob the poor and give to the rich. The Institute of Fiscal Studies has found that all the tax changes between 1985 and 1995 will make the tax system much less progressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "e—where families live—burgled. That compares with three fifths of people in 1987. More than half the people surveyed fear having their home—where families live—or their possessions vandalised. Half the people surveyed fear being mugged, compared with only one third in 1987. Some 80 per cent. of people surveyed fear some form of theft. I am inundated with letters from elderly people, in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have been listening attentively to the debate and there have been sedentary interventions from both sides of the Chamber.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.481.5", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "I shall be very happy to cite people writing from a left-wing perspective on family policy. Such people have seized on cases such as that of Jasmine Beckford and presented them as examples of the failure of the family, without digging into the real circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.481.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "It is abundantly obvious that, during the past 30 years, we have suffered at the hands of left-wing ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "e is now surrounded by eight managers and people from the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers, who have shepherded her into a cold zone. She is being denied food, water and clothing. The miners have been told that if they supply her with food, clothing or water, they will face disciplinary action and dismissal. That is putting my hon. Friend's health and life at risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "id what the Labour party would do. She did evince strong confusion about what her own Front-Bench colleagues think. She did not appear to be aware, for example, that the shadow Secretary of State for Social Security has said that there was a case to examine child benefit, and to examine whether its continuation was justified. She did not know that and she continued to commit the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "e 1979. It is worth reflecting that, between 1974 and 1979, they went up not by 40 per cent. but by hardly 3 per cent. It is this party which has made sure that those who want to own their own homes can do so, and now, with a reduction in mortgage rates and record low interest rates, we find that the average family with a typical mortgage is 30 per cent. better off after tax and mortgage payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " the Child Support Act 1991. Whatever abuse we have received about that tonight, the essence of the Child Support Act is simple—that children are for life. If hon. Members scorn that message, they scorn the fundamental ambitions and fundamental views of every family. The Labour party's policies on the family, and indeed the Liberal Democrats', are straightforward: to take us back to the dark ages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-14", "file": "debates1994-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "96a1922e38e94f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Matrix Churchill Employees (Scott Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "liament in the position of my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) —with the closure of the pit—I might think it right to go there to talk to the people in the pit about the circumstances for which they have a responsibility. With great respect, Madam Speaker, will you consider carefully the possibility that, in protecting my hon. Friend, you are protecting the people who sent her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-14a.526.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-15", "file": "debates1994-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3fee6a9b3ec89fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-15a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "preceding_text": "es to prevent, reduce and minimise the effects of marine pollution. It gives him the power to acquire, maintain, use and dispose of ships, aircraft, equipment and other property; provide necessary research and training; and liaise with other bodies. The Secretary of State is not expected to perform those functions personally—to roll up his sleeves, go down to the beach and start scrubbing off oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-15a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-15", "file": "debates1994-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3fee6a9b3ec89fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-15a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " hon. Member in the House who can make a speech unaided by a detailed brief. It may even explain the expertise of my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Lady Olga Maitland). As there is more self-congratulation going around the House this morning than at the average meeting of the old Soviet Communist party, we might impose a self-denying ordinance on future congratulations to each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-15a.565.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-15", "file": "debates1994-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3fee6a9b3ec89fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-15a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "I take the point of the hon. Member for Islington, North about the intricacies of Scottish and English law. I can only repeat what I said in Committee—I absolutely refuse to get into the detail of that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-15a.589.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-18", "file": "debates1994-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "6ac08d2ad5a0c673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-18a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Banks", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that British sport is highly regarded in all parts of the world? It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-18a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-18", "file": "debates1994-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "6ac08d2ad5a0c673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-18a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": " In an unrelated incident late on Saturday night, another British service man, Marine Timothy Coates, who was serving on attachment to the UNHCR in Sarajevo, was shot dead by personnel manning a Bosnian Government checkpoint in the city. He was off duty and wearing plain clothes at the time. The House will wish to join me in sending condolences to the families of Corporal Rennie and Marine Coates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-18a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-18", "file": "debates1994-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "6ac08d2ad5a0c673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-18a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "ghting. It is also worth emphasising that there is some peace in Sarejevo, however tentative, and that life there is far better than many of us would have dared to contemplate a month ago. I am proud of the contribution that our British troops have made in Bosnia. Let me place on record the Opposition's deepest sympathy for the families of soldiers who have given their lives in the conflict there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-18a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "se of Lords judgment which interprets European law says that the Government are obliged to do so? She is obliged to say that the Government accept the judgment and will implement it; that is the rule of law. In the debate on sex discrimination, two Tory Members said that the finding of the House of Lords should not be obeyed. The thing that the Minister and no one in her party seems to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "First, I am giving in answer to the hon. Gentleman's question the only figures that I can give and the only figures that are available to me. Secondly, I am not, and neither are my Government, standing aside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Why does not the hon. Gentleman welcome the fall in unemployment? Why does not he welcome the fall in interest rates, which reduces that mortgage pressure? Why does not he welcome the increase in numbers in employment? Why is he so concerned to peddle misery and unhappiness to his constituents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There was so much noise going on in the House that I did not hear what the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "rder. There was so much noise going on in the House that I did not hear what the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) said. [Interruption.] Order. If there was less noise, I would have done so. I believe that she used a phrase which last week was unacceptable to me. If that is the case, it is still unacceptable to me now, and I ask the hon. Lady, before we proceed any further, to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "In that case, it was unacceptable to me last week and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "In that case, it was unacceptable to me last week and— [Interruption.] Order. It was rephrased last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.8", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister rephrased that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.732.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "at way is professionally qualified to look after children. That is very much to be encouraged. Child care by people who have nursery nursing qualifications is to be highly recommended and encouraged, and it is frequently provided outside the institutional framework. What worries me about the new clauses is that a bias is being introduced in the tax system in favour of institutionalised child care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "arting point for three to five-year-olds is as follows. While in France and Belgium 95 per cent. of children have access to nursery education, in Italy and Denmark the figure is 85 per cent., and in Germany, Greece and Spain up to 70 per cent. of children receive nursery education, in the United Kingdom only 35 per cent. of children have such access. We are second to bottom of the European league.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "e of child care which is not the first choice of parents or experts. The last word is the giveaway. The truth is that the Opposition are more interested in the views of experts on collective provision than they are in the views of parents about how their children should best be cared for. Before I pursue the argument any further, I should declare an interest. I am the father of an 18-year-old son—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.822.11", "colnum": "822", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ctural changes which are needed if partnerships are to develop. Public money should be used in a way which maximises the benefit to the community, which includes public infrastructure. If public funds are applied and they in turn attract public funding, aggregate spending is increased, bringing both direct and indirect benefits. Our concept of public-private partnership is ambitious and expensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.822.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith)—except for his reference to what he called the Government's \"mismanagement\" over the past 15 years. I suspect that in a quiet moment, and perhaps only privately to me and not on the Floor of the House, the right hon. Gentleman would confess that what has happened over the past 15 years would probably have happened whatever Government had been in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " industry a fillip, it would undertake more work, provide more jobs in the United Kingdom and provide itself with a good base for undertaking the fantastic projects that are available to construction companies throughout the world. We have a fine history of carrying out some of the most successful infrastructure and civil engineering projects overseas. Sadly, I shall be voting with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I could never forget that. We have seldom had a more colourful Deputy Speaker. You are always in my eye, especially today because of the bright colours that you are wearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-19", "file": "debates1994-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb811141497a3fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "lesfield (Mr. Winterton) referred to his 23-year career in this place. He will probably be aware that I spent some time, in a minor capacity, doing my best, 23 years ago, to prevent him getting here. Indeed, one of the narrowest escapes of my political life was not being selected as his opponent in the subsequent general election. He has mellowed considerably in the 23 years that he has been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-19a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.868.4", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "lf. The only party in the House that has no right to talk about the environment is the Liberal party because it has reneged on all its willingness to support those matters. The Labour party must remember that I have criticised only the fact that it has the vast majority of the councils which demand the most money for the least services. It costs £131 more to pay the council tax in Labour councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker—third time lucky. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "Lady; what we have had is the sound of public flannelling. The hon. Lady aspires to be the guardian of the nation's coffers, but the amendments that she tabled demonstrate that she is as committed as any other member of the Labour party to higher public spending and borrowing. That is especially notable, given that the hon. Lady was not a great contributor to our debates in the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady rehearsed by quoting from those election addresses in Committee. Given that the public sector borrowing requirement was nearly £50 billion, what would the hon. Lady have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "Friend the shadow Secretary of State for Social Security. He is anxious that we should have an open, honest and straightforward debate, which has at its heart the interests of pensioners now and in the future. That was at the core of his concerns. The truth is catching up with the Chancellor, as nervous Tory Back Benchers mutter against him behind their hands in the Tea Room. Those who hailed him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.937.2", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "p and then denied that he had made those promises. He did not tell the truth about tax increases and would not tell the truth about living standards. He is still not telling the truth about the economy, but the truth has caught up with him, no matter how he has tried to evade it. People do not want to hear any more fairy tales from the Government—they want to know the truth. They can trust Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "elf and his officials, who all say that it is vital that we reduce the burdens of bureaucracy. I invite my hon. Friend to consider just one lesson from the private sector. Any successful business man will know that, to sell a product successfully, one first has to establish a brand image. Opposition Members may say otherwise, but that is the fact of the matter, and you cannot take it away from us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "s not need reminding that, in 1979, when the Conservative Government came to power, the top rate of personal taxation was potentially 98p in the pound. The only reason why it was no higher was that, if they had taken another tuppence from those people, there would have been absolutely no point in their working at all. The Conservative party have proved in government, without any shadow of a doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "bruary. The CBI survey has precisely tracked the level of confidence tracked by Gallup in relation to individual consumers. If Conservative Members are not satisfied with either the evidence of their own constituents or that of the surveys that I have mentioned, particularly the Gallup survey, perhaps we should examine what is arguably the most authoritarian view—I am sorry; I meant authoritative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "have risen. The Government's approach to borrowing could hardly be described as prudent, certainly not by the hon. Member for Havant. The Chief Secretary has set the tightest public spending parameters in recent history, and is boasting about it. The House will be interested to learn that the first Bill to be called a Finance Bill became law in 1894, so this year is the centenary of Finance Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "n usual. The House has not discussed departmental spending plans since May 1991. It was some unified Budget. We complained about those points during the passage of the Bill. Conservative Members complained about procedural issues as well, and outside bodies that like to make representations to us complained that it was unsatisfactory. Some of those reservations were shared by Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tax-raising measures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "uring the full three years of that plan. That was the first key element of re-establishing proper control of public finances. The second key element, which we all know is not enormously popular but which is indispensable, is the revenue-raising measures that were included in the 30 November Budget, following on from the Budget of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Thames last March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. William Hague)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. William Hague)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Maternity Allowance and Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations 1994, which were laid before this House on 24th March, be approved. The improved maternity payments introduced by these regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-20", "file": "debates1994-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d23dda39b007ca1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": "leman's case, that will be West Lothian—begin life with all their functions essentially on board. The hon. Gentleman also suggested that this was Treasury-driven. Under the present rules—which have, of course, been changed—the cash received by the Scottish Office from the sale of the assets of the Scottish new towns remains, in effect, within the Scottish budget. It is spent elsewhere in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-20a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1021.10", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n made, and Question proposed, That the Committee on the Crossrail Bill have leave to visit and inspect the site of the proposed works and areas affected by the proposed works, provided that no evidence shall be taken in the course of such visit and that any party who has made an appearance before the Committee be permitted to attend by his Counsel, Agent or other representative.— [Mr. Arbuthnot.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1021.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I do not know where the hon. Gentleman has been this week. We announced that crime overall in West Yorkshire fell by 1 per cent. last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1031.7", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman reveals himself in his true colours. He talks about a haven for asylum seekers. I have already given the figures of the number of people who have proved to be genuine refugees when their cases have been heard. The hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1031.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Eight murderers released on licence since 1979 have been convicted of a subsequent murder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Royal British Legion, took place in February 1993. The main focus of the programme will be in Portsmouth and Normandy over the weekend of 4 to 6 June. The Archbishop of Canterbury will lead an open air service of remembrance attended by Heads of State and Government from the allied countries that took part in the Normandy landings. There will be similar services in Normandy the following day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "that unit, and its commitment to bringing child pornographers and paedophiles to book? Is he aware of the strength of our belief that the squad should be given more resources and more power within the restructuring process? The proposal to disband it will be applauded by peddlers of pornography throughout the United Kingdom. Can my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the subject very soon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Thank you Madam Speaker. Thank you, thank you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am always riveted by the proceedings in the Chamber and am not interested in what goes on elsewhere. However, I have interested myself in the matter and made inquiries. It was a foreign camera woman who did not understand our regulations and took some film. The film has since been confiscated. Is everybody happy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "as my hon. Friends the Members for Dulwich (Ms Jowell) and for Lewisham, East (Mrs. Prentice), both of whom have drawn attention to the problem of assaults. My hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich has persuaded Network SouthEast to provide a £40,000 grant, in addition to the significant contribution from Labour-controlled Southwark council, to improve safety at four of the eight stations in Dulwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about the channel tunnel link. He must understand that we have invested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Government and the GLC in 1978–79. The total investment in London Transport between 1974 and 1979 was less in real terms than capital investment this year. That is what we are doing now. It is no wonder that the hon. Gentleman does not like it. We are spending more now in real terms than was spent throughout the whole period of the Labour Government. Capital investment in the rail industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Pattie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Pattie", "preceding_text": "more cars to take it up. That has been proved time and again, and the M25 is a good example. It was conceived as an orbital road around London to take traffic from the Channel ports away from London and it has worked well in that sense. It was not realised that people would take jobs at extraordinary distances. We have all met people who work in Guildford but live in amazing places like Braintree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about finance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": " there is a free market hotch-potch of jumbled journeys. A sensible objective to map out in the bus industry would be to return to 1985 levels of usage by the end of the century. The Government should establish targets for a comprehensive bus priority system in every town, for grants to modernise the bus fleets, for increased revenue support grants for comprehensive service networks in every area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are behind the times, Bob.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "r trains are introduced across the southern region, many of our constituents who have had to suffer a poor and unreliable service for many years will benefit. I want to pick up a point made by the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Ms Hoey), who referred to the need for a new Greater London council. I believe that it is now the official policy of the Labour party that such a council should be set up again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Not only that: what will it do? When I was a Minister in the Department of Education and Science I was involved in the abolition of the GLC, and I personally abolished the Inner London education authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1092.5", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "I look forward to getting my answers later. The point of an Opposition Supply day, surely, is to highlight what they perceive as weaknesses in Government policy and to give the Opposition a chance to set out their own wares. They have singularly failed to do the latter today. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1092.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Day", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Day", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heppell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heppell", "preceding_text": "cially beneficial lines. I know that the Minister will come forward with statistics to show how much investment the Government have put into the railways, and how much money they have spent on trying to retain the viability of public transport. That will not wash with the people in Nottingham any more. When Ministers say that they think that it is justifiable to lie to Parliament some of the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1130.2", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How exciting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": " made by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras on his allies in my county doubly unfair. Hon. Members may ask whether I would like to compare that record with the Government's policies, which have produced good transport developments in my constituency. The Market Harborough bypass, for instance, was opened by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Public Transport 18 months or two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "th-east. Whether they are stuck in a car or taxi in a traffic jam, delayed because their train to London is late, trying to survive a power failure on London Underground, stuck waiting in the rain for a bus that shows no sign of arriving and generally experience the day-to-day horrors of transport in London, Conservative Members know what a mess the Government have made of London's housing policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "make of the Minister for Transport in London, who categorically assured the House last year that the travelcard would continue in form and in substance in terms of price and in real terms? The Minister knew that, just one month later, the travelcard would increase in price by more than 6 per cent.—far greater than the rate of inflation—and, on the lower bands, it would increase by some 9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "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": "ns made by the hon. Members for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) and for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) were negative, ignorant of basic transport policies and, most important, very expensive. First, why was the policy of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras negative? The Opposition Front-Bench team have voted for the past 14 years against every sensible transport policy put before the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": " and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) and for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) were negative, ignorant of basic transport policies and, most important, very expensive. First, why was the policy of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras negative? The Opposition Front-Bench team have voted for the past 14 years against every sensible transport policy put before the House [Interruption.] Let us go through them", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "urn of the year, for the construction of the necessary infrastructure modernisation on the west coast main line, and work to start next summer. That is real progress. We have also believed in the importance of introducing reforms to our railways. The franchising programme will commence in 1995. It is important that it is done properly. That is why it is being done in stages. I can tell the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "only for London but for other great cities, is of great benefit to the travelling public and we do not wish to undermine the travelcard in any way. My hon. Friend the Minister for Transport in London, who I thought was going to take the debate at one stage—he made some effective interventions—will privatise London buses this year and we shall come to the deregulation of London buses in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "comprehensive policy to achieve them. On deregulation, the Conservative party does not fall into the trap of setting, in an integrated transport policy, targets that are pious hopes. We believe in providing flexibility of transport and freedom of choice. The third aspect of Opposition Front-Bench Members' contributions to the debate was the expensive nature of their policies. We kept a check list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "tor would finance the west coast main line, the Avon metro, the Northern line and the channel tunnel rail link—a total of £4.1 billion. The hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill) added to that list the docklands light railway extension, the east London line and Thameslink 2000—another £1 billion. That makes a total of £5.1 billion. Does the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras seek to correct me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's figures are wrong. It is not £460 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-21", "file": "debates1994-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "301dcc7ac7613bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "tween the Conservative party and all the Opposition parties is that they—particularly the Labour party—have advocated the continuation of state socialism—state control of our public sector utilities. Opening the debate, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras spoke for 43 minutes and mentioned the passenger not once. He mentioned the unions five times, but did not mention the passenger at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-21a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-22", "file": "debates1994-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "17de7a2ac333ee72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-22a.1180.6", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "and central Government the power to draw up a plan for my house, saying what I needed to do to improve its energy efficiency, without my permission. Secondly, it would give them the power to say when I should do the work to the house. Thirdly, they would have the power to force me to do the work on time. Fourthly, they could have the right of entry to my home, as and when required for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-22a.1180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-22", "file": "debates1994-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "17de7a2ac333ee72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-22a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I must immediately declare that I am unalterably opposed both to new clause 1 and to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-22a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-22", "file": "debates1994-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "17de7a2ac333ee72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-22a.1218.7", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that it is too late. It is unusual for any hon. Member to speak so softly that he is not heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-22a.1218.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-25", "file": "debates1994-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "fbd01dfeb5e612c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I would advise the hon. and learned Gentleman not to take seriously every anecdote that he reads about who asked for what and when. He will agree that the dual key is essential. We cannot have a situation in which those who are responsible on the ground find that those who are responsible in the air are doing something without regard to their own information or their own interests, or vice-versa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-25", "file": "debates1994-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "fbd01dfeb5e612c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Education and Upbringing", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "preceding_text": "voting for grant-maintained status, which they achieved a year ago. It would be a serious rebuff to them if they were denied their sixth form now, and a blow to the principle of single-sex education at sixth form level—an experience from which I benefited but not, I hasten to add, at a girls' school. At an earlier age in the course of my chequered education, however, I attended two girls' schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-25", "file": "debates1994-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "fbd01dfeb5e612c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Education and Upbringing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e the problem seriously. The motion addresses a problem which has been experienced especially in the past decade. We have seen the drive towards the local management of schools; I entirely agree with the Government on the need to give schools greater independence and control over finances. Labour local authorities were pioneering the idea long before the great education reform Bill was introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-25", "file": "debates1994-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "fbd01dfeb5e612c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "HMSO Trading Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way because it gives me an opportunity to say that, like the hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Garrett), I welcome the order. May I take this opportunity to pay a tribute to the work of HMSO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-25a.78.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wake up.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.98.8", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that a recent study of in-patients leaving hospital showed them to be less well nourished than they were when they entered hospital? Will he discuss the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.98.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.98.9", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that the Minister cannot hear what the hon. Lady is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.98.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "In other words, it is true: another grotesque waste of taxpayers' money has occurred. Is not the Prime Minister's game to delay this and any other bad news until after the local and European elections are over? Why not tell the truth for once before an election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "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 one will find that across Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bogus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Have you received a request from the Chancellor of the Duchy to make a statement on today's revelation of the Cabinet Office efficiency scrutiny report, which shows that the cost of employing consultants —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Have you received a request from the Chancellor of the Duchy to make a statement on today's revelation of the Cabinet Office efficiency scrutiny report, which shows that the cost of employing consultants —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bogus.\"]—that the savings from employing consultants is only 2 per cent. of the cost of using them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.105.2", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is a simple answer: no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.110.4", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to determine which Ministers should be present. All Ministers have a collective responsibility for Government legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Trimble), especially in debates on law and order. He always poignantly reminds us of the law and order issues in Ulster which should be at the forefront of our minds, given all the tragedies that the people of Ulster have experienced for far too long. I see that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department has temporarily left the Chamber to speak to his officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to catch your eye. When my right hon. and learned Friend made his 27 announcements at our party conference, my constituents were overjoyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "HoN MEMBERS: \"Hallelujah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "nding Committee that considered the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. That excellent Bill implemented 19 of my right hon. and learned Friend's measures. The other part of the double-barrelled approach to reforming our criminal justice system is the Bill before the House. It will implement a further six of my right hon. and learned Friend's proposals—all those that require legislative change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "n they speak about a national police force. I emphasise—it is made absolutely clear—that there are no plans at present for the amalgamation of two or more police forces. In any event, speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the party, I do not see what is wrong with the idea of a national police force. Hon. Members will recall that the police force was begun by Robert Peel on a local basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ee what is wrong with the idea of a national police force. Hon. Members will recall that the police force was begun by Robert Peel on a local basis. [Interruption.] I am very pleased that I have finally woken up those on the Opposition Front Bench. The local police forces were set up to show their difference from the Army which had formerly undertaken policing. We have moved a long way since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"His batman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ry and how it works against the interests of justice. He has also talked of the importance of the Lord Chancellor being a bulwark against this encroaching tendency. In the House of Commons, we suffer from the fact that we do not have the Lord Chancellor before us: we have only his Parliamentary Secretary. Fond though we are of him, the Lord Chancellor's valet is no substitute for his own presence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Gladly. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) and the hon. Gentleman mentioned the Scottish part of the Bill. The Scottish provisions mainly cover issues that are dealt with on a Great Britain basis, such as rank structure and conditions of service. Therefore, it is appropriate for them to be included in a Great Britain Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The White Paper, which the hon. Gentleman will have read, anticipated that the number of magistrates courts committees would come down from the present 105 to something in the order of 50 to 60—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "tion. It fails to allow for the extra bureaucracy that is inevitable, and it does nothing to provide the cash needed to fight or to prevent crime. It does not deserve the support or even the tolerance of the House. We are told: Present expenditure on the police in England and Wales is currently over £6 billion annually. The Bill is not expected to have a direct effect on the level of expenditure\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-26", "file": "debates1994-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2370faaa1d90d723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "Order. We are debating the money resolution. If the hon. Member returns to it, he will be in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-26a.206.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheerio.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.227.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.249.10", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, it was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Allason", "preceding_text": "It was not removed arbitrarily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.249.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "preceding_text": " question by saying this was a case of taking away existing rights. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has some Tory respect for existing rights. That is a reactionary viewpoint but at least one that I respect. Convention 87, to which a Labour Government signed up, specifically excludes the armed services from its ambit. In most countries, organisations engaged in highly confidential matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "years before that happens. A Labour Government will lift the ban. My right and learned hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition reaffirmed Labour's commitment and made our position clear on the 10th anniversary of the ban when he spoke at Cheltenham. He said that one of the first actions of a Labour Government would be to lift that ban. I have not the slightest doubt that that pledge will be kept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "I have made the point twice that none of the workers at GCHQ was disloyal. Indeed, I think that I am right in saying that it has never been claimed that a single worker at GCHQ was disloyal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.271.7", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. French", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I am coming now to another point that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.271.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": " proposition that in 1984 the Prime Minister and the Government took arbitrary action is utter nonsense. As for the International Labour Organisation, many Conservative Members who have studied its history will have considerable reservations about any judgment or criticism from that quarter. Certainly, until the mid-1950s, the ILO was regarded virtually as a branch of Soviet military intelligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I must tell the hon. and learned Gentleman again: there were some reductions in cover. Some material may therefore have been missed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ons in cover. Some material may therefore have been missed—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Opposition Members seem to think that unimportant, yet we are talking about a time of state-sponsored terrorism and of the Soviet Union being on the borders of Poland. Opposition Members clearly believe that some drop in cover was all right. Now we know what price to put on the Labour party's commitment to patriotism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. To start with the last argument that I made, if an act contravenes the ordinary criminal law of the country the act complained of will be investigated by the police. They act independently. If, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.304.6", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ircumstances, attempting to interrupt them, but in many cases it would be impossible to say that their immediate consequence would be an impact on the United Kingdom or its citizens. They would therefore be outwith the provisions of the amendment. Finally, let me comment on a point made by the hon. Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) and supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Brownhills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "udicial review of the warrant procedure relates to the serious crime category. However, I am prepared to debate the general principle, if that is in order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The real question before the House is whether in the three categories the warrants should be issued by the Secretary of State or by a judge. I strongly urge the House to accept that the warrants should be issued by a judge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.336.10", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The amendments relate to the tribunal and the oversight committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.336.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "he Bill will be the extent to which it is able to oblige the security services to put a stop to the nonsense that has occurred in the past. The problem will not arise immediately because it is in the nature of things that, whichever Government happen to be in office, the security services tend to be under the control of the friends of one political party—the party which is presently in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-27", "file": "debates1994-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "188833917dff0e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intelligence Services Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "tee experience. The Bill is the product of a Government who are terrified of facing a Select Committee. For all these reasons a great opportunity has been missed. That is a sad thing to have to say. It could all have been so much easier. We could have completed today's proceedings in a fraction of the time that it has taken to reach this stage. However, I welcome the Bill, despite my reservations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-27a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows, there was never any question but that he or any other right hon. or hon. Member could visit Bart's or any other hospital. The right hon. Gentleman wished to do what he has done on so many occasions in the past and take the opportunity of turning the national health service into a political football—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "If there was never any question about myself or other Opposition spokespeople being allowed to visit Bart's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.376.5", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Robertson) to order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.382.7", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "in today's press that the Chancellor plans to abandon social security payments on mortgage interest. The Leader of the House will find it reported just above the headline, Curb Portillo 'Treachery' pals tells PM and alongside the headline, \"Major slaps down Ginny\". May I ask—or invite—the Leader of the House to reopen discussions on the Jopling report with the parliamentary Opposition with a view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.382.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will have read in The Daily Telegraph this week a two-page article about Lloyd's, the future of insurance in the United Kingdom, and the serious years that Lloyd's has ahead of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Chair hopes to be able to hear what the Secretary of State has to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " political monkey. It insults Londoners, it insults their health service and it insults everyone working in that health service. So did the shameless behaviour of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith), who wished to visit Bart's this morning, did not even have the courtesy to inform the local Member of Parliament, then wished only to go if he could go in a media circus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention because he rightly says that I have a degree in sociology. I have two degrees in sociology —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "That is the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.413.7", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us have a bit of order on the Labour Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.413.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ocal election gimmick run. In London this year, an extra £135 million will be available for community care—77 per cent. above the level of grant last year. I do not recall—I do not know whether my hon. Friends do—the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras mentioning that Camden has had a 100 per cent. increase—£5.3 million—for community care this year. I wonder whether any of my hon. Friends did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.416.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is all waffle.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ew community services, provide more and better-trained doctors and nurses working in the community and target the vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and mentally ill, who most need that community-based help. This year, investment in London's primary care has doubled, amounting to more than £85 million. Well over 700 projects are under way, contributing to arrangements in a variety of services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ondon was not an option; it is a sign of the Labour party's hypocrisy that he has been written out of the script for uttering such politically incorrect views. Labour has turned its back on that wide consensus today because it puts its own short-term interests above those of the NHS, and above those of patients. Next week's elections in London are not about the NHS; they are about social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " we have heard denigrating remarks about accountants. Only Labour believes that a health service can spend more than £100 million a day without needing good accountants. It is one of the largest, most complex organisations, providing vital services; it needs good, effective managers and accountants. That is why we owe so much to Sir Roy Griffiths and his report on management in the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the hon. Gentleman attempts to answer, let me say that there have been two interventions since he began speaking and both have been lengthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Hughes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Hughes", "preceding_text": "for the south-east London health authority must buy a cheaper service and people will have to go to Brighton to receive the care. That is not what the health service is supposed to be about, but it is the danger of the Government's policies. As the advertisements on hoardings in London say, the service is so run by accountants and fundholders that everything is determined by cost rather than care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "preceding_text": "As most doctors are card-carrying Tories, it is hardly surprising that they opposed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "preceding_text": "e one has to listen to the advice and have faith in their doctors but with all the financial and budget problems, especially at the end of the financial year, in the back of our minds we have this constant worry, is it really down to medical reasons\"— or, asks my constituent, is the non-removal due to lack of finances? That is typical of the doubts and suspicions put into the minds of patients by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "use could be saved, as it is cherished and has tremendous community support? As the borough of Richmond has no general hospital, my constituents go to several different general hospitals outside the borough. I have already mentioned the West Middlesex University hospital. Some constituents go to Kingston hospital, Queen Mary's University hospital, Roehampton, Charing Cross hospital or Hammersmith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not give way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I cannot give way. The hon. Lady knows very well that she is not very happy in Parliament. I shall not give way to her, for reasons that she knows very well, quite apart from the lack of time. There is a limit of 95 per cent. and 63 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-28", "file": "debates1994-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e5b7c9998161c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": " that the Government have been putting in? There are 2 per cent. fewer GPs, 5 per cent. fewer health visitors, 11 per cent. fewer district nurses, but there are 32 per cent. more managers. That shows the Government's priority and the system that they want to operate. Let no one say—not even the Minister—that we do not have a two-tier health service. I shall give him an example —a phone call today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-28a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-29", "file": "debates1994-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "7dad27b5b174c337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-29a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ten only to the Prime Minister. Although some of them respect him as a Prime Minister, they do not respect him as a party philosopher, an ideologue or a great thinker about the future of Conservatism. However, Conservative Members might listen to two other voices which I shall quote briefly. The first is the Secretary of State for Social Security, the right hon. Member for St. Albans (Mr. Lilley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-29a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-04-29", "file": "debates1994-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "7dad27b5b174c337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-29a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ember for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) who, in a marvellous peroration, put forward the Conservative party philosophy with, dare I say it, such conviction that I almost felt the desire to invite him to join us on this side of the House. As he rightly said, it is Conservative party philosophy that we are one nation. He quoted Winston Churchill. I shall quote from another speech of Winston Churchill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-04-29a.548.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Wherever possible, we want young people to be able to choose whether to continue their studies in a school sixth form or a college. Where there is demand, therefore, I hope that grant-maintained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.587.4", "colnum": "587", "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—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must come to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Defence made it clear last year that the Rosyth dockyard has a programme of allocated work stretching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Defence made it clear last year that the Rosyth dockyard has a programme of allocated work stretching— [Interruption.] Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will wait for just a moment. It was made clear by my right hon. and learned Friend that the Rosyth dockyard has a programme of allocated work stretching well into the next century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.590.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Employment Protection (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "6 lb. When she asked why, the Virgin spokeswoman said that they at Virgin had an image to keep up and that they only liked to hire young, thin men and women. When my intern protested that she was very athletic and in good shape, she was told again that she would have to lose weight. Virgin informed her that, in any case, it only offered a certain size of uniform and that she would not fit into it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ny as four different bodies—the Department for Education, the Higher Education Funding Council, the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and the teaching as a career unit. The last two of those bodies will be abolished under our reforms; there will therefore be a reduction in the number of public bodies involved. The Teacher Training Agency will be very much more than a funding body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "That matter is ultimately for governors to resolve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ably longer education. I sometimes doubt whether it is even higher education. Labour wants higher education, instead of doing something for the person who matters the most—the child in the classroom. I do not know the views of the Secretary of State, but there should be staff colleges like those in the services. Once again, people should not be brought in from universities and all that other crap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "d for primary schools and I applied for jobs in primary schools. At that time, there was a surplus of teachers and I was not appointed. One day when I came out, the deputy education officer for Lancashire touched me on the shoulder and asked whether I would like to start tomorrow as a head of department in a secondary school. I said yes. That is what the Secretary of State should do with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ering that question, for two reasons. First, I made it plain that I did not wish to deal with the detail of the Bill, or the administrative implications, in my short speech. Secondly—I think that the hon. Gentleman will agree with me here—I am strongly against excessive interference by those of us who are outside schools in what is done by head teachers, departmental heads and individual teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may have missed the point about the whole principle of a trainee teacher going into schools. For years, trainee teachers have been complaining that their courses are so bound up in theory that they never learn the art of classroom management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "s good not only for students but for schools. Students and teacher trainers bring to schools new ideas and materials. Indeed, the link between schools and higher education that is part of the current arrangements can contribute to a school's professional development. The Bill is so unnecessary that one must assume that there is more to it than meets the eye. An intervention by the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surprise, surprise\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "dictment of the Labour party, that it feels unable to condemn a teaching union that recommends such disreputable action. It shows, I suppose, that the Labour party is still in the pocket of the trade unions. Most of the speeches in the debate so far have concentrated on the teacher-training aspects of the Bill, so I shall concentrate on the second part of the Bill, which relates to student unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": " that my right hon. Friend will be delighted to hear that. He may remember that I initiated an Adjournment debate on the subject in June 1992. Last December I had the pleasure of speaking to Conservative students at Hull university. Before the meeting I went into the student union shop to buy a newspaper, only to find that The Sun and The Daily Star were banned on the ground that they were sexist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be one of those who is having a go at my right hon. Friend. I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be one of those who is having a go at my right hon. Friend. I have— [Interruption.] I have a great deal of respect for him and I like him very much. I, for one, think that he is doing a jolly good job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure of the relevance of that point. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure of the relevance of that point. It is— [Interruption.] I suppose that it is typical that one hears an intervention which is of no interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Sadly, I have naught for my hon. Friend's reassurance. As I understand the Labour party's policy, inasmuch as it has one, it seems to have learnt nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend refers to Opposition Members as Bourbons, and he is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "preceding_text": "r to the Teacher Training Agency of the property, rights and liabilities … of the Teaching as a Career Unit. What will happen to the Wales office of the teaching career unit? It has done good work and I hope that it will not come under the aegis of the TTA, which we very much wish to see as an English institution. I would like to see the Bill amended to make it quite clear that it will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": " to learn the job in schools is to allow them to learn from the experienced teachers who are already there, and to gain expertise in the task first hand. We have heard many disparaging remarks about my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. I can only say that I regard his tenure as an enormous success: he has produced many considerable achievements, and the Bill is another step along the road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Davies", "preceding_text": "974, we were wrestling with millions of functionally illiterate people. The Government suggestion that the old forms of training and skills, and the old schools, produced a literate and numerate society is hogwash. The Bill is a horse bred of populism and prejudice. The old nag is meant to chase around the parliamentary course once again. It has already been subject to some parliamentary scrutiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-03", "file": "debates1994-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ae64847c2ecb48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERs:Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": " spoke as ever with some passion on that. Out of a speech with which I did not substantially agree, I must take the hon. Lady up on one point. All participating schools will require their student teachers to go into more than one school. That will be an essential part of the scheme. My hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) made a characteristically trenchant and interesting speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-03a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory)", "preceding_text": "The Greek Government are committed to the policies of NATO and the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am sorry for the delay, Madam Speaker, but we are a little short of Ministers today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.706.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I called Sir Thomas Arnold, but Mr. Jacques Arnold thought that I had called him. I now call Sir Thomas Arnold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "one. That means that a new risk faces the British soldier in the form of land mines. I know, having spoken to our commanders and General Rose out there, that probably tens of thousands of land mines pose a threat to our soldiers. What is the Government's approach to that and what role do they see the British Army playing in the defusing of those land mines? For example, is it the view of the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "bers of our armed forces. If he assumes that post, it will no longer be a case of someone from the Treasury emasculating the armed forces of this country from a safe distance. He will be stationed at the Ministry of Defence, making it even easier for him to wrap his hands around the neck of the British armed forces. It will be a sad day if that person ends up in charge of the British armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.738.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman reads Hansard tomorrow, he will realise that he has been misquoting me. My constituents, many of whom vote Labour, would like to know the Labour party's policy on defence—not on diversification or on criticism of the Government. The hon. Gentleman owes it to the House to state what that policy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "There is a brief three-part answer to that. First, we do not attack defence sales per se. Secondly, we are against defence sales to countries that are controlled by dictators. Thirdly, we are even more against defence sales when the British Government sell to countries which are run by horrendous dictators and then lie to Parliament about whether they are doing so, as they did in the case of Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "g said so often from this Dispatch Box that Ministers groan when it is brought up. We have said that such a review is a way not of avoiding hard decisions but of confronting hard decisions. There are few people left in Britain, inside or outside the defence community, who, after three years, do not agree with what the Labour party has been saying. The Select Committee on Defence has argued for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "e that he has gone to somewhere called Fox—I make no further comment. He said: A proper defence review is needed. This is The Sunday Times, not the Labour party. He continued: The Foreign Office fears it, because it would mean Britain's withdrawal from areas such as Cyprus, where we maintain a post-imperial pretence. The government as a whole resists it because it fears the political consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "'s withdrawal from areas such as Cyprus, where we maintain a post-imperial pretence. The government as a whole resists it because it fears the political consequences. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] Hon. Members need not tell me that it is rubbish; they should tell Mr. Neil of The Sunday Times : he wrote this. He went on: The government as a whole resists it because it fears the political consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": " fiction. Secondly, at any given moment, units from each of the British Army's eight brigades will all be in the middle of completing an emergency tour. In summary, Farndale argues that the minimum number of battalions is 64, and the minimum number of troops required is not 119,000, as the Government say, but 132,000, which I believe is much nearer to the figures suggested by the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I absolutely confirm that it is a Labour commitment to provide resources to match our commitments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "oes through all the figures and shows a shortfall of about 12,000. Perhaps for once the Minister is right; time will tell. If we achieve the 24–month tour interval, I shall accept that graciously. But we both agree that, in the meantime, there is overstretch. That goes without saying, because we have not met the target—and I doubt whether it can be met. I have spoken at considerable length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": " That goes without saying, because we have not met the target—and I doubt whether it can be met. I have spoken at considerable length—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I know that many hon. Members, especially Conservative Members, want to speak. They always complain that few Opposition Members speak on military matters, so I know that they would be more than happy for me to continue for another hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Hamilton", "preceding_text": "any savings illusory for a long time to come, while the capital costs of rehousing the men were absorbed. I must also tell the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell) that there are 300 tanks in the Rhine Army. I am not sure how their return would fit in with the environmental concerns of the Liberals. If they trained in Britain, they might cause a certain amount of difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I have read the paper to which the hon. Gentleman refers, as he recommended during our last debate on the subject. The fact that we have always got it wrong in the past should not prevent us from trying again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.780.6", "colnum": "780", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I must move on, as I know that many other hon. Members wish to speak. Perhaps we can debate the matter later outside the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.780.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-04", "file": "debates1994-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "531ac7e5d788283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.802.5", "colnum": "802", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jerry Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jerry Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ands. In the margins of that, will they also have a look at the infrequency of the RAF service to the Falklands? Obviously, I can only ask questions about the flights that are available to the public, but the reliability of the RAF airline is so poor as to be deplorable. \"Front Line First\" is the message, and I think that we would all support that. It means that the Territorial Army —our reserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-04a.802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-05", "file": "debates1994-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "82848d6b82a5e15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-05a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He wants to ask about business for next week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is a long-serving parliamentarian, and he knows that the Leader of the House should not be asked questions about House matters during business questions. Those questions should be put to the Leader of the House during his own Question Time. This is about the business for next week, not House matters or filing cabinets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-05a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.938.10", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chiropractors Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spring", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.938.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.939.7", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chiropractors Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend consider the point that the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) has already made points of order and interventions, and has taken up far more of the House's time than has any other hon. Member present? With respect, that is not in any way unusual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.939.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chiropractors Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "ended by many eminent authorities and put in place a system of regulation for chiropractors similar to, but separate from, that for osteopaths. The question I pose to him and the Minister is that, since the central purpose of the provision is to protect the public from rogue practitioners and the like, would it not be desirable to have the fullest co-operation between osteopaths and chiropractors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Before I introduce my new clause and amendments, I should make one thing clear. Everyone in the House has one prime concern—care for the disabled. Nobody can claim higher moral ground on that issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Before I introduce my new clause and amendments, I should make one thing clear. Everyone in the House has one prime concern—care for the disabled. Nobody can claim higher moral ground on that issue— [Interruption.] The real issue must surely be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Before I introduce my new clause and amendments, I should make one thing clear. Everyone in the House has one prime concern—care for the disabled. Nobody can claim higher moral ground on that issue— [Interruption.] The real issue must surely be — [Interruption.] It is disgraceful, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the way the Opposition are trying to shout me down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "It is time that I moved on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.968.6", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) should cease his sedentary remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.968.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.968.9", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was about to make the point that the thrust of amendment No. 4 is borne out by experience in other fields and in particular where the Inland Revenue has great difficulty in establishing whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.968.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And honourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": ": all the amendments can be considered in another place, but only if we conclude the Report stage and Third Reading this morning. It is abundantly clear that efforts have been made by some hon. Members to prevent us from completing those stages this morning. I say immediately that I do not throw that accusation at all Conservative Members. There are Conservative Members who are as angry as we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.971.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-06", "file": "debates1994-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70f6a3fb9ae1c94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.1016.24", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "NATIONAL PARKS BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-06a.1016.23"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.7.6", "colnum": "7", "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. There is a widespread enthusiasm among the staff of British Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Madam Speaker. May I make the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "and the feeling of the House on this matter. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) raised on Friday a point of order which was barely a point of order, and I answered him then. However, in response to the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours), I believe that he is mistaken in some respects. Amendments were not tabled by parliamentary counsel. Amendments are tabled by hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.22.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I have dealt with that matter. We will now move on to the Orders of the Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Italian Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has an ability to find success where success does not exist. To speak about the success of this Government's policies in relation to protecting the British steel industry very much distorts the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "What the country needs to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "whole and decides whether a complaint has been established. Sometimes clear evidence of discrimination will not be available, but tribunals are perfectly capable of dealing with that by drawing inferences from the facts. That is a common-sense approach that works perfectly well and tribunals apply it every day. The Government will fight to ensure that employers remain innocent until proved guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.104.4", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "If we accept what the Minister says about the state of the law, what does he say about the Law Society's observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.104.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is so much noise from the Opposition Front Bench that I cannot hear the hon. Gentleman's intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.105.4", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I think that I should be where my hon. Friend is, and that my hon. Friend should be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "wards women. The right to equal treatment is a fundamental right for all workers in the European Union. There is a legal duty on all member states to provide effective measures to ensure that those principles are applied. Yet, since 1979, the United Kingdom Government have paid only lip service to attempts to reduce discrimination. Despite having a woman Prime Minister for 11 of the past 15 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": " see article 4 redrafted so that there is no prospect of objectively justified direct sex discrimination creeping into United Kingdom law. If the Government claim that they are committed to the elimination of sex discrimination and oppose the draft directive on principle, which is what I understand the Minister to argue, as well as for technical reasons, what other steps are they planning to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your notes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I was not planning to speak until I saw this incredible amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I was not planning to speak until I saw this incredible amendment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your notes?\"]. They are all blank; I am making it up as I go along. The Opposition tabled this incredible amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "nications Managers Association and parliamentary adviser to Trevor Gilbert and Associates, personal injury employment advisers, which is a division of Recruitment Network Ltd. The register also states that he has received a gift of satellite equipment, two fax machines from Southern Electricity plc and a mobile telephone from Talkland International, and that he has had the use of a Nissan Primera.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I confess that when I heard the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) twitting my hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce) about his interests, I chuckled because I thought of all the remunerated employment that the hon. and learned Gentleman must have as a silk. He must make a good few bob—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-09", "file": "debates1994-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c6e8cc766004eb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Pay and Equal Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "utton) said, every employer who refused to give a job to a woman with the same qualifications as a male applicant, even though the employer had chosen the man because he thought that he was the best person for the job, would be put in the dock and asked to prove that he had not discriminated against the woman. If that is what the Labour party wants to happen, I hope that people will know about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-09a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has rightly been a strong advocate for the continued existence of Rosyth and we listen carefully to her. However, she does not strengthen her case by exaggerating promises that were never made —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.147.7", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree with those British soldiers and others who have expressed concern at Mr. Akashi allowing Serbian tanks to pass through the exclusion zone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.149.10", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "During the course of his busy day, will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that over the past year, industrial output in the United Kingdom rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.149.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.149.10", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "During the course of his busy day, will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that over the past year, industrial output in the United Kingdom rose—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that industrial output in this country rose by 3.7 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.149.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.149.10", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that industrial output in this country rose by 3.7 per cent.— [interruption] —while in Germany, Japan, France and Italy industrial output fell? Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is but one of a large number of good news stories abounding in this country at this time that deserve wider currency? Will my right hon. Friend confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.149.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.156.10", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Providing that what is said by the hon. Lady, or by any hon. Member, is within the rules and procedures of the House, I have no alternative but to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.156.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence Cunliffe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about fishing?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "cing industries. Leisure has become an integral part of racing. Racing is a real and large industry, which is dependent on the leisure industry. Only last week, Haydock Park had model exhibitions, fairs and May day celebrations—non-political in content—to supplement the income from racing. Increasingly, there is dual usage, with football pitches or even rugby pitches in the centre of race courses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "y objects to that at all. I wonder why an exception is made for horse racing. If there is horse racing on Sunday, it could be in many cases a good family outing. Where I disagree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling) is that I would get no pleasure at all if I went to a horse race meeting and did not have a bet or a little flutter. That is part of the fun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "ot. That is the whole point. In response to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle), I do not bet with the mortgage or housekeeping money. For my sins, many years ago I smoked, but I have stopped smoking. I suppose that I now spend on gambling the money that I used to spend on cigarettes. Perhaps the money goes to a better cause—to the bookies rather than to the tobacco manufacturers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The task force was appointed to give the business view to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman, because he was not here for the debate and I see that many Members have come into the Chamber. They have probably come to hear my speech rather than Opposition Members' interventions. I think that it is more likely that they have come in expecting a vote to take place, and I know that I have already been speaking for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "he was not here for the debate and I see that many Members have come into the Chamber. They have probably come to hear my speech rather than Opposition Members' interventions. I think that it is more likely that they have come in expecting a vote to take place, and I know that I have already been speaking for too long. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] On that note of unity, perhaps I should sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "er to give a rest to people who are molested six days a week is intolerable. I do not want anyone to be molested for six days a week. I do not want them to be molested for five, four, three, two days or one day a week. I would agree with legislating along those lines. Some may argue that this is an underhanded method of finding a piece of legislation, but if one happens to agree, it is acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-10", "file": "debates1994-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "19525a813eea940d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Enforcement of the law is very much a matter for the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-10a.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.305.6", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " the chief executive of the Post Office has had talks about privatisation with Warburg in the City? As there is no Bill before the House dealing with the privatisation of the Post Office and as there has not even been a statement to the House about the Government's intentions for the Post Office, who gave the Post Office authority to have talks about privatisation? Was it the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.305.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Complaint of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "activities and comments of the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Lady Olga Maitland) have been mentioned today. May I remind the House that only yesterday the hon. Member for Kingswood (Mr. Berry) raised a point of order with me, saying that he would be writing to me on the matter, because he believed that it was a question of privilege. I have not yet received any correspondence relating to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Complaint of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am the custodian of the interests of the House. I have taken this decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have already given way to him once. I have taken a substantial number of interventions and I wish to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.335.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It gets more grant.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "g much closer to home, has my right hon. Friend noted the difference in certain London boroughs where local councils deal with the environment? The hon. Gentleman represents a part of Islington. If one moves from Islington to Hackney to Lambeth and then to Wandsworth, one will notice a considerable difference in the environment. The point is that Wandsworth is controlled by the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llew Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llew Smith", "preceding_text": "The Minister criticises Labour's environmental policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.345.4", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "are committed to spending £30 billion over 10 years to improve the quality of our water. If that is not good enough, how much more is the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury asking for? Who will pay for it? How much will the money buy? Will it be cost-effective? What will the hon. Gentleman do about the things that he will not be able to pay for because he is spending the money on water?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "every effort to improve environmentally friendly farming while I was fighting for Britain's cause and the environment at Agriculture Councils. The hon. Gentleman might have a word or two with socialists throughout Europe, who put fine words in documents and nice pictures of roses from \"The Plantsman's Catalogue\" but who say not a word when it comes to voting in meetings of the Council of Ministers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.351.2", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "iving on the other side because they think the opposite, that same candidate discovers—surprise, surprise —that he is absolutely in harmony with what those people think and want. House by house, and not very silently, the Liberal vote increases. But once they are in power in Tower Hamlets, what happens? They are rumbled. If one looks at the elections in Richmond, and I must say that I was pleased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.363.10", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ported proposals by hon. Members to alter that, whichever party they come from. Finally, there must be more public investment by the Government. The problem is not insuperable. The Government can deal with it, but standards must not be reduced. I hope that our clarity on this and other issues will be rewarded when in many places we are returned as the party with the best environmental commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.363.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": " of State made some very ambitious claims. Sadly, they seem not to be matched by specific actions on the Government's part. The right hon. Gentleman's speech was a catalogue of extravagant claims which, unfortunately, had little substance. It was outrageous when he claimed that the Government have a better record overall than any other European Union state. I shall not go through all the criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Deregulation Orders", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I wish to support the recommendations of the fourth report of the Select Committee on Procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Deregulation Orders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my right hon. Friend is making an important intervention, and I am grateful to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-11", "file": "debates1994-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e1b2cf39e21e296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Deregulation Orders", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "ey are: the Deregulation Committee should have the power to summon Ministers to give evidence. and: a Deregulation Committee report that the order-making power should not be used for a specific deregulation proposal would prevent a final deregulation order being laid\". The Government rejected that and said that they would prefer to use the process in relation to draft orders rather than proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-11a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "f—the Department of Health. The Department gave me no assistance whatsoever. If it is helpful, I can give you, Madam Speaker, a categorical assurance that all of the amendments and new clauses in my name—and, I believe, those of my hon. Friends, although they may speak for themselves—are totally of my own volition. Of course, they were drafted with the assistance of others from outside this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.440.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.441.5", "colnum": "441", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman, and quite a long one at that, and other hon. Members are on their feet. I caution hon. Members that I am not asking for explanations or statements. If hon. Members wish to raise points of order with which I can deal, I am ready to respond and the House will be happy to hear what I have to say. However, hon. Members are delaying the proceedings on the Bill with points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.449.5", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "ade people to start smoking; they must not use advertisements that will persuade people to smoke to excess; and they must not exploit those who are specially vulnerable, and that includes young people or those who are immature or who have a physical, social or mental handicap. They must not imply that smoking is healthy, that it is a great recreation, proof of manliness or enhances feminine charm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.449.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of the law of Hungary on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I have given way to so many hon. Members today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.454.8", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "What is happening in this Chamber today is a constitutional outrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.454.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.457.7", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member is casting aspersions on those people who wish to improve the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.457.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.463.4", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Personally, I would ban 62 per cent. of doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.463.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "I gave the hon. Gentleman the right to table amendments by putting him on the Committee, as I had the right to do as promoter of the Bill, although I knew that he and his hon. Friend the Member for High Peak opposed the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for the Committee of Selection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.472.6", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You should declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "The greatest number of communications that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.472.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "The amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to explain. My hon. Friend the Minister made such an outstandingly good speech that it was imperative that my constituent should be given the chance to see it. Dr. Pemberton wrote to me and, in one of his letters, made it clear that he was writing as a member of the Hope Valley Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.479.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.489.6", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I repeat that the Chair has no knowledge of any statement. The present occupant of the Chair is not aware of what has been going on behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.489.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the points of order that hon. Members wish to put to me are on the same subject, I shall not take them. I have ruled on the matter and shall now call the Minister. The Chair is responsible for debate in the House, not what the Minister has put in the Vote Office. If there are points of order which are completely different to those on which I have ruled, I will hear them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.494.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-13", "file": "debates1994-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "aa65828dc347d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "Not for the moment. Ninety per cent. of smokers pick up the habit as children or teenagers, and 60 per cent. before the age of 13. Much of that is a consequence of advertising that encourages them to smoke, some of it on retail premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-13a.500.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman's chatter disguise the fact that since 1979, when the Conservative Government took office, the incomes of disabled people have plummeted? There has been a widening gap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "If I said £396 million, I apologise. The figure should be £296 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.547.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.549.8", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement about the current levels of theft from churches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.549.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.553.3", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for his statement and for so readily agreeing to change Thursday's business so that hon. Members who wish to do so can be in Edinburgh on Friday. I also thank the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues for suspending campaigning for the European elections until after the funeral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.567.7", "colnum": "567", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'What about France?'", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "countries during the time the Government have been in power, the hon. Gentleman should perhaps direct that question to the Government. We must look at different countries in different ways. For example, Germany has had specific problems recently which it has tackled with tremendous courage. It is interesting that the European Commission is now painting a brighter picture for Germany in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.567.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.567.7", "colnum": "567", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "e Government. We must look at different countries in different ways. For example, Germany has had specific problems recently which it has tackled with tremendous courage. It is interesting that the European Commission is now painting a brighter picture for Germany in the future. [HON. MEMBERS: 'What about France?'] Recent predictions are rather more favourable for France than they are for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.567.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that on decentralisation—I have been following what she is saying—it is absolutely essential that all member countries in the Community should have a commitment to democracy? Therefore, does she share my apprehension at the Minister's complacent remarks about the inclusion of fascist Ministers in Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Hon Members:\"'What about your White Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " why I hope that we can urge our people to use their European vote. We cannot say that the attendance for the debate is a good example of the keenness of the House to debate European matters. We must try to persuade people to vote, and for that an explanation is required. Over the past 15 years the people of this country have been given no explanation of what is going on in the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "is a good example of the keenness of the House to debate European matters. We must try to persuade people to vote, and for that an explanation is required. Over the past 15 years the people of this country have been given no explanation of what is going on in the European Community. [Hon Members:\"'What about your White Paper?\"] My White Paper was extremely good and greatly appreciated at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, because I know that others wish to speak. I promised that I would not speak for long. My right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) says continually that he believes that if those of us who are Euro-realists were, as he puts it, to be honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-16", "file": "debates1994-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8239da830f2d6eb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "turned out to be an extremely flexible document. People who would share my persuasion on the left interpreted it and laid the stress on certain paragraphs, and people of a rather different political persuasion argued in relation to other paragraphs. That has always seemed to be part and parcel of the European way of doing things. The issue of enlargement was mentioned and, again, one other aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-16a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.657.17", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ick and, indeed, Warwickshire figures are so good is the highly motivated, well-trained and adaptable work force? That applies especially to the constituency of Rugby and Kenilworth, as my hon. Friends will know. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Rugby and Kenilworth area is part of the midlands golden triangle and attracts a steady stream of new employers, creating new wealth and new employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.657.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "At his meeting with Mr. John Monks, did my hon. Friend obtain an explanation as to which unions oppose a national minimum wage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.672.9", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The prospects for the economy are extremely good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.672.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Merchant Shipping (Donaldson Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " guidance, and flags clearly where each lies. Responsibility for the majority of all major actions lies with international action rather than with purely domestic action. There is an interesting recommendation in the report on the anonymity of ships to which I am attracted, and that would also require international agreement. The Donaldson report rejects radar in the Shetland Islands, and finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.686.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.705.4", "colnum": "705", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": " better service. I must tell the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) that I spoke on that subject at the Conservative party conference and at a fringe meeting organised by the Glasgow Herald, and at that meeting I did find hostility within the Conservative party, as the hon. Gentleman suggested, on the issues of water and sewerage. But I have to say that, by the time the meeting had finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.705.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "prehensive size of unit. The proposal is based on advice that we have received from our consultants. We need larger units to capture the economies of scale that will be so important in addressing a large investment programme at least cost. The hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) said that we were over-centralising. I have to tell him that we are not a Government who are keen to centralise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "As often happens, the hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham) put his finger on one of the buttons of the debate when he mentioned the admission by the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) that one Parliament cannot bind another Parliament. That is absolutely true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.749.8", "colnum": "749", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he does not like statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.749.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am very surprised that the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that Labour-led Clackmannan district council is somehow part of a plot involving Tory gerrymandering. I have read out the position of Clackmannan district council—the wee county. Its position is perfectly acceptable. Of course, we had to consider the decision very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eastwood?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "vernment amendments in relation to the split between East Lothian and Midlothian. That again, was a matter of judgment as several considerations pointed in both directions. We received very strong representations from East Lothian which, again, is a Labour-led district council. It argued that it should be an independent council. If Opposition Members are saying that the Labour leaders of Eastwood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "not be made a nature reserve if we know for a start that Longforgan is going to the new Perth area and that the reserve and the concept of the reserve and the estuary will not be supported by Perth district council. The Minister is, in effect, killing the possibility of creating the Tay estuary nature reserve, and people who are interested in wildlife and the countryside will be very disappointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "The Minister has set out his conclusions, but I will not be able to pursue the matter personally in another place unless something dramatic happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-17", "file": "debates1994-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "3e3a97036216b276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I witnessed an incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-17a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "I did quite a lot of knocking on doors during the local election campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You will have noticed that the Minister of State told my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Mr. Wareing) that if he persists in asking questions of the nature that he did, funds given to organisations in my hon. Friend's constituency would be at risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Madam Speaker. I apologise for my voice, but I am sure that it will soon come back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Austin-Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Austin-Walker", "preceding_text": "on a matter concerning the procedures of the House—and, indeed, the responsibility of the House and its Members. I understand that one of your roles is to protect the rights of hon. Members—and, in so doing, to protect the rights of the House and to uphold the House's dignity, and respect for the House and its decisions. I raise this matter not only to seek clarification for myself and colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "New clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " the Opposition, my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) will be pleased to hear that that has saved me from giving a number of other illustrations. I am sure that the Minister is aware of the anomalies and that he would not want pensioners in the Ayrshire part of Strathclyde to be discriminated against compared with pensioners in Glasgow or Lanarkshire. Even if he cannot accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "New clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "weep those obstacles away. It will be much easier for the Government to introduce a marketplace policy if those obstacles are removed. That is part of the reasoning behind the Government's dangerous and divisive proposals. If one removes the statutory framework, where does that lead to? Child care services will be transferred to the marketplace. Will child abuse cases be subject to market testing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "New clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "e Minister will not—that, because Ian Hutchison dared to criticise the Minister and the Conservative party, his Tory-controlled district council has removed him from the delegation to COSLA. Is not that symptomatic of the fact that the Conservative party, which criticises eastern European republics, operates a campaign of fear and witch-hunts for its members? I want to finish on a charitable note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "New clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Synergy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ill would have to be changed. In its advice, the Scottish tourist board was strongly of the view that a board which comprised the new Argyll and Bute, Stirling, Clackmannan and Falkirk unitary authorities would be a major player in Scottish tourism. Contrary to what has been claimed, the STB believed that such a board would cover a marketable area with considerable synergy between mainland Argyll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-18", "file": "debates1994-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa76d95417190297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Clause 141", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "why, as the majority of trips are made by schools. The voluntary people with their own bus could have a fund-raising event and fit their own. They could go ahead and do it tomorrow, but we need the technical information. That is why I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Clydesdale (Mr. Hood), on the Opposition Benches, will be able to withdraw his amendment if we get the right answers tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-18a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.939.13", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that Ministers stop trying to sell a national identity card scheme on the basis that it would be a tool to deal with social security fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.939.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.953.7", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e that these 15 minutes would be used more effectively on policy matters if questions were asked specifically about matters that must concern the people who watch our proceedings on television or read about them subsequently. I certainly wish that to be the case, but it is a matter for the House and for those who question me rather than for me. I am here to respond to the questions that are asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.953.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ment from the Chairman of the Social Services Committee, who has described the Child Support Agency as \"a spectacular failure\". May we have a debate on the agency and a statement of the Government's plans for reforms? Finally, may I invite the right hon. Gentleman to reconvene the previous meeting that was held to discuss the Jopling report with a view to achieving a consensus and making progress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "hat the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) will not mind me mentioning it—that I was due to have a meeting with her on Thursday, but for reasons that the whole House will well understand it was not possible to have it. I understand that the hon. Gentleman has indicated that he hopes to be able to meet me and I, in turn, hope to arrange that for next week. Therefore, we are all keen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Thompson", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State consider providing time—if not next week, some time in the near future—for a debate on unemployment in the Northern region? The Secretary of State for Unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "in Butler to my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) that Back Benchers can have drafting assistance from parliamentary counsel, could such assistance be put on a more solid basis? Could the service be advertised to Members and, in future, where clearly there are drafting problems with amendments tabled by Opposition Members, could we go to parliamentary counsel at public expense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "He would have unanimous support from everybody except those whose votes he will need if he wants to become leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " a Green Paper is to keep open the option of privatisation. Is not the real reason why he does not announce his decision today the fact that the Government are terrified of announcing the privatisation of the Post Office while the public still have a chance to vote on it at the forthcoming election? I warn the President that he will never sell to the public the idea of privatising the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "n? I warn the President that he will never sell to the public the idea of privatising the Post Office. [Interruption.] I notice that Conservative Members did not try to sell it at the last general election, when they did not breathe a word of it in their manifesto. The President will not sell the idea to the public because the public know that privatisation would end the uniform tariff on postage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "k, his Department gave the green light to British Gas to charge more to remote regions? For how many years after privatisation would it remain possible to post a letter at the same price from any part of Britain to any address in Britain? The President will not succeed in selling privatisation to the public because the public know that privatisation would threaten their local post office branches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " its future. Suddenly, the issue of leadership has been raised. I was waiting for the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) to suggest a Green Paper on leadership. I understand the machinations of the political truce, which I thought the hon. Gentleman was only too keen to advocate in the House. The hon. Gentleman wants not a Green Paper but the reddest possible paper that he can lay his hands on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " are interested. Having considered his ambitions and what he had to say, I must say with all my heart—and I speak for all my hon. and right hon. Friends—that I wish him the very best of luck. I would go even further: he may launch a campaign in the country; I shall launch one in the country to help him achieve what he is so obviously trying to achieve. It is incumbent upon us in the House to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "No, not the Cabinet at all in that context. The fact is that somebody, in the growing convention of the day, leaked the information to the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-19", "file": "debates1994-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f370004c0e5cf796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ting impact on areas such as Wales because it will encourage the cherry picking of profitable traffic and the social dumping of remote areas. The separation of the Post Office Counters business as a rump service in the public sector could be very dangerous for remote, rural sub-post offices which have been effectively subsidised by the Post Office and are currently institutionally supported by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-19a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-20", "file": "debates1994-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9da49163f010c21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-20a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman amend the Bill in Committee? Did he apply to be a member of the Standing Committee? I know that he has diverse interests. When I look at the Register of Members' Interests, I see that he is associated with Tim Bell, Visa and Avis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-20a.1039.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-20", "file": "debates1994-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9da49163f010c21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-20a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The bottom line has always been that the Government cannot accept the Bill because of the considerable cost implications involved. That applies to this group of amendments as it does to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-20a.1082.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " there should be more of it? We must also support Ron Dearing's initiative of including physical education on the school curriculum, because that is how young people learn to handle themselves physically for the rest of their lives. Above all, however, does my hon. Friend agree that we must have team games on the school curriculum, because that is how young people will learn to handle themselves —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.7.7", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "No, it certainly does not. I have expressed my support for such a role on previous occasions, and I take this opportunity to congratulate the England women's rugger and cricket teams on recent triumphs on the world stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.7.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and the entire House are fully aware that there is access for disabled people through New— [Interruption.] Just a moment; I am speaking. This is very serious. There is right of access to the House through New Palace Yard for disabled people. I believe that this morning some disabled people were unfortunately encouraged by some Members of the House to crawl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have been through this a number of times, and I think that the hon. Gentleman knows the answer. I have given him the answer already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.24.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "ted Kingdom, covering such matters. However, officials in the Palace of Westminster have decided that all filing cabinets that might tilt over and conk one on the head—though only if one opens all four drawers at the same time—have to be cleared out. If a magistrates court in Westminster examined such a ridiculous interpretation by officialdom, we should not be getting rid of such filing cabinets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "t to intervene while I am citing such a ridiculous example of bureaucracy and officialdom. As there is no method of appeal, officials are free to interpret as they wish. There is no way of stopping them. Even more serious, what would happen if every local authority inspector decided that every filing cabinet without an anti-tilt device had to be thrown away? What would be the cost to the taxpayer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "on industry and especially on small companies. It will help to improve the competitiveness of our economy, reduce unnecessary burdens on charities and individuals and remove important statutory obstacles to contracting out. We heard nothing about those matters from the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) or from his colleagues. We heard nothing on that subject from the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nded following railway bosses' decision to scrap a key rural service … Regional Railways insisted: 'We live in a commercial world where we have to generate the maximum amount of revenue'. So the new timetable changes will leave schoolchildren and commuters waiting at Spooner Row, Eccles Road and Harting Road.All those stations are in the constituency of the Secretary of State for Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " been fragmented. A Labour Government will restore British Rail to a national, integrated railway company. We will restore its pension fund. We will restore peace of mind for its pensioners. I believe that the Government have many problems. I believe that the Tories have many problems in the weeks ahead, never mind the months ahead, in selling rail privatisation to any substantial body of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-23", "file": "debates1994-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ff8c7c35c6097c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "is brief time in the House, and to the distinguished contributions that he made to the debate on the Railways Bill. I look forward to a Conservative Member being returned at the Eastleigh by-election. The hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) spoke for 19 minutes, and failed to adduce a single argument against the orders. There is no point of disagreement. Has the hon. Gentleman got one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-23a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware of the very real fears among many people concerned with community care over the Government's proposals to reduce the number of inspections of care and nursing homes, bearing in mind the circumstances of the recent case of a woman in a private nursing home in Dulwich who died with ulcers which had live maggots on them at the time of death?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "How the Minister knows that, when he does not collect the information centrally, is beyond all of us. In view of his original answer—that the information is not collected centrally—perhaps he will tell us why the Gloucestershire royal trust, in a letter to me dated 13 April, said that it would not answer any questions from Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "First of all, as the hon. Gentleman knows, the decisions of the trust are a matter for the trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.175.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "the late payment of debt. There is no common view about what should be done, but it is widely recognised that there needs to be a change in business culture. I can tell the House that the Government will in future require all Departments and their agencies to comply with the Confederation of British Industry prompt payment code and to set out their performance against that in their annual reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "y steps to implement proposals to require public companies to state their payment policies in their directors' reports. We shall simplify court procedures for debt recovery and we shall review court systems with a view to increasing the scope of the informal small claims procedures. If there has not been a significant improvement in the next two years, we shall reconsider the case for legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": " be open in all parts of England by the end of next year, will be the focal point for new services, ranging from consultancy and innovation to design. I can announce two further initiatives by my Department to improve management performance. First, we shall set up a network of regional supply offices in England to work with private and public sector purchasers to promote supply chain partnerships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": " Department to improve management performance. First, we shall set up a network of regional supply offices in England to work with private and public sector purchasers to promote supply chain partnerships. [Interruption.] Secondly, we shall work with the British Standards Institution and with industry to develop BS 5750 and product certification standards further to promote continuous improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ndustry. That will amount to a significant proportion of the relevant income from industry. The proportion of the councils' agreed total budgets used for that purpose will increase. The councils will take full account of the results of the technology foresight programme in allocating the funds between subjects. Individual academics will be rewarded for undertaking collaborative work with industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e a range of new services through Business Links to help technology transfer. New funds will be provided for innovation and technology counsellors in Business Links to provide advice and guidance to companies on innovation. \"Innovation credits\" will be made available through Business Links to encourage smaller firms to discover the value of outside help by offsetting the cost for first-time users.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Would the Secretary of State forgive me? I should be much obliged if the House would now settle down. It is a long statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rove company and insolvency law. As part of their audit of competitiveness, the Government have looked in upon their own administration. The Efficiency Unit of the Cabinet Office will shortly be starting a review of management planning and control systems in Departments to ensure that they reflect best practice in the public and private sectors. We shall publish a White Paper on the civil service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "by putting that problem more bluntly than he dared? Will he confirm that since 1979 Britain has moved from a £7 billion surplus in manufactured trade to a deficit of £8 billion and that since 1979, alone among the G7 countries, Britain's industrial output has barely risen? Will he confirm that since 1979, as a percentage of gross domestic product, Britain's industrial investment has almost halved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "the 1960s and 1970s, we were at the bottom of the league. In the 1980s, for the first time in decades, we held our share of world manufactured exports after decade upon decade of decline. In the 1980s, Britain's industrial relations improved to become the best since records were first kept in this country. Britain has the highest proportion of people of working age in employment of any EC country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I know that it is customary in the House to indulge in that sort of fatuous intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Education, Training and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ho attacked the health and safety proposals a few moments ago. He said that they were taking greater risks with the work force, but the shadow Secretary of State for Employment knows that the proposals come from the Health and Safety Commission, on which sit representatives of the TUC. I regard what has been said as a gross slur on the TUC. I understand that the trade union representatives agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Education, Training and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " I await their constructive proposals. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East should rethink the background against which he has given his welcome. He has continued talking down Britain. I can give precise figures for the average annual percentage growth in the European Community between 1980 and 1990—the OECD cycle. The hon. Gentleman has talked down the achievements in the British economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Education, Training and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ll, East should rethink the background against which he has given his welcome. He has continued talking down Britain. I can give precise figures for the average annual percentage growth in the European Community between 1980 and 1990—the OECD cycle. The hon. Gentleman has talked down the achievements in the British economy— [Interruption.] I will come to the further point that he made in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "We are seeing a change of policy from the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson). He was happy to waste the time of the Committee by talking and voting on a range of other matters. The fact is that most Labour Members are content with the local boundaries for their areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "on a range of other matters. The fact is that most Labour Members are content with the local boundaries for their areas— [Interruption.] Yes they are—perhaps they have not been saying to the hon. Member for Hamilton what they have been saying to my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary and me. If the Labour party were as opposed to the proposals as it pretends to be, it would have divided the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "d the Secretary of State and to other of my hon. Friends on the Government Front Bench that the challenge for us on this side of the House over the summer, into the autumn and on to the shadow authority elections is to ensure that, elsewhere in Scotland, the reforms and the plans are as clearly understood by the people of Scotland as they are in the granite city, because the message from Aberdeen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir Michael Hirst\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "laces which often have nothing in common. All hon. Members would be able to tell the House of some eccentricity or madness in their area that has been dreamt up by the demented hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart). It is his fault that we have such a situation on our hands. It is his fault that it is happening. He is kowtowing to the chairman of the Conservative party in Scotland, Michael Hirst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about the local election results, but what he does not take into account is the role of independents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about the local election results, but what he does not take into account is the role of independents—[ Laughter. ] In my constituency the issues were significantly clouded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "y were in order because the Chairman kept them in order. I take my hat off to, and commend, both the management and the chairmanship of the Committee. Because the Committee stage was allowed to run for its full 177½ hours, the Opposition were left with no excuse for saying that their concerns and worries had not been fully aired. Yet the Opposition continue to peddle their lies about water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.242.8", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I was quoting from the Scottish Sunday press. As Opposition Members always seem to believe everything they read in the newspapers, I may have been marginally gullible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.242.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I recognise full well that central Government makes a lot of demands upon the national borrowing requirement. This country is already deep in debt. Public sector borrowing is excessive at the present time. It is better that cash is found from other sources. That is the intention of the Bill as far as water is concerned. I approve of that. Drawing to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.257.5", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am glad to respond to that point. I was going to come to it in a moment or two, because I thought that the hon. Member for Hamilton alleged that I had publicly supported the privatisation of water and sewerage in Scotland. I have never publicly supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "s recognised and one is told that one can get the same treatment is if one starts to murder—if one starts to put up one's statistics and beats the other boys at the same game. In other words, the only thing that one needs is proof—the only time that people will listen is when one murders. That is the law of the jungle, but it is not the law of the United Kingdom and it is not the law of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-24", "file": "debates1994-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c355b28205f6d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.301.5", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the British Labour party does not organise in Northern Ireland, and he knows the reasons why we do not do so. The hon. Gentleman and his party cannot have it both ways. He claims his loyalty and his Britishness. The British people will have their say on 9 June, and they will vote for candidates who support the joint declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-24a.301.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "nt care and its improvement, but it seems that that is not so. In relation to her specific point about Tayside, we have received complaints from Tayside about inadequate consultation with the private and voluntary sectors on community care. I propose to issue a direction on purchasing, which I hope will ensure adequate consultation and the full involvement of public, private and voluntary sectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.322.6", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely clear that we are totally against the decriminalisation of cannabis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.322.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "s for the first week after the Spring Adjournment will be as follows: TUESDAY 14 JUNE—Debate on the GATT on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE—Report stage of the Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]. THURSDAY 16 JUNE—Until about seven o'clock, Third Reading of the Local Government (Wales) Bill [Lords]. Motion on the Care of Cathedrals (Supplementary Provisions) Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.339.9", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "In view of the appalling circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.339.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "hon. Members that there is no Government plan to scrap this bank holiday as there was to scrap the popular May day bank holiday? When will the Government acknowledge that they got it hopelessly wrong and had to do a U-turn, for which we are all grateful? While he is about it, could that Minister explain why Britain has fewer statutory bank holidays than any other country in the European Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.340.5", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "On the question of bank holidays, is my right hon. Friend aware that when the late leader of the Labour party, Mr. Michael Foot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-25", "file": "debates1994-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1774335785c21b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "t surprising when we consider the underhand way in which local authorities are being treated. The Conservative party has been exposed as the \"do anything, say anything to get into power\" party. Today, Sheffield city council becomes the latest casualty of the secret war being waged against democracy and representation. Local needs are being superseded because of the Government's failure nationally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-25a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-26", "file": "debates1994-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a0de4fd5ed538200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin-Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Measure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin-Walker", "preceding_text": "lic and the media have become more aware of disabled people and their rights. The ADA works in America and it is based on the concept of civil rights. The same pattern has been followed in New Zealand, Canada and Australia, but not in Britain. The Government simply trot out the old adage, \"We can't afford it.\" I deal now with the Government's assessment of the cost of compliance if the Berry Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-26", "file": "debates1994-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a0de4fd5ed538200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.487.2", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Woolwich, who initiated the debate this afternoon, has a long-standing interest and commitment in this area. He has always taken a most serious interest in the subject and he has taken part in our debates. I recognise his contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-26", "file": "debates1994-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a0de4fd5ed538200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "er the past 15 years by the Government, and in the private sector with the encouragement of the Government, to eliminate discrimination, to reduce discrimination against disabled people and to expand the opportunities available to them. Frankly, although I well understand the narrow political reasons that lead Opposition Members to take such an attitude, I think that it is rather churlish of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-26", "file": "debates1994-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a0de4fd5ed538200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": " that is a more realistic measure of the willingness of Government as a whole to employ and give opportunities to disabled people. We have already said that we shall continue to build on the work that the Government have already done in that important area. I recognise its importance and its sensitivity. We need to ensure that it is taken forward at a pace. We have already announced our proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-05-26", "file": "debates1994-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a0de4fd5ed538200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": " that the Government are considering taking and will be consulting on in the near future. Employment is a key area, but access to goods and services is also very important for those who experience disabilities in our society and that, too, is a matter on which we shall be consulting. We shall also be considering the possibility of codes of practice for the financial services industry where I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-05-26a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.505.6", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.505.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "We have no plans for such legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.511.6", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.511.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is very interesting that the right hon. Lady does not want to discuss the question of a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Is not it the case that next year, with VAT up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady is so concerned about tax, perhaps she would like to make clear, as she indicated that she would a day or so ago, what her own tax proposals are. Does she want to raise higher taxes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.513.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yesterday's man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.514.6", "colnum": "514", "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": "As I have indicated to the House before, I believe that there is a widespread feeling that these 15 minutes could be more productively used, but I am conscious that on this occasion the Prime Minister of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "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. Actions speak louder than words and, thus far, we have seen that Opposition Members will not cross a picket line although they are prepared to talk about unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "y in the world sent its top Trade Minister. I regret that the President of the Board of Trade, who would be Prime Minister, has not graced us with his presence this afternoon. I read the GATT treaty in full. I put a diskette into my computer and started to print it out. It was 100, 200, 300, 400 pages—more than 500 pages of densely printed text, a treaty that bears some close study. Socrates said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "It is usually a good idea to answer the question that one has just been asked before taking on another. I shall give way in a few moments. I intend to come to the subject of the Earth summit agreements in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "o discuss in a few moments, is not that we do not want economic development. It is vital and the hon. Gentleman is right to emphasise that—as indeed, in one of his statements which contradicted an earlier one, was the Prime Minister. The key argument that we wish to make is that economic development cannot take place—I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would agree —at the expense of the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-14", "file": "debates1994-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "67825aac35b21f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.590.6", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "It is important to provide reassurance—so far absent on the part of the Government—that the GATT treaty cannot and will not be used to challenge international agreements such as the Montreal protocol and the Rio conventions. Whatever their failings, none of those agreements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-14a.590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.614.9", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So was Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is indulging in patronising and offensive nonsense. The Ministers have been democratically elected and properly appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.614.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Can you confirm, Madam Speaker, that you are in a position to receive an application for a private notice question on the rail dispute? Today, the work and lives of many thousands of my constituents have been disrupted by the actions of a trade union, which all the contenders for the Labour party leadership have signally failed to condemn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "My point of order does relate to your duties as Speaker, Madam Speaker. I was going to ask whether the attitude of Opposition Members to the rail unions—which is not unrelated to the fact that many of them are sponsored by trade unions, and in particular by the rail unions—ought not, in the circumstances, be referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.630.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about elsewhere?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Evans", "preceding_text": "While I accept the force of the hon. Gentleman's argument, does he accept that in the case of Llanelly Hill, there has indeed been a referendum which was in favour of Monmouthshire? It would appear from amendment No. 77 that the Government now recognise the full force of that referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "to supporting him, and knowing that he had the support of Labour Members, quite deliberately, at the very next sitting of the Committee, betrayed the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy and refused to vote for that authority. That reflects poorly on the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor. We stated clearly that the Labour party was in favour of the principle of consent. We wanted reorganisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that particular interpretation of Mr. Goodway's remarks. None the less, the remarks are a little less than edifying from one who tries to represent a large and important area of Wales. It is small step from what the hon. Gentleman reports to the remarks which the newspaper claims were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "None the less, the remarks are a little less than edifying from one who tries to represent a large and important area of Wales. It is small step from what the hon. Gentleman reports to the remarks which the newspaper claims were made. [Interruption.] I accept the point made by the hon. Gentleman. I told the House that Mr. Goodway claimed that he was misreported, and there I shall leave the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourth place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ndary Commission to deal with the communities. No doubt it will put the matters right, because it is not motivated by political survival. We must also wait for another Government, and a change of Government, before the serious matters are put right. It is my hope and conviction that we will not have to wait long. The Conservative party is now in third place in Wales and it is likely to stay there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "New clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "I did not serve on the Committee and, to that extent, I am perhaps a little bit at a loss compared with my colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.703.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.716.4", "colnum": "716", "heading": "New clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or failed to take.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "Clearly, cases have to be dealt with individually, but the fundamental principle of surcharging, in so far as it affects individual councillors, is that it is related directly to decisions that they have taken as individual councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-15", "file": "debates1994-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "a172000038720389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "New clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "ments. It is unusual for the Government to table wrecking amendments to their own legislation, but to increase the number of councillors from 10 to 15 could severely injure the principle of the area committees, a point made by the hon. Members for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) and for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Evans). I am therefore attracted to the amendments, and I hope that they are accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-15a.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-16", "file": "debates1994-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef1cb0c3e961de3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate next week on the important subject of literal democracy? During that debate, we could consider the personal impact made on the people of Devon and East Plymouth in the European elections by the Liberal Democrat candidate, Mr.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-16", "file": "debates1994-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef1cb0c3e961de3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.764.5", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Gentleman's unhappiness about the outcome of the cup final. There may be one or two hon. Members from Manchester here. I had better not express my view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-16", "file": "debates1994-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef1cb0c3e961de3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "I assure the House that anyone who is entitled to a redundancy payment as a result of the reorganisation should receive it. I appreciate the fact that some of the amendments have been probing, but I believe that the provisions in the Government amendments are far superior—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.789.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-16", "file": "debates1994-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef1cb0c3e961de3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": " is similar to that of the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery. We were both assured by the previous Secretary of State, who respected Welsh history and culture, that there would not be a problem. He said that our counties would be reinstated. In the light of that assurance, the hon. and learned Gentleman and I were happy. I shall not dwell on the skulduggery that has taken place since January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-16", "file": "debates1994-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef1cb0c3e961de3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "tion, the levies will be less than the distributed proceeds. The Secretary of State may nod his head. The reason for the success of the authorities at that time is that they coincided with the big property boom. The years 1986, 1987 and 1988 were a good time to get one's hands on property and then sell it off. I do not think that the new residuary body will be operating in the same type of market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-16a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.869.10", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "ill have chosen this subject. All hon. Members will agree that competitive industry and a competitive business base in the United Kingdom are crucial to produce wealth and to generate the profits and money necessary to achieve the sort of society that all of us wish to see. Most hon. Members present will be relieved to hear that I have no intention of going through the White Paper in great detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.869.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": " is, of course, extremely important, and I agree with much of the hon. Lady's analysis—although sadly very few of her conclusions. She alluded in her own way to the point at which our approach to these matters should begin, and I share her opinion about that: we must work with the idea that no one in the world owes anyone in this country a living. Any cronyism, complacency, the old person network—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": "As we all now know, Wednesday's strike was a deliberate result of secondary action by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": "If that is a criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "ht, they then look at the price. We must ensure that the prices of our products compete favourably with those of our competitors in Europe, the United States, Japan and elsewhere. I shall focus my remarks on a success story in Plymouth. We have a company on the Estover industrial estate called the Barden Corporation. It makes high-precision ball bearings. Hon. Members may find that a dull subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "pposition Member present, can by all means have the social chapter and a national minimum wage, but he must not expect me to explain to the 40 families in Plymouth who have been put back in work this year why they are out of a job because of some ridiculous European legislation. That is where the rubber hits the road. Last Friday, I attended a debate at Devonport high school for girls in Plymouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-17", "file": "debates1994-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc3be021142c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.921.4", "colnum": "921", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "business is handled in the House. There was an appeal for fairness from the Opposition Dispatch Box this morning, so that two important motions would have a fair share of the debate. Not only has the Minister for Social Security and Disabled People just voted in the Lobby, but his Parliamentary Private Secretary led the debate with an hour-long speech to stop us getting on to the disabled persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-17a.921.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-20", "file": "debates1994-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "35c091c7201fc26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-20a.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " I welcome what the Minister said with regard to newly qualified drivers, will he tell the House what he is doing—and of his concern—about the elderly driver? Recently, there have been a number of accidents involving drivers aged 70 and over. Is not it about time that we set an upper limit, so that such people are retired from driving because, in certain cases, they are also a hazard on the roads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-20a.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-20", "file": "debates1994-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "35c091c7201fc26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-20a.22.7", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "arliament has become dominated by party games, with the side effect of the stark dichotomy that few people outside this place recognise as relevant any more. Parliament has fallen into public disrepute— Interruption —as the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) no doubt may vouchsafe. This institution is seen as old-fashioned and irrelevant, and its Members lazy, badly behaved and self-indulgent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-20a.22.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that more than 40 per cent. of those recently arrested as part of Operation Bumblebee were on bail? Does not that underline how wise our Government are in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "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 will be aware that it is for the Director General of the Office of Water Services to determine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that Scottish Tories are revolting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.124.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Clerk of the House (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": " demands, and I should like to express my personal gratitude to them for all they have done. In particular, I wish to say how much I have appreciated the support and friendship of successive Speakers, and of Members in all parts of the House. The House of Commons is one of the most resilient and effective Parliamentary Chambers in the world. It is a great honour to have been its principal servant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.143.14", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to Lords amendment No. 7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.143.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Amendment No. 8.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "and then I shall give way. I do not believe that adequate evidence is available to establish that large motor and cycle supply shops provide an emergency service on Sundays during the early mornings or evening hours which neither can be nor is being met by small motor outlets or specialist dealers who supply the RAC and AA direct. The acceptance of amendment No. 6 will only increase the anomalies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Alton), have spent a lot of time discussing the Bill and the anomalies. I am sure that we do not want to see a flawed Bill being accepted tonight. I hope that many hon. Members will join me in the Lobby to vote against it. I am sponsored by the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. I am not a consultant for any other union—as a matter of fact, I am not really a consultant for USDAW—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-21", "file": "debates1994-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9cf5699ad70c357d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": " be—perhaps Pioneer, the Co-op superstore in my constituency, which opens on a Sunday—or to do some gardening or DIY, most people will be able to ensure that they go to the garden centre or DIY store between 10 am and 4 pm. Those stores will not lose any money if the amendment is rejected. If the trade is there, they will get it. It will merely mean that people have to shop between 10 am and 6 pm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-21a.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister expressing some complacency today, given yesterday's figures which show that the trade deficit between this country and countries outside the EC has doubled? Does that not demonstrate that the Government's policies of pushing skills down, opting for a low-skill economy and going from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady says that she wishes that Conservative Members would reflect more truthfully what is going on. The hon. Lady has not reflected very well what is going on. This country has been exceedingly successful in attracting huge inward investment which is providing jobs—jobs which have also gone to the north-east. I should have thought that the hon. Lady would welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "One reason why we are importing coal is that we no longer have coking coal or anthracite in significant quantities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not in favour of a great many rules and regulations and of dotting the i's and crossing the t's. I have just celebrated 21 years in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Identity Cards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "preceding_text": "ure ordinary citizens that they are doing something about the problems that concern people so widely. Such matters can be dealt with in other ways. Further checks should be undertaken to deal with social security fraud and, on income tax, it would have helped if the Government had not encouraged the explosion of self-employment and the massive fraud that has taken place in exemption certificates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " the recent World bank report. If the hon. Gentleman spares himself the time to go to the Library and read it, he will find little support for his proposition. The Government's tepid amendment to our motion suggests that we should deal with the issue of debt—so flippantly dealt with by the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Mr. Oppenheim)—on the Trinidad terms. No doubt the Minister will refer to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does not that £1 billion contrast unfavourably with the fact that, over the past few years, the Tory Government have written off £5,000 million of debts for the top four clearing banks —National Westminster, Midland, Lloyds and Barclays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "The recent OECD-World bank study on the round concluded that the proposed liberalisation of trade in manufactured and agricultural products would raise incomes in non-OECD countries by some $78 billion a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "The recent OECD-World bank study on the round concluded that the proposed liberalisation of trade in manufactured and agricultural products would raise incomes in non-OECD countries by some $78 billion a year. [Interruption.] I will answer the hon. Gentleman's point in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "uld be targeted first and foremost on the poorest countries, and we practise what we preach. With our excellent voluntary agencies, whose expertise and experience in the field is second to none—not to mention our outstanding military personnel—we have shown how emergency relief should play a key role in aid strategy. We are saving hundreds of thousands of lives in the process, as we are in Bosnia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "at Chatham house last October—one of about 50 speeches she makes a year about aid. We publish annual departmental reports to Parliament, an annual review of the programme, an annual statistical review of the programme and a range of other booklets about specific aspects. Earlier this month, we launched new strategies on forestry and biodiversity. We are about to do the same on population strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again. The hon. Gentleman made a long contribution and I must get on with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-22", "file": "debates1994-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "939d6ab2d6ab67bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mentions the disagreements in the aid lobbies about the French initiative. He said that he did not support it and I know that some of the aid lobbies and the NGOs do not support it either. By touching on that he shows the great complexity and difficulty of some of the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-22a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "May I tell the Minister that the proposal is not welcomed by the potato growers in Ayrshire in my constituency, who produce some of the finest early potatoes in the shops now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Returning to the Luxembourg Council meeting this week, is it not true that last weekend Ministers were minded to vote for the Greek presidency's compromise, which would allow animals to travel for no fewer than 22 hours before being rested and fed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Even by the hon. Gentleman's standards of rant, that is going a bit far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Non-State Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ith confidence. The Government claim to have taken the essence of the Goode report and, to use the White Paper's phrase, to have \"distilled\" it. It might be better to say that they have boiled it down. Does the Minister recognise that there will be concern, as Professor Goode and his colleagues saw their recommendations as a package? We have, to some extent, something that is akin to pick and mix—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "preceding_text": " the Council that I have just received from the Ministry of Defence a written reply telling me that the royal yacht Britannia is to be decommissioned in 1997? That is horrendous news for my constituents and myself—and, I am sure, for many other people throughout the country. Britain without Britannia is like the Tower of London without the crown jewels. May we have an urgent debate on the subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "UK Exporters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "Engineering Union who have got that message. It said: British industry is undergoing a period of change, of growing prosperity.\"— this was the AEU talking, not me talking. That was not a Conservative party broadsheet. It continued: This has been directly attributable to the influx of inward investors wishing to use our plants and our labour. How many times have we heard that from the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "UK Exporters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman illustrates one of the difficulties of believing one's own propaganda. It is often said that inward investment from countries such as Japan and the United States is greater in Britain than in other Community countries, but that is not so. There is massive investment in France and there will be massive investment in Finland and other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.395.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "UK Exporters", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "link with technology which helps to increase exports. We are aware also that Sizewell C would create 10,000 jobs. However, we are still waiting for the Government's nuclear review. It is a bit hard to ask the Labour party for its policy when there is no Government policy. It is difficult to give answers when the Government have not yet stated their own policy. I shall now move on to my own speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "UK Exporters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "pended in trying to stimulate trade for this country. His travel schedule has been punishing and has earned him the respect not only of the people who travelled with him but that of many hon. Members of all parties. I hope that he will have the health and strength to keep going. It will probably come as no surprise to my right hon. Friend to know that it is my intention not to speak about Lloyd's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-23", "file": "debates1994-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0620ba822cb7052d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "UK Exporters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ch can finance huge projects such as the great man-made river, which those of us who visited it thought was an ecologically sound and major project. There will be huge developments there and British industry is missing out. It is my strong impression that the Italians are not missing out. I not only have an impression, but am certain that the South Koreans are having a field day and making a bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-23a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-24", "file": "debates1994-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "13ed88ba1ec6893f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Leisure Industry", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "onstituencies in their area. As the hon. Gentleman well knows, one can visit one's constituency every weekend and someone is sure to come up and say, \"I haven't seen you for years, and I cannot contact you.\" We all know of those problems, however hard we work. Many of us work very hard. I will not dwell on some of the other points made by hon. Members, but I shall ask the Minister—if he is awake —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.484.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-24", "file": "debates1994-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "13ed88ba1ec6893f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.526.16", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.526.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-24", "file": "debates1994-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "13ed88ba1ec6893f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gatwick Airport (Second Runway)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "abusing this parliamentary procedure. Hon. Members should use Adjournment debates to bring to a wider audience a matter that particularly affects their constituents and about which their constituents are concerned. I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Minister for Transport in London is to reply to the debate. He was my Parliamentary Private Secretary for a number of years and we are good friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.528.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-24", "file": "debates1994-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "13ed88ba1ec6893f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gatwick Airport (Second Runway)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "ned. I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Minister for Transport in London is to reply to the debate. He was my Parliamentary Private Secretary for a number of years and we are good friends. [Interruption.] He was an excellent PPS, not just very good, and he has been an excellent Minister, one of the Government's most robust defenders on the Front Bench. I wish him well in the forthcoming shuffle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-24a.528.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-27", "file": "debates1994-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2cb24400057e62b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right to say that Opposition Members support policies that would damage Wales and her competitiveness. We are proud of the fact that Wales is now largely strike free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-27", "file": "debates1994-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2cb24400057e62b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "European Council (Corfu)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " Paper on growth and employment. We endorse the follow up to the White Paper, particularly the emphasis on education and training and the crucial need to maximise the potential of human resources—to invest in people. The Opposition are pleased that at least all the other member states and all the new applicants rule out the economics of the sweat shop and agree with the Council that the agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-27", "file": "debates1994-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2cb24400057e62b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "European Council (Corfu)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "n, relegated to the sidelines? May I anticipate the Prime Minister's standard response—that the Opposition simply do not understand how successful he has been—by pointing out that he went to Corfu to promote a British candidate for a senior post in Europe, won no support from any of his colleagues and ended up vetoing a Conservative? May I further remind him that my colleagues and I went to Corfu—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-27", "file": "debates1994-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2cb24400057e62b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "European Council (Corfu)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ted to economic matters and my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, quite naturally, spoke on behalf of this country. In every other discussion I not only spoke but set out this country's position very clearly. The right hon. Lady spoke of her successful negotiations. She, like me, met members of the socialist group in Corfu. Did she urge them to support Sir Leon Brittan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-27", "file": "debates1994-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2cb24400057e62b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "European Council (Corfu)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " The treaty clearly describes when the veto may be used. There is no matter of principle involved. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said that he had nothing against the Belgian candidate. How does he propose to resolve the crisis and to find a suitable candidate? He said that there must be unanimity. Does that mean that only candidates acceptable to the British Government will be agreed to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-27", "file": "debates1994-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2cb24400057e62b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Residential Homes (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "preceding_text": "pment of additional packages of care provided by a range of providers in the community. A framework for the monitoring and evaluation of the new arrangements has been put in place. It is important that the hon. Gentleman should recognise that the provision of more services in the community has not been stimulated by a desire simply to cut costs, because care in the community is not a cheap option—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-27a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Mr. Ford, who is from the Labour party, said that he would like to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Mr. Ford, who is from the Labour party, said that he would like to see— [Interruption.] Will the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East calm down for a moment and recognise that Mr. Ford has argued that instead of a 48-hour week there should be a 35-hour week right across the European Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "All my right hon. Friends are concerned about the role of the family and how to maintain it. For us, family values and family life are central not only to our national life but to the existence of each and every person in this country. What my right hon. Friend has made clear and is self-evidently the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Britain's long-term interests will sound pretty hollow to most people in this country. The Opposition's European policy is to find out what the others want and then agree with it so that they can claim not to be in a minority. I have been able to discover not one area of originality in their European policy. We have set out and will continue to set out our own vision of how Europe should develop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.680.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "re Labour Government, trade union militants start to rear their ugly heads? Does not the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers strike provide a timely reminder of what has always happened under Labour Governments and what would happen under a future Labour Government? Does my right hon. Friend agree that what the House really wants to know is where Bambi stands on the rail strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to take responsibility for the opinion of many people, but not for that of the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair). He must answer for himself, when and if he returns to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Tampons (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will Members leaving please do so very quietly and quickly? We have business to conduct. Please leave very quietly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "Future projections of the level of opencasting are critically affected by the need to acquire planning permission, which has always been the effective regulator of opencasting. I am not caricaturing the debate in which the hon. Member for Morley and Leeds, South (Mr. Gunnell) and others have been involved, but they see the planning procedure as the regulator of the amount of opencast mining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.744.7", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Ports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON MEMBER: \"Which the Government will ignore.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has raised an extremely important point. Currently, trust ports qualify for up to a maximum of 75 per cent. European regional development fund funding. In the private sector, that entitlement would be reduced to 50 per cent. It is an extremely important issue when considering the benefits of privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.744.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Ports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "ew months sold them again at a price of £37.50 per share. That was a rip-off. In my view, it was a form of stealing. It was a gross deceit perpetrated upon the workers. Suppose that this measure had a Committee stage. If, on reflection, the Government felt that what happened at Medway was unfair, they could amend the order to ensure that even if someone lost his job he could hold on to his shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Ports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I have some sympathy with my hon. Friend, and I certainly would not claim that this was a perfect arrangement for the discussion of legislation. I think you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that time simply will not allow for every measure to be included in primary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.779.8", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Ports (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "That is my very point. The legislation is not amendable, and I have said that I am sympathetic to the point that has been made. But there we are—that is the situation we are faced with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.779.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Fenchurch Street Line", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your protection, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member is wrong. I phoned the Table Office at 4.30 am, but the debate had been held earlier. I am afraid that the days of honourable behaviour seem to be out of fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Fenchurch Street Line", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": " Member is wrong. I phoned the Table Office at 4.30 am, but the debate had been held earlier. I am afraid that the days of honourable behaviour seem to be out of fashion. [Interruption.] Can my right hon. Friend tell us who the bidders are for the Fenchurch Street line, what service they are offering managers and the general public and how precisely the privatisation programme will be carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-28", "file": "debates1994-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c675159a94ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Fenchurch Street Line", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Mr. Amess) on the great fight that he is putting up for Basildon and for rail passengers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-28a.791.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.799.7", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Simultaneously?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "With my hon. Friend the Minister for Roads and Traffic, I chair the green motoring forum, which exists to draw together those in the industry and those working in environmental areas to try to establish the answers to just the sort of questions that the hon. Gentleman asked—so, he has a fair point. I know that there is some confusion and, as a driver of both a diesel car and a petrol car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.799.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Is it not inconsistent, in line with the opinion poll that has just been released showing that 67 per cent. of Conservative Members of Parliament are against a single currency, for us to find that, contrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can always be relied on to ask the most absurd questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.822.6", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because he is obviously very nervous. Would the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.822.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.825.9", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I repeat my advice to the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Mr. Oppenheim). Only one hon. Member who has intervened so far has been wise enough to take it. Given the appalling quality of research at central office these days, Members should not even bother to read briefs, let alone ask questions from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.825.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.825.9", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "tervened so far has been wise enough to take it. Given the appalling quality of research at central office these days, Members should not even bother to read briefs, let alone ask questions from them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have answered the question, and I will give many more answers in my speech. In a speech 12 days ago to the Chartered Institute of Housing notable only for its complacency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.825.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Do I agree with it now? Our policy has changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did you write this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "bury (Mr. Smith) opened the debate on the environment. He chose the subject matter, and in so doing highlighted the Government's success, revealing a total lack of policies from his own party. Time after time, he was challenged to produce a single proposal or policy, or even to share his general thoughts on what those policies might be. He chose his own ground and was defeated game, set and match.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why should it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ether, if he released the £5,000 million to the local authorities, that would be in addition to the more than £5,000 million provided at the moment for local housing associations. If it was in addition, how would it be accommodated within the PSBR? When I have heard the hon. Gentleman before on the subject, he has said a rather curious thing. He says that that sum would not count towards the PSBR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.833.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "hall be happy to give way, but I must finish this little bit first. I ask the hon. Gentleman a direct question. Is the £5,000 million in addition, and if so, what will be cut from the PSBR in order to accommodate it? If it is not housing that will be cut, what other sections of the welfare state would be reduced if the Labour party came to power and took that numerically ignorant view of the PSBR?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "tleman, to which we did not receive a good answer. What the hon. Gentleman must have meant was that such spending would be in addition, and if so, he really has to go to his hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown), who specifically said that no such promises might be made by anybody on behalf of the Labour party without his permission. Does the hon. Gentleman have that permission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "e past 15 years. It opposed the right to buy; it opposed tenant empowerment; it opposed the rent-to-mortgage scheme; it opposed leasehold enfranchisement; and it opposed compulsory competitive tendering on housing management, which would do so much to improve the standards of management on even the worst estates in Labour authorities. It opposed housing action trusts, and it opposed estate action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": " party was over and local authorities received the biggest squeeze ever in a single year. All the personal constituency complaints that he has raised today were raised then. The right hon. Gentleman ought to have acknowledged that there has been much improvement. Many schemes help housing problems. He did not give any gracious thought at all to the whole housing association movement—not a mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "e biggest squeeze ever in a single year. All the personal constituency complaints that he has raised today were raised then. The right hon. Gentleman ought to have acknowledged that there has been much improvement. Many schemes help housing problems. He did not give any gracious thought at all to the whole housing association movement—not a mention. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".] Well, he passed it by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He set up the housing associating movement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "hole housing association movement—not a mention. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".] Well, he passed it by. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He did not acknowledge that it was a Conservative achievement and a Conservative concept. It has transformed public housing in this country. In contrast, there has been no evidence whatever of municipal or council housing doing anything in the way of good estates and involvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten thousand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ive. I hope that we will not hurt adult education through our job seeker's allowance. We have attracted much investment to the inner cities, but we need to do more. Hon. Members have talked about the benefit-poverty trap. There are 10,000 people in that trap at the moment, which is far too many, but the figure does not warrant the casual criticisms that we have heard today from Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ht people out of the woodwork because it is not too sensible to risk prison when taxation is so low. We need to provide more money for housing swaps and renovations. On my shopping list, motivation should be at the top of our policy agenda. A strategy on health should also be incorporated in the urban regeneration policy adopted by Ministers. Crime prevention should be considered in a new way and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time's up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "is so low. We need to provide more money for housing swaps and renovations. On my shopping list, motivation should be at the top of our policy agenda. A strategy on health should also be incorporated in the urban regeneration policy adopted by Ministers. Crime prevention should be considered in a new way and— [Interruption.] If I can just make myself heard above the chattering from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": " constituency that 55 per cent. of the houses allocated by the local authority went to people who were not previously on the waiting list. That demonstrates the magnitude of the problem. To my mind, housing is at the core of the issue of urban regeneration. We shall not solve the problems of urban regeneration until we have kicked out the Labour authorities that have ruined many of our city areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Knight", "preceding_text": "radford and I wish him well. I am sure that he will be with us for many years. I regret that I cannot be quite so complimentary about the speech made by the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw), which was long on words but short on content. His only policy was that, if one waves a magic wand and liberally sprinkles someone else's money, all urban problems will be resolved instantly and overnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Knight", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw), which was long on words but short on content. His only policy was that, if one waves a magic wand and liberally sprinkles someone else's money, all urban problems will be resolved instantly and overnight. [Interruption.] Coming as I do from one of the great northern cities of this land, I have to say that urban problems have taken a long time to develop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "n was quoted at length by the Secretary of State. Bristol UDC spent £6.4 million on consultants. Merseyside UDC spent £24.4 million. The list goes on, a ledger of waste and squandered resources. We need look no further than the Minister's own constituency in Ealing, where the incoming Labour leadership has been left a crippling budget deficit of £15 million by the defeated Conservative leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "No, I must try to make progress. The right hon. Gentleman did not give way in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "No, I must try to make progress. The right hon. Gentleman did not give way in his speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] The right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ices into flats. We recently gave consent in Hammersmith for a block that had been built as offices to be converted into flats by housing associations. I am interested in the proposals put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak and, of course, we shall do what we can to promote them. My hon. Friend the Member for Finchley (Mr. Booth) outlined how socialism can destroy jobs—quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, she did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": " health, better education, and a safer environment. The introduction of the single regeneration budget and the promotion of city challenge enables one to take that integrated approach. I pay tribute to the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge). Her tribute to Jo Richardson struck a chord and she described how the right to buy had been a very successful policy in her constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-29", "file": "debates1994-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "4fbd2b2b85a3df6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "e enables one to take that integrated approach. I pay tribute to the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge). Her tribute to Jo Richardson struck a chord and she described how the right to buy had been a very successful policy in her constituency. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, she did not.\"] She did. She said that one third of the council's housing stock is being sold under the right to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-29a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Friend continue to remind his advisers, especially those in the Bank of England, that the present weakness of the United States dollar against the Japanese yen and European currencies is not a cause for a fundamental reappraisal of our policy of trying to get lower short-term interest rates? The weakness results from the delay, caused by the Japanese financial year window-dressing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary tells me that that is not an accurate quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.933.4", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ey will be strictly adhered to. I say that not just on behalf of this Government, but on behalf of other Governments who are determined to ensure that we see those ceilings applied in practice. The variations from year to year to which my hon. Friend refers are largely caused by fluctuations in the pattern of payments. Different payments come in different years, causing an up and down fluctuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.933.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.933.4", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "h my hon. Friend refers are largely caused by fluctuations in the pattern of payments. Different payments come in different years, causing an up and down fluctuation. [Interruption.] I cannot possibly give the list of causes for that, but one of the key causes is that our partners' financial year—the calendar year—is not the same as ours. Payments therefore fluctuate wildly from one year to other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.933.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is actually a nation of low inflation, increasing growth and falling crime. The right hon. Lady has been promising to set out her position on a number of issues and today she certainly has. She has published her own policy document and it enlightens a great deal. If any hon. Member would like to know more about it, I invite them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the House\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "s for the British Government and the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland. That has been the position, and it remains the position. I say again to the hon. Gentleman that he can set up as many Aunt Sallys as he likes, he may draw as many black scenarios as he wishes, but, at the end of the day, they all have to be subjected to the test of acceptability to the people of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Services for Members", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " to downloaded texts from the Official Report. If people are complaining that Whips have access to clean feed, at least it tells me, as a member of the usual channels in this place, where my 22 Members of Parliament are or are not at a given time. If we put cameras in some of the Bars, such as Annie's Bar, that would also help the Whips. I would go for full surveillance on some Back-Bench Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-06-30", "file": "debates1994-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "07567d80a9e7ccf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Services for Members", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "ocess, allowing Members of Parliament more access to research work in universities and colleges. Some hon. Members will be concerned about the security implications, but we should consider all the possibilities. Unless we establish the right operation in the House of Commons, we shall not even begin to do that. It is perverse that I can read President Clinton's diary and find out his appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-06-30a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1054.3", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Ex-service People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is younger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "ait to hear me out. It is true that, in America, the Veterans Administration deals with health and welfare, but not exclusively—it promotes the wider interests of ex-service people and their dependants, who are entitled to a voice. They are people who have made great sacrifices. I notice that the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, North (Mr. Heald) is of my generation—he and I should tread cautiously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1055.4", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Ex-service People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "ampaign for individual and collective interests. One of the arguments forcibly advanced by the Royal British Legion and other ex-service organisations is that Whitehall has a plethora of agencies—about 17 or 18—and a host of Departments and Ministers with which they have to deal to obtain redress for their members. We want to break through that bureaucracy, and a designated Minister could do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Ex-service People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir Ken Warren.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. When preparing for this morning's debate, I studied an amendment once tabled by the former Member for Hastings and Rye, Mr. Ken Warren—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Ex-service People", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "reserved occupation; my post-war credits would have built up. I missed out on that, and served—but that is exactly what I wanted to do. Now I am president of my local branch of the Royal British Legion: the Beaminster branch, which, as my hon. Friend the Minister will know, is without doubt the finest branch in the United Kingdom. I hope that he will pay appropriate tribute to it when he winds up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Ex-service People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " have already mentioned the access to excellence scheme and the services' employment network. All those benefits have been provided in recent years for former service men. On top of that, there is the work of the Royal British Legion, whose offices help so many people. Then there is the work of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, SSAFA, which has not been mentioned thus far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Ex-service People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": " a Department of Health press release reporting that a Minister had already performed the task that the right hon. Gentleman complained had not been completed because there was no specially designated Minister. I was developing the thesis that many such tasks are already well covered by active Ministers in various Departments. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Dorset, West (Sir J. Spicer)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1102.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-01", "file": "debates1994-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6064dcd470cb7677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1122.21", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That, in respect of the Value Added Tax Bill [ Lords ] and the Vehicle Excise and Registration 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 Bills have been read a second time.— [Mr. Arbuthnot.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-01a.1122.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "s needs. If the Minister is not prepared to consider the principle of the matter, he might at least consider the tactical advantages of making a concession that would make the system seem relevant to the people who are caught up in it, and win him many friends—friends he badly needs. In principle, the disregard should be on the agenda and in any package. I do not know what the cost figures will be", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member talks about people who feel hard done by having redress, but, as a taxpayer, I feel hard done by and so does the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "een US States now deny driving, professional, fishing and hunting licenses to divorced men who are behind in their child-support payments. In Maine 18,000 'deadbeat dads' owing a total of $150 million were mailed warnings this week from the…State Department of Human Services. Licenses to drive, fish, practice law, work as a beautician or in any other state-licensed field are at risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "policy to review. The Opposition propose a right of appeal to a special independent officer with powers to test special circumstances. The hon. Member for Garscadden should understand that every absent parent in my constituency would appeal, because each one has special circumstances. I would, of course, support their appeals because it is my job to support my constituents against the bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": " the Minister confirm the CSA's clear policy that only men who give sperm to a properly licensed clinic will be accepted and can therefore avoid paying maintenance for their biological child? That is exactly as it should be. Nature never intended babies to be conceived by way of a legal contract between a man and woman, denying a man's ongoing responsibility for his issue in a wholly perverse way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "eplacements, and sick children and babies in special care units of the equipment and nursing they need. I acknowledge that the CSA has experienced difficulties in its first year. I have given an insight into how those difficulties have been promoted and aggravated by absent fathers or lesbian groups who either do not want to pay or would like to pay a small amount while the Treasury pays the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "easury has no money of its own; it has only the people's money, which it simply distributes where it is most needed. If it gives it away unnecessarily to support absent parents' first set of children, the money will not be available for other needs. It will therefore be taken from orphans and widows who depend on state benefit, from the sick who need hospital care and from truly vulnerable people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-04", "file": "debates1994-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "232b195435b2968a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "the bill. It is right to pursue the biological father, and the Child Support Agency will do that. Let me touch on some policy points. The first one—this was the second defining moment of the debate—is the continual discussion that we have with Opposition Members about the role of the taxpayer. I know that the hon. Member for Warrington, South (Mr. Hall) has taken a great interest in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-04a.111.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "French Words (Prohibition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": " to prevent a hairline crack in Anglo-Franco relations from growing into a chasm. For those who say that this is all a waste of time, I remind them that the House sat for 1,978 hours and 14 minutes in 1987–88 and for 1,373 hours and 53 minutes in 1991. So 10 minutes is but a drop in the ocean in the affairs of state. Furthermore, the French clearly do not think that their Bill is frivolous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "nd from where he is now sitting. As you know, Madam Speaker, for some time Conservative Members have been asking when they will hear from my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair). The Whips are now deliberately organising matters so that not a single Tory Back Bencher is left in the Chamber. That shows their complete lack of interest in any matter concerning the police and criminality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle", "preceding_text": "I suspect that the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) has come to the House to set down a personal marker on law and order and crime prevention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.256.9", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I invite the hon. Gentleman to revisit clause 72, where the areas which are legally protected as independent are clearly set out. We shall come to those on a later amendment. The £350 million will not go away, and there is an accountability to Parliament and to the Public Accounts Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.256.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.256.9", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "invite the hon. Gentleman to revisit clause 72, where the areas which are legally protected as independent are clearly set out. We shall come to those on a later amendment. The £350 million will not go away, and there is an accountability to Parliament and to the Public Accounts Committee. [Interruption.] The silent ones have asked me to move on, and it may be for the convenience of House if I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.256.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.262.7", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not grasped it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The amendment is interesting; it is called \"or\". The Opposition desire to put into clause 72, between the word \"peace\" and the word \"in\", the simple word \"or\". The very essence is or. The amendment sounds innocuous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.262.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.269.10", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " crime. The Labour party, we are told, has finally seen the light—another general election, another defeat, another Opposition spokesman and a new policy. Let us take the hon. Member for Sedgefield at his word for a moment. Let us assume that he means what he says. He has been his party's home affairs spokesman for more than two years. Last month, he delivered the annual Police Foundation lecture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.269.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.270.4", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "n suggested: the right has disregarded the importance of creating a society of opportunity. Where has he been for the past 15 years? Can he so totally have forgotten the part that he played in attempting to thwart the opportunities that the right has created? During his first general election, the hon. Gentleman supported the abolition of the opportunity for council tenants to buy their own homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way, as many other hon. Members wish to speak. That research briefing stated that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not acquainted with the facts of law and order. He has not bothered to find out that for the last 12 months there has been a fall in crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-05", "file": "debates1994-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8e3e3abc63573114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "lea in mitigation—it could not be described as anything else. I know his past, and the criminal law was never one of his strong suits: planning, yes—crime, no. He would have done well to leave the plea in mitigation to someone else, not least because a lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client, and that was never truer than in relation to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-05a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I must say that that remark was pretty racist from a party that is supposed to be \"communautaire\". Did not the favourite for the leadership of the Opposition recently say that it was communautaire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.303.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.305.8", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now answer that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": " with me that, like the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Bates), he is misleading the Scottish people and misleading the House by giving those figures? Does he also agree that the 249,000 figure of December 1992 is the peak figure, although it is 17,100 lower? Why did he not take the August 1990 figure of 197,000, which is the lowest figure? Does he agree that the figure is 34,700 higher than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.305.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.305.9", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The short answer is that the question was: what is the change in the numbers unemployed in Scotland since December 1992\", and I gave the figure in answer to that question. I hope that the hon. Gentleman, and all hon. Members, will recognise that unemployment in Scotland is falling, and will continue to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.305.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "n. Friend is to be congratulated on the Locate in Scotland programme, which has attracted firms such as Hoover, Motorola and Mitsubishi. But does he agree that the distance between Scotland and the centre of gravity of Europe puts it at a great disadvantage? Is it not therefore even more amazing that freight transport from Scotland to the rest of Europe is being disrupted today by the rail strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is taking some advice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": " it just possible that the Secretary of State might manage to take time out from the royal pageant in Edinburgh to consider the future of Her Majesty's naval base at Rosyth, or has he completely given up the fight to save it? May I tell the Minister, who seems to be standing in for the absent Secretary of State today, that if the Government do not listen to the defence case and the human case for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.312.6", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The golf courses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ks that Opposition Members will ever find it in themselves to say anything good about what happens in Scotland. My hon. Friend is right to point to the success of Locate in Scotland, which had a record year last year. I pay tribute to the dedicated staff of Locate in Scotland for all their work. Again and again, potential inward investors say to us that one of the great attractions of Scotland is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.312.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "in programmes. As an organisation, it can face the future with more flexibility and with a clearer view of how its various activities contribute to fulfilling its strategic purpose—to provide broadcast services of information, entertainment and education. In the light of that, the Government will recommend that the BBC should be granted a new royal charter for a term of 10 years from January 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "to its audiences and to Parliament. Within the United Kingdom, the BBC should continue to take a lead in programme making and to provide its present television and radio services. Those will be funded from the licence fee, at least for the time being. The Select Committee, after considering all the options, concluded that the licence fee was the best available method of funding the BBC's services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " digital television and radio services. Reflecting widespread concern over standards, we also propose to merge the Broadcasting Standards Council and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. That will provide a clearer focus for the public's complaints about broadcasting services and reduce the number of regulatory bodies. Madam Speaker, the Government recognise that, in the BBC, the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "e, it is sad that the Government have simply gone for the status quo. We would have been more ambitious for the future development and growth of the BBC. We believe that there is a need to respond to the changes that have taken place in Britain since the previous royal charter, and the decline in our shared sense of national identity and community. We would have wanted more in the statement today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": " a time limit from the Secretary of State for that discussion. We want a date to be put on that continued question mark over the future of transmission services. The future of the BBC depends on keeping transmission services in house. If digital is to be developed, which is what we would like, it is important for licence fee holders and the BBC to know about that decision sooner rather than later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "rnors, and with changing the royal charter to an Act of Parliament, to enable an open and transparent debate in the House? We welcome the right hon. Gentleman's statement about the BBC's worldwide service—a decision which the BBC announced many months ago—but would like further clarification that licence fee money will be kept separate for domestic production, rather than for international growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION FOR FRIDAY 22 JULY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Would it be possible for you to outline your thinking on statements? I understand the position of the Speaker if there is a pressing day and urgent business, but we all know that today is a very light day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "t to the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, North (Mr. Heald) that I am not bought and paid for by the union for higher education. I would be interested to know the union to which the hon. Gentleman is referring. As he is well aware, and as I have declared on many occasions in the House, I am supported by two teachers' unions. That has been regularly declared, as the Secretary of State will recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is trying to lead me down avenues which I am not particularly willing to go down. I am happy to tell him that, on the basis of several visits both to school-centred training and higher education teacher training, the calibre in general of new teachers is very good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": " in Committee received some support, and I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for his courtesy in responding so fully and agreeing to consider them further. I note that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has tabled amendments to clause 5 which deal with the first point that I made in Committee, and I am grateful to him. I believe that my right hon. Friend is a listening Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blackpool, South.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "irely to the liking of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. It may be seen as a direct challenge of the committee's autonomy, or even as a challenge to academic freedom. Like all Conservative Members, I give way to no one in my belief that academic freedom is a pillar of our democracy: it is of the utmost importance. However, I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "from Ofsted of particularly weak performance in that subject. For example, the new \"Teacher in School\" survey says that some 46 per cent. of new primary teachers do not feel adequately prepared to teach reading. That is a damning indictment of the present system and it underlines yet again the need for change and for a proper and adequate system of teacher training—and the need for its inspection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.352.8", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "Order. What has that to do with the inspectors of schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.352.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "actly what he wishes by another route. In other words, I intend to ensure that HMI carries out its important role by means of terms and conditions of grant. Put simply, but not crudely, the bottom line will be no inspection, no funding. That will achieve the end that my hon. Friend wants. I can tell the House tonight that I propose to make it a condition of my grant to the Teacher Training Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hall", "preceding_text": "pposition's request would be unduly bureaucratic. The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) put it another way and, in a Freudian slip, said that it might be unduly democratic. We think that it was a Freudian slip—we are not sure. There may be other Freudian analyses one could place on what the hon. Gentleman said. He was probably saying the truth, but it was a subliminal intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hall", "preceding_text": "hange. I do not think that that is good enough. I send my son to a school in which consortia are involved in the provision of initial teacher training for postgraduate students. I was not informed by the parent governor that that would take place, nor was I informed by the governing body or by the school hierarchy. I was informed by my wife, who teaches at the school. I had privileged information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": "I was coming to the end of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Colin Pickthall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.412.6", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "preceding_text": "ducation, although, if I may get in a plug, the college where I used to teach in my constituency is the only one in the country that was judged \"excellent\" for its PGCE courses last year. Conservative Members still talk about teacher training colleges—they referred to them again today—but they have not existed for a decade and a half. A huge change has taken place in colleges and universities and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "preceding_text": ". Yet Ministers brushed them all aside. Ministers have tried to assure us throughout the Bill's passage that higher education, including that part of higher education concerned with teacher education, is in no danger from the Bill. But they have only to listen to their own Back-Bench colleagues, especially the hon. Member for Ealing, North, to realise what their real intentions are. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ble for the actions of the Lord Chancellor's Department and, for once, to be accountable for his own actions: we learned that he signed the relevant document himself. Well, that is good news. For once, he can come to the House and be accountable for something that he has done, rather than something that the Lord Chancellor has done—or rather something that he has not done in fulfilling his duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman has not realised that it is part of the Opposition's job to stir up trouble. We do not have much difficulty with that lot on the Conservative Benches. Some of the usual suspects are here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Lone Ranger!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " whether, in the light of the review that had been undertaken, he would publish his Department's findings on the rules governing multi-party actions. He refused to do that too, apparently because it was tied up with the fundamental review of legal spending with which we shall not be dealing tonight. We also asked—this, too, is highly relevant to the current position in the Royal Courts of Justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-06", "file": "debates1994-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb8545374cee1b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-06a.424.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Martin", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend assure me that, when it comes to building new prisons for persistent juvenile offenders, he will insist that the will of this House should prevail, rather than that of the interfering busybodies down the Corridor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.439.8", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady can probably see merit in the prison system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.439.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for his statement, for the Opposition days, for finally telling us the date of the summer recess and, indeed, for granting us the summer economic debate, which I understand is intended to become a permanent part of the parliamentary calendar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "If we are to break up in the week mentioned by the Leader of the House, why are we not breaking up on 22 July, so that at least on 21 July we could have Question Time and Prime Minister's Question Time? Is not it a fact that the Government are in such a sorry position that they simply do not want the newly elected Leader of the Opposition to be in a position to put questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "ptimism and idealism. But instead we seem to have a society where many of our youngsters feel that they are in a dead-end. They feel alienated from the democratic process and downtrodden, and the world no longer seems to be the oyster which we envisaged in the 1960s. It now appears to be a shark—often a loan shark. In moving the motion, I shall quote several figures which I think are of relevance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": " legal means of support… If the general exclusion of 16 and 17 year olds from Income Support were removed, those in genuine need would be able to access Income Support quickly in the normal way. The reality is, of course, that those young people cannot access income support in the normal way. Forty-five per cent. of young people staying in emergency accommodation had previously slept rough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "No. What we say is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "r's comments smacked more of a smokescreen than of concern for the deep-seated problems in Britain. The subject of benefits and financial support for young people is important. There is a crucial distinction between the old-fashioned policies of the nationalists and the prejudiced policies of the Tories. The Labour party wants opportunities for young people. We want to move the culture further on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "In the world that I inhabit, in my constituency, those sort of comments do not square with the facts of life. We can talk about differences between European nations, but the figures are compiled differently —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.529.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-07", "file": "debates1994-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "50e07445b4e41742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "s towards young people that have been displayed in the speeches of the hon. Member for Ayr and other Government Members. Their idea is that if people were entitled to benefit, they would somehow be tempted away from training places or the hope of career, that they would want to lie in their beds all day if they got benefit and that they would not have an incentive to get out in the big wide world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-07a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-08", "file": "debates1994-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5cde0b13721f3f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.563.7", "colnum": "563", "heading": "United Kingdom (Inequalities)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "g working conditions still very much exist, as is shown by the advertisements in my local jobcentre this week. People on benefits and out of employment have also felt the pinch during the past 15 years. Pensioners, especially those who are entirely dependent on the state pension, have lost out because of the breaking of the link between pensions on the one hand and prices and incomes on the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-08", "file": "debates1994-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5cde0b13721f3f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "United Kingdom (Inequalities)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "ticising Government policies in that respect. Recently, the new president of the Methodist Church made similar comments, as have members of the senior establishment of the Catholic Church. It is such a common pattern that it cannot be dismissed as the rantings and ravings of a few ideologically motivated clerics. We also need a much bigger job creation package than anything we have seen up to now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.572.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-08", "file": "debates1994-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5cde0b13721f3f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "United Kingdom (Inequalities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's remarks are becoming extremely offensive to a large number of people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-08", "file": "debates1994-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5cde0b13721f3f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "United Kingdom (Inequalities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "If any society which has any confidence in itself, and this society should have sufficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-08", "file": "debates1994-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "5cde0b13721f3f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "United Kingdom (Inequalities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "rvices that they provide. Now, the productivity-pay link has been broken, partly because of globalisation factors and partly because of technological change. As yet, we have not found a method to pay everyone in employment sufficient to sustain a decent standard of living. I accept that this country has a lower level of unemployment than some of our competitors, but all the new jobs are part-time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-08a.593.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "mittee on Foreign Affairs, on the general point about our contribution. I was asked about the matter only the other day in that Select Committee and I promised to produce figures, which I have set out in a letter to my right hon. Friend. I was talking in the context of the Bill. The figure that I gave was the amount by which our contribution would be less than it would have been if the new states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "the largest group in the European Parliament, with 62 Members. Our colleague Pauline Green has been elected overwhelmingly as leader of the socialist group, which is the most influential group in the Parliament. We hope that our friend and colleague Klaus Hänsch of the German SPD will soon be elected President of the Parliament. He has our wholehearted support. We shall give all that power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "essfully to negotiate membership, and when my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) successfully negotiated membership, Labour turned against. When it was returned to office, it was in favour, although mildly so—that was the time of the referendum. After that, it passed under the leadership of the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) and was passionately against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "other hand, we refuse to allow practical improvements that could well assist us\".—[ Official Report, 23 April 1986; Vol. 96, c. 391.] Of course, she was talking about qualified majority voting, which was massively extended as right hon. and hon. Members on the Government Benches guillotined the Single European Act through the House. I hope that we shall have no more of that nonsense in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for keeping me on the right track. In an excellent recent speech on the Union which I advise hon. Members to read, my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) rightly said that it cannot be a grand design handed down from on high from Government to the governed, and that Europe must be argued for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": " do not have time to respond to now, but I will write to him. The debate raised a new and startling development in Labour policy. Labour's Front-Bench spokesmen still retain the capacity to surprise us. We heard news of a new opt-out by the Labour party. The right hon. Member for Copeland announced a ban on any dealings with Ministers in the new Italian Government from the National Alliance party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Business", "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 words— Provided that, in the case of bills certified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order E (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) and committed pursuant to paragraph (5) thereof to a special standing committee, the three morning sittings may be held in Scotland\". I am glad to have the opportunity to put before the House this evening the changes to Standing Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.777.2", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " because it comes either from the convention or our opponents, but because in the short term it threatens the Union and in the long term will destroy it completely. As a Unionist party, we have never been frightened to question how and if the Union is working, and to look at its failings as well as its strengths. The changes envisaged by my right hon. Friend are fundamental, radical and visionary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I have never accepted the proposition that a Parliament would necessarily lead to higher rates of tax. Taxation powers are important if any legislative body is to have some means of fiscal discipline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": " home rule and a Scottish Parliament. He rehearsed the argument that 75 per cent. of Scottish electors voted for those who wanted major constitutional change. He ignored the fact that they actually voted for the retention of the Union. That is an important point. The hon. Gentleman suggested that the Government lost the last election in Scotland. In fact, they won it in the Union and on the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "We have no intention of doing that. Our aim is to reduce taxes, not increase them—but that is another matter. Opposition Members have criticised the speed at which local government reform will be introduced in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. On local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-11", "file": "debates1994-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "356c99699b29a9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Director General of Gas Supply", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "n based on her public sector background, combined with her entrepreneurial skills. The telephone call must have been a happy coincidence for Saxton Bampfylde, because at the time it had already submitted a short list for the job which had been rejected by the Department of Trade and Industry, for reasons that it has yet to explain. Ms Spottiswoode's name was in any case promptly added to the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-11a.804.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.824.11", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that a key plank of Government policy is to widen choice and opportunity as much as possible to all? Does my right hon. Friend think that widening choice and opportunity would be enhanced by extending VAT to private health care and education and is he surprised that that suggestion is being mooted by the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.824.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend. During his busy schedule, will he find time to visit my constituency of Erith and Crayford and see at first hand the improving economic situation and, in particular, the improving job situation in Bexley? Furthermore, will he reaffirm his commitment to lower taxation when the time is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Privilege (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "the great and the eminent in our ranks—that is, Privy Councillors who, in the main, have sat on all previous Privileges Committees in the House while I have been a Member—who are Members of Parliament who have directorships and consultancies in abundance, inbuilt in the Committee will be a conflict of interest which will prevent the Committee from properly deliberating on these matters. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.830.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Privilege (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May I finish my point of order, Madam Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "lieve that, in the public sector, the Post Office faces slow decline, but the public expenditure White Papers say that the Treasury expects rising profitability in the public sector. That is why the Post Office cannot invest. The hon. Lady asked about the spending commitment. If the Treasury did not demand so much in profits from the Post Office, there would be no need for any spending commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "the customers in that consultation who will not want the Royal Mail privatised. It was no trick question. It is the real test of whether they will govern according to the wishes of the people or rule by imposing their own political prejudices on the nation. We will ensure that, during the next three months, the public are given every chance to express their views on the Post Office loud and clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hoey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hoey", "preceding_text": "in whatever way she thought best. It was delivered to me at 7 o'clock on Monday morning, not quite still warm but certainly fit to be eaten. I have had an affection for the Post Office ever since. The miracle of someone being able to put something in the post at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon that could be eaten in north London at 7 o'clock the next morning is something of which we should be proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hoey", "preceding_text": "I have had an affection for the Post Office ever since. The miracle of someone being able to put something in the post at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon that could be eaten in north London at 7 o'clock the next morning is something of which we should be proud— [Laughter.] Hon. Members may laugh, but that is precisely the emotional attachment which people have for the Post Office and postal workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " should resurrect some of the great old titles. Why call the regulating body something as dreary and boring as Ofpost, or whatever? As a sort of outrider for the Government, I believe that a 100 per cent. sale would make more commercial sense. Why retain 49 per cent. if, as is said in the Green Paper, the Government will not intervene in the company? What is the logic in that, apart from politics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.874.5", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Not on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.874.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas French", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas French", "preceding_text": "However, it is possible to take steps to ensure that the volume of mail and the profit that it generates increases rather than falls. Unfortunately, as several hon. Members have already said, the profitable part of Royal Mail is threatened in a number of respects. Several hon. Members have mentioned the Dutch post office. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) has left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.877.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.888.6", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ke profits, it would not have the money for the £27 billion of investment over the next 10 years. Opposition Members do not seem to want an improved water system. My constituents want ever better water quality and they want money to be put into better water services. If those companies do not make a profit, where would the money come from? That is part of the problem about the Opposition's policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.888.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.888.6", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " that very point. I want the regulator to have statutory teeth so that my constituents and those of Opposition Members, who have protested so much tonight, can enjoy the benefits to be gained from the Post Office providing a proper service, at a realistic price, across the country. That is best delivered by transferring the Post Office to the private sector, where it will make a profitable return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.888.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "nt. of Post Office Counters business is from as few as eight clients—and most significant among them is the Benefits Agency. We must consider the future of Post Office Counters in the light of the fact that, for example, 40 per cent. of new pensioners already have their benefit sent direct to their bank. We must also consider it in the light of the developing interest in direct debit and the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "elivered to our offices and homes, with ever heavier sacks of mail arriving on the shoulder of, in my case, the postwoman, and I greatly value the service that she provides. Hon. Members will receive the same quality of service, whether they represent a constituency in the far north of Scotland or the far south-west of England. That service is guaranteed: it will happen—we need not worry about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "That turns everything on its head. Any number of international and multinational conglomerates have such clout in the money markets that it is silly to talk that way about Britain, which probably has a gross domestic product smaller than the borrowing ability of some multinationals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.920.4", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology (Mr. Patrick McLoughlin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology (Mr. Patrick McLoughlin)", "preceding_text": ". Of the speeches of the 10 Labour Back Benchers who spoke, there were four interesting contributions, from the hon. Members for Falkirk, East (Mr. Connarty), for Neath (Mr. Hain), for Vauxhall (Ms Hoey) and for Birmingham, Yardley (Ms Morris). I would expect them to make interesting contributions, because they are all sponsored by the Union of Communication Workers, and it is a pity that perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.920.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " torpedoed. The answer is no, we have not. We did not think this matter one for the fire service, I must openly admit. We take no powers away from the Chair. We do not insist that the Chair act in any particular way. All the amendment does is give the Chair the right to call the second Division in a shorter time. That would allow Members not to have to stand waiting in the Lobby while the Tellers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-12", "file": "debates1994-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9511559fa64f7dd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "I have made the point that I am aware of that, but I asked for transparency and I have not got it. In questions over a period of five years I have asked for a list of the organisations. That information is not divulged. All that is available are the names of hon. Members, and that is all that I have to go on. If I believed that they were being hired by charities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-12a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "eed, we are told that it has been held up because of lack of logistical support from western countries. Why is further delay occurring? Genocide continues in Rwanda and hundreds of thousands of terrified people are flooding across the borders of some of the most impoverished countries in the world. Of course, no sensible person blames all that on Her Majesty's Government; I am not suggesting that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.984.8", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "In view of the contortions of a slightly earlier question, will the Minister consider, on his way to visit the south Pacific forum in Brisbane this summer, the necessity to apologise to the Chinese Government for the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.984.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher), as usual, gets it almost entirely wrong. I believe that he will find that he has misjudged the White Paper and the mood of the House. The hon. Gentleman asked, as if it were a difficult question, how we can measure the performance of senior civil servants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I would not want to compete with the hon. Gentleman in terms of rattle. There is virtually no organisation in the world, including the British senior civil service, that does not have some measure of performance-related pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "empt—the offering of the bribe rather than the acceptance of it, if bribe it was. The Sunday Times story made it perfectly clear, at least to me, that Members of Parliament had been entrapped. It was also perfectly clear that Members of Parliament had been subjected to attempted entrapment. The investigative journalists involved will say that they were acting within the ethics of their profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the public would find it utterly baffling, indeed incomprehensible, if we gave any impression that the House gave equal sense of seriousness to the activities of some journalists on The Sunday Times and to the alleged bribery of Members of Parliament? Those two issues are not of equal importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " want to make it clear to Opposition Members that I have no objection to the Privileges Committee sitting in public or to everything being recorded. In fact, I look forward to the tape recordings of my conversations being heard in full. I welcome that. I believe that they would have the same effect as the Richard Nixon tapes had on Richard Nixon and on the individual who obtained those recordings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "tly we do not have to declare the value of the interest. The register is almost useless unless the actual amount of money that passes hands appears in it. There is all the difference in the world between being paid tuppence and being paid £1 million to do something. The amounts that people receive for their non-parliamentary duties should be explicitly included in the register for everyone to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " other than as a result of their parliamentary duties. Another issue may also be debated later tonight—an appropriate amendment has been tabled, although I do not know yet whether it has been accepted. I have argued my case on the issue, and I have previously forced votes on it. In my view, all the money that we receive from elsewhere should be deducted from what we earn as a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "requirement when we table a question. We should declare an interest. If we are in breach, at least we have been alerted, and have failed to declare the interest knowingly. It may be argued that it is also nonsense for the taxpayer to pay, through the licence fee, the British Broadcasting Corporation, which then pays hon. Members to appear on television. We are elected to represent different views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "elp my constituents as their Member of Parliament. I am sure that that is the view of most—if not all—hon. Members. I apologise for the trouble that I have created for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport, for whom I have so enjoyed working, and for my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at the very time when he was fighting for Britain's interests in Naples. But most of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "o take a little further the contribution by my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton) and that by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn). To the best of my knowledge, the motion provides an opportunity, which the House should seize, for us to attend in detail for the first time in some 15 years to the immunities granted to Members of Parliament. They are immunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And trade unions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "en replying to the debate, should give us an assurance that no Members who are consultants to any organisation will be a member of the Committee of Privileges to be appointed. Furthermore, no Members should be appointed to it who are directors of companies which have lobbied, are lobbying or could in future lobby Ministers on behalf of those companies, or ask questions or table motions. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1049.5", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unique.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "e about NATO and the transatlantic relationship. President Clinton recently addressed the French National Assembly. It may have been coincidence that his visit to Europe took place when our Parliament was not sitting; in any event, he did not come and speak to us. We know that he has been in Germany in the past few days, talking about the special relationship between the United States and Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1049.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1056.4", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and I recognise that his knowledge of the subject is deep. However, he is wrong again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1062.7", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Budgen) made the most open, straightforward and honest speech on Monday in which he outlined what he thought was the future direction of the European Union. I agreed with him, although he, of course, deplores and disagrees with it. However, he was right, and I welcome it. I am delighted to be able to remind the House, with great emphasis but without being pompous—which I hope that I never am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1062.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1067.7", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "If people are unemployed, how can they be enthusiastic about the development of any union, let alone a European Union, which is too vast and too great to grasp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1067.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my hon. Friend is so unhappy about that. We shall see an intensification of the deepening which strikes such terror into his heart and alarms him, because he knows that that is the reality, as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary rightly said on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not want to join.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "inavians' fiscal probity, Sweden's Government deficit last year was 14.7 per cent. of gross domestic product, and Finland's was a mere 9.1 per cent. Those figures compare with deficits of 8.2 per cent. in Britain and 9.7 per cent. in that profligate country, Italy. We should bear those facts in mind. I like to be fair in such matters, so I must admit that Norway does not have any deficit problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "to curb Euro-centralisation and harmonisation. However, I cannot agree with that either. As I have said, in almost every sphere in which Britain has fought against Brussels—social policy, trade union rights, consumer protection, environmental regulation—in the negotiations as well as in their domestic policies the Scandinavians have been on the side of more centralisation and regulation, not less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "eems to me that many of the European Union countries already offer a decentralised model. I agree with the comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Godman) about the belief in decentralisation here. One thing that struck me in the debate was the great amount of suspicion which seems to exist among Conservative Members towards their own Foreign Office Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "ct. My hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East mentioned the cost to the people of this country of the European Community. I believe that he talked of a figure of £28 a week for each family. Is it not right that the United Kingdom Parliament should be able to judge what the Government have done and represent the interests of the people? If not, why are we debating the Bill at this time of night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1109.2", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " that, in common with the OCA, and indeed others, the new figure is a ceiling to which legitimate costs can be claimed, and not in any way an entitlement. Finally, I come to part F of the resolution, which introduces a new allowance to cover the necessary expenses of Members returning to Westminster in the event of a recall of Parliament during a recess—not, I should say, that we are planning one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1116.4", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": " it was because Members did not provide the information to enable more accurate reports to be made. It is strange that the only people who have been embarrassed by the press are those who have flatly refused to give their syndicate numbers. Let us look at registration. We had the Lloyd's people at the Committee. The MAPA business is very complicated. It is far beyond the wit of the average person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "es dumped on them, often as a result of certain members being taken off duff syndicates and other more gullible members being pushed on to them, or as a result of the losses being paid or credited in return for improper secret political influence. The knowledge that such transactions show up because syndicate members have to be revealed in the Register of Members' Interests is a deterrent to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "A baby syndicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "A baby syndicate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] A baby syndicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I put notices on the board to tell hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I put notices on the board to tell hon. Members—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Earlier this evening and well in time. If I can continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "May I move on to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1127.7", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "raw the attention of the House to the fact that a number of Members have been preferentially treated. I have mentioned some of them. If I am to be prevented from mentioning others, I accept your guidance and ruling on that, Madam Speaker. I certainly do not wish to be ruled out of order. There are still a large number of Members who are Lloyd's names and who have been given preferential treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1127.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. The ruling that we are given now is very important. A precedent is being set tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am on my feet. The hon. Member for Neath waited until almost 10 o'clock, as he said himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "wed for a situation where Members could have defended themselves openly and positively against the attacks and allegations that I and others have made. As it is now, the friends of those hon. Members who are Lloyd's names and who are in the market have the information. They are doing all the wheeler-dealing and carving others out of and themselves in to the preferential baby syndicates and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-13", "file": "debates1994-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "44db019d84f2473d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1136.6", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have to say, Madam Speaker, that the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-13a.1136.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ion of violence by the IRA and to involve it in the political process, leading towards some form of devolution in Northern Ireland in which the leader of Sinn Fein, Mr. Gerry Adams, and the leader of the Democratic Unionist party, the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley), would both work together and play a major role, how long will it be before the declaration achieves that objective?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1164.9", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "Liar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1164.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1164.10", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1164.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1164.11", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stand up.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] Just a moment. Let me establish who made the remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1164.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1165.8", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister establish an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "\"Front Line First\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-six\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "May I first express the regrets of my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) for his absence today? As has been explained to the Secretary of State for Defence, he is attending his daughter's graduation ceremony today. I thank the Secretary of State for his very long statement, which lasted 56 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "\"Front Line First\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "de fishery protection for the waters around Scotland; it provides protection for the waters around England, Wales and the south-west of England. She should bear that point in mind. The hon. Lady was right to point out that, in addition to the job losses, service personnel will be moving from Rosyth. It is not yet certain how many will move because, clearly, that will depend on a number of factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that my total recall of nearly 1,500 early-day motions has broken down on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "Atlantic gale to put me ashore for ever. I have been to sea since, but I am always glad that it is not my occupation. I have brothers who work on trawlers so perhaps I should declare an interest. It is important that the crewmen are protected along with the skipper-owners of fishing vessels. As the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) and my hon. and old Friend for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-14", "file": "debates1994-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0d7422d0e8acdd90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "k on trawlers so perhaps I should declare an interest. It is important that the crewmen are protected along with the skipper-owners of fishing vessels. As the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) and my hon. and old Friend for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) said— [Interruption.] These men, their families and their communities must be protected. It seems to me that representing a maritime constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-14a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "Many Tory Members have expressed their thanks and gratitude to the noble Lords in the other place. May I place on record my gratitude to Lord Clinton-Davis, who gave full co-operation to the Bill but has not been mentioned in previous speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Walley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Walley", "preceding_text": "t may also relate to the parliamentary scrutiny that we are discussing now. In which case, this might be an opportunity for the Minister to elaborate further on the Government's policy on ports. It is clear from recent parliamentary questions that I have asked about whether the Minister will introduce regulations to deal with facilities for the ports and ways in which legal discharges can be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disabled People (Consultation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "about \"power\" to disabled people. Nor did we hear about a commission, which is the only effective way to deliver rights to disabled people. Will the Minister confirm that the statement says nothing about important matters such as education and transport, which seriously affect the lives of disabled people? The statement runs to five pages of guff, but contains nothing about education or transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disabled People (Consultation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has also contributed a great deal on disability matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "r clear impact on local bird populations—this applies equally to vessel dredgers and tractors—is caused by the fact that the number of cockles remaining for local bird populations is reduced. It must be obvious that that may have an impact on breeding success and can in extreme cases lead to the short-term survival of adult birds. The House knows that much of rural Scotland has outstanding beauty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Knight", "preceding_text": " (Scotland) Act 1984. I suspect that it was not visualised then that cockle fishing could take place in other ways—for example, tractor dredging, which can be very destructive not only for cockle fisheries but for estuaries generally. I have always understood cockling to be a traditional activity in many estuaries in Scotland, England and Ireland. We all recall the song that we learned at school —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "etails. Whereas the cockle used to be eaten by Cockneys when they went to Southend-on-Sea, it has now moved up a scale and become a shellfish delicacy, particularly on the continent. Because the Dutch closed their cockle beds, the price of cockles has been forced up to such an extent that it has caused a bonanza for tractor dredgers on the Solway and other areas. I have visited the Solway at night", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1321.2", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Sir Hector Monro)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Sir Hector Monro)", "preceding_text": "n in his comments. I believe that he thought that English conservation legislation was perhaps more effective than the equivalent Scottish legislation. I remind my hon. Friend that King Robert the Bruce introduced the first conservation Bill, which dealt with salmon, significantly before any such legislation in England. Of course, at about the same time we put certain men to flight at Bannockburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1321.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-15", "file": "debates1994-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "59541c55f6b6d745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1352.5", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is quite irregular. That is not a point of order for the occupant of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-15a.1352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.13.5", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the fraud police are doing an excellent job, and that eight times out of 10 they get their man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.13.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Social Housing", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on listening to many of the more reasonable responses that came forward to the consultation document. Does he agree that nobody will benefit more from the statement than those single parents who are currently staying in rooms in cramped conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Social Housing", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's local authority was one of those which supported the Government's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Social Housing", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's local authority was one of those which supported the Government's proposals. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman's local authority supported the proposals, and it was elected by local people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Social Housing", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from Labour Members' comments is that they believe not only that capital receipts should be released but that there should be a substantial increase in local government expenditure on public housing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Social Housing", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "In order to persuade Opposition Members, I have quoted from The Guardian , I have quoted from the chairman of the Labour party and I have quoted the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes). If I wanted to, I could quote Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "s a question of party discipline. I have seen lots of papers and early-day motions floated around on both sides of the House. When I first came to the House, one would not dream of showing someone an early-day motion in this Chamber; one would have been sent off with a flea in one's ear if one did. Members are in this Chamber to pay attention to what is taking place, not to sign early-day motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Minister", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "With respect to the right hon. Gentleman it is a little early in the debate to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.38.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "political pressures. The result is that we are more open and we are discussing such matters more than we have ever done before. We are certainly more open than the Labour party, so I hope that the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East will at last contribute to the debate on monetary policy by getting up and telling me what he thinks of our target for inflation. Is it too high, too low or about right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that forecasts have a wide range of accuracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " weaponry, while running our defence forces efficiently. Our spending proposals are clear. Keeping public expenditure under control is the key to healthy public finances and lower taxes. Because we believe that lower taxes help incentives, we will lower taxes when the opportunity occurs—we will and we have—but only when it is prudent to do so. The Opposition's spending proposals would not do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It was the failure of the Government's economic policies that drove us out of the exchange rate mechanism. As everybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.50.6", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not see why I have to continue to listen to the hon. Member for Colchester, North. After all, he was the Member of Parliament who said to his constituency at the general election: Ten good reasons to vote Conservative: Low taxes\". That is what the hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.50.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall refresh the minds of hon. Members on what the hon. Gentleman said in his election manifesto —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that I was quoting the Government's Budget forecast of what would happen to unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.53.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ne, East (Mr. Brown) went through the motions of pretending that he had been champing at the bit to talk about the British economy since Christmas. He spent 10 minutes not talking about the subject at all. Our monetary policy is clear. Can we take it that he has confirmed this afternoon that he has no views on the British economy, no economic policy, and no interest in debating the subject at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": " or housing, but they are spending money on consumer items. One of the best signs of that can be found in that article, which details the extent to which more and more £20 notes are coming into circulation. There is also anecdotal evidence of the strength of the retail economy—for example, the absolute explosion in car boot sales. I understand that about 1,500 car boot sales take place every week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.87.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "resided over the bailing out of the last Labour Government? I cannot remember the name of the gentleman who presided over the bailing out of the previous Labour Government. However, no Conservative Government have ever borrowed as much, as a proportion of GDP, as the last two Labour Governments. Labour Members are concerned only with increasing Government spending, which must have the same result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "is yet to come. Just as the Chancellor is trying to change the mood music on economic policy, so he has tried to change it on social policy. While the Chief Secretary still says that Government action undermines individual responsibihty, the Chancellor has started to speak about a strong welfare system. The Chancellor has every reason to -be embarrassed by the Government's record on social policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "conomy rematerialises—this time as the envy of the world. With a deft swivel of their joy sticks, the law of gravity is reversed and taxes appear to be falling, even as they are soaring upwards. But the problem for Ministers is that no one else lives in virtual reality. Everyone else lives in the real world: the world of falling living standards, economic failure, social division and rising taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "tax, exposed for their unfairness on tax and exposed as the perpetrators of the biggest tax rise in history. The Tory's last remaining electoral weapon—the myth of low tax— has been taken from them. They failed on economic policy and social policy. Despite their pretence that everything is fine, they know that they have failed. That is why some of them are tentatively moving on to Labour's ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.120.7", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "mes been right, and the right hon. Member for Derby, South has paid the penalty for having sometimes been left. As always, when games are settled by penalties, people are left feeling that they have been cheated, and the people who have been cheated in this instance are the British public. The British public want to hear from the Labour party a serious exposition of an alternative economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.120.7", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " always, when games are settled by penalties, people are left feeling that they have been cheated, and the people who have been cheated in this instance are the British public. The British public want to hear from the Labour party a serious exposition of an alternative economic policy. [Interruption.] Labour Members have had all afternoon to do that, but they have put forward not one serious idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.120.7", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "h public. The British public want to hear from the Labour party a serious exposition of an alternative economic policy. [Interruption.] Labour Members have had all afternoon to do that, but they have put forward not one serious idea. [Interruption.] I tell Labour Members frankly that they will not be able to go from now until the general election without answering the serious questions that arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railway Pensions", "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": "I beg to move, That the draft Railway Pensions (Transfer and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994, which was laid before this House on 7th July, be approved. The House will recall that, when we debated the Railway Pensions (Protection and Designation of Schemes) Order 1994 and the Railways Pension Scheme Order 1994—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railway Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members who are having conversations must do so outside the Chamber. They must move on quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railway Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "vers, about £280 million will revert to that closed fund. The Government's interest lies in the fact that there would be a £280 million hedge against the solvency guarantee on the pensioners fund, which they so bitterly resisted in the first place. I am not a conspiracy theorist, so I do not say that the Government are driving the dispute and preventing a settlement because they want £280 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railway Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ements which do not involve leaks to the newspapers about the £50 million that may go missing, as that has been obvious for the past seven years of negotiation. If the signalling staff are not aware of that, and of the effect of the order, what on earth have their representatives in the RMT being doing and saying to them for the past seven years, let alone for the past seven weeks of this dispute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-18", "file": "debates1994-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "37171fc193a071b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railway Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "The straight answer is that the future of the rail industry is in no way helped by the industrial action, and I wish that the hon. Gentleman and some of his hon. Friends would acknowledge that fact. The 5.7 per cent. offer which was made to the signalmen and withdrawn after the intervention of the Secretary of State does not help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-18a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.166.8", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.166.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.173.4", "colnum": "173", "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's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.173.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Forestry Review", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In that case, the hon. Gentleman might question the Secretary of State about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Forestry Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "have twisted and weaved and prevaricated towards today's statement, could not find a way of peddling full privatisation. Surely the Government are aware of how sad we should all be at the damage that has been done in the industry because of the long-drawn-out uncertainty about Government plans, which has seriously and needlessly affected investment and confidence. May I ask the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will not hear anything further from the hon. Gentleman. I ask him to resume his seat. We can discuss that matter later tonight as it is on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "May I first start by agreeing with the hon. Member for Colchester, North (Mr. Jenkin) that we really should have a written constitution. I am glad that he is now on record as saying that it would make life so much easier if we had one. I welcome him and offer him free membership of the society that seeks precisely that. On directives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Enright", "preceding_text": "ead it, he would see that it gives equal rights, which are crucial for women. The hon. Gentleman failed to mention that, under article 119, the Government have been interfered with more than any other European Government. We have been taken to court more often than any other member country for offending against women's rights, and we have been found guilty every time. I shall not divide the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "egulator will be announcing the new price figures. My hon. Friend will therefore have to wait until then. The Government and the director-general are determined to ensure that the rapid price increases which we have seen in recent years should not be repeated over the next five years. Those large increases were unavoidable, as I said earlier, but they must be a thing of past. The director-general—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I shall not be drawn into a debate about Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury—the worldwide recognition of what has been achieved in Britain by our water companies and what they have achieved abroad in export orders. For example, North West Water has obtained a contract for £1.5 billion to upgrade, extend and operate the sewerage system throughout Malaysia, a £285 million contract to operate water and waste systems in Mexico City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ing income for this country and protecting jobs goes on. Since I became the Minister at the beginning of the year, a number of politicians from all parts of the world have come here to find out what the Department and the British Government are doing in relation to water and I shall give the House an indication of who. We have had politicians, at local and national level, from Israel, the Ukraine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "have benefited substantially. The public are paying for successive Governments' lack of investment in, and neglect of, the water industry. I was intrigued to hear the Minister say that the problems were all down to Labour Governments. The Conservatives have been in power for twice as long as Labour since the war. It was a wonder that he did not put it all down to the 11 months of the Lib-Lab pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": " let the cat of the bag. He called for increased taxation. Some people may not understand how, in a country where taxation levels are already plenty high enough, an hon. Member can make a plea for his constituents to be taxed more, but the hon. Gentleman told us how he reached that position. The hon. Member for North Devon made a statement that was farcical, even for a member of the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "e a statement that was farcical, even for a member of the Liberal party. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman would contain himself, he might learn something. It was obvious from his speech that he had learned nothing in the past four years, so today might be the opportunity to do so. We also learned that the hon. Gentleman thinks that the problems caused by pollution are caused by privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "y 20p a day, and windsurfers benefit from such measures, but I must tell the hon. Member for North Devon that I am not particularly concerned about windsurfers from the north. I am desperately concerned about an elderly population who face water charges that they can cannot afford. Ultimately, those whose prime method of transport may be a Zimmer frame do not need to be told by the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.231.7", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "This has been a useful debate. As the Government are not prepared to discuss their water policies in the House of Commons, the Opposition have chosen our last half Supply day—in the event, somewhat less than half a day—to debate the subject of water. I should like to begin by commenting on the Minister's opening speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.231.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.231.9", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Gentleman ought to have. He is also a director of Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, which was responsible for donating £70,000 to the Tory party in 1992. The Minister went on stoutly to defend the activities of North West Water. I agree with him that it provides a good service for our constituents—some of its activities are good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.231.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.231.9", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I got down there, that would still leave me several feet higher than him. But let us say a word or two about North West Water and its chairman, Sir Desmond Pitcher. I wonder whether the support of the hon. Gentleman and the Tory party has something to do with the fact that, between 1979 and 1992, Sir Desmond Pitcher, when he was chairman of Littlewoods, donated £160,000 to the Tory party finances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.231.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Environment and Countryside (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Environment and Countryside (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "preceding_text": ") Regulations were first laid before the House on 4 July. Hon. Members will realise that the draft order that we are considering today was laid on 13 July and that the original draft was withdrawn because two minor corrections were necessary so that two of the regulations should read as intended. I apologise to hon. Members that an earlier oversight made those small drafting adjustments necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " of potentially damaging operations in respect of the European site. It would also be helpful if the Minister could explain why it has been decided to give the nature conservation agencies the discretion to decide which owners and occupiers they should notify of the amendments in any one case. It would be helpful if the Minister could lay out the parameters for how far outside the designated site—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": ". I have in mind the following example. Let us suppose that a quarry was operating and that it was then decided to designate it as a SAC. The quarry might have an existing planning permission. As a result of the designation, its operations might be curtailed or modified in some way. Would the quarry owner receive compensation? It would be helpful if the Minister could clarify that point. Eighthly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "e quarry might have an existing planning permission. As a result of the designation, its operations might be curtailed or modified in some way. Would the quarry owner receive compensation? It would be helpful if the Minister could clarify that point. Eighthly—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am at the eighth out of 10 points, as my hon. Friend the Minister will be glad to know. I am particularly concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "g through the back door. What will happen if protected species become pests to landowners, farmers and householders? Bats are in the list of protected species. We have bats in the roof of our house and we are stuck with them. Should those bats become a nuisance to us and to our neighbours, what advice can my hon. Friend the Minister give? I hope that the Government have thought the matter through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.267.11", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He does realise it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "cation in Britain at every level. Who in the end is damaged by the attitude to education of the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party but the poor of the nation? What does the hon. Gentleman stand up and say? He says, \"I am here championing the children of blue collar workers.\". He is doing the opposite and damaging the children of blue collar workers, and the tragedy is that he does not realise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.267.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Church of England (Legal Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Bates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Bates", "preceding_text": " of many households. How would the rules apply to households containing two members of the clergy? In such cases, there are obviously two incomes, and the house is provided at some expense to the local diocese. Another aspect of legal aid funding relates to the notion that the Church Commissioners should contribute. I accept that the clergy are as eligible for legal aid and advice as anybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Church of England (Legal Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should listen in silence to the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Bates), or hold conversations outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.285.5", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Church of England (Legal Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Father Michael will be delighted to hear that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.285.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-07-19", "file": "debates1994-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8308bfe8c9ab23e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.287.4", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e, and Question proposed , That Mr. Attorney General, Mr. David Alton, Mr. Tony Benn, Sir Marcus Fox, Sir Peter Hordern, Mr. Doug Hoyle, Mr. Bill Michie, Sir David Mitchell, Mr. Alfred Morris, Mr. John Moths, Mr. Tony Newton, Sir Cranley Onslow, Sir Giles Shaw, Mr. Peter Shore, Sir James Spicer, Mr. John Ward and Mr. Alan Williams be members of the Committee of Privileges.—[ Mr. Andrew Mitchell. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-19a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "We last had such a surplus at the end of the 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Looking at the Order Paper for today, I see that the business of the day has been changed as a result of an hon. Member's action yesterday. In consequence, Back-Benchers' time in the Adjournment debates under the Consolidated Fund Bill debate will be limited and it may not be possible, because my debate is No. 16—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You must be joking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "find other assets to privatise. I predict that, once they have discovered that those airports represent an asset to be sold for profit, they will look at municipal golf courses. The doctrine of privatisation has not been the success that the Government like to claim it has been. United Kingdom plc used to own revenue-earning, income-earning, profit-earning assets, but they were taken away from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Radio 1.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "rces. I trust that that point will be taken on board and passed on. I shall now deal with something totally different. Over the past two years I, like millions of other people, have been encouraged by the success of the radio station Classic FM, which is now two years old. I see that my hon. Friend the Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household is shaking his head. He may not be in favour of Classic FM—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": " years I, like millions of other people, have been encouraged by the success of the radio station Classic FM, which is now two years old. I see that my hon. Friend the Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household is shaking his head. He may not be in favour of Classic FM—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Radio 1.\"]—but I am, and I am willing to debate with anyone the virtues of Classic FM and the appalling nature of Radio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " banged drums to drive the evil dragon away. I regard that as equivalent to the nonsense about astrology that we can now read in the tabloids every day. I favour the rational approach of astronomy, which is why I mention all the news about the comet and about Jupiter, which I find of great interest. However, hon. Members need not worry; I shall not speak for too long, but the subject is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "o us, we seem to be able to cram a quart into a parliamentary pint pot. At the beginning of the debate, my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) congratulated the Leader of the House on surviving what he described as the slaughter—a reference to today's Cabinet reshuffle. I am sure that the whole House is pleased to see that the Leader of the House is still with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The relevant rules require that, if someone is eligible to be a member of a trade union, he or she has to be a member to stand as a Labour candidate. If Opposition Members do not know that, they have not read Labour party rules. If the House takes the view of the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "22 Committee—I am not volunteering for the job—he probably would have objected to me as well. It is far better to say that, if the customary practice is to appoint the leaders of Back-Bench Members, it is not for Opposition Members to object. The kernel of the speech of the hon. Member for Workington was that people who earn money outside—directors, advisers and consultants—should be disqualified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "use should look not just at the serious issues dealt with in the article in The Sunday Times . but at the wider issues that arise from the article and from your statement a week last Tuesday, Madam Speaker. The Committee will examine issues such as the complaint raised more recently about the way in which our banqueting facilities are booked by those who have interests in public affairs companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Pollution (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "to enjoy fresh air and escape from the urban environment to attractive rural areas surrounding big cities. We cannot destroy those prospects by creating the massive devastation and damage that we have unfortunately witnessed at Twyford down in the past couple of years as the Government have driven through that road scheme against justified opposition from all those concerned about the environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Pollution (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "In the past week, the Labour party has published a new environmental policy which has been well received by an extremely wide range of bodies concerned with the environment and the country's future. That policy document, \"In Trust for Tomorrow\", a concept which a Government who are in hock to the past cannot appreciate, sets out clearly how we shall change present policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Pollution (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ime of the morning. I spoke all along about the work being done in those areas. I am fascinated to learn that the hon. Gentleman is now opposed to taking the lead out of petrol, which had the favour of many people across the parliamentary divide. Much work is being done on what is good and what is bad. The hon. Gentleman will know if he is a fair man—I am sure that he is, even if he is a Welshman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-07-20", "file": "debates1994-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21c29f44c37ffb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mesopotamia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Torridge and Devon, West (Miss Nicholson) knows that I disagree with her deeply on the substance of what she has said. However, I want to defend her right in raising a very important subject, placed at No. 9 in the Consolidated Fund debates, to have proper time for her speech and to have a proper ministerial reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-07-20a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " remainder of this Parliament. If the hon. Member for South Shields does not believe my claim about that, he should simply state Labour's policy on whether we should spend more on defence, spend what we are spending now, or spend less. The Labour party does not need a review to determine that. Do we have the right number of battalions or should we have more or fewer, or does it depend on a review?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman aware that the decision two weeks ago at the Labour conference to scrap Trident would throw 4,000 people in Plymouth out of work overnight? What are we to make of the fact that the only Labour amendment on the Order Paper \"supports the call\" to scrap Trident? We know that Opposition Members are weak on defence, but what do they have against the city of Plymouth which I represent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's question was also asked by the hon. Member for Davyhulme (Mr. Churchill). Unfortunately, there was no answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I am analysing the two options. I accept the claim of 3,000 to 3,500 jobs. but I do not think that the hon. Gentleman will object when I say that about 1,750 of those are directly aerospace jobs. The rest—I have made the point—are extremely important because they involve suppliers to the industry. Although Lucas Industries is in the C130J programme, it may get a double bonus if the FLA goes ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Like others, I was much taken by the Secretary of State's reference to Hugo Young's article of 14 July 1994. Showing characteristic modesty, the Secretary of State forbore to tell us about the parts of the article which referred to himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": " rationalisation of the depots by way of a straight competition between them and keep the best one? I will happily give way to him right now if he will tell me the answer to that question. Lastly, I want to make a point about the way in which the whole exercise has been carried out. The Government are making the right decisions—sorry. Government is about making the right decisions for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "He probably has at least one other job. No matter how small the party, there are usually obvious divisions. The hon. Member for Upminster (Sir N. Bonsor), the Chairman of the Defence Select Committee, disappointed me at first because he did not attack the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-17", "file": "debates1994-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "1084e816314830af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.112.2", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to accept that they are both class-ridden and racist, but he is worried about sexist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-17a.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.125.8", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend to the Dispatch Box. Is he aware that the right hon. Member for Kingston Upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) has observed that any fool knows that a minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.125.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "uld be aware. In retailing, pay is 42 per cent. less than the wages council rate. Does the Minister realise that his strategy of encouraging low pay in Britain damages women workers above all? Does he not yet understand, after 15 years of economic failure, that the encouragement of low pay leads to poor training and poor investment, and that a national minimum wage would benefit low-paid families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.132.6", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman has been busy composing early-day motions to undermine his Front Bench, but even so that is no excuse for what he has just said. I have never opposed regional selective assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "With all due respect, the Chancellor specifically ruled it out and therefore he thought that it did arise. Is not that the problem: that the Chancellor takes one view on Europe, the Employment Secretary takes another view and the Prime Minister hovers between the two? Does he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.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": " is important to have a proper blood service in all parts of the country. I will ensure that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health examines in detail the remarks that he made this afternoon. It should be recognised throughout the House and beyond that there is no one in the House who does not share an affection for the national health service, who does not wish to see it built up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.141.8", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly can offer my hon. Friend the reassurance that he seeks. The development of grant-maintained schools has been a great success. It has tremendous support from well over 1 million parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.141.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.230.5", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "strategic purpose. Like others who have spoken in the debate—it was even hinted at by the ex-Secretary of State for Defence, the right hon. Member for Bridgwater—we do not believe the Government when they imply that there will be no further changes to our armed forces. No one believes that, excēpt possibly the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Robinson), who in a naive speech tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.230.5", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ontained in the defence costs study take the form not of a coherent and internally consistent package of reforms designed to serve an identifiable strategic purpose, but of a series of piecemeal budgetary measures and decisions foisted on Defence Ministers by their colleagues at the Treasury. The Government's defence, as it was tonight with the Secretary of State, is to attack Labour party policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I have only three minutes left. On testing and the chemical weapons convention, the Government will ratify the convention as soon as possible. Finally, I turn to the two Opposition amendments on the Order Paper. First, there is the official Opposition amendment, which calls for a defence review. Which commitments do the Opposition wish to eliminate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "position have no arguments about the cost of that initiative. So the official Opposition amendment simply calls for a defence review and contains no policy arguments whatsoever. The other motion on the Order Paper—which we will not have the pleasure of voting on-has been signed by 45 Opposition Members. The motion was carried by the Labour party conference and calls for the elimination of Trident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "e of voting on-has been signed by 45 Opposition Members. The motion was carried by the Labour party conference and calls for the elimination of Trident— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Motherwell, North protests, but 45 of his hon. Friends signed the motion. The hon. Gentleman cannot sweep that underneath the table. Forty-five of his colleagues want to scrap Trident and cut the defence budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-18", "file": "debates1994-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b74f950c57f87f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": ": \"No.\"] I can count. The hon. Members should look at the early-day motion at the back of the Order Paper. In arguing the unilateralist case, the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Smith) said that he wanted defence cuts of £8.5 billion. That would mean cutting the Royal Navy, scrapping our nuclear deterrent and making many cuts in the defence budget. We would have to leave Germany and reduce our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-18a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend will be glad to know that I do not consider that the Government are blameworthy in this sphere —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and I have been on the same side on whales and I think that the same will be true of elephants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does it relate to the same point of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. Work by the Dartington social research unit into the benefits of different types of regimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ut of it. So the containment becomes less stringent as one goes forward, until ultimately one is rehabilitated into society. That is what happens in Massachussetts—or did 10 years ago. The outcome was not 74 per cent. reoffending, which this country had at that time, but 28 per cent. That is an enormous amount of crime solved. I am saying that, if we had that system, the hon. Member for Sedgefield", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forgotten him already!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " becomes less stringent as one goes forward, until ultimately one is rehabilitated into society. That is what happens in Massachussetts—or did 10 years ago. The outcome was not 74 per cent. reoffending, which this country had at that time, but 28 per cent. That is an enormous amount of crime solved. I am saying that, if we had that system, the hon. Member for Sedgefield [Laughter.] Not Sedgefield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "We are not allowed to spend money until we have Royal Assent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris (St. Ives)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris (St. Ives)", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.367.5", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Unless these are new points of order, I intend to rule on the two that have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.367.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-19", "file": "debates1994-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5944f61524963464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.380.9", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "out the availability of unsuitable videos. In the light of that concern, the Home Secretary undertook to introduce an amendment in another place, which would set out in statute for the first time some of the criteria that the board would be required to take into account when determining whether a video work should be granted a classification certificate and, if so, what that certificate should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-19a.380.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.417.7", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "rection that the hon. Gentleman and I would both like. However, we should not overestimate the difficulties on the way. We have a huge task in persuading the majority of other countries in the present Community of the need for radical reform. That is why it is unwise for Labour Members to talk so much in terms of consensus in the European Union; sometimes, we need to disagree and change attitudes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.417.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must settle down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.418.6", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "xpayers—have to pay increased prices in the shops? When will he stop the income support scheme for farmers, many of whom are millionaires? The set-aside scheme was designed to cut food production by 50 per cent., but it does not do that. When will the right hon. Gentleman act against the common agricultural policy, before it collapses under the weight of its own unfairness, futility and stupidity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.423.4", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "Let me return the Prime Minister to the question of sleaze at the heart of government. Has he seen the astonishing report in today's press that his predecessor, Lady Thatcher, ordered GCHQ to pay foreign intelligence to spy on two members of her own Cabinet whom she suspected of disloyalty to her?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.423.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "Will there be an opportunity next week or possibly today to pay tribute to the remarkable efficiency and dedication of the police in defending our freedoms last night? I have an office overlooking St. Stephen's entrance and was most impressed at the unbelievable patience shown by the police when facing quite disgraceful provocation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "the steps from Victoria Embankment to the subway are closed. That is the responsibility of London Underground and Members have been notified of that on the all-party Whip. I very much regret the problems caused to the hon. Member for Caernarfon yesterday evening. I telephoned him today; he is in considerable pain, but I gave him the good wishes of the House. We wish that he will be back here soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "ke it statutory, as the hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael) suggests, it is incumbent on us to state how it is to be financed in the future. The only way that it could continue to be financed is by a reordering of priorities in terms of total Government expenditure. Anyone who wishes a scheme to continue without regard to cost must be prepared to propose changes in priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I am a parliamentary adviser to the Police Federation of England and Wales. In that regard, I raise with the Home Secretary concern about his remark that an officer who is injured during the course of his service will receive his pension, plus a gratuity of five times his annual salary. That is incorrect. That occurs only when there is a violent death in service, as the Home Secretary should know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ster will say, \"It is not o r idea; we would not have gone so far, so quickly, but it is a good point.\" I hope that the Minister will at least concede that the argument is valid. Even if he needs a minute or two to take advice, I hope that he will then say that the Government will accept the amendment. I advise him to be brave. He will then become the most popular Minister in the Government today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "that regularly. Their gaols are not nearly as full as ours because they send loads of people away for short periods. They give people a short, sharp shock. That is one point that we should have heard from the Minister. Fourthly, there is a huge concern that the law will not be tough enough in dealing with harassment against minority communities in our society. I have learnt a lesson in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.512.8", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "as well as enacting it. That is what many hon. Members on both sides of the House wish to hear from the Minister tonight. I understand that the All England lawn tennis club at Wimbledon, the Test and County Cricket Board, the Rugby Football Union and the Professional Golfers Association figure among those bodies which have written to hon. Members on both sides of the House with sporting interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.512.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.512.8", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "the overwhelming evidence pointing to the harm that ticket touting is doing to sports other than football, a point that the Government accepted earlier in the Bill's passage. According to the chief executive of the All England club at Wimbledon, ticket touting creates a market for criminally obtained goods\". Two years ago at Wimbledon, tickets were stolen from the offices of the legitimate holder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.512.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-20", "file": "debates1994-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d0e04517da9140c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.512.8", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "her place, my noble Friend Lord Donoughue eloquently described the illegal activities of touts at Wimbledon, before the Lords gave the Bill its Third Reading. The Minister will also recall similar examples that I gave on Report—the German gentleman who was ripped off to the tune of £50,000 buying tickets for Wimbledon. I and others will be happy to supply the Minister with many more such examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-20a.512.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-21", "file": "debates1994-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "035b287ec68adcef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-21a.536.4", "colnum": "536", "heading": "National Health Service (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "e, by the Secretary of State—in a spirit of genuine collaboration. The impressive recent financial figures which Bart's has provided give the lie to the financial pessimism expressed by Tomlinson. I note that my neighbour, the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore), nods his assent. I hope that the Minister will acknowledge that, while recognising that the game has moved on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-21a.536.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "which the Secretary of State was destroying our health service. It stated: We don't want our centres of excellence, our Guy's and Bart's hospitals, chopped up and sown together again under some new name which satisfied the demands of Virginia's managers on tightening up resources … Imagine the uproar if she were to become Education Secretary and decide to do away with Oxford and Cambridge.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.798.9", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t know that Rosie Barnes, a former Liberal Member of Parliament, serves in his part of the world. He may also like to know that two Labour councillors serve on the Leeds community and mental health trust. Of course there are times in particular hospitals when certain management issues need to be tackled and some key people need to be replaced—that has nothing to do with the system of appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.798.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " Lady is to be confident in her assertion that the new system is serving the interests of local people best, local people should have been given an opportunity to say whether they wanted to try it. I am not aware of any of the consultation processes, which are part of the statutory legislation, ever succeeding in persuading a trust applicant that it was wrong. I know that from my local experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "wed to have their say on that. The hon. Lady's investigations as part of the Select Committee are important in these matters. She will know that there is at least a question mark over the state of morale among nurses, doctors and health care professionals generally. The pace at which the reforms were implemented may have been responsible for some of that. I do not have a Labour party axe to grind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "health care commissioners, to whom hospitals are accountable and whose role it is to promote the interests of patients, means that the service is now largely patient driven. Again, I have seen that in my constituency. I see it at my advice surgeries, where people thank me—quite unnecessarily, because I have not done anything— for the good work of the national health service in our local hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Carttiss", "preceding_text": " old, before the national health service existed. I lost my mother when I was three without ever really knowing her, because in those days tuberculosis was a deadly disease. I was taken away from her and brought up by my grandfather because they were afraid that I would catch tuberculosis, which was an horrendous disease. Of course, if someone had money he did not die—in fact, he did not catch it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": " and asked for my comments. I said that I did not know him, and therefore did not think that he was suitable, and asked what was wrong with the existing chairman. The chairman of the Anglia and Oxford regional health authority—we have a huge region looking after my constituency, based in Oxford—decided that that man was the right one for the job. He may well be, but that is not good enough for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "rale of consultants at Monklands district hospital, which serves my constituency. Having listened carefully to the Minister's reply this afternoon to my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle) and to the excellent speech of my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg), I am reluctant to reveal the names of those who wrote to me. They are enormously respected in my community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e point of need? The answer can only be because private provision will be made better than the state's; will be given more quickly; or, worst of all, will be the only method of getting treatment because the state will no longer provide it. In summary, that is what the Conservatives are trying to do to the NHS. On BBC radio, in one of her frequent and much-loved appearances, the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.849.5", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me an opportunity to clear up this matter now. First, it was £30 million that was invested under the aegis of Locate in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.849.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "Roe) touched on accountability. There are three threads of accountability running through the service; it is important to note that these things never existed before. The first is the code of conduct, which lays down explicit standards of conduct that are expected of NHS boards. It introduces new measures to help boards fulfil their responsibilities for effective stewardship and financial control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "ppointments, new procedures will open the system to far more scrutiny and provide greater transparency than ever before. We intend to reach people from a far wider range of backgrounds. Everyone is eligible to apply. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said, if the Labour party will encourage its supporters to apply for these posts, perhaps even more of them will apply and be appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman totally misrepresents the facts. The lady has been reinstated and retrained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-25", "file": "debates1994-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "9dfddab7c4b80f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "gh and Berwickshire asked whether any trust applications had been turned down after consultation. I think that he feared that only lip service was paid to such a principle. A number of applications were turned down after consultation. Surrey Heartlands hospital and Manchester children's hospital both had earlier applications for trust status rejected. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-25a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-26", "file": "debates1994-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a84b5f8185cb9ce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I understand from the press that the Labour party is likely to finance its plans by an increased tax on business in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-26", "file": "debates1994-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a84b5f8185cb9ce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ance its plans by an increased tax on business in Scotland— [Interruption.] If that is not the intention, let us have it confirmed in writing. Let us have confirmed in writing the 20 answers to the 20 questions from the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond). The trouble with the Labour party is that it is apparently committed to a body on which no Labour Members are prepared to serve and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-26", "file": "debates1994-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a84b5f8185cb9ce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.887.2", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member was not listening to what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.887.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-26", "file": "debates1994-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a84b5f8185cb9ce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Accounts Committee Reports", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir George Young)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir George Young)", "preceding_text": "nment pay most attention to the critical reports. But I shall mention in passing today's report, which compliments the Treasury on its effectiveness in the recent sale of BT shares. I have not served on the PAC before, nor, I confess, have I taken part in its debates. However, as a former spending Minister, I am familiar with its work. I used to have responsibility for the Property Services Agency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-26a.964.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "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/1994-10-27a.987.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.991.5", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Lady to her new position in the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.991.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Given the importance of his responsibilities for economic strategy, will the Chief Secretary now take the opportunity to tell us that at no time was any part of his bill last year in the Ritz hotel in Paris paid for by a Mr. Ayas? Will he answer the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.992.4", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot allow that line of questioning on a question to which it does not relate. The hon. Gentleman may wish to pursue the matter through me to the Privileges Committee. Alternatively, of course, he has the opportunity to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.992.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "cantly above those given to their employees. He will also be aware that suppliers are now increasing prices across industry because of the recovery, that large wage claims are in the pipeline and that the latest Union bank of Switzerland prediction on inflation in the United Kingdom next year is 5 per cent. Will the Minister make a bet with me on what the inflation rate will be in 12 months' time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister see that the problem will not be resolved unless he understands that the Butler reports are plainly inadequate as, on his own admission, Sir Robin Butler is not able to see the person making the complaints, Mr. Al Fayed, he has forbidden the Nolan committee to look at the allegations, the Privileges Committee is deadlocked because Conservative Members want it to sit in private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1003.3", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "With all due respect, the Prime Minister is not being asked to add to it. It is not me; it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1003.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "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 says that the matters may not be true and may be unsubstantiated gossip; yet he wants them peddled in public so that people's reputations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1004.7", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1004.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I shall attempt to help the hon. Gentleman. I do not need to suggest any malevolent intent on the part of those people who are watering down those principles. All I need to show is that they are reducing the standards that they themselves set. The important thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-27", "file": "debates1994-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "046fff1e861e4eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister was big enough to take the historic opportunity and move the process forward. During the Maastricht debate, when the Tory party needed Unionist votes to pass the European legislation, I believed that we would lose the historic opportunity because of the arithmetic of the House of Commons. Thankfully, we did not, and the Prime Minister was big enough to take the historic opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-27a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "ation, revealed last week the results of a major survey that showed that Britain is now the world's favourite location for inward investment over the next two years. Would that remain the case if we did not provide inward investors with access to the single market? Of course, it would not. I have been speaking for almost half an hour. We had a Neanderthal wing of the Labour party shaking its head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1120.3", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "nd really give it a push.\"— \"it\", of course, being socialist planning. That quotation is not my invention. It comes from an excellent paper that I can recommend to hon. Members on both sides of the House. It comes from Fabian Review, volume 105, No. 3, from an article written by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Dr. Jones), in which she quoted her hon. Friend. No Opposition Member denies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1121.4", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": " far during the debate—the hon. Member for Middlesbrough has knocked a couple of women aside. But that is the real voice of the Labour party. That is the north-east of the Labour party speaking, just as it was the real voice of the Labour party speaking when the hon. Member for Livingston, who was then the main Opposition spokesman on trade and industry, extolled the virtues of socialist planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "My first advice to the Minister is that he should keep taking the tablets. They obviously do him a world of good. He is in fine form and fine fettle this morning. We welcome his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "The Minister, in his usual perceptive way, has understood the particular drift of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "the slightest significance in inward investment decisions. Indeed, even at this stage it is quite clear that the opt-out will not survive the intergovernmental conference in 1996. Companies inwardly invest in Britain to gain the benefits of the European Union. It is called looking ahead and forward planning. They know and understand that a Labour Government will sign up to the full social chapter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "rd investment, but we shall have a coherent strategy for it all, rather than getting by on a wing and a prayer. At present, there is no fixed exchange rate for the pound, there is no certainty about inflation, interest rates are rising and there is no certainty for members of the public or the work force. We offer a great deal more reassurance than this Government have offered. Much to the relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "erica for each job. The search for big-ticket investment, the giant projects, may be a mistake. The most successful state in America in attracting inward investment is Ohio, which has focused on seeking smaller firms based on intermediate or even low technology. I made notes for this speech using a pen handed out by British Airways at the Labour party conference. I am sure that they are available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "That has been true of the British economy for too many years. All Governments—if we can be ecumenical for a brief moment—in the past 20, 30 or 40 years have failed Britain by not keeping inflation properly under control. The hon. Gentleman cannot point that finger at this Government. We have record low inflation. The hon. Gentleman is perfectly right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-28", "file": "debates1994-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "d54cb0ac0ffb9e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "oped gas meters being manufactured in Oldham rather than in Germany. That has resulted in that German company investing almost £10 million in the region, and safeguarding more than 100 direct jobs. I am proud of the investment in the north-west. I have much information on the Labour party's reaction to it, but, because of the new-found partnership with the Labour party, I shall put it to one side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-28a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1206.12", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If there is a point of order for me, perhaps the hon. Member for Eltham (Mr. Bottomley) will raise it at the end of questions. I did not quite hear what he said, and I should like to hear it clearly then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1206.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1213.6", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "In my point of order, Madam Speaker, I plainly explained what was in my mind, and I unreservedly withdrew my remarks if they were interpreted as criticism of the Chair. If I may respectfully say so, the remarks that followed were not called for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Is it not extraordinary that the House is denied the opportunity to question Ministers? Will the Leader of the House assure us that a statement will be made to the House of the Government's intentions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Would it be in order for the Committee of Privileges to start a separate inquiry, in addition to your own, into the behaviour of the editor of The Guardian so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1214.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": " public have been led to believe, the editor of The Guardian, who has misappropriated paper from the House, has forged a letter purporting to come from a Minister of the Crown and has sought to impersonate a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence. I have written to you, Madam Speaker, to ask that Mr. Preston be brought to the Bar of this House. Will you please arrange for that to be done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is wrong to say that I smuggled in a camera. I paid the duty on the camera as required, and declared it when I went through the channel. I am trying to make the point that this debate should be about serious matters. You, Madam Speaker, have made it clear that matters of individuals will not be raised in the debate. We are dealing with the issue of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition requested last week. It does not cover the specific allegations that have been made, and it will leave many questions unanswered. The Government's handling of the whole affair has been questionable. The Prime Minister has dithered, been made to look foolish, been buffeted by events. Finally, he lost his temper in public. He has publicly supported Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1220.5", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Thank you for that ruling, Madam Speaker. The way in which the House deals with these matters—whether it is the Prime Minister or the Committees of the House—is an important issue. The Prime Minister has made several statements to the House on that very issue, and it is obviously right to refer to him. Mind you, if I was a Minister in the Prime Minister's Government I would be a little uneasy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "lowed the Committee the possibility of sitting in public and taking certain evidence in private was not put before the Committee, and the Committee now finds itself deeply divided along party political lines. I should have thought that it was in the interests of the House not to have further debates along party political lines, and for the House to have this debate. We are trying on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gorst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gorst", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "f order, Madam Speaker. When my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Michie) described what happened in Committee, you properly drew attention to the normal rule that proceedings are not mentioned until a Committee has reported. Understandably, the Leader of the House has described proceedings, including the fact that I moved the motion that he be in the Chair, according to precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "er the decision of the House or the Committee, I am no longer prepared to accept the present restrictions, and if I return to attend future meetings of the Committee of Privileges, it is my intention to issue my personal report of those proceedings that I attend. My reports will be based on notes made at meetings of the Privileges Committee and they will be as fair and accurate as I can make them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ot produce a fair and balanced report. Over the weekend, a national newspaper carried a letter from a member of the public saying that he had written to a different national newspaper making what he considered an important point. The editor had phoned him and said, \"I will print your letter, provided that you chop out the middle of it because that is not the story that I am trying to put forward\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1262.4", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I should like to give way, but I do not have enough time. The Committee has nine Tory Members and eight Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1262.4", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no, they would not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "r Select Committees meet in public from time to time, and many people are brought before them. In any case, in the House any hon. Member can refer to anybody, as many do from time to time, and cannot be pulled up for it. The debate is about Conservative Members protecting their own. My guess is that, if two Labour Members had to go before the Committee, Tory Members would be telling another story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "ould not be, one of simple party politics. I hope that, when the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster replies to the debate, he will say that the Government have decided to follow the Labour lead and allow a free vote on this important issue. I very much regret the remarks of the hon. Member for Davyhulme (Mr. Churchill), because the Opposition have not sought to make this a party political issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "g ahead with rail privatisation, which will increase fares, reduce services and push more people on to the roads. Any Government who grasped the scale of Britain's transport crisis would change course on all those counts. This Government have changed course on none of them. They have shown an unswerving, visceral antipathy to the public sector since their first days of Thatcherite interventionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "l reason why the Tories are so determined to continue building roads in perpetuity, despite mounting opposition across the country, lies in the link between the Tory party and some of the major construction companies. One company, Taylor Woodrow, has given more than £1 million to central office since 1979. Trafalgar House has given £590,000, Tarmac has given £389,000 and Wimpey has given £385,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1279.7", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "It is certainly extremely unwise and a good example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1279.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1280.5", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will not succeed in interrupting by making sedentary interventions. None of the problems to which I have referred need involve extra spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "past 15 years. We have sought to allow people the freedom to make their own choices and to create for our industry the conditions necessary for it to thrive at home and compete abroad. What we have not seen in this country is the appalling environmental neglect that characterised those eastern European states where freedom was stifled and transport decisions were the prerogative of the bureaucrat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "s promised us one again this evening. How confusing; it is not so much a policy, more a way of life. As ever, the Opposition are torn between trying not to offend the public on the one hand and their trade union paymasters on the other. The Labour party has not even considered the costs of imposing a moratorium—nor how much it would have to pay to the construction companies for breach of contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "a reduction in traffic in Manchester of around 0.3 per cent. So £140 million of good investment for the benefit of people who use metrolink has removed three cars in every 1,000 from Manchester's roads. From that and other research, it would appear that to transfer just 10 per cent. of car journeys nationally to rail would, on those figures, require an investment of some £140 billion. It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Marshall", "preceding_text": " Union. During my time in the House, I, in common with many other Members, have attended a wide variety of meetings of different transport groups covering every aspect of transport: road, rail, sea and air. In the 1960s, the in-phrase was \"to seek to create a co-ordinated, integrated transport system\". Since the Beeching rail cuts, we have moved steadily further away from that still-desirable aim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1292.2", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "preceding_text": " pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow, Shettleston (Mr. Marshall). I agree with several of his main arguments, and especially his final argument. The bypasses that he mentioned are needed in many districts throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles. I deeply regret the fact that it was necessary to slim down the road-building programme, for reasons that I shall discuss later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1309.11", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the policies described which the royal commission regard as unsustainable are indeed the policies which have been pursued by the Government, and we have heard nothing tonight to suggest that the Government will change those policies. I hope that they will, and I shall be asking the Minister to give us more information when he winds up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1309.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1309.11", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "hat the Minister's time will be taken up by my speech. Do the Government accept, as we do—the Secretary of State failed to say—the royal commission's eight objectives and the accompanying targets for a sustainable transport policy? Will the Government match Labour's promises on the environment which were so ably developed by my predecessor, the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1309.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drug Trafficking Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "This is a consolidation measure, and a necessary and welcome one. We too feel some regret that the Government have not taken this opportunity to strengthen and, indeed, consolidate a national strategy against drug trafficking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-10-31", "file": "debates1994-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "71e2c773556fe3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1321.2", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drug Trafficking Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether I could draw to the attention of the hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-10-31a.1321.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1331.7", "colnum": "1331", "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/1994-11-01a.1331.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " and the Belgians can manage 94 per cent., should not we be able to achieve somewhat more than 50 per cent. of under-fives in education? Can the Minister bring himself to congratulate the London borough of Newham, which has the highest percentage of under-fives in nursery classes in the country? The most deprived local authority has achieved that. Will the Minister say something nice about Newham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1345.4", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the whole House knows, we are considering the results of the consultation exercise that was launched in the summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1345.7", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "To return to the Prime Minister's response to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Stevenson), on Post Office privatisation, there is more than a whiff of retreat in the air. If the Prime Minister does retreat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1345.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1346.8", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "So that no one who may be listening to these exchanges can be in any doubt, will the hon. Gentleman confirm that, while he says that he opposes VAT on fuel, he is in favour of a carbon tax, which would have exactly the same effect on people? Will he also acknowledge that measures worth around £2.5 billion over three years have been put in place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1346.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1370.5", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ence in these matters, and he knows that, if there are concerns about a Bill, there is a process for ensuring that it does not come to fruition. That is a legitimate stance that the Government have adopted and will doubtless adopt again, whichever party is in power. It perturbs me and many of my colleagues that the Liberal Democrats appear to be all things to all people on all issues at all times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "preceding_text": "nment and Conservative Members are taking their suspicion of local authorities, bureaucracy and planning to ridiculous lengths. There is nothing wrong with bureaucracy in itself. Of course, we need bureaucrats and people to plan and to ensure that schemes are carried out in an organised way with foresight and understanding. The Government's objections to the Bill are nonsense and always have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "In following the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Field), I must say that I rarely find myself having any sympathy with anything said by Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1416.6", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "ct that, despite the Bill starting out with more than 150 provisions giving power to the Secretary of State, the Lords amendment would give him even more power to determine the affairs of local communities. It is undisputed that the four cities that I mentioned have the traditional right of calling their senior civic person the lord provost—I am not sure whether there has ever been a lady provost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1416.6", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "with more than 150 provisions giving power to the Secretary of State, the Lords amendment would give him even more power to determine the affairs of local communities. It is undisputed that the four cities that I mentioned have the traditional right of calling their senior civic person the lord provost—I am not sure whether there has ever been a lady provost. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Yes, there has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1416.6", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "re power to determine the affairs of local communities. It is undisputed that the four cities that I mentioned have the traditional right of calling their senior civic person the lord provost—I am not sure whether there has ever been a lady provost. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Yes, there has. [Interruption.] Apparently Glasgow and Edinburgh have been sufficiently enlightened to have had a lady provost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Wallace) wishes to divide the House on this topic. As this is my first speech this evening, it is appropriate for me to congratulate the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Clarke) on his appointment to the Opposition Front Bench. I read in the newspapers that the Opposition Whips are appointing yuppies to their office; that term does not immediately come to mind in relation to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": "ening, it is appropriate for me to congratulate the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Clarke) on his appointment to the Opposition Front Bench. I read in the newspapers that the Opposition Whips are appointing yuppies to their office; that term does not immediately come to mind in relation to the hon. Gentleman. [Laughter.] It is fair to say, however, that he is respected on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": "Laughter.] It is fair to say, however, that he is respected on both sides of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland made a somewhat unexpected assault on Lords amendment No. 1, which was debated at some length in the other place. Hon. Members who served on the Committee will recall the debate on a Government amendment on the use of \"chairman\" or \"convenor\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": "pressed in another place, and it was argued that other places in Scotland—the hon. Gentleman rightly referred to Perth, which is a good example, and Paisley perhaps is another—might wish their first citizen to have the title of lord provost. It is clear, however, that it is unreasonable to expect that the title of lord provost should be held by communities at will throughout the whole of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "citizen entitled \"lord provost\". That does not make any sense and it would not be supported by the residents of the four cities that are already entitled to give that title to their first citizen. The title of lord provost applies irrespective of sex. If a woman becomes lord provost, she will be so entitled. I hope that the House will accept that the amendment is a perfectly reasonable compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "e will explain what it is all about. The amendment is a mean-minded approach to an important matter. My hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton made a longish speech, but that is not a criticism, merely a statement. He told me before he started to speak that he would lead by example and that I should not make a long speech. He said that he would show me how to do it. I am trying to pad out the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham) on having the best line of the debate so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Let me spell it out, in the hope that I will satisfy the hon. Gentleman, who is a lawyer. The legal advice we received was that clauses 12 and 19, as originally drafted, gave rise to some doubt about whether regulations appointing or removing members would have been ultra vires. Clearly that had to be sorted out. The amendments were not initiated by Ministers, and were not a matter of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "satisfactorily, the House should support the Labour amendments, which will ensure the standing and status of the professional officers responsible for social work in the new authority areas. We are not making a party political point. The point has wide support across the political spectrum. Indeed, when the matter was debated in the other place, Baroness Faithfull, who takes the Conservative Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1464.9", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I shall speak to Lords amendment No. 29, which seeks to introduce after clause 179 a new clause which would let the present regional and island councils use the new provisions in the Bill to facilitate the use in respect of their water and sewerage functions of what is called the Government's private finance initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1464.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1464.9", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "h would let the present regional and island councils use the new provisions in the Bill to facilitate the use in respect of their water and sewerage functions of what is called the Government's private finance initiative. [Interruption.] The private finance initiative involves what are known as BOO schemes. BOO stands for \" build, own, operate\". That means that private companies are introduced to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1464.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1466.5", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "ple, people were priced out of water services in Scotland by the sharp rises in prices that will inevitably take place following the creation of the water quangos, they would become former customers of the water quangos in Scotland. I, too, saw what I can only describe as an unsatisfactory, indeed shifty, interview given by the Minister on that excellent programme, \"Scottish Lobby\", the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1466.5", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "n of the water quangos, they would become former customers of the water quangos in Scotland. I, too, saw what I can only describe as an unsatisfactory, indeed shifty, interview given by the Minister on that excellent programme, \"Scottish Lobby\", the other day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] The producers and interviewers on \"Scottish Lobby\" will note the general assent to that description of the programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I could have reduced my speech by five minutes and saved the time of the House if the Minister had made that clear when moving the amendment. He nods his agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "s consistency? Those are all matters of subjective judgment. By passing the new clause, the House passes over its powers of enactment—lock, stock and barrel—to a Minister in Whitehall. Those of us who believe in parliamentary democracy believe that that is a reversal of what the Government sometimes say—that is, \"Bring it nearer to the people; let the people decide; let it be discussed in public.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1530.6", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " there were objections from residents, or it might refer to the adverse effects of smoky diesel engines which are poorly maintained. In short, it is imprecise in meaning. I remind the House that the purpose of the Bill is to deregulate and reduce the level of unnecessary controls on industry. The amendment would introduce new constraints on PSV operators that are both unnecessary and unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1530.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1530.6", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "e poorly maintained. In short, it is imprecise in meaning. I remind the House that the purpose of the Bill is to deregulate and reduce the level of unnecessary controls on industry. The amendment would introduce new constraints on PSV operators that are both unnecessary and unacceptable. [Interruption.] I am sorry, but I did not catch what the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1530.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1535.5", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "There is a strong feeling among Labour Members that where people are involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-01", "file": "debates1994-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c153d4575f656a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1535.7", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "It is nice to see that so many people have been able to return to our proceedings from the bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-01a.1535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "points of order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will have seen that there are appropriate Ministers on the Treasury Bench. I have not been told by any Minister that he is seeking to make a statement on that matter today. I had anticipated that there would be a point of order for me today about the events that took place last night when the Committee of Privileges finished its meeting. As there is no point of order, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "points of order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": " me today about the events that took place last night when the Committee of Privileges finished its meeting. As there is no point of order, however— [Interruption.] I can cope without one. It is a matter of great seriousness and great importance. What has taken place could have repercussions for the working of the whole of our system of Select Committees. Clearly, the matter has privilege aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Disabled Persons (Consultation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Berry", "preceding_text": " assume a phasing-in period that is not contained in the proposed legislation. It was assumed that everything contained in the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill would have to be done within five years. That does not feature in the Bill. If we allow for a proper phasing-in period for transport, we could reduce the costs by yet another £6 billion. I am running short of time, so suffice it to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1572.3", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "orging faxes, however much I felt that I could justify it, I would expect to be pilloried by every newspaper in the land, and that is a fate that I would richly deserve. If, when I was found out, I indulged in self-righteous self-justification, I would rightly deserve the contempt of every fair-minded person. Again at the outset I want to say that I am anxious to try to avoid cheap party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "I, too, will be brief as the matter before the House is relatively straightforward and the motion is very narrow. I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilshire). I very much regret the extravagant and intemperate language that he used, which did not help his case. The basis of the complaint is that the editor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Privileges Committee will hear everything that is said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1577.0", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": ". Wilshire), who moved the motion. He said that he had reported this matter simultaneously to the police. For many years, the House, which has a jurisdiction of its own, has kept a wide boundary between its jurisdiction and that of the courts. If this is to be pursued in the courts with, presumably, a prosecution for forgery, while the Committee is handling the matter, we could be in difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1577.0", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "n and that of the courts. If this is to be pursued in the courts with, presumably, a prosecution for forgery, while the Committee is handling the matter, we could be in difficulties. [Interruption.] I hope that the House will listen because this is a point of substance. If the case is taken to court, it will be heard in open court, whereas in the Committee of Privileges it will be heard in secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1580.9", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "remarks and let other Members make their own speeches. Last night the editor of The Guardian resigned from the Press Complaints Commission, not as a matter of personal honour but as a result of pressure from inside the House. We must consider another salient point. Throughout the affair, the Press Complaints Commission has maintained a stunning silence: not one word of condemnation has been heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1580.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fayed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Benn) asked whether any hearing would be held in camera or in public. That is an interesting question, and I am sure that the press will take a keen interest in it. If the matter is referred to the Privileges Committee, as I believe it must be, I should prefer Mr. Preston to have the opportunity to give his evidence in private. I believe that the Committee may also wish to call Mr. Al Fayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1587.2", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes, we are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are not considering that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": " be very careful before it disciplines the press. Part of the function of the press is to challenge us. That does not make Peter Preston right over the fax. Clearly, he was wrong and has said so openly. I remind Conservative Members who are minded to vote for the motion to remember that the Opposition have infinitely more experience of our party being attacked by the press. It happens all the time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1594.9", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "Forgery, by definition, is a crime. If Mr. Preston is guilty of forgery, he is guilty of a crime. However, he can be guilty of forgery only if his action was based on criminal intent. Many people sign documents when they apply for jobs as our researchers and they are not always open and above board, but we do not drag them before the Privileges Committee. Perhaps we should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1594.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1599.7", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "rs and Officers. Nevertheless, it is well to put on record, as I have been criticised for it twice so far in speeches by Opposition Members, that following the representations that were made to me, including your own, Madam Speaker, I asked my publisher to take the logo off and to modify it, and Opposition Members who trouble to buy a copy of the paperback edition, which is now available at £8.99—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1599.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1604.2", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "I assure you that I am no flatterer, Madam Speaker. I, too, have felt the sharp edge of your tongue, for far less serious acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-02", "file": "debates1994-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "28b0bc3dec74401c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "use of the lack of flexibility caused by CCT, it would be more sensible to reduce regulation of CCT. Mr. Brearley replied: You'll have to ask ministers … ministers are suspicious when we talk of the need for flexibility. Tonight we have a benchful of Ministers of one kind or another; perhaps they—individually or collectively—would like to show flexibility and even respond one after another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-02a.1609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "preceding_text": "It is a tremendous honour for me to second the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "In reviewing my party's attitude to various issues, would the right hon. Gentleman also review his own party's attitude to clause 4, and whether his party really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.15.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that, after a week in which it has been revealed that a private health institution in Scotland received £30 million of public money, the hon. Gentleman should ask us about the efficiency of public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.16.9", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "-run local hospitals, where pupils and patients, not bureaucrats, receive the resources. They do not want them to be sold off or broken up. They want poverty, inequality and mass unemployment to be attacked, not treated as of no consequence. They want safe communities liberated from violence, drugs and gangs of hooligans, where, in place of piecemeal initiatives, there is a comprehensive strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.16.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I will tell the right hon. Gentleman what the difference is. We told the truth at the previous election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why are you smiling?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "ther people do not believe him either. The right hon. Member for Sedgefield was graceful about my hon. Friends and their proposing and seconding of the Gracious Speech. My hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Mr. Dunn) entered the House on the same day as I did. We knew one another for many years before we came to this place. I know him well and he has always been blessed with the gift of clarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "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": " he has a slightly less certain touch. Seeking tickets while on holiday in Italy, he consulted his Italian phrase book, marched up to the booking clerk and, I am reliably informed, said something quite unspeakable in vile Italian. My informant did not tell me what it was, but I understand that it was emphatically not a request for a day return to Milan. In Florida, my hon. Friend visited Seaworld—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "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": "ad doubts about economic recovery. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) delved into his stock of gloomy soundbites and forecast rising unemployment, falling output and shaky prospects for growth. Since then, unemployment has decreased steadily, month by month. Today it fell by more than 45,000, to below 9 per cent. for the first time since December 1991. Throughout the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " spoke of big concerns about how long the recovery could be sustained before it led to a balance of payments crisis. As it happens, the trade balance is narrowing as output grows, and the hon. Gentleman was wrong. The hon. Gentleman has heavyweight company. The new deputy leader of the Labour party, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott), was in the gloom stakes as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sense. Whatever the balance between public and private sector might be, the Opposition usually, and grudgingly, think that it happens to be right at the time. They do not know whether to go forward or back. They do not say yes and they do not say no. They loathe private ownership, but they dare not reverse it. We intend to proceed with privatisation. This year, we shall privatise the Crown Agents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l from the right hon. Gentleman about new Labour, although no one seems quite sure what that means. We are now getting some clues. I was especially interested in the way in which the right hon. Gentleman allocated his shadow Cabinet portfolios. Whom did the right hon. Member for Sedgefield choose as his shadow Foreign Secretary—Britain's ambassador abroad? He picked the hon. Member for Livingston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tly against Britain's nuclear defences. The hon. Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark), the man to whom the Leader of the Opposition would entrust Britain's nuclear defences, is a member of parliamentary CND. Indeed, he is not alone. I have a list, which my hon. Friends may care to hear. It includes the right hon. Member for Derby, South and the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have missed one out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Campbell-Savours) who they are. The list includes the hon. Members for Peckham (Ms Harman), for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher), for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith), for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang), for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) and, of course, the right hon. Member for Sedgefield. All that gives a new meaning to being brothers in arms. They would scrap our nuclear weapons. It is another clue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce the war. We have pursued objectives of supply side reform for lasting growth, a better quality of life for all our citizens, a higher standard of public service and a lasting peace in Northern Ireland. They remain at the centre of my objectives for this year and for the future. The programme outlined in the Gracious Speech will take those objectives forward and I warmly commend it to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.35.8", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "It is tradition, but pleasurable on this occasion, that we pay tribute to those hon. Members who opened the debate. I agree with the comments of the Prime Minister and the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), the leader of the Labour party, about the hon. Members for Dartford (Mr. Dunn) and for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Robertson), neither of whom I see in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.35.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "e spot fines on people as a contribution to solving a major problem in Scotland is wrong. The problem is that police force numbers in Scotland are inadequate. I was speaking to the chief constable of Central Scotland last week, and he said that what he needed from the Government was more resources for manpower. I was speaking to him about the problem of drugs in our communities and neighbourhoods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-16", "file": "debates1994-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2e81dfa0152e3523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "de has said that the problem is that the matching funding from the Government is not available. The hon. Gentleman attempts to mislead the House with such a question because he does not accept that the Secretary of State has any control. I am sure that he will accept that 50 per cent. of all police funding comes from the Government and 50 per cent. from the local authority. The money is not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-16a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ed Friend the Home Secretary has tabled a proposal for joint action. The Commission has tabled a proposal for action by itself, which we shall consider sympathetically. The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) is right to say that the matter has dragged on for far too long. Now, thanks to this country, there is an opportunity to deal with it effectively, not just through declarations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "uotas. The Commission proposed a fine of 2 billion ecu for the two countries. We thought that that was not enough and we took the matter to court. The compromise that my right hon. and learned Friend accepted means that Italy and Spain will be paying a fine of not 2 billion ecu but 3 billion ecu—1 billion ecu more entirely as a result of the action taken by the British Government. That is not bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "step. In the months ahead we shall be working for similar progress in other areas. With China, we need to put aside the sensitivities and suspicions of the past and press ahead with practical co-operation. I will refer next to the recent High Court decision on the Pergau dam project—which, understandably and rightly, has aroused a certain amount of comment. I will not go over the whole background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Ultra Electronics in my constituency is typical of many companies in other constituencies which are responsible for selling arms? It sells sonar buoys to many parts of the world. Many of the people employed there are not impressed by people in the Labour party and elsewhere who say that their jobs should be given up. They know that other countries will take over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "essures are better able to respond appropriately. Under the opt-out, that company could have left out its British workers and avoided creating a works council to embrace them. That same managing director said that the company had not done so because that \"would be counterproductive\". What was that company? It was United Biscuits, which, since 1979, has given £850,00 in donations to the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "leman is correct and, as we have had several exchanges about that during Trade and Industry questions, I am familiar with the ground. The hon. Gentleman was perfectly correct in saying that the initial contract for Hawk aircraft was given by the last Labour Government. They were provided as training aircraft, and they were supplied on the clear understanding that they be used as training aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "end for giving way. Is he aware that, in August and September this year, two Hawk aircraft were used in bombing missions in the eastern part of East Timor which had been authorised by the Indonesian Government? That is yet another reason why there should be an arms embargo against the Indonesian regime, as long as it perpetrates human rights abuses, and as long as it illegally occupies East Timor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "itable ally and partner within the European Community. It is all very well junior Ministers saying that we are going to do this, that and the other, but when the time came for collecting a bit of money and ensuring that a fraud was stopped, the Chancellor of the Exchequer let them off the hook. There is no control over fraudulent individuals in the Community—nor can there be. Those of us who farm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": " more signatories. The Opposition would support any effort to get the non-proliferation treaty enacted, but again I would urge the Government not to escalate further. The Secretary of State for Defence knows that, with our Trident submarines and multiple warheads, there will be a considerable increase in the number of our nuclear warheads. Why does not the Secretary of State join the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "n. Friend will appreciate that ECOFIN has the main responsibility in that sphere. Therefore, my right hon. Friend's interesting suggestion should best be directed to my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—and I am sure that it will be drawn to his attention. In the few minutes left, I wish to emphasise what I believe is necessary, which is to create a framework that will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-17", "file": "debates1994-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "23355a51c9cb2b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " suggestion should best be directed to my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—and I am sure that it will be drawn to his attention. In the few minutes left, I wish to emphasise what I believe is necessary, which is to create a framework that will— [Interruption.] My right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon had the answer that I am sure he wanted to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-17a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "mber for Neath (Mr. Hain) said: Parliament deserves to be laid siege to over this Bill. What an utterly disgraceful remark. Yet we heard not a peep from the Leader of the Opposition. There was no rebuke or disclaimer; only an embarrassed silence. All the efforts of the Opposition parties have miserably failed. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act is now on the statute book, entire and intact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that there will be an inquiry into the leak. As for my hon. Friend's general point, I think that there is general understanding in the prison service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " already exists, it has been found that it not only helps to prevent crime, but directly strengthens the sense of community spirit. As Dr. Ken Russell, a former parish councillor, put it: We found people talking to each other who had never spoken before. There were instances of people who fell out and never spoke to each other who now do. Its achievement in terms of community spirit is tremendous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.248.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.259.6", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "There is a huge debate to be had, as the Secretary of State would know if he had any intelligence, about the underlying validity of the crime figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.259.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ugh. I should like to mention three things about Brent council. First, it has won the \"Best Parks in London\" award. Secondly, the Local Government Chronicle said: Brent has transformed itself into an organisation whose slogan `Simply the best' is now justifiable. Thirdly, it gives me great pleasure to say that the average local tax bill of Brent households was reduced by 60 per cent. Between 1900—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "neteen were siblings, two appealed and, presumably, 23 have to pay their own costs, some of whom come from large families. The second major issue which I wish to raise is one to which I have referred before and which is mentioned in the Gracious Speech—China and Hong Kong. I declare an interest in that I was in the East Indies fleet when Hong Kong was reoccupied at the end of the second world war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Through the tunnel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": " smarter restaurants, during which they asked to go to the loo, and then disappeared. Much more care must be taken in dealing with dangerous patients who come from places such as Broadmoor. People in Reading feel particularly sensitive about that matter, because such patients are regularly taken to Reading. I welcome the channel tunnel link. I had the good fortune to go under the tunnel last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-18", "file": "debates1994-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd92ebf725bccd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "hem because, according to the Labour party, local government knows better. So let us not be taken in by the Labour party's views of partnership. Its list of partners really amounted to the Government and local government. We believe in partnerships between ordinary people, local government, business and national government, all working together as they do in city challenge up and down the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-18a.307.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.331.7", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "Government of the day. It is a meaningless phrase that the hon. Lady trots out from time to time without the slightest indication that she has the vaguest idea what it means. It is absolutely clear that huge advantages have been delivered by the ports that have privatised themselves—and, moreover, have done so voluntarily. They were delighted to do so, and it has been a hugely successful exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.331.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.332.8", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. What is important to the Welsh economy is that there should be free passage of traffic across the Severn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.332.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Taxpayers have already lost heavily in these privatised enterprises. So have consumers—we have Mr. Maples's authority for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " in the private monopoly companies of which the right hon. Gentleman proudly boasted in his speech. The President had nothing to say either about another major industrial issue of the moment: the proposed takeover of VSEL by either British Aerospace or GEC. The struggle is going on before our very eyes, yet the right hon. Gentleman says nothing, and the Secretary of State for Defence says nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "That was not an intervention: it was a short speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "on sense. We have seen the establishment of the national curriculum, local management of schools, regular testing of pupils, greater choice, more information about schools for parents, pupils and the local community, the expansion of higher and further education and so much more. That is a real record of achievement in the past decade. Those measures were intended to improve our education service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": "perceived as worth while and challenging. I know that progress has been made. I understand that some 4,000 students took advanced GNVQs in the past year; that is excellent news. We must ensure, however, that rigorous standards are maintained and developed, especially in view of the amount of public money that has been spent. This was a good Queen's Speech—moderate, effective, yet radical in parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not wish to have to keep rising and I have no wish to intervene in the hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ach a conclusion, despite the ill-conceived opposition of the Liberal and Labour parties to all our reforms. I am convinced that education is now much better than it was when Callaghan started that debate in 1976. As a foot soldier in the long education battles throughout the 1980s and 1990s I must tell the House that these improvements have occurred not because of the Opposition but despite them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": " Front Benchers, but many Back Benchers will echo the sentiment that if Front Benchers continue to dominate 50 per cent. of debates many of us will begin to dominate the Back Benches in our own way. Let that be a warning. If my Whip, who is listening, wishes to report me to his superiors he is welcome to do so. With a smile, I tell him that I will take as much notice of him afterwards as I do now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Industry and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "of the population; and, thirdly, to ensure that the new system of vocational qualifications, long overdue in this country, takes root and flowers alongside our more traditional educational routes. That is why we have insisted in our education reforms on higher standards across the board, successful, effective vocational qualifications and ever-closer links between education, business and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.434.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-21", "file": "debates1994-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6307cae8268ccd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t of proceedings thereon; and (2) at the sitting on Monday 28th November put the Question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion in the name of the Prime Minister relating to the European Communities' 1995 Budget not later than one and a half hours after their commencement; and the aforesaid Motions may be entered upon and proceeded with, though opposed, after Ten o'clock.— [Mr. Burns.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-21a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " I would not agree with him. I shall deal with the three key issues. First, I am not aware of any so-called huge arms deal, other than the already announced 1993 contract for the supply of further Hawk aircraft. Secondly, the Government do not share the hon. Gentleman's judgment that the Government of Indonesia are an odious tyranny. Thirdly, on the use of aircraft against the civilian population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is, indeed, appropriate for my hon. Friend to remind the House and the country that a large number in the parliamentary Labour party, from the Leader of the Opposition down, either are or have been members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "The Minister must know that it is not a question of Opposition Members in any way undermining the capacity of the British armed forces to have the resources that they wish to have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.466.5", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to quote from the memorandum by the hon. Member for Durham, North (Mr. Radice), who had some very crisp things to say about the Labour party—but no doubt the hon. Lady would find that unfortunate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.466.9", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome what my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary said last week. It is the latest in a long list of measures, crowned by the introduction of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, to protect the public and to punish the criminal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.466.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) gives the right hon. Lady some cream to cure her factoids, will she refer to the amendment, which demands clear accountability to those whom the NHS serves, and explain in detail what she means by structural reforms? Is she suggesting that, once again, local councillors should have a hand in deciding how the NHS is run?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "s said in an article in The Times on 17 November this year: public service never had a very solid foundation, and is now commonly regarded as something either to be avoided or exploited. Professor Caines is not any old professor of health service management, but a former senior civil servant in the Department of Health, a deputy secretary no less, and the former director of personnel for the NHS.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "to improve the quality and the quantity of patient care. It is an example of the way in which the Labour party behaves that it does not hesitate to denigrate, for example, the work of Roy Lilley, but I wonder how many Labour Members have visited the Homewood Trust, which is a Rolls-Royce service for patients. That is the Rolls-Royce that I mind about. The trust cares for some of the most severely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " cares for some of the most severely— [Interruption.] It is interesting that the Labour party derides and jeers a trust providing care for some of the most severely mentally ill patients. When the right hon. Member for Derby, South was busy as a trade union official, my life's work involved trying to improve services for those patients. If I thought then that there would be the quality of service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will welcome what the Secretary of State has said about mental health. I know that she has a personal commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": " the problem has been solved completely by using armlets for identification. Surely the emphasis of today's debate should be one of congratulation to my right hon. Friend. I have read nothing that proves that it is not sensible for us to increase the number of patients treated—to 8 million for the first time ever, according to the NHS annual report. That is 8 million in a population of 55 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": " here criticising them. Any grumble that I might have is not about the health service, but about the social and welfare service. I am especially anxious that the Child Support Agency should be investigated intensely. I have some cases from my constituency advice service of unfortunate individuals who have become tied up in the system. One case involves a police officer who has served for 23 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "ce, but about the social and welfare service. I am especially anxious that the Child Support Agency should be investigated intensely. I have some cases from my constituency advice service of unfortunate individuals who have become tied up in the system. One case involves a police officer who has served for 23 years— [Interruption.] Do Labour Members want to denigrate that chap's suffering as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "o, as a result of the trust, nobody has to wait more than nine months for treatments for hip replacement, unlike the position in some neighbouring authorities where people have to wait considerably longer. On the national scene, the performance is even more impressive. Some 98 per cent. of all NHS patients are now treated within one year. Waiting lists beyond two years have all but been abolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "One was lucky if one's appointment to see the specialist was not cancelled and, even if it was not cancelled, one probably had to wait some considerable length of time to see the specialist. Having seen the specialist, one then had to wait many months, if not years, for treatment. With the introduction of the patients charter, patients are no longer mere numbers within the NHS; they are customers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "y constituents generally, I express my deep sympathy in regard to that case. I welcome the Bill that the Government intend to introduce. I believe that it will come forward as a result of some of the representations that I made to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health. The Bill will enable the long-term mentally sick to be safely discharged into the community under long-term care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ome of the representations that I made to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health. The Bill will enable the long-term mentally sick to be safely discharged into the community under long-term care— [Interruption.] Instead of making sedentary remarks, Opposition Members should warmly welcome the proposed Bill. I hope that they will support it as it makes its passage through the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-22", "file": "debates1994-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "443b3e963bf6de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "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": "rs from continuing to organise pension schemes for their employees. But I would disagree with him, as I would with the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), about the funding of the regulator. It is appropriate that the schemes themselves should fund it, because not all taxpayers have the benefit of occupational pension schemes, and therefore I do not see why they should meet that cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-22a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes unreasonable comparisons with other countries' telephone systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.588.9", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Will he confirm that since privatisation gas prices have fallen by 23 per cent.? I know that my hon. Friend likes to have instant control of himself, but does he agree that Bambi has already lost control of the lot opposite? Does he also agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.588.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "preceding_text": "esident must be aware of just how difficult it is for any United Kingdom shipyard to win orders or successfully tender bits for new business against European yards. The obvious conclusion is that some hidden subsidy or support is given to shipyards in Europe—support that British yards, and Harland and Wolff in Northern Ireland, cannot obtain. That is damaging their chances of gaining new business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.595.5", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is everybody sitting comfortably?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.595.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the letter, and I am not aware of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.599.6", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his.seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.599.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.610.8", "colnum": "610", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "He said: I am less impressed by out-of-context quotations from stray remarks in speeches in Dudley on a wet Wednesday night during a general election campaign\". His defence is, \"Read my lips, but not in Dudley on a wet night\". May I remind the Chancellor what was said in Dudley during the general election campaign? The manifesto of the Tory candidate for Dudley, East said: We will get taxes down\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.610.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ave one at all? Does he or does he not believe in the use of interest rate policy to head off inflationary pressure, or would he abandon that? It is one thing to set out Labour party policy in terms that were totally incomprehensible to an audience in the National Film Theatre. One day he has to come here and give in English at least one straight question to some of the answers that we have given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "omises to another section. The division between rich and poor has been increased, without any fundamental increase in the welfare of the community as a whole. We need some radical changes in those areas. Britain needs political changes that can remove us from the kind of spat we saw tonight, when there is simply a scoring of party political points about what should be Britain's national interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I hope, therefore, that we can perhaps give some thought to the way in which we behave in the Chamber. People want to know what ideas we have, and not hear us constantly throwing back what happened in 1938 or 1949 to try to make capital out of the other side. We have had the publication of Mr. Maples's manifesto. I do not want to say too much about it, as I no longer get mixed up in party affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman doth protest too much. If he takes that view, he cannot object to the new measures proposed by the Labour party to give new powers to the regulator. It is interesting that today and throughout this week not one Minister has condemned the increase to the chairman of British Gas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ook forward to the next Queen's Speech, because we shall write it.\" Those speeches were invariably followed a year later by a speech congratulating the new Conservative Leader of the House on his appointment. Thirdly, I came across something that might interest hon. Members on both sides of the House, a quotation from an Opposition speech again made by the late John Silkin, in 1983. I shall quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ches were invariably followed a year later by a speech congratulating the new Conservative Leader of the House on his appointment. Thirdly, I came across something that might interest hon. Members on both sides of the House, a quotation from an Opposition speech again made by the late John Silkin, in 1983. I shall quote— [Interruption.] I hope that the hon. Member for Dewsbury will listen to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "very can of beans had acne? It was possible to peel off four or five price increase stickers—and that was just in one week. Seven: when the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner)—or is it Belgravia?—regularly talks about closing pits and sacking miners, roared on by his colleagues, he should remember that facts are facts. The Labour Governments of 1964–70 and 1974–79 closed 313 pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "xture of good intentions and massive subsidies we could reverse\"— I repeat: reverse— the market trend. My Lords, we completely misled ourselves and them.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 20 October 1992; Vol. 539, c. 692.] By \"them\" he meant the miners. Eight: what was the higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "s we could reverse\"— I repeat: reverse— the market trend. My Lords, we completely misled ourselves and them.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 20 October 1992; Vol. 539, c. 692.] By \"them\" he meant the miners. Eight: what was the higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.? [HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 60 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "rket trend. My Lords, we completely misled ourselves and them.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 20 October 1992; Vol. 539, c. 692.] By \"them\" he meant the miners. Eight: what was the higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.? [HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 60 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 70 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "selves and them.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 20 October 1992; Vol. 539, c. 692.] By \"them\" he meant the miners. Eight: what was the higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.? [HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 60 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 70 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 80 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Lords, 20 October 1992; Vol. 539, c. 692.] By \"them\" he meant the miners. Eight: what was the higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.? [HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 60 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 70 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 80 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 90 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "\"them\" he meant the miners. Eight: what was the higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.? [HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 60 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 70 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 80 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 90 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 95 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-23", "file": "debates1994-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c9be4eea30f78f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Labour Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unbelievable!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e higher rate of tax in 1979? With the higher rate now at 40 per cent., it seems inconceivable to us now Was it 50 per cent.? [HON MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 60 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 70 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 80 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 90 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Higher.\"] Was it 95 per cent.? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.] Was it 98 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-23a.704.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ong on almost every statement that he uttered. If he really wants to know about divisions and rabbles, he might well look at the divisions in his own party, not least below the Gangway. He might well look at divisions between himself and the deputy leader of the Labour party. He might well look at the divisions in his own position on Europe. It was the right hon. Gentleman who said some years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.725.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.728.8", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Maxwell?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": " Member for Hemsworth (Mr. Enright), he told the House No Government have ever been more open than this one and there is no suspicion of sleaze.\"—[ Official Report, 26 April 1994; Vol. 242, c. 104.] Is that still his view, or does he at last realise that he set the standard at the last general election when he accepted money from foreign-based business men in return for continuing tax concessions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.728.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Disabled People (Discrimination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": " 1986—with which I had something to do—has not yet been fully implemented? At least Lady Thatcher went some way towards that by implementing half the Bill. The present Prime Minister, himself a former Minister for the disabled, has not so much as lifted a finger to introduce one line of that 1986 Act. Can we trust the Government to deliver now, regardless of the fine words that we have just heard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "European Community Type-Approval of Motor Cycles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "long explanation? I have a 45-minute monograph on the subject because, perhaps not surprisingly, the first question to my excellent officials was, \"What does 'comitology' mean?\" As with most other \"ologies\"—as it was once remarked in a famous advertisement—it is the science of committee working. It refers to the rather arcane procedure by which the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "European Community Type-Approval of Motor Cycles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "ve, could be altered simply by, in essence, a committee arrangement. The European Parliament latched on to the idea that, if it had the power of veto over main directives but did not have the power to deal with the detail, it would leave them with an imperfect power. The current debate about comitology is whether we should extend to the European Parliament the right of veto not only in respect of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "European Community Type-Approval of Motor Cycles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "I fear that I cannot advise my hon. Friend precisely on the status of the Adley Act; I am aware of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am nearly an old man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am particularly grateful for the last point since, by the time I have finished this speech, in the past 24 hours I shall have made a total of five or six speeches, one statement and answered a lot of questions, so I have kept reasonably busy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-24", "file": "debates1994-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6df95a837ae4870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " far as I can. I did not in any way begrudge the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) his bit of knockabout and I was grateful for the serious support that he gave to the basic argument. I am marginally less grateful, I must say, to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Mackinlay), who I hope may not be as pleased with his speech when he thinks about it as he appeared to be at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-24a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-25", "file": "debates1994-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6009d817c0e3e1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "accidents together, we have hit the target that we set for the year 2000 seven years early. That is an extraordinary performance and a tribute to a range of organisations and individuals, including excellent officials in the Department of Transport and countless thousands of volunteers, individuals and local authority road safety.officers, who have all played a part in that staggering achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-25", "file": "debates1994-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6009d817c0e3e1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is ironic that car manufacturers are designing ever-more powerful car engines which can go from zero to 60 mph in X seconds? When I ask car manufacturers why they make such powerful cars, bearing in mind the fact that there is a 70 mph speed limit, they say that drivers like them. Surely powerful cars need to be curbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-25", "file": "debates1994-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6009d817c0e3e1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "We have had a very interesting hour, but it is about time I allowed other hon. Members to make more than just interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-25", "file": "debates1994-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6009d817c0e3e1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "s who continue to believe that the law applies to everyone but themselves and who will look for ways to avoid being caught. There are more subtle ways of preventing road accidents. For more than 70 years, we have taken part in an annual ritual which leads to more road accidents—caused by the lack of daylight in the darker hours that we experience when the clocks are put back one hour in September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-25a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I honestly cannot remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall conclude my point and then I shall give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I shall conclude the judgment of the deal at the Edinburgh summit. I have described the political background. This judgment is what, two years later, has given rise to this so-called \"crisis debate\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "dinburgh summit. I have described the political background. This judgment is what, two years later, has given rise to this so-called \"crisis debate\". [Interruption.] Good heavens. Sudden noise reminds me that some members of the Labour party are here. I do not know why they have come to this debate as their participation in supporting the Edinburgh deal is somewhat difficult to understand. Let me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Kingston upon Thames, the then Chancellor: I think it has been an outstandingly successful sutnmit, I can't remember one that has been so successful for many years. I think this is very much due to the negotiating style, the quiet determined diplomacy of John Major, he absolutely excels in this sort of forum and he has delivered a very good deal for Britain on almost every issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " switches from one item of the Budget here to another item there we achieved a result which actually goes ahead for seven years on the future finances, it takes us right up to 1999. That's why it was very good news that we succeeded in preserving our rebate, because that is now guaranteed into the next century. Now that is excellent news. That is what my right hon. Friend said and I agree with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.940.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I meant what I said, as my right hon. and learned Friend believes, and I said what I meant at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "referred to in the Opposition's amendment, although, as far as I can see, with no proposals for reform put forward by them. Agricultural spending still covers about 50 per cent. of all European spending, but, since 1988, it has been declining. We have a so-called agricultural guideline, which certainly should not be broken. I agree with my hon. Friends who say, \"Well, we wait to see what happens.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.943.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "he figures that I produced last week. It seems to me to be plain and obvious that any Government who give a solemn undertaking in international negotiations, enter into political commitments and require money to support those commitments, must come back and ask the House to endorse that. If the House will not vote in favour of that money, the Government will have lost the confidence of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hose matters is well known. I heard the Chief Secretary to the Treasury yesterday repeating the words that the Chancellor said today: that we had to honour obligations that were made internationally and we could not be put off by a minority of dissidents in the House. The very Chief Secretary who says that this year was the person who voted against an analogous Bill as recently as a few years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.954.6", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "But if I may say so in language that 1 think that the hon. Gentleman would understand, we have always called for a fundamental reform of the common agricultural policy. I think that the hon. Gentleman, with his specialist knowledge, understands that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.954.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.954.7", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.954.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Government could accept our amendment now and let us deal with the questions of waste, fraud and the common agricultural policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister, to consider any amendments to the Bill that deal with fraud, waste and the common agricultural policy. I think that, when he returns to his constituency, the hon. Gentleman will hear very clearly from his constituents that they, too, want action against waste, fraud and the CAP. Where is the Prime Minister in all this? Sadly for the Prime Minister—sadly for the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": " because it is impossible to plan something the size of the European Union without having some stability in one's finances. One has to be able to plan. I therefore believe that it is necessary to ensure that the Government succeed tonight and that the European Communities (Finance) Bill is passed. I now refer to democracy. People talk about giving up our sovereignty. I prefer to use the \"pooling\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "nment. When one listens to the tortured, agonising speeches of people such as the hon. Members for Aldridge-Brownhills and for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson), one realises what a state the Government are in. It is our duty to say that they have had their chance. They have been running the country's European policy for 15 years. There are others who could do better. We would not start from here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1012.5", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "om I disagree with, but whose courage I respect—the opportunity to demonstrate that this is an important matter of principle. Hon. Members suggest that it is cynical of Labour and the other Opposition parties to vote in such a way tonight, but our politics are adversarial and we have an obligation to frustrate and bring down the Government. That is the nature of things. I wish that it were not so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1012.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "contingency reserve is just £3.5 billion, and here we are talking about an extra £700 million—is not it staggering that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is supposed to be in charge of the nation's finances, cannot remember when he first knew that one fifth of his reserves had gone? No wonder so much money is wasted in Europe, when the Government are not controlling it properly in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a telling point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1022.4", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "billion. Other member states, naturally, wished to remove it. The abatement is under threat not from other member states but from the words and actions of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East. Just before the Edinburgh Council, referring to our abatement, he said: There has got to be renegotiation over that. The Opposition would have given in on just about everything. Here I agree with the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1022.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-28", "file": "debates1994-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a777967c5eca0064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Budget of the European Communities for 1995", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The Minister may have nothing to say, but we have some questions to ask him. This is a very important piece of information to come before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-28a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1060.5", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is important to do away with the myths. Wages in Britain are relatively high and taxes are low, so take-home pay is high. In addition, the Government are extremely careful hot to impose costs, burdens and inflexibility on employers that would make them uncompetitive. Of course, the Labour party is committed to the social chapter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1060.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "Seventy-two per cent. of youth training completers in the year to January this year gained a qualification or a credit towards one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will know that my constituents were delighted by the drop of 10.1 per cent. in unemployment in Blaby last month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend have the opportunity to listen to the interview yesterday with the chairman of Rentokil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1072.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] Order. The House must come to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1074.8", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister was first elected four years ago, he set himself the aim of creating a nation at ease with itself. In the light of last night, at which of the following does he think he has been more successful—creating a nation at ease with itself or creating a party at ease with itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1074.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1079.10", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nomy is growing stronger. More encouragingly still, inflation has remained low. Underlying inflation has fallen to levels that we have not seen for a generation. Indeed, only about one third of the adult population of this country have ever experienced such low inflation during their adult life. The other two thirds are still finding it difficult to adjust to the change to a low-inflation economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1079.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1079.10", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "if we keep the lid on inflation, get public borrowing down further, and push ahead with measures which strengthen the industrial economy. That is the way to convert growth into prosperity and jobs. That way lies the virtuous circle of improved competitiveness, rising productivity, economic growth, low inflation, and more jobs. We must not change our minds now for the sake of short-term popularity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1079.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tually pay in line with the new restriction on central Government subsidy. They will, however, retain discretion and have some funding to pay the full rent in individual circumstances which they consider justify it. The previous arrangements meant that neither the landlord nor the tenant usually had any incentive to negotiate a lower rent because housing benefit would usually pay the rent in full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e funding to pay the full rent in individual circumstances which they consider justify it. The previous arrangements meant that neither the landlord nor the tenant usually had any incentive to negotiate a lower rent because housing benefit would usually pay the rent in full— [Interruption.] This has had the inevitable effect, as seems to be acknowledged, of driving up rents and public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hey can afford as people who have to pay all their own rent. The system will no longer be a prey to the unscrupulous landlord. The reform will take effect from October 1995. Existing claimants remaining in the same property where they live now will not be affected. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security will be glad to hear the encouraging response from Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "time.I can announce, therefore, a wholly new incentive to encourage employers to take on more people who have been unemployed for two years or more. In future, employers will get a full national insurance rebate for up to a year after taking on such a person. That will provide employers with an important new reason to give a second chance to someone who has been unemployed for some length of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " is known in Lincolnshire as Jobmatch. I propose to extend it to help up to 3,000 people a year. Overall, these measures constitute an extremely important and carefully thought-out package of support for unemployed people. It is no longer credible for some people to campaign for reductions in long-term unemployment and to reduce benefit dependency without having effective policies to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ecovery based on our sound economic policies so that more jobs are becoming available. They are a set of effective policies to tackle the big problem of structural unemployment which faces the whole western world, and I believe that we are ahead of other countries in tackling it. I am sure that they will eventually gain widespread support—even from those who have no practicable ideas of their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "a reduction in pools betting duty of 2½ per cent. Since then, this has helped to fund the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for National Heritage and I have now reviewed the reduction. We have agreed that it should continue for a further five years, provided that the pools companies also continue to fund sport and the arts at their present level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has gone down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I would now like to deal with business rates. We are about to implement the first five-yearly review of valuations of properties for rating purposes. Without those five-yearly reviews the rate base would become hopelessly out of date. The property market has changed a lot over the past five years with wide regional variations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Higher savings also have an important role to play in helping sustain growth, by providing additional resources for investment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " reaction—the cheers—from hon. Members on the Conservative Benches, but I suspect that there will be two distinct views on the Budget. One will be the Conservative politician's view and the other will be the view in the homes, workplaces and streets of this country, because whatever is said by the Chancellor, this Budget will go down in history as the VAT-on-fuel Budget. Let me deal straight away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "rstand that 57,000 people are involved in the scheme this year and that next year the number will be reduced to 40,000. The only increase is on last year's plans. Furthermore, I think I am right in saying that the unemployed people who will be assisted will be assisted from a reduced budget. A press release has just been issued by the Department of unemployment—I mean the Department of Employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "Those points are well known. We had the oil crisis in 1975–76—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Hox. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " the table of taxes as a percentage of gross domestic product. That table always appears in the Red Book and it is a nice big table this time. Between 1974 and 1979, the maximum tax as a percentage of GDP was 363/4. By 1981–82, it had risen to 391/4 and it was never been below 363/4 until 1992–93. That was the effect of our catastrophic recession. Labour is the party of low taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman perhaps does not know that it is a burden on the economy to keep people unemployed. The level of unemployment is almost entirely responsible for the growth in the public sector borrowing requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-29", "file": "debates1994-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ce4c503f440c31f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "worked for a full week still to have to look to the state for handouts. I believe that the Labour party's policy of a minimum wage—on which we fought the election and on which we shall sincerely fight and win the next election—is not just a humane policy, but one that tends towards social cohesion. Why should women work in menial jobs, such as cleaning in the service industries or in supermarkets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-29a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "First, the answer to most of that is no. Secondly, perhaps the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1190.6", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does not the Secretary of State realise what a ridiculous figure he cuts at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should spend more time, as I do, going around the country and talking to council leaders. He will find what great support Labour leaders are giving the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": " dole queue before the scheme, which is meant to help such people, becomes operational. Would it not have been better to adopt the Opposition's proposal for a tax allowance, which would have delivered a genuine incentive for the employer to take people off the unemployed list? Does the Secretary of State accept that if he wants to move on to Labour's ground, he must show a great deal more courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he previous election was very clear. It rejected what the Conservatives called the disastrous pathway of higher taxation and national insurance contributions taking money out of your earnings\", but the Conservatives went on to do precisely what they had promised the electorate they would not do. The Chancellor said that promises made in Dudley do not matter. Let us remember the election manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "As that statistic comes from a member of a party that, whenever it has been in power, has left unemployment much higher than when it took office, I do not regard it as reliable. Instead of my following the Uncle Grumpy pantomime line, I thought that the House would expect the Chief Secretary to make a serious speech about what the Budget means to the fundamentals of our economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1236.6", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "ch is the commitment to sound public finances. I sometimes think that the Labour party does not even understand what the term means; it thinks only in terms of soundbite public finances. We want none of the pantomime sideshows in which more public expenditure can be promised without any payment from the taxpayer and in which it is assumed that full employment can be produced by the wave of a wand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1236.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1236.6", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "that the Labour party does not even understand what the term means; it thinks only in terms of soundbite public finances. We want none of the pantomime sideshows in which more public expenditure can be promised without any payment from the taxpayer and in which it is assumed that full employment can be produced by the wave of a wand— [Interruption.] My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1236.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": " If the tax burden was meant to lead to investment in manufacturing to reclaim our manufacturing industry given that it has been almost destroyed by Conservative ideology, we would not mind. People would put up with that. However, people are fed up with paying high taxes because of the Government's failure and the fact that 5 million people who want to work are languishing on benefits or the dole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "preceding_text": "f. The Government have failed to understand, and continue to do so, that pensioners and the low-paid do not believe them when they talk about taxation and about the meagre compensation package with which they try to alleviate the effects of VAT increase. They do not believe the Government—not because of how much VAT that compensation package may offset in their bills—but because you told untruths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Genuine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "rise over and above what they had already been told. The hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Sir A. Bowden) has made it clear that he finds the compensation package inadequate. I hope that the Paymaster General will prove that he is listening to what Back Benchers are saying but I am confident that he will not. I therefore hope that the hon. Member for Kemptown will join us in our genuine attempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes we did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ink again. It is important to remember what the Government have said—I know that they do not like us to do this—and then to see how they have done something quite different. The Conservatives have, again and again, yesterday and today, proclaimed themselves to be the party of low taxation. They obviously did not like hearing the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory)", "preceding_text": "es, and a continuing and sustained drive to reduce the deficit, which still exists, between what we are raising in taxation and what we are spending. That was one of the messages spelt out by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Mr. Sainsbury) who made a speech—I do not think that we could exactly call it a maiden speech—which relaunched him on a new phase in his career as an elder statesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-11-30", "file": "debates1994-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "987553a6f3c5a532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1304.2", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That Mr. Tony Benn be discharged from the Committee of Privileges.— [Mr. Andrew Mitchell.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-11-30a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1328.5", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends might care to discuss carbon tax with their constituents and explain to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1328.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": " lead to a 6 per cent. increase in council tax, but that in the event the increases amounted to only about 2.2 per cent. I therefore warn the House again that at this point there is no way of assessing any kind of average tax increase. However, I am required to identify notional taxes for each valuation band for a standard level of spending—the so-called council tax for standard spending, or CTSS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "n them, and if businesses are not prepared to train people, it is because businesses do not want them, so why should the Government do it? The Employment Secretary believes that training is not the job of Government. He seeks to justify cuts on the grounds that the scheme needs to be better targeted—he said that again today. Of course help must be targeted effectively and money must be well spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "aining for unemployed people, for people in work who want to upgrade their skills, for companies, and for our economy, will be dismayed that the Employment Secretary does not believe in his own Department's role in training. If he will not stand up for training in Government, who will? As recently as a few weeks ago, the Employment Secretary professed his belief in a high-wage, high-skill economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "tted, in its analysis of the effects of the wages council in agriculture, that it did not have adverse effects on employment. The Employment Secretary opposes the minimum wage because of dogma, not economic analysis. It is the same dogma that said in 1975, \"You cannot have an Equal Pay Act; you cannot pay women the same rate as men. If you do, you would harm women's prospects in the Labour party\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about VAT?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "principle of having a roof over people's heads.\"—[ official Report , 30 November 1994; Vol. 250, c. 1281.] How can such a person advocate tax cuts and yet be prepared to put in place new taxes and levels of expenditure that are uncosted and totally unnecessary? I will have no truck with Opposition Members on tax-related matters and I certainly will not be in the Lobby with them on Tuesday evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "matter not for this Budget, but perhaps for future ones. I am bound to observe that the film industry is a great success. Julia Roberts and Arnold Schwarzenegger are coming to this country. The amount being spent is exciting. The film industry is one of the great success stories—mainly, I have to say, because of the restrictive union policies in the United States, which have driven out employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "r a working benefit scheme, but I imagine that such a scheme would go well beyond the Chancellor's proposals. The hon. Gentleman suggested somewhat mischievously that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor was not totally behind my right hon. Friend the Secretary of Slate for Employment. I can think of no more united and harmonious relationship of intellect and resources on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "ment of debt, which is currently the subject of a Confederation of British Industry working party. My right hon. and learned Friend's safe and sound Budget had the prime objective of keeping the economic recovery on track, but in so doing he was also able to find substantial resources for a small business programme and for ensuring that the long-term jobless are helped to get back into employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "rned Friend's safe and sound Budget had the prime objective of keeping the economic recovery on track, but in so doing he was also able to find substantial resources for a small business programme and for ensuring that the long-term jobless are helped to get back into employment. [Interruption.] However, the central objective remains the necessity to reduce the public sector borrowing requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "term jobless are helped to get back into employment. [Interruption.] However, the central objective remains the necessity to reduce the public sector borrowing requirement. [Interruption.] I remind the House that the national debt stands at £285 billion, of which £238 billion is in gilts and about £51 billion in national savings. The interest costs on our borrowings amount to £22.6 billion a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-12-01", "file": "debates1994-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e709ece098a023ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1430.4", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That Mr. Tony Benn be discharged from the Committee of Privileges.— [Mr. Andrew Mitchell.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-01a.1430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "gh traffic at the time, thus exacerbating the problem, and why there was no co-operation to ensure that the crowd were able to leave Hyde park by other exits to reduce the pressure of numbers in the area. I get the feeling that the Home Secretary is glorying in this matter and is refusing to consider all the problems and the tactics that were later used by the police. The earlier policing tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1446.4", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am answering the hon. Gentleman's point. The only issues that arise in the context of those demonstrations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "When I used that word, I was referring to leaflets which had been prepared and distributed before the event and which clearly demonstrated that people came to that event determined to attack the police. That is the truth of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "When I used that word, I was referring to leaflets which had been prepared and distributed before the event and which clearly demonstrated that people came to that event determined to attack the police. That is the truth of the matter. [Interruption.] I did not accuse the hon. Member for Islington, North of physically attacking the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1484.0", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Carrington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Carrington", "preceding_text": "I greatly welcome the debate because it has been far too long since we debated policing matters in London, and I was sorry that last year we did not have a debate on policing. My feelings go wider. We do not debate London matters enough in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "eak at great length—I do not complain about that, as they are reporting to the House and it is the only opportunity that the police authority has to report publicly—and then disappear immediately. Not one Home Secretary has stayed to hear the whole of the debate. I must put on record the fact that I deplore that practice and the fact that other hon. Members are not able to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-02", "file": "debates1994-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d9fc5048fbfa42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. Police co-operation and intelligence might have meant that we could have avoided some of the trouble that followed. That is what we have been trying to point out for all that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-02a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is implicit in the answer that I gave that the 1,053 people to whom I referred are British citizens. There is no disputing that. However, whether they are British citizens in the sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "Until we have decided whether to appeal, what might happen to the aid budget is hypothetical. As for the hon. Lady's other point, she is severely mistaken. Let me help her: if she considers the figures shown on this board, which were announced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer last week, she will see that he has increased the aid programme. It is a plus programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "As I was seeking to demonstrate, the Labour party argues that we should include in the Budget an expenditure line to provide a new people's palace for the royal family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point in her own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons why tourists come to the United Kingdom from overseas is to see our royal family, its palaces and all the pageantry for which it is well known? Would not the Labour party policy on the royal family, if carried through, damage that tourist trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "roductivity. I remember putting that proposition on a radio programme about 12 months ago. I had considerable correspondence asking when it would end. It is not going to end because the proposition that pay increases must be paid for by productivity is no more than the truth. It is fair and right. Fourthly, businesses know that they now have a stable background against which to plan their affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " the past 30 years has been the exaggerated boom-bust cycle, which resulted from our incapacity to deliver proper, sound money and proper inflation control. Businesses need stability so that they can plan their affairs for proper long-term horizons. The Government and the Budget give that commitment. The message of the Budget is that the outlook for Britain is better than it has been for 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-05", "file": "debates1994-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3dcd3535d9ef53f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "place, perhaps because he suspected that I might mention the pamphlet. He wrote a very telling piece criticising the Government's policy on that scheme. The Government are committed to intervention, despite what some of their right-wing adherents might say. The problem is that they do not yet know how to intervene in the public interest, although they know how to intervene in the private interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-05a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman chooses to make a rather vindictive point rather than heralding the dramatic improvements in his local trust, such as new endoscopy suites, out-patient departments, dermatology departments and physiotherapy departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is it really the nation's finances that concern the right hon. Gentleman, or the Conservative party's pre-election tax cuts? May I summarise the strategy for which Tory Members of Parliament will vote tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will have order in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "se a year ago, when, in response to my public expenditure statement, he said: The cost of living in Scotland will rise sharply and all our public services … will be cut substantially.\"—[ Official Report , 8 December 1993; Vol. 234, c. 316.] The reality is that inflation is 2 per cent. and not the 4 per cent. that the hon. Gentleman assumed. The increase in cash terms for all our programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about housing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "Yes, and as for disasters, let me remind the hon. Gentleman, since he is involved in farming, of the announcement of substantial increases, amounting to some £63 million, to the farming sector next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "It is no good the Prime Minister, the President of the Board of Trade or the Chancellor protesting. As Mr. Maples said in his candid memorandum: What we are saying is at odds with their experience which leads them to conclude we are 'out of touch', 'lying', 'don't care'. Of course, I could not possibly say that the President of the Board of Trade and the Government are lying, but Mr. Maples could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "n society to whom such opportunities are for whatever reason denied. Well he certainly seems to have gone blind between 13 October and Budget day. Or is he is suffering from convenient amnesia? Did he mean what he said in Bournemouth? Does he stand by what he said then? We shall see. Today, he will be put to the test. If he stands by his views and commitments, he will vote with us. If he does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "y, but not far enough. I remember engaging in debates in 1986–87 and trying to get across the point that, given the tax reductions that average earners were receiving and the current low inflation, it was better to have a 3 per cent. salary increase and keep costs down. That meant a real gain, but the message still had not got through. During the period when house prices rose substantially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ed that the performance targets are good and realistic. That brings me to the question of VAT on fuel. I shall make just two points, as so much has already been said. First, I believe that public comment—this may be our own fault to some extent—has not made enough of one of the two elements which led to the original introduction of VAT on fuel. I refer to the environmental aspects of the proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": " few days, my hon. Friends have highlighted the fact that it is a balanced Budget. It not only serves to build on a firm fiscal base by reducing spending and offering new tax initiatives, but it takes steps to improve employment prospects for the long-term unemployed. That is something that even the Leader of the Opposition was forced to welcome in his response to my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": " to as the palace of enchantments. At times, it is also the palace of empty gestures and rhetoric. If the Opposition amendment before us today would keep VAT on fuel at 8 per cent., I would vote for it. But it does not. And abstention is deplorable. Because the Opposition amendment would not result in keeping VAT on fuel at 8 per cent. and would, I believe, simply serve to destabilise the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point. I could refer to some paving motions in the past that I would have liked to avoid altogether, because they were not always necessary. However, I digress. This amendment is a paving motion to disaster, because the hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that the international markets would say that a fundamental element of Government legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "as hon. Members have said, nothing will be more widely resented than or as well remembered as the Chancellor's decision to persevere with the increase in VAT on fuel. Many of my hon. Friends, such as my hon. Friends the Members for St. Helens, North, for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde, for Preston (Mrs. Wise), and for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. McKelvey), and the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ur has made its position clear on where the money would come from to replace the increase in VAT on fuel for domestic and charity purposes. I shall tell the Chancellor where in the Budget the money could come from. We have advocated a number of steps that would more than cover the cost of abandoning the VAT increase. The money could come from tightening up the treatment of executive share options—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": ". Opposition Front Benchers avoid such words, but we need only listen to every Back Bencher to hear them. I sat and listened to Scottish Members questioning this year's Scottish local government settlement. When my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland answered questions, every Scottish Labour Member demanded more spending on one service or another—more for their local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.239.1", "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": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not give way. If Labour Members do not like the contrast between my measures and their approach, let them look at the shadow Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.239.1", "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": " give way. If Labour Members do not like the contrast between my measures and their approach, let them look at the shadow Budget. [Interruption.] If I may say so, the revival in Scotland is getting a little carried away. I think that the hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) agrees with at least one measure that I took for Scottish industry. Labour presented a draft Budget outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.239.3", "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": " claim that there is a great pot of money to be had by reversing that. In fact, they would be penalising success, damaging prospects for investment and damaging electricity prices. Right at the end of the debate the hon. Member for Oxford, East mentioned the tax on champagne. He knows that for legal reasons we are closing an anomaly whereby sparkling wine is taxed at a higher level than loopholes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "On the subject of anomalies, can my right hon. and learned Friend explain why he can find almost three quarters of a billion pounds to give to Europe, but he cannot find a similar sum to do away with the increase in VAT which is awfully unpopular?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ners with very considerable effectiveness and skill. Ever since I announced the package of measures in the Budget, which I believe implement to the full what we said about compensation for all pensioners and vulnerable groups, he and I have been disputing whether the figure that I have given carries the commitment that I have given—certainly the package produces the figures that I have just given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.242.5", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " working age who do not receive means-tested benefits, and people in larger houses, who pay the largest bills—obviously they will make the greatest savings if the Opposition have their way. But if the Government succeed we shall have VAT at a lower level than Scandinavian countries, on prices that are dropping in real terms because of privatisation. We shall be on course for a successful recovery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "ired, under Standing Order No. 50, to put successively, without further debate, the motions on each of the Ways and Means motions, Nos. 2 to 64, and on the motions on procedure and finance, on all of which the Bill is to be brought in. After that, I will put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the motion entitled \"Public Expenditure\". Instead of reading out each motion in extenso—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.248.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-06", "file": "debates1994-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "db49c12aa2a07470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.280.6", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-06a.280.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means by introducing new concessions to the Bosnian Serbs. We have not done that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "the European Council decision in the most fantastic, sophisticated manner, running to heaven knows how many places after the decimal point. In reality, the concept of GDP is hit or miss. It is not possessed of immense sophistication. I am led rather pedantically to quote the American economist Morgenstern, who said: Qui incipit numerari incipit errari. That is perfectly true. One has only to look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I agree, Dame Janet. Although I shall not detain the Committee at great length by reading from the article, in other passages it refers, tangentially, to fraud. Were other hon. Members alarmed by the futuristic article in the Daily Mail last Saturday? It certainly referred to fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Community Budget and for recovering sums unduly paid out. We all know what has happened about that promise. Many of us see it as a vague promise arising from the passage of the Maastricht treaty. The truth is that unless we deal with the problem we will lose the Community because it will be destroyed and discredited. I tell the hon. Member for Harrow, East that it is all right trying to ignore it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "I shall return to the point which I briefly wanted to make. I have spoken for only three minutes so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "I shall return to the point which I briefly wanted to make. I have spoken for only three minutes so far. [Interruption.] I shall see my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Mr. Key) later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.417.10", "colnum": "417", "heading": "New clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The clause deals with the powers of the House of Commons in the voting of money. I shall not speak for long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.417.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.417.10", "colnum": "417", "heading": "New clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "on how the House of Commons decides where taxpayers' money goes. We all know from previous debates that about £10 billion of taxpayers' money may be allocated to the European Communities in the next year or so. Some Conservative Members may feel that that is a good deal. I shall not deal with the merits of membership, because I wish to confine myself to whether the House controls taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.417.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "for it in the House. Yet it seems as though the Prime Minister decided that this was the time when he had to show his authority. This was the time to show that he would tolerate no more, and that he would not have people constantly disrupting his Government. So, in spite of what common sense should have told him, he decided to make the Bill an occasion for a great show of strength. The result was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "EMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Hon. Members ask why not. A politician has to decide when it is time to take such action and when it is not necessary. What happened last week was that the Prime Minister showed incalculably bad judgment, which has split his party and left him with a minority Government. It led to his Government being defeated last night and today, it has led to ignominious, backstairs dealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-07", "file": "debates1994-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "54ea7e17119f9b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on, and on, and on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ission. The Community staggers on, and is stable—up to a point—only because of that inherent instability, fuelled by the cash that the Bill will provide in the future. If that were not so, common sense would dictate that the Community should remain at its institutional level and that we should find out how things are going before we go on to the next stage, instead of which we go on and on and on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-07a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Super!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ccept that, although it is welcome, the awarding of grants for the grubbing out of redundant orchards has not yet tackled the problem? Will he urge the Commission to put into effect its current proposal to reduce the intervention price of apples? Furthermore, does he agree that French Golden Delicious, which have invaded our shores, are—being French—tasteless, and are neither golden nor delicious?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.465.8", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend gives yet another indication of how Government-funded research is helping to boost prospects, particularly for British horticulture. As we said earlier, the opportunity for our raspberries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.465.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is not it clear that what has changed is not the Prime Minister's belief about a referendum, but his ability to unite his party without one? Is that not his problem and that of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must come to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "As chairman of the all-party Friends of the Northern Line group, may I welcome today's announcement of 100 new trains for the Northern line? That is good news for London and will be warmly welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.472.3", "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 hon. Lady is playing with statistics and she knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "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 considered then that those increases in direct taxation were a sufficient and reasonable contribution to our revenue needs. That remains my view today. I do not intend to reverse my decisions to index the personal allowances and to over-index above inflation the elderly person's allowance and the 20p band. As my next option, I also considered raising additional revenue through business taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "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": "llowances and to over-index above inflation the elderly person's allowance and the 20p band. As my next option, I also considered raising additional revenue through business taxation— [Interruption.] It is my clear impression from the debates that I have been listening to that hon. Members need to be taken through the options for the consequences of their votes. They need to be taken through them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "l support—which the Government could have proposed in the first place. Does not today's statement show why the House of Commons was right to inflict a defeat on the Government on Tuesday? On the compensation for pensioners, will the Chancellor confirm in specific detail that he expects pensioners to continue to meet fuel bills that are up by £1 a week on average as a result of the VAT that remains", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " he confirm that that means that the typical burden faced by millions of people as a result of all the tax changes that the Conservatives have made is now £875 a year, which is in breach of election promises that there would be no tax rises at all? On alcohol, will the Chancellor confirm his assessment of the number of jobs that will be lost as a result of his complete U-turn on the price of beer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " of the deputy chairman of the Conservative party, who said that they were unfair—executive share options and the tax privileges would raise not only the money that he saves from capital gains tax but the money from the spouses of people who hold those executive shares, and that the true figure, as calculated by all the experts throughout the country, is not £45 million, but £200 million in total?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "se that I have spent five days consulting the Opposition, and answer came there none. So far, we have had no difficulty in getting this year's Budget measures through, and we have had no difficulty in getting previous years' Budget measures through. But the Opposition—because they did not have very much to say about this year's Budget—irresponsibly decided to readdress the question of VAT on fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is assuming that the only way to intensify effort is by increasing manpower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-08", "file": "debates1994-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4d06639ca968eb2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Tax Revenue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is assuming that the only way to intensify effort is by increasing manpower. [Interruption.] I understand the campaign from the trade unions which are involved, and Opposition Members are perfectly entitled to represent that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-08a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-09", "file": "debates1994-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a7aedc153eb8c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of record that the Labour party goes along with precisely what was pointed out in our White Paper, \"Opening Doors on a Learning Society\"—that appropriate nursery education provision will be made available to all three and four-year-olds whose parents want it. It would obviously have to be costed and paid for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-09", "file": "debates1994-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a7aedc153eb8c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that there have been one or two comments on television programmes, although I accept that people have argued that there were misquotes and so on. It is hardly surprising, under the current level of bribes and additional funds that grant-maintained schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-09", "file": "debates1994-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a7aedc153eb8c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "rtainty about the Labour party's policy. There continues to be uncertainty about where it stands on league tables, independent schools and so on. Other hon. Members may have the opportunity to raise those issues. We welcome the fact that there have been some changes in the Government's stance. It is welcome that they now recognise that their grant-maintained policy is beginning to falter and fail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-09", "file": "debates1994-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a7aedc153eb8c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "y of the nation's children are educated. If education had been left to the Opposition, the reforms would never have been introduced. It seems to me that the Labour party's education policy, in as much as it has one, can be summed up as \"more of the same\". It is locked into a 1960s time warp, believing that only one type of school holds all the answers to all the needs of all the nation's children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-09a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.598.6", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of ensuring that in the enforcement of the listing regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.598.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Test it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "following in this country were widely accepted to be right across the European Union. We agreed that Europe must be more competitive. We agreed on the need for more flexible working arrangements for the reduction of labour costs and for better education and training. There was nothing in our discussion to suggest that socialism had triumphed over market liberalism. The reverse is plainly the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ly three nations—of which this is one—which are likely, in the foreseeable future, to meet the economic criteria set out in the Maastricht treaty. Luxembourg already does, and we are one of two others which are likely to. Those criteria are correct in their own right, not just as a means of moving towards economic and monetary union. I welcome the right hon. Gentleman's conversion to subsidiarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not seen that remark by Prime Minister Gonzales, but it is not entirely unknown for Prime Ministers abroad to make statements for domestic reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.628.6", "colnum": "628", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "We may disagree, but at least we all have the Labour Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.628.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman will be able to address the House on his Stalinist ideas at great length later. He will understand that I must now make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And dentists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t GPs in the move towards more primary care-led health care, and they will ensure that family doctors, as the National Audit Office report again suggested, are fully involved in the crucial task of purchasing secondary care. Schedule 1 makes the consequential changes required to reallocate functions. The new health authorities will bring together responsibility for both primary and secondary care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ple to help them to discharge their vital role. We expect that a growing number of both health authority and trust members will have backgrounds in nursing, medicine or any other relevant profession, and we are already seeing examples of that. The hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) and I served on the Standing Committee on the National Health Service and Community Care Act a long time ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "lready in place will help, and some of my hon. Friends have referred to that. Schedule 2 provides for the effective reallocation of the staff, property, rights and liabilities of the authorities which are being abolished. We will do all we can to minimise the distress to health authority staff. I take the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and by the hon. Member for Workington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "an to minimise the distress to health authority staff. I take the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and by the hon. Member for Workington— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Workington, having made his intervention, is no longer interested. He talks about being interested in staff, but when I talk about minimising the disruption to staff, he cannot even be bothered to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "d to the Bill, and the enormous progress which has been made in a short time in implementing the health reforms. What is truly remarkable is that, throughout the period of substantial organisational change, the NHS has not only maintained its services to patients, but improved and enhanced them. For every 100 patients treated in 1990-91—the last year before the reforms—118 were treated in 1993-94.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "Order. I address these remarks not just to the Secretary of State but to everyone in the House. This afternoon it seems that the interventions have been speeches and not to the point. In future, let us have interventions to the point and on the subject in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear it. I could take up hon. Members' time by going through the rest of the questionnaire, which contains many points that you now beg me to mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Hughes", "preceding_text": "roposals which suggests that someone in the Department of Health has a healthy sense of irony is the announcement that the Bill will reduce the costs of management in the NHS, a view parroted by the Secretary of State today. Surely that is a joke too far. Since the introduction of the reforms, in Doncaster alone administration costs have risen from £4 million to £6 million, a rise of 48 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the NHS. I do not believe that there is any one absolutely correct method of representing local public interest, but it should surely be represented by people chosen by the public and it should specifically not be undertaken by those whom the Secretary of State has chosen—especially since they all seem to be drawn from the ranks of the supporters of the right hon. Lady's party and their relatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a Committee point, which he and I can explore some time in the new year. My point is sensible and straightforward. The issues that will be subject to regulation are no different from those that have been subject to regulation in the past. Throughout the debate, the Opposition have suggested that something novel is involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "ies which have been set up already? I hope that the Minister will respond to that point. When the Minister sets up completely new health authorities, will the present chief executives of joint health purchasing authorities—which have already been set up on a non-statutory basis—be guaranteed their jobs? Their jobs will be remarkably similar to those which have been set up on a non-statutory basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Privileges Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " I would be doing. If someone wrote to me from Chesterfield and asked, \"What is being said on the Committee about these cases?\" I would say, \"I cannot tell you.\" Even if they said to me, \"What are you saying on the Committee? Tell me\", I could not tell them, because the restrictions cover my own reporting of my own comments in the Committee. How can I possibly accept such a restriction? The right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Privileges Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "All Prime Ministers employ hundreds of press officers to tell their constituents what a marvellous job they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Privileges Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Peddling one's position as a Member of Parliament to buy political influence for a private employer is totally different from the case that the hon. Gentleman makes. If the hon. Gentleman takes that view, it is permissible—all my papers have been given to the British library in any case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Privileges Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Peddling one's position as a Member of Parliament to buy political influence for a private employer is totally different from the case that the hon. Gentleman makes. If the hon. Gentleman takes that view, it is permissible—all my papers have been given to the British library in any case— [Interruption.] If that is his argument, I do not think that it merits any serious consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Privileges Committee", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman continues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-12", "file": "debates1994-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ffc22220d62f68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Privileges Committee", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "That is a separate issue that the House might wish to consider. I feel bound to say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-12a.730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Banks", "preceding_text": "I offer my most sincere thanks to my hon. Friend and to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education for approving the application for grant-maintained status from Nunmonkton school in my constituency. It is the result of a remarkable campaign by all 19 pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has not given that guarantee. If he proceeds with a privatisation which has no popular support, which will put the future of the railways at risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.768.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Pergau Dam", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bribery.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "May I urge my right hon. Friend not to be blown off course by the Opposition's synthetic anger? When shaping future aid policy, will he be sure to take into account the employment prospects for British workers, just as the French, Germans and Americans do? Is not that what aid for trade is all about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Pergau Dam", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about Indonesia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "question of filching money. The total of the aid programme took into account the commitments that had been made. That is how the aid programme is constructed. This talk of filching or stealing money surreptitiously from the aid programme is completely wrong. As it is completely wrong, what the hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) followed up with is also completely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.804.5", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.804.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.805.6", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We judge the Conservatives by their actions. The hon. Gentleman has the gall to come to the House this afternoon and talk about promises on taxation. What did he say to his electorate in Stamford and Spalding? He said: We are absolutely committed to continuing to bring down taxes. Yet another promise has been broken by Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.805.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.866.8", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "oms, about which I shall say something a little later. As I have said, we have accepted the will of the House. I am, however, slightly in the mood of the Irishman who in the famous story was giving directions to a stranger. He ends by saying, \"But if I were you, I would not have started from here.\" Perhaps it would have been best if we had not started from where we now find ourselves, but we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.866.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "I hope someone will put some handcuffs on the hon. Gentleman. That would be helpful. Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing Labour's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-13", "file": "debates1994-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "81869917c94ceff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.872.8", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am having—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-13a.872.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "On a more serious point concerning Cuba—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.915.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.919.4", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Truth to tell, I am awfully fond of the hon. Gentleman, but he sometimes behaves in a rather dotty manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.919.9", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "I refer to the answer that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has already given the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.919.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.919.9", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "I refer to the answer that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has already given the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford). [Interruption.] With respect, I have already answered Question 15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.919.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Public Expenditure (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": "omy is well advertised. Industrial output is up by almost 10 per cent. over the past year. The Celtic dragon now rivals the Asian tigers. This budget, with its emphasis on public services and regeneration, will keep Wales roaring ahead. The largely untold success story has been the growth of small and medium-sized businesses, the increase in self-employment and the restoration of entrepreneurship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Public Expenditure (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": "x2013;96 will be below £75.5 million, which is less in cash and real terms than in 1993–94 or 1994–95. They will fall further in cash and real terms in 1996–97 and 1997–98. I am reducing the total running costs of Welsh executive non-departmental public bodies from £66.7 million this year to £65.3 million next yearv—a cut of 2.2 per cent. or 5.4 per cent. in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Public Expenditure (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": "costs of Welsh executive non-departmental public bodies from £66.7 million this year to £65.3 million next yearv—a cut of 2.2 per cent. or 5.4 per cent. in real terms. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) is making fatuous comments from a sedentary position. The figures speak for themselves; they show that we are reducing the overheads and putting the money into services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is a popular school?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " it to service loans from the private sector if suitable schemes are designed. I have increased the money for the Curriculum Council for Wales next year by 18 per cent. The aim is to oversee the tests in schools and allow external marking. I shall introduce a major new initiative for popular schools. I am committed to promoting parental choice and diversity and to raising standards in our schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "answering questions about it. As for the objection that I am issuing press releases today, I plead guilty. I believe that issuing press releases is a well-known ministerial practice, and I do not think that I am issuing more press releases about spending in Wales this year than has been traditional in past years. This time, however, I am providing an opportunity for cross-examination in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "preceding_text": " learned Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg)—had an uncomfortable time during Foreign Office questions, and I must ask you on a point of order to make the right hon. and learned Gentleman's time more uncomfortable still. You will recall that a few months ago, I had cause to write to you about a question that I asked the Minister of State, to which he replied that he found my views odious, and sat down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.964.7", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Rating and VaFluation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "If a move from the system that the Government now run happened all in one go, such arrangements would clearly have to operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.964.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a great stand on behalf of Britain's fishermen under difficult circumstances. My hon. Friend may not be aware that my wife is called Rachel and that she comes from near Plymouth. He may, therefore, imagine my pleasure recently at seeing a fishing boat called the Lady Rachel from Plymouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is an assiduous campaigner on behalf of inshore fishermen in her constituency and I pay tribute to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.997.4", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows as well as I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.997.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "t policy. That brings me to the issue raised by the hon. Member for Southend, East (Sir T. Taylor), with which I agree, about the common fisheries policy. It is a farce for hon. Members to pretend that the common fisheries policy is effective. It has failed and it cannot be made to work effectively. There was enthusiastic argument in favour of it on the basis that fish do not carry national flags—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.1041.6", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "It is different. If, in your judgment, Mr. Deputy Speaker, you think that it not different, I would be pleased if you would inform me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.1041.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-14", "file": "debates1994-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e64c290922bbd091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.1041.7", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is very little difference, and it is the same answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-14a.1041.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misusing a statistic that makes the obvious point that people on lower incomes tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel, just as they do on food. Many of them also tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on tobacco and alcohol than other people do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misusing a statistic that makes the obvious point that people on lower incomes tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel, just as they do on food. Many of them also tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on tobacco and alcohol than other people do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] That just happens to be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1057.6", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "rm sustained growth in business investment that is necessary if we are to reach the investment levels of our competitors to which my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Mr. Miller) referred. After 15 years of Tory Government, is the Minister not ashamed of that record? According to an answer from the Minister of State to my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1057.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for that statement. The House will have noticed that the recess is to start a day earlier than anticipated, presumably because the Prime Minister does not want another Question Time before Christmas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend will know, under the present Government the area of green belt has doubled since 1979. May we have an early debate on the antics of Sheffield city council, which insists on building on green-belt areas such as Limb lane in Dore? The council wants further to erode the green-belt area that the Government have increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1994–95", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "ked. I watch him when he is buttonholed by other colleagues in the House, and he can almost anticipate the words that will be said. I am aware that the Minister's workload is heavy, and I know the number of letters about the Child Support Act 1991 to which he must reply. None the less, delays occur in the mail and I still expect some replies from him that I would have anticipated receiving by now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1994–95", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Alistair Burt)", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Alistair Burt)", "preceding_text": "en and there should have been. It ill behoves them now to pop up out of the blue and make criticisms. Although today may not be full of enormous joy for all quarters of the House, at least we will be spared a Liberal Democrat by-election victor appearing on our screens later this evening, with all the difficulties that that would cause. I look forward to welcoming a new hon. Friend here next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1125.5", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "man was created in the United Kingdom in 1967. Since that time, his role has evolved and changed. Therefore, I shall first refer to the parliamentary ombudsman. The Select Committee, of which I have the honour to be chairman, is responsible for some of changes which are now taking place to the ombudsman's duties. Let me immediately pay tribute to Mr. William Reid, the current holder of the office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-15", "file": "debates1994-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "91342901bc40893b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " tact, he writes: Members will be aware that an increasing hostility is already being registered to the overall cost and method of provision of these services. Let me provide one example of why there is that hostility. In late April this year, I visited an elderly lady in Putney who had bought her maisonette in 1988. The right-to-buy offer, which she received from the London borough of Wandsworth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-15a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-16", "file": "debates1994-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "cdaac30f90fa51c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-16a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "l, I remind the House that Camelot is covering its investment, its current operating costs and its margins on only 5 per cent. That is very tight indeed. [Horn. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is quite true that when the lottery is going well, 5 per cent. is worth more, but to go into business and say, \"Without regard to what happens, we are going to operate on a fixed margin,\" is a considerable business risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-16a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-16", "file": "debates1994-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "cdaac30f90fa51c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-16a.1303.2", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "lthough I said that we have all the time in the world, we do not. The Millennium Commission has already been set up and has nine members. One is the Secretary of State for National Heritage, another the President of the Board of Trade and Mr. Michael Montague is a third. He was selected by the then Leader of the Opposition to represent an all-party balance on the commission. The six other members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-16a.1303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-16", "file": "debates1994-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "cdaac30f90fa51c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-16a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "Friend as straight an answer as I can, although he will understand that I cannot walk into the minds of members of Camelot as to why they may do something. I understood—I was not told this specifically by the director general of Camelot, so I may have been told wrongly—that Camelot felt that if it were able to give out a general fact or two about where the winner lived, it would satisfy the press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-16a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1378.9", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ain operating units, has placed no new orders for rolling stock? Will he acknowledge that privatisation is tearing the heart out of the railways? It is affecting morale, service and routes and, of course, it will affect investment in every part of the country. Surely we have a right to expect, after the drubbing of Dudley, to see some humility and sanity from Transport Ministers on the Front Bench", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1378.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen a report-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1380.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that parliamentary allowances should also reflect the number of electors in the constituency of each hon. Member?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Prison Security", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes: resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": " government ombudsman, to conduct the inquiry, and have today informed the unions of my intention. This inquiry will determine whether evidence exists to institute disciplinary proceedings or any other action against any member of the Prison Service. In the light of events at Whitemoor, I have considered whether any change is necessary in the arrangements for the supervision of the Prison Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Prison Security", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "t any member of the Prison Service. In the light of events at Whitemoor, I have considered whether any change is necessary in the arrangements for the supervision of the Prison Service. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes: resign.\"] I intend to set up a new unit outside the Prison Service to strengthen Ministers' ability to supervise the performance of the Prison Service in accordance with the framework document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Prison Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How could he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he party of law and order, the truth about this Government is that, while they are strong on words, they are extremely weak on action? Surely the whole House must share my utter astonishment that, in all 46 paragraphs of the statement this afternoon, there was not a single indication that the Secretary of State was willing to accept any personal responsibility whatever for this monumental failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Prison Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " my statement, that the state of affairs at Whitemoor which is disclosed in the report is wholly and completely unacceptable. The hon. Gentleman suggested that I was warned in advance of that state of affairs, and he relied on two reports to support that allegation. I shall deal with each of them in turn. On the point about the 1992 and 1993 reports from the boards of visitors, I did not see them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1404.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Prison Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ich the right hon. Gentleman referred was paid in respect of the year that ended in March 1994. It was paid in accordance with particular indicators that were specified in the director general's contract, including the number of escapes, and that year saw a considerable reduction in the number of escapes. The director general has agreed that there is no question of a bonus during the current year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1438.4", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": "conomic programme\", with the one blip of value added tax at 17.5 per cent. Happily, I and some of my hon. Friends saved the Government from that dreadful mistake. The Prime Minister was dead against a referendum two years ago, when I tabled my amendment, and before that. There was recently a reference to \"another Whipless Tory\". In fact, I am not whipless outside this place even if I am within it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "s previous hat as the Member for Brierley Hill from 1967 to 1974, made an astonishing attack on a new Member of the House, who had taken his seat and been sworn in as recently as one hour before, and who is powerless at the moment to defend himself. It is outrageous to argue that my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley, West (Mr. Pearson)—what a phrase, eh—my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley, West?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Jopling Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Rarely indeed. That was a point that the Select Committee, in its unanimous proposals, had very much in mind. Very rarely do such techniques amount to very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1994-12-19", "file": "debates1994-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a93afd995981ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Jopling Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "ss are lawyers, not our constituents. That has to be a major factor in our consideration. I am ashamed to do so, but I must plead guilty to working seven days a week, although not all that work is necessarily done in the House. I have served as a Government Back Bencher, an Opposition Back Bencher and an Opposition Front Bencher, and I must say that a load of romantic myths have been piddled here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1994-12-19a.1493.0"}